Clinical Content, Any Way You Want It

Unbound Medicine has been providing Five Minute Clinical Consult, Harrison’s Manual of Medicine and other well-known resources on PDA for years. New products and recent technology innovations have made Unbound Medicine a company to watch.
In 2005 the company introduced a line of products that add web capability to the standard PDA download. Subscribers now can access products such as Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, Unbound Surgery, Medicine Central, and Nursing Central from their PC and from internet enabled wireless devices.
This is part of Unbound Medicine’s effort to make knowledge accessible anywhere to answer clinical questions quickly. The company’s philosophy is that delivery of clinical knowledge is best supported by three pillars:
· Question-answering content (e.g. Five Minute Clinical Consult or Harrison’s Manual of Medicine)
· Content delivery technology (Palm OS, Pocket PC, BlackBerry, PC)
· Information architecture (structured content for answers in 10 seconds or less)
The result is that Yale, Duke, Penn, NYU, Northwestern and the University of Washington are among the institutions that have decided to make Unbound Medicine products available to their users.
Over the next several days I will take a closer look at some of the individual products now available for different specialties and see what new things may be coming next.
NOTE: This is the first post by our new editor Brian A. Levine. Brian is a second year medical student at NYU. He has an M.S. in molecular biology and has worked as a research scientist before matriculating into medical school. He is particularly interested in medical informatics, computers, PDAs and related technologies–everything that was not adequately covered here before. Looks like he is already an excellent addition to the Medgadget team and to the coverage for our readers. Welcome, Brian!