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The Communications Engineering Branch's MEDLINE Database on Tap Project

Information about MD on TAP

What is MD on TAP?

MD on Tap is an application for PDAs that retrieves MEDLINE® citations directly from the PDA through a wireless connection to the Internet.

Who uses this program?

This program is developed for mobile health care professionals who seek medical information when away from their desktop computers.

What is the goal?

The project goal is to discover and implement design principles to facilitate practitioners' access to online medical information at the point of service.

Is there a Hardware Requirement?

There are versions of the MD on Tap Client for PDA’s and PDA/Cellphones with both Pocket PC and with Palm Operating Systems. The PDA or PDA/Cellphone must have a wireless connection to the Internet.

Note: MD on Tap is designed for PPCs with a screen resolution of 240W x 320H. Although it will run on the Windows Mobile square-screen smartphones, such as the Treo 700, you will not see the bottom portion of the tabs.

Caveat: The MD on Tap Intermediate server runs on an R&D http server.

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Features
MEDLINE search limits
History of previous queries
Save citations to a PDA text file
Subject clusters
Related Articles
Link-out to full-text Web sites
Evidence Based Medicine clusters
Set default number of results
Auto reset of user preferences on startup
"English + Human" limit
Auto Spell Check
Select from 3 Search Engines
Select "Summary" or "Title" Results
Optional PICO Search Tab

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URL: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/mdot/mdot.php
Last updated August 08, 2006
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