Palm, Inc. and PHT Corporation, an eClinical Trials and mobile clinical data capture company, announced that PHT Corporation has purchased 3,000 Palm m500 handheld computers. Additionally, PHT Corporation has agreed to purchase approximately 13,000 more Palm m500 handhelds over the course of this calendar year. PHT Corporation serves the biopharmaceutical industry and provides eClinical Trial technology that is used by some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

Worldwide, patients and investigators, such as doctors or nurses, will use the Palm handhelds to record data collected in clinical trials. The handhelds are configured by PHT to collect information for the trial in a way that makes data collection easy and convenient for patients and doctors. The configured handhelds are referred to as Esendant LogPads by PHT during the trials. Patients answer questions and enter requested information and symptoms as they occur. After completing their report, patients or doctors attach a modem and send the collected data back to PHT’s StudyServer, where authorized personnel can view and analyze the information securely over the Web via Esendant StudyWorks, PHT’s Web-based electronic data capture and management product.