The Digital Clerk Initiative: Develloping the “Black Bag of the 21st Century”
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Initial Project Goals:

  1. Determine the effectiveness of emerging technologies in the management of patients and personal, peer, and patient health education.
  2. Record the strengths and weaknesses of aforementioned technologies so that these can be forwarded to the respective manufacturers.

The Black Bag of the 21st Century Included

Hardware

  1. IBM ThinkPad T20 laptop (P3 700, 384 MB Ram, WiFié)
    1. LinkSys Instant Wireless Network PC Card ver.3
    2. 3-Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card Model 3CCFE575CT
    3. Newertechnology FireWire 2 Go
  2. Sony DCR-PC110 NTSC MiniDV camcorder with 1.07 Mega Pixel Still capabilities
    1. Sony 128 MB Memory Stick
    2. Sony NP-FM91 InfoLithium type M Battery
    3. Panasonic MiniDVM60 Cassette
  3. CrossPad digital notepad and pen.
  4. Palm M500
    1. 16 MB Palm SD Expansion card
  5. Sony Clie PEG
    1. 128 MB Memory Stick
  6. 3M Cardiology Master Stethoscope, Welch Allyn otoscope kit, tuning forks, reflex hammer, tape measure.

Sofware

  1. Operating Systems
    1. Windows 2000 Professional
    2. Windows XP Professional
    3. Palm OS
  2. Server Software and Configurations
    1. IIS 4 with asp
    2. IIS 5 with asp, aspx
    3. Apache 1.3.27 with php 4.2.3
  3. Database Software
    1. Inmagic DBTextWorks 5.2
    2. File Maker Pro 5
    3. IBM DB2
    4. MySQL
  4. HandHeld Software
    1. Operating System
      1. Palm OS 4.0 and 4.1
    2. Reader Software
      1. Handheldmed Reader
      2. ISilo Reader with ISilo X document converter
    3. Medical Reference Books
        1. Epocrates 4.1 with autoupdate
        2. Epocrates qID 1.0
        3. AtoZ Drug Facts
  5. Epocrates
  6. AtoZ Drug Facts
  7. Clinical Medicine Consult
  8. Griffiths’ 5 Minute Consult 2001
  9. Griffiths’ 5 Minute Infectious Disease Consult 2001
  10. Epocrates qID
  11. Emergency Medicine Handbook
  12. Clinical Cancer Staging version 1.6
  13. Patient Tracker
  14. Merck Manual
  15. Harrison’s Pocket Handbook of Medicine
  16. Obsgyn Pearls
  17. Surgery Pearls n. WiFi LAN card/Ethernet card
    2. Windows XP Professional/Windows 2000
    a. Microsoft Office XP Standard
    b. Visual Studios .NET
    c. Inmagic DBTextWorks v 5.0 and Interactive Web Suite
    d. IBM DB2
    e. FileMaker Pro 5
    f. Macromedia Dreamweaver

Initial Project Proposal

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