1. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Handhelds in the Health Science Library Mari J. Stoddard Arizona Health Sciences Library University of Arizona

2. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Introduction Handhelds, pocket computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), palmtops, organizers Support since 1993 Palm platform in 1997

3. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Palm & PocketPC Use by clincians –Reports in literature Log, data (drug and disease), schedules, addresses, calculators –Arizona students - drug info, fac-scheduling & chk lists, clin-drug, hosp pharm Use by health organizations Pt data self-coll, field data coll, e-prescriptions, hospital IS Cedars-Sinai in LA

4. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library PDA Inititatives in Health Care Libraries http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/hlth.htm#i Hospitals -- (Women's Hospital of Greensboro, NC; St. Petersburg, FL, All Children's Hospital; Middletown CT, Middlesex Hospital, Tremaine Library; North Carolina, Mountain AHEC, Health Sciences Library) –Cradles –Support Universities –Hardware -- Stanford U –Applications - licensing at U Colorado –Consultation and training - U Washington, USC

5. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Arizona Health Sciences Library PDA Support Hardware - cradles Training and consultations Alerting services Web pages

6. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Hardware Palms and iPAQs Cradles –PC to PDA Librarians with PDAs

7. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library PC-to-PDA connections Public stations –Via Palm Install –pinstall.envicon.com Login stations –Via Hotsync –Library & LRC –Security

8. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Training Two hour workshops –Twice a year since 1998 –educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/ Curriculum –Enrichment elective, Fall 2000 –Pharmacy Internet practicum, Spring 2001

9. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Consultations Getting started Customizing –Clinical –Educational –PIM tools Troubleshooting

10. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Alerting services Alerts Page –educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/alert.htm Email news Bibliography (274 citations) Tables of contents –Avantgo and iSilo –ahsl.arizona.edu/journals/ejrnls/pda.cfm

11. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library PDAs for Health Care Providers http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda

12. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library PDAs for Health Care Providers http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda

13. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library PDAs for Health Care Providers http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda

14. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Assessment Count users of services Count web hits & links Classroom evaluations Follow-up interviews Surveys

15. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Statistics for six months PC-to-PDA connections –50 regular users –Few walk-ins Web hits –4th quarter: 6000 –3rd quarter: 4000

16. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Evaluations and comments Classroom evaluations –Average 8-10 participants Follow-up interviews –Continuing to use –Sharing with others Surveys

17. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Future Site licences Development Grant: PDAs in education

18. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library Conclusions Information access when needed From memorization to skill acquistion Many opportunities for libraries

19. February 2001Arizona Health Sciences Library For more information Mari J. Stoddard University of Arizona 520 - 626 - 2925 stoddard@ahsl.arizona.edu http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda