You've seen people using them in clinics, lounges and boardrooms, parks, airplanes and classrooms. Personal Digital Assistants may look like something right out of Star Trek, but they can be an important tool in your medical practice. They also boast a number of features that have made them an essential tool for people on the go.
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Your information travels with you, to the hospital, to the office, to your meetings. Palm recently introduced a wireless PDA that lets you connect to the Internet and synchronize with your computer from any location. With their quick access, portability and storage and retrieval capabilities, PDAs are well suited for the busy lives of physicians. In fact, online communities of physician PDA users are springing up all over the Internet. Patient tracking, reference material and calculators seem to be the most popular physician-tailored applications.