Lars, nobody can live blog this guy. But if, he will loose everything worthwile to mention: The vivid, surprising style of this Police-addicted swinging, swedish Linux-guy. Just great! Elisabeth Husem right away recommend him for keynote presentations. Lars' message: Keep on following the (coming and/or already present) mobile web, especially Google's ANDROID.
Paula Saraiva (Portugal): Change to a mobile environment: PDA reference services at the Library!
Paula compared PDA usage in 62 European and 17 oversee libraries. Especially she distinguished between user-owned vs. library-offered applications. She made a SWOT analysis on the "Benefits on using PDA's in Clinical Practice" and on "Implementing PDA Services in Libraries" with exciting outcomes. Respective threats were battery life resp. anxious staff.
She sees PDA services as excellent opportunities of innovation in health libraries. The use of PDAs in daily clinical practice increased productivity, better communication, immediate assistance, decrease of medical errors, integration with clinical decision making system and medical records.
she conclude, that all health libraries agreed to the benfits of PDA implementation and technological infrastructures are not the main constraint against that goal, but library budgets, staff resistance, and lack of appropriate applications.
Using PDA's in medicine is an irreversible process.
