Personal Digital Assistants:
Resources

• General Resources
• Hardware
• Resources for Health Care Professionals
• Resource Pages from Medical Schools and Medical School Libraries
• Selected Health Care Applications
• Tutorials

Hardware

Reviews

• c|net - PDAs
• ZDNet - Handhelds

Purchasing

General Resources

• Adobe Reader for Mobile Devices
• AvantGo - Provides free interactive and personalized content and applications to your handheld device
• Brighthand
• c|net's Downloads for Mobile Computing
• The Gadgeteer
• Google Web Directory - Handhelds
• Handango
• Hawaii Handheld Computer Users' Group (HiHug)
• Hawaii Pocket PC Users Group
• HPC.net- A resource site for Microsoft Windows CE and PocketPC users
• MemoWare - This site is a collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.) to add to PDA devices. The documents come in a variety of formats and cover a wide range of topics, including medical ones.
• Palm Infocentre
• Palm OS Users Groups (United States and International)
• PalmGear
• PDAStreet.com
• PocketGear
• TUCOWS - A comprehensive site to download applications for PDA devices.
• Yahoo! Directory - Personal Digital Assistants

Online Journals

• Computing Unplugged
• Palm Power - January 1998 to November 2002
• Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine

Resources for Health Care Professionals

• American Collegeof Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine - PDA Portal
• American Academy of Family Physicians - AAFP PDA Downloads
• CollectiveMed.com's PDA Center - This is a commercial site for purchasing hardware, software, and accessories. It includes buyer's guides for hardware and software.
• Handheldmed - A resource for applications and medical reference software. It also provides an online community for healthcare professionals using handheld devices in medical practice.
• Healthy PalmPilot - This site contains an index of healthcare resources that may be downloaded for Palm OS devices.
• JournalToGo - Delivers selected medical journal abstracts and healthcare news articles to your handheld device or are accessible from your PC.
• MedBooks Direct - A PDA download resource center
• MedicalPocketPC.com - A one-stop resource for medical professionals using Pocket PC devices
• PalmDoc Chronicles
• Pediatrics on Hand
• PDAcortex
  - PDA & Wireless Technology at the AMIA 2001 Symposium
• pdaMD.com - Includes product reviews, articles, and news, in addition to a store
• Skyscape - A resource for medical reference software

Resource Pages from Medical Schools and Medical School Libraries

• Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine - Handheld Recommendations
• Duke University Medical Center Library - Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
• Thomas Jefferson University, JEFFLINE - Palm/Handheld Support Center
• University of Alberta Libraries - PDA Zone
• University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Students - PDA Requirement
• University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences - Peoria - PDA Headquarters
• University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Briscoe Library - PDA Resource Center
• University of Virginia, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library - PDA Resource Page
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Tompkins-McCaw Library - Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) Resources
• Washington University Medical Palm Initiative
• Yale University, School of Medicine, Information Technology Services - Software and Information for Mobile Technology

Tutorials

• University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, Briscoe Library - Tutorials