There’s a vast amount of health information and resources available for Palm device users. Steve Niles surveys some of the cool Palm Query Applications and AvantGo mobile channels available today to assist health professionals and consumers.

If you’re like most healthcare professionals, you need access to critical treatment information at the point-of-care, not hidden away on your desktop PC. Steve Niles has chosen to spotlight an amazing mobile database of drug information called ePocrates qRx that’s saving lives by helping doctors avoid mistakes and stay informed.

Dr. Darwin J. Liao shares some of the exciting ways he’s discovered to use customized, basic productivity solutions to help you manage your healthcare information.

In this edition of Letters to the Editor, one reader is concerned that Windows NT4 doesn’t support USB connections, and another wonders whether it’s possible to use a Palm device to send email from remote parts of the globe.

In this month’s editorial, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz ponders the phenomena of "enterprise time" and the ways this requires hardware and software developers to re-think the way they do business.

In this article, Dr. Darwin J. Liao examines some of the cool Palm applications created specifically for the healthcare industry in order to help healthcare professionals manage key elements of the healthcare delivery process such as billing and charge capture, medical charting, drug database and medical reference, electronic prescriptions, lab and patient tracking, and outcomes data collection.

Given their form factor, ease of use, long battery life, and solid reliability, Palm devices are becoming more and more popular in agribusiness, construction, and manufacturing environments. Tom Gettings, an engineer with The GSI Group, Inc., offers this real world example of how the power of Palm computing is being used to remotely program flash chips on a series of agricultural crop dryers.

Besides the traditional role of Palm computers as organizers, medical schools and other health education programs are quickly finding exciting new uses for Palm devices. Andrew Morton provides an exclusive inside look at the Palm initiatives being undertaken at the Medical College of Virginia campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Want to speed up your Graffiti input? Richard Cartwright reviews TapPad, a cool combination of software and a silkscreen overlay that will help you achieve faster, more accurate number and character input.

In this month’s Letters to the Editor, one reader believes sci-fi writers of the past were pretty accurate in their technological predictions, another reader takes issue with a recent article’s point-of-view, and two readers respond to the HotSync fix offered by Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz in last month’s PalmPower.