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MLA Satellite Teleconference
Sync or Swim: Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care

Agenda

1:30 p.m. central time Wrap-around discussion session I
2:00 p.m. central time Satellite teleconference begins
3:30 p.m. central time Wrap-around discussion session II

To top of page Part 1: Introduction to PDAs

  1. What Are PDAs and Why Are We Seeing Their Growing Use in Health Care
  2. What's Out There?
    • Palm OS vs Pocket PC
    • brands / models
    • software
    • wireless services
    • peripherals
  3. Question and Answer Period

To top of page Part 2: Case Studies: A Look at Professional, Educational, and Clinical Settings

  1. Librarians Using PDAs
  2. Lifelines to PDA Users
  3. PDA: A Clinical Tool for Residency Training
  4. Mobile Computing and Patient Encounter Tracking in the Clinical Clerkship Arena
  5. Question and Answer Period

To top of page Part 3: Supporting PDAs

  1. Library and Institutional Issues
    • education
    • infrastructure
    • making resources available institutionally
    • technical issues
    • group hot syncing, library syncing stations, etc.
  2. Question and Answer Period

To top of page Part 4: Concluding remarks

3:30 p.m. central time Wrap-around discussion session II
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