D & D Enterprises Session 1: Basic PDA Usage Thursday June 15, 2006 Palm Telemedicine Seminar Series

D & D Enterprises 2 Session 1 Agenda ▪TX Orientation: Introducing Your Hardware ▪Basic Operations ▫Navigating with the Stylus ▫Using the 5-Way Navigator ▫Introducing the Palm Interface: Menus and Input Options ▪Applications: Favorites, Home and All Applications ▪Setting Preferences ▫Digitizing for Better Input ▫Changing Button Launch Programs ▪Power Tool: Using the Find Function ▪Troubleshooting: Soft Reset

D & D Enterprises 3 Introduction Diane Cunningham ▪Palm user since 1996 ▪Designed and developed "Computer Training for Physicians" course – taught since 1995 and the "Physicians Palm Workshop" series ▪Present Seminars, Presentation and Technology Workshops for: ▫The American College of Surgeons (ACS) ▫CME Inc. ▫Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) ▫Sierra Health Group Las Vegas ▫UCSD Topics and Advances in Internal Medicine Conference ▫California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) ▫Kaiser Permanente ▫St. Joseph Heritage Health Foundation

D & D Enterprises TX Orientation Introducing Your Hardware Front, Back Top and Bottom

Front

Status Bar 9 Options

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Input Area ClassicWideSoft Keyboard

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Back

D & D Enterprises 12 Reset Button ▪Resets your handheld if it stops responding ▫To do a soft reset, use the tip of the stylus to gently press the reset button inside the hole on the back panel of your handheld (more later!)

Top

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D & D Enterprises Basic Operations Navigation using the Stylus and 5-Way Navigator Introducing the Palm Interface

D & D Enterprises 16 Basic Operations ▪You can operate your Palm handheld using the ▫Stylus and ▫5-Way Navigator

D & D Enterprises 17 Where Is the Stylus Located? The stylus is stored on the right hand side of your Palm handheld NOTE: To avoid losing the stylus, always put it back in the holder of your Palm handheld after use

D & D Enterprises 18 Using the Stylus

D & D Enterprises 19 Using the Stylus

D & D Enterprises 20 Using the navigator / 5-way navigator / the 5-way ▪The navigator consists of the two large, concentric buttons in the middle of the lower part of your Palm ▫Press the edges to move up, down, right, or left, and the center button to select items ▪The navigator works differently in different applications, but it's usually an easy way to operate your Palm with one hand

D & D Enterprises Introducing the Palm Interface Menus and Input Options

D & D Enterprises 22 Palm Interface ▪Tapping a dotted box opens a dialog box

D & D Enterprises 23 Palm Controls and Selectors

D & D Enterprises 24 Palm Interface ▪Tapping the triangle to the left of a word displays a pop-up menu

D & D Enterprises Palm Applications Favorites, Home and All Applications

D & D Enterprises 26 About Applications ▪An application is a software program you use for a specific purpose ▫Some applications (apps) are built into your palm device, such as Calendar and Tasks. ▫Other applications are included on the Palm installation CD ▫Still other applications are available for purchase and/or download ▪Some excellent sources of Palm applications include:

D & D Enterprises 27 Favorites/Home Button ▪Press once to open Favorites View, which lets you create a list of the items you want to quickly access ▫Favorites View can include applications and links to the web ▪Press twice to open Applications View (Home), where you can see all of the applications installed on your handheld

D & D Enterprises 28 Favorites View ▪Press the Home Icon again to open the Applications View

D & D Enterprises 29 All Applications View ▪Home! ▫From here, in the All Category, you can access all of your installed Palm Applications!

D & D Enterprises Setting Preferences

D & D Enterprises 31 Application Categories ▪Other Categories are available

D & D Enterprises 32 Scroll Down, Click Prefs then Click Touchscreen

D & D Enterprises 33 Calibrate the Touchscreen ▪Hold the Palm as you would normally, then tap exactly in the center of each target ▪This aligns the position of your stylus to the screen’s electronic touch sensors, personalizing it!

D & D Enterprises 34 Success! ▪Click Done ▪Now Click on Buttons

D & D Enterprises 35 Redefining the Web Button ▪Click on the Drop down button next to Web

D & D Enterprises 36 Redefining the Web Button ▪Click Epocrates ▫Then click Done

D & D Enterprises 37 Launch Epocrates ▪Click what was the Web hardware button ▫It should now launch Epocrates

D & D Enterprises 38 Success!

D & D Enterprises Power Tips Using the Find Function Beaming & Deleting Applications Performing a Soft Reset

D & D Enterprises 40 Using the Find Function ▪You can find information by entering text with the Find function or searching for a phone number using the Phone Lookup function ▫These two functions are available for all the basic Palm handheld applications

D & D Enterprises 41 Using the Find Function ▪You can find records on your Palm handheld by entering the whole word or the first few letters ▫The search results are displayed by application ▫NOTE: Start the application that contains the data you are looking for for a faster search result! ▪This Find feature is also useful if you do not remember which application you used to create a record you are searching for

D & D Enterprises 42 Using the Find Function ▪Click on the Find Icon on the Status Bar

D & D Enterprises 43 Using the Find Function ▪Enter the text you want to find, in this case: ▫palm ▪Then tap OK

D & D Enterprises 44 Using the Find Function ▪The Find function starts to search and displays the list of search results ▪The find feature that makes it easy to locate occurrences of a specific group of text characters in various applications on your palm ▫If you have a match, click on the title

D & D Enterprises 45 Using the Find Function ▪To stop searching ▫Tap Cancel ▪To resume the search ▫Tap Find More NOTE: The Find function is not case sensitive; searching for “palm" also finds “Palm" TIP: Select text in an application prior to tapping the Find icon to automatically place that text in the Find dialog box

D & D Enterprises 46 Using the Find Function ▪The Find application automatically launches the application, opens the matching record and highlights the word you searched

D & D Enterprises Troubleshooting Performing a Soft Reset

D & D Enterprises 48 Troubleshooting: Soft Reset Restarting (resetting) your Palm handheld ▪NOTE: You do not usually need to reset your Palm! ▫However, your Palm may no longer turn on, accept a beam, or respond to your operations for some reason ▪In these cases, you may be able to solve your problem by resetting your palm to restart it

D & D Enterprises 49 Reset Button ▪To do a soft reset, use the tip of the stylus to gently press the reset button inside the hole on the back panel of your handheld

D & D Enterprises 50 Any Questions?