Strategy: Smartphone for notes and spell checking
6 Keywords: Smartphone, Activesync, Memory, Spell Checker, Notes, Note Making
"The doctors on the wards shout numbers at you, then you can record them and when your patient’s ill you can look back and refer to it. Because when you write your hand in sheet, you can put it down by a patient. Whereas if you have a physical machine, it’s quite heavy and you notice straight away when it’s not on you. A piece of paper you just put down and walk away ..."
I have a Samsung G800 with O2, It has a calendar – which saves me having to carry around a diary! I would like it to be a "bit like a ‘pocket’ spellchecker - I had a very old fashioned one on me, but it got out of date and it didn’t like medical words. I liked having that on me – to be able to call upon it in an instance."
There are the packs of Oxford Dictionaries for this phone but they have to be licensed by the year so it may be worth trying DictionaryforMIDs - an open source collection of dictionaries that will work with JAVA system phones.
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"I have spoken with O2 (my mobile nework provider) about one of those mobile palm computer phones that I believe could help me on the wards as it would role into one mobile, word and spellchecker."
- AndrewTip
Those training in the medical professions may want to try the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (Seventh Edition)for PDAs with Palm and Windows mobile operating systems



