INTRO
medSuite(TM) is a suite of medical applications designed for the 
Apple Newton OS and busy physicians. Consider the free availability 
of these applications as my small contribution to medicine, better 
patient care, and an effort to increase the use of PDAs in medicine. 
Although there is no shareware or any other kind of fee required, I 
still would be very much interested in your comments, bug reports, 
and especially how you are using these applications (or why you are 
not using them!). I would like to maintain a database of users so I 
can notify each of you when there are changes (i.e. update to the 2.0 
OS) or bug fixes, so I would ask you to send me the information about 
yourself as described at the end of this document.

By the way, you may notice that there is no documentation here (and 
there won't be for this version), but most experienced Newton users 
will not have very much trouble finding their way around with any 
medSuite(TM) package. After transferring the packages to your 
Newton, you should first start the medUtility application and go to 
Prefs to set up your picklists for all of the applications. If you want 
to play around with the apps first, go to Files and press the 
"Generate Demo Files" button and wait about 5 minutes. If you had 
enough room on your Newton for 40 calls, 40 regular patients, and 
100 obstetric patients, you're ready to try out the packages. When 
and if you want to remove all medSuite(TM) files on your Newton 
device you can go to "Files" and press the "Remove ALL "medSuite" 
Files" button.


DESCRIPTION
medSuite(TM) is a suite of Newton MessagePad applications and 
utilities designed for the conscientious, practicing physician and 
practice groups. Use of these applications on a regular basis will 
help physicians make better decisions, give informed medical 
advice, and at the same time, limit liability and risk.

The core medSuite(TM) package consists of two full-featured 
applications, onCalls(TM) and ptsDA(TM). onCalls(TM) is an 
application which allows the "on call" physician to document 
telephone contacts whether from patients, hospitals, nursing homes, 
etc. while away from the office. The next day, these time-stamped 
call records can be reviewed, dictated from, or printed, to provide 
thorough, legible documentation of all out-of-office encounters.

This patient-specific information is especially useful when the on-
call physician is dealing with an unfamiliar patient whose pertinent 
clinical history may not be available or elicitable. In addition, all of 
the patient information stored in ptsDA(TM) can be accessed simply 
from within onCalls(TM).

Malpractice risk managers everywhere stress that all patient 
contacts should be legibly documented, especially when away from 
the office, and medSuite(TM) makes this added task almost 
effortless.

Information from both of these core applications can also be 
transferred to desktop systems using the Newton Connection Kit 
(Mac or Windows) where the data can be viewed in different ways or 
exported to other practice management software packages.


For those physicians who also provide care to obstetric patients, the 
power of medSuite(TM) can be extended by using the medSuite(TM) 
Obstetric Package. The Obstetric Package includes three more 
Newton packages that are complementary to the core medSuite(TM) 
applications. These packages include obDA(TM), obCalc(TM), and STD 
93.

obDA(TM), like ptsDA(TM), is a database which focuses on 
information important to physicians who manage the care of 
obstetric patients. Physicians from an entire practice group can pool 
information about their obstetric patients into obDA(TM). Once that 
is done, the on-call physicians will have crucial information about 
every obstetric patient in the practice at their fingertips. Again, the 
obstetric information residing in obDA(TM) is accessible from 
within onCalls(TM).

obCalc(TM) is a digital replacement for the common, round, plastic, 
gestational age calculator used by everyone who takes care of 
pregnant patients. But in addition to providing readable and exact 
gestational ages and EDCs, physicians can enter ultrasound 
parameters like BPD or FL to calculate gestational ages quickly in L 
& D or in the ED.

STD 93 is a Newton book which contains the entire text of the CDC's 
Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Guidelines. This typical 
Newton book is indexed exactly like the original text so that 
clinicians can quickly locate answers to their clinical questions 
about STDs.

medSuite(TM) applications also fully support the following Newton 
OS features: Find, Printing, Faxing, Beaming, and Newton 
Connectivity (with NCK).


REGISTRATION 
As mentioned earlier, I would like to maintain a registry of 
healthcare workers using these applications. Please send the 
following information to me at any of the addresses below.

Name
Healthcare Institution
Address 
Email Address
Newton Model & OS
Comments


SEND TO:

America Online:	DrMiller

Internet:		donald_miller@qm.yale.edu 
			DrMiller@aol.com

US Postal Address:D. W. Miller, Jr., M.D. 
			703 Ridge Road
			Orange, CT 06477-1719