A novel way of distributing medical practice guidelines using Personal Digital Assistants (PDA)

With the rapid growth in medical knowledge, physicians' ability to keep up to date has become increasingly difficult. Although the Internet brought significant improvements in access to medical knowledge, there are still problems remaining, particularly for the mobile physician who is unable to perform time-consuming on-line searches, even with wireless access to the Internet. The goal of this project was to develop a novel way of distributing medical knowledge from the Internet to health professionals' Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). This model delivers targeted information and provides access to that information at the point of care.