Palm medical apps

PubMed launches web app, allows mobile search of medical literature on smart phones

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PubMed is now a mobile web app on all smart phone platforms. The National Library of Medicine cited increased consumption of medical apps by health care professionals as a key reason for the mobile app.

Almost all of Palm’s catalog of Apps are half priced until July 9th

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A fair amount of news about Palm in the past few months hasn’t exactly been positive. We’re happy they were bought out by HP – and hope the new partnership will help their app catalog eventually rival the Android and iPhone platforms.  Now, Palm appears to be giving their customers a thank you present – in the form of discounted apps.  Almost all their apps are half priced in their App Catalog, until July 9th.  So look up those medical [Read more]

Farewell to my Palm, My Friend

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Preface: As many of our readers remember, Palm was a pioneer in mobile computing that captured the attention of many physicians with applications like Epocrates almost a decade ago, long before Apple’s iPhone was even conceived. It subsequently faltered and, despite a short lived renaissance with the Palm Pre with its highly regarded WebOS mobile operating system, Palm fell too far behind to survive as an independent company and was recently sold to HP. In this post, guest blogger Dr. [Read more]