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Patient resources for handheld computers. (Digital Assistance).
Overview: Many handheld computer applications are now available for personal health management. Personal medical information databases, electronic reference documents for self education, and more elaborate disease management products may benefit patients by improving their knowledge of healthy lifestyles and disease states and may assist them in working with their providers to manage chronic conditions.
Background: An unending supply of magazine articles, self-help books, and television infomercials suggests that Americans are interested inhealth improvement. Furthermore, individuals have a variety of needs when it comes to personal health management. These needs include personal medical information organization, self-education about particular conditions and healthy lifestyles, and tracking of disease management data for health care providers. Personal digital assistants may assist in each of these areas. Medical information may be recorded in basic database programs, and PDA-based reference documents may assist in patient education. More sophisticated applications allow manipulation of data involved with fitness and chronic disease management, helping people become more active participants in their own health maintenance efforts.
Personal Health Databases: Although patients may record personal health information on their PDAs as simple text documents, database programs written for this purpose offer important advantages. Palm OS programs such as My Medical Records (1.21) and MedInfoE (4.1) provide ready-made templates for easy entry of individual demographics, current medications, allergies, immunization records, medical conditions, and provider details. Applications more focused on management of medications, such as On-Time-Rx (2.0) or MiniRx (2.1), will not only record current prescriptions but may be configured to remind the patient of dosing times via an alarm. The inherent organization of these products facilitates data entry, searching, and editing. More generic database programs (see HanDBase next month) offer additional field customization and information security features.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Patient resources for handheld computers. (Digital Assistance).