title: The PDA as a portal to knowledge sources in a wireless setting.
abstract: Two recent parallel developments, the widespread deployment of wireless networks and increased use of handheld devices like the personal digital assistant (PDA), have contributed to the development of mobile access to the Internet. Recent surveys show that approximately 25% or more of physicians use PDAs. Although used mainly for personal information management and static medical applications, PDAs have capabilities to connect to the Internet. We studied the use of handheld devices to access MEDLINE and other knowledge sources in a wireless setting.
authors.affiliation: Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA. fontelo@nlm.nih.gov
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fontelo
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ackerman
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Locatis
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D016239:MEDLINE / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000639:trends*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*