Recognizing a need for medical professionals to stay current with the latest medical news, Skyscape provides ARTbeat free of charge. ARTbeat is a subscription channel that delivers the latest information from CDC, FDA, NLM, Journals, and Skyscape.

MedWatch from the FDA and CDC Spotlights from the CDC are free channels which deliver late breaking medical news directly to your PDA.

MEDLINE search service is another free ARTbeat channel for your mobile device and offers the ability to easily search the extensive and up-to-date PubMed/MEDLINE database from the National Library of Medicine. PubMed/MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.
As with all Skyscape products, the information delivered to your PDA through ARTbeat is dynamically linked to all other Skyscape products through the company’s patented smARTlink™ technology. This means the latest breaking drug news will instantly link to your Skyscape drug references, giving you one-tap access to in-context information.

Since ARTbeat is a free product, no one should be without it. Download your free copy here.

Newsflash– being an obstetrician doesn’t mean living in a hosptial 24/7.. (well just not as much)

GE Healthcare announced today an exclusive agreement with MP4 Solutions (MP4) to deliver the Centricity Perinatal Solution in conjunction with AirStrip OB(R), a state-of-the-art technology that allows obstetricians to use their PDAs (personal digital assistants) or Smart Phones to remotely access fetal heart tracings, maternal contraction patterns, and other critical, virtual real-time data from labor & delivery units. This breakthrough technology will be showcased next week at the 2006 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in San Diego.

The MobileCME on-the-go learning system is a free service that enables medical professionals to earn CME credits on their mobile device, wherever they are, whenever they have time. It takes online CME (which is now 14 percent of all CME) a step further and brings it to handheld devices. Since its introduction in early 2005, Epocrates has more than 120 courses across multiple specialties available and has issued more than 175,000 certificates for physicians through its partners. The CME content is created by providers such as Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and University of Virginia Health System.

Each MobileCME course consists of an educational article followed by a brief five-to-ten question post-test. After successfully completing the post-test, the physician can submit the activity for CME credit from the accredited provider. When users synchronize their handheld devices to the Internet, the results of completed CME programs are sent to Epocrates. After receiving the results, an accredited CME provides e-mail certificates to the users verifying the credits earned. New CME courses are routinely added and can be easily downloaded to users mobile devices and completed at leisure. The mobile functionality of the program enables doctors to start CME courses on their own time and complete the course work at their own pace, with no need to be connected to any system. It’s a great way to keep current with new developments, as well as meet your CME responsibilities (and a way to sleep late and skip Grand Rounds.. shh…)

So we’ve all heard of podcasting, we know it’s probably THE new and cool “buzzword” of 2005, but has anyone sat down and thought of the power of this chic technology? Harvard Medical School has integrated podcasting into their curriculum, and the potential looks outstanding! Before you know it, those little white earphones will be the signature of a medical student, instead of that emasculine short white coat!