Using a blackberry to support clinical practice / Churton Budd

The Blackberry, developed by Research in Motion (RIM), Toronto, Ontario, Canada has been widely used in business channels since its release in 1999. The device allowed business users to extend their corporate e-mail, calendar, tasks, and notes to a wireless device, thus allowing them to spend more time on the road or out of the office pursuing business opportunities and collaborating in meetings. When people are looking to choose a PDA, the lack of software titles for the Blackberry many times steers them to the Palm or Pocket PC operating systems, which have all sorts of free and for-purchase medical titles. One of the most useful items often overlooked with the Blackberry is the real-time access to the Internet and the Web browser's ability to reach through the BES to behind the corporate firewall. Evidence-based medicine Web sites, guidelines and best practice references, disease monographs, and drug information and dosing tools can be accessed online, helping to reduce medical errors.

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