Palm Pre – Jerry Fahrni

Lexi-comp making headway on drug information software for the Palm Pre

October 20, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni

Earlier today Lexi-comp offered a sneak peak of their new drug information software for the Palm Pre. Thatâ€™s exciting news for all you Palm Pre owners out there. Lexi-comp offers one of the most comprehensive drug information packages available and is certainly a favorite among pharmacists. The Palm Pre is a great device to use … Read more

“What’d I miss?” – Week of September 20th

September 25, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni

As usual there were a lot of things that happened during the week, and not all of it was pharmacy or technology related. Here’s a quick look at some of the stuff I found interesting.

Palm OS aficionados can continue to run their old software on the Palm Pre.

August 24, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni

MotionApps has a piece of software for the Palm webOS called Classic. It is basically an emulator that allows webOS-based devices like the Palm Pre to run legacy Palm OS software. The benefits are obvious: you have access to tons of software and it allows you to hold onto your old Palm OS apps just … Read more

Things just got a little better for healthcare professionals with a Palm Pre

July 23, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni

mobihealthnews: “When the Palm Pre App Catalog first launched in early June it had no medical apps to offer, but among the fewapplications the App Catalog launched with was an emulator app by MotionApps that promised to bring applications from old Palm platforms to the new Pre. In other words, if you are a health … Read more

“What’d I miss?” – Week of June 7th

June 12, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni

As usual there were a lot of things happening this week, and not all of it was pharmacy or technology related. Here’s a quick look at some of the stuff I browsed this week.

Pharmacy could use the Palm Pre

May 12, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni

There is an interesting little article in this month’s issue of Hospital Pharmacy (not available online yet – volume 44(5), pp 429-430, May 2009) entitled â€œThe Palm Pre: A Beginning of an Ending?â€ The author, Brent Fox, has been writing articles on Palm powered devices (PDAs) for several years. In the article he address the upcoming release of the new Palm Pre , a smartphone with slick new hardware and software that is supposed to compete with the iPhone and BlackBerry devices.