A-Z Free Mobile Device Resources
iPhone/iPod touch 
PalmOS 
Windows Mobile 
BlackBerry 
Android
ABG
A multipurpose medical calculator to: 1) Analyse arterial blood gasses 2) Output a recommended FIO2 3) Perform hemodynamic calculations utilizing the Fick principle.
ACP-ASIM
Clinical practice guidelines from the American College of Physicians & the American Society of Internal Medicine. The guidelines can be read with any palm, pocket pc or iphone doc reader.
Act in T.I.M.E. to Heart Attack Signs
This program includes the text of the Act in T.I.M.E to Heart Attack Signs Physician Quick Reference Card. It provides talking points for discussing heart attack warning signs and survival steps with patients and includes suggested responses to common patient concerns.
ADA Standards
Clinical practice recommendations from the American Diabetes Association. (The The ReadiReader, PRC file, must also installed).
AHRQ ePSS
The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is a quick hands-on tool designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients.
Anesthesia Clinical Tutor and Calculator
Designed to teach and simplify the calculations that are involved in the practice of Anesthesia.
Archimedes (medical calculator)
Access 70 formulas by alphabetical listing, category listing or historical listing.
BMI Calculator
The National Heart Blood and Lung Institute's BMI calculator.
CardioCalc
Helpful tool to manage patients with cardiovascular disease or hyperlipidemia includes BMI calculator.
ClinicalExpert
PDA version of Micromedex, the database of unbiased drug info that identifies ingredients for hundreds of thousands of commercial, pharmaceutical and biological substances. Restricted to MCW faculty and students.
COPD Global Strategy
Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (The Palm TX has the Docs to Go reader which should open this file).
Diagnosaurus
A differential diagnosis tool that allows you to browse by organ system, symptoms, or diseases. Contains 1000+ differential diagnoses.
DynaMed
A medical information database with nearly 2,000 clinical topic summaries. Designed for use at the point of care, providing best available evidence and updated daily. Available free to all Medical College of WI faculty, students and staff through the Libraries' subscription to DynaMed. Contact MCW Libraries at asklib@mcw.edu for a serial number. (DynaMed serial numbers are valid for only one year. When the serial number expires after one year, you will need to acquire a new serial number from MCW Libraries and download the program once again to your mobile device in order to receive updates.)
EBM Calculator v1.2
EBM Calculator is designed to calculate relevant statistics for Diagnostic studies, Prospective Studies, Case Control Studies, and Randomized Control Trials (RCT). This is the palm version of the Stats Calculator.
Epocrates Rx Coming Soon
Drug and prescribing information. MedTools are also available including a STAT Cholesterol tool and a BMI & Obesity Tool.
Other Epocrates products are available at a 10% discount for all Medical College of WI students. Contact the Libraries reference desk for the group discount code.
Eponyms (for students)
Eponyms brings a short description of more than 1600 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node). A perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym.
Essential Evidence Plus (formerly InfoRetriever)
EEP is an evidence-based tool that searches ten databases to provide "just-in-time" information. Includes abstracts from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, guidelines, POEMs synopes, InfoPOEMs, drug information, clinical calculators and prediction rules, and diagnostic tests. Available free to all Medical College of WI faculty, students and staff through the Libraries' subscription to Essential Evidence Plus. (Essential Evidence Plus registration numbers are valid for only one year. When the registration expires after one year, you will need to acquire a new registration number from MCW Libraries.)
First Consult
First Consult is an authoritative evidence-based and continuously updated clinical information resource for healthcare professionals. Designed for use at point of care, it provides instant, user-friendly access to the latest information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis and prevention.
First Consult is available at MDConsult. Next click on First Consult and then click on "download First Consult on Pocket Consult" where you will be prompted to create an account before you are able to download the program to your PDA. First Consult is available free to all Medical College of WI faculty, students and staff through the Libraries' subscription to First Consult.
HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service Guidelines
Guidelines can be read with Acrobat Reader for the pda.
Links to Clinical Practice Guidelines for Handheld Computers
Links compiled by the National Guideline Clearinghouse to various organizations' guidelines including the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Cardiology, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians, CDC, USPSTF, etc.
MD Consult Pocket Consult
Download the current table of contents and abstracts of your favorite medical journals, medical calculators, news, plus Mosby's Drug Consult Interaction Tool.
Available free to all Medical College of WI faculty, students and staff through the Libraries' subscription to MDConsult. You must first create a MD Consult personal account.
MedCalc
A medical calculator for the rapid calculation of common equations used in clinical medicine. Contains over 80 formulas.
Medical Letter
The Medical Letter is an independent, peer-reviewed publication that offers unbiased critical evaluations of drugs, with special emphasis on new drugs, to physicians and other members of the health professions. Published every other week in a four-page newsletter format, it carries no advertising and is supported entirely by subscription fees. Coverage via the PDA is from 2001 to the present. Available free to all Medical College of WI faculty, students and staff through the Libraries' subscription to Medical Letter.
Medical Mnenomics
A database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details. It allows browsing by discipline, system or body part or searching by keyword.
Micromedex (Thompson Clinical Xpert)
Includes basic drug information, acute care, toxicology, drug interactions, alternative medicine, diagnosis tool, FDA approvals and warnings, and Froedtert Hospital Formulary. Free to all MCW faculty, students, staff and affiliates.
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (Palm OS)
Includes act in time to heart attack signs, asthma treatment guidelines, BMI calculator, OEI treatment guidelines tool, and the ATP III cholesterol management implementation tool.
Obesity Guidelines and Treatment Recommendations
Use this resource from the National Heart Blood and Lung Institute to calculate body mass index, assess risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and more.
PubMed for Handhelds
A webiste for searching Medline with the web browser of any mobile device. No software installation required.
PubSearch
Fast, efficient application for searching PubMed. Free version only retrieves 10 article citations. Does not include links to full-text.
REMM Mobile
Radiation Event Medical Management System contains selected sections on how to diagnose & treat during mass casualty radiological/nuclear events, just-in-time, evidence-based, usable information for those without formal radiation medicine expertise and web-based information that is also downloadable in advance.
Shots 2009
Shots 2009 is a quick reference guide to the 2009 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules, a collaboration of the ACIP, AAP and AAFP, and the 2009 Adult Immunization Schedule, recommended by the ACIP. Details on each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names. Shots 2010 is available for web enabled devices at http://www.immunizationed.org/ShotsOnlinemob.aspx.
Skyscape
Provides access to the following books: Outlines in Clinical Medicine®, Archimedes™ - Medical Calculator, RxDrugs™: Drug Dosing Tool and MedAlert™. Also has many other tools for purchase.
Unbound Medicine
While most products are not free, Unbound Medicine offers one of the largest collections of textbooks and clinical tools including Harrison's Manual of Medicine and many pocket guides.
WebMD mobile
Look up symptoms, treatments, first aid, and basic drug information.
WISER
Designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. Provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.