MD on Tap is an application for PDAs that retrieves MEDLINE® citations directly from the PDA through a wireless connection to the Internet.
This program is developed for mobile health care professionals who seek medical information when away from their desktop computers.
The project goal is to discover and implement design principles to facilitate practitioners' access to online medical information at the point of service.
Features:
- MEDLINE search limits.
- History of previous queries.
- Save citations to a PDA text file.
- Subject clusters.
- Related Articles.
- Link-out to full-text Web sites.
- Evidence Based Medicine clusters.
- Set default number of results.
- Auto reset of user preferences on startup.
- "English + Human" limit.
- Auto Spell Check.
- Select from 3 Search Engines.
- Select "Summary" or "Title" Results.
- Optional PICO Search Tab.
Note:
MD on Tap is designed for PPCs with a screen resolution of 240W x 320H. Although it will run on the Windows Mobile square-screen smartphones, such as the Treo 700, you will not see the bottom portion of the tabs.
For Windows Mobile users, please download this software here (138 KB).
Update Description:
v2.1:
- PICO and Title bugs fixed.
v2.0:
- Results Tab may be viewed in Summary or Title mode.
- Clear all search fields with one tap.
- Google search engine option.
- PICO Search Tab option.
v1.7:
- The user can select the PubMed search engine (default) or the new experimental Essie search engine, developed at NLM.
- There is an Automatic Spell-Check option. The actual search terms are displayed at the bottom of the search tab.
- Name change from PubMed on Tap to MEDLINE Database on Tap, aka MD on Tap.
v1.6:
- The full text link-out icon is green for free full text links.
- Error messages are more meaningful.
v1.5:
- When PMoT is started, the Search and Profile settings are set from your last search.
- There is an option to cluster results by clinical relevance recommended in Evidence Based medicine.
- The Search tab defaults to 50 results. 20 and 40 results are also available if you need quicker response times.
