Cloud Storage

Got a new iPhone? an Android phone? need to share your data among devices? "The Best Way to Store Stuff in the Cloud" from Gizmodo dated 9-28-2011 reviews a number of options including Amazon's Cloud Drive, SugarSync, Dropbox, Google and Apple's iCloud. Before you get started you might want to take a look at a good overview and introduction to cloud-computing -- from EDUCAUSE "7 Things You Should Know About ... Organizing Files in the Cloud."


Websites listed:
http://gizmodo.com/5828035/the-best-way-to-store-stuff-in-the-cloud
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7073.pdf

Translation Apps for Your iPhone

Several translation apps mentioned on iMedicalApps sound intriguing to investigate if you have an iPhone. They may not be specific enough for orthopedic settings, and certainly will not replace our wonderful interpreting team!

The first is MediBabble, which is available free. It draws from a list of 2,000 diagnostic questions that have already been translated into 5 initial languages - Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, and Haitian Creole. Two physicians, Dr. Alex Blau and Dr. Brad Cohn, have added this app to an impressive record of service to the global medically underserved.

The iMedicalApps review also mentions Xprompt ($6.99 for initial download including English, Spanish & German; $2.99 for each additional language -- 20 available) which has 800 diagnostic phrases and Medical Spanish ($6.99) with over 3,000 audio phrases in Spanish.

In addition to translating typed text for over 50 languages, Google Translate offers an option to speak a phrase and hear a translation in a in one of 15 languages. It is not medically-oriented. This is the list of languages they mention: "Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish."


Websites referenced:
http://www.imedicalapps.com/2011/03/free-iphone-medical-translation-app-sets-a-new-standard-medibabble-translator-app-review/

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-translate/id414706506?mt=8

http://www.imedicalapps.com/2010/04/iphone-medical-app-xprompt-app-review/

http://www.imedicalapps.com/2009/09/app-review-medical-spanish-app-adds-audio-in-latest-update-and-were-definitely-smitten/

http://www.imedicalapps.com/

Bone Feed -- an App for Your iPhone

Here's an iMedicalApps review of a free app, Bone Feed, designed for an orthopedist using an iPhone to help manage journal reading. It gets feeds of the tables of contents from 50 titles listed at MDLinx.

Websites referenced:
http://www.imedicalapps.com/2011/07/bone-feed-busy-orthopedist-quickly-browse-abstracts-improved/

http://www.imedicalapps.com

http://www.mdlinx.com/orthopedics/journals.cfm

DART Opens Green and Orange Lines, Affecting Bus Routes

Major changes are happening in the DART transportation system on Monday, Dec. 6. The new Green Line will open, bringing public transportation to the northwestern part of the Dallas area. Sections of the Green Line and Red Line will be served by Orange Line trains during heavy weekday rush hour periods. Several of the new stops will have bus connections to the hospital (see the 29, 31, 409), or you can ride to the West End to connect with 2 options (29, 31). Check DART's Mobile Site for quick updates on bus locations.

For handouts on public transportation service to the hospital, see a link on the Medical Library home page.

Thanks for sharing, LA & KF!

Websites referenced:
http://www.dart.org/about/servicechange/servicechange.asp?zeon=06dec10other

http://m.dart.org/

DART Mobile Site for Checking on Your Bus

If you have a smart phone you can use DART's Mobile Site to tell you what time the next bus is expected. Choose the bus stop Maple @ Oak Lawn. The screen even shows a little map of the last reported location for the bus!

This site can be viewed on a regular computer, but is designed for a phone. Really handy! Thanks for sharing, KF!

Website referenced: m.dart.org

PICO Search Site from MEDLINE -- and Other Mobile Device-friendly NLM Resources

NLM's mobile PICO MEDLINE search page has a new location. The page offers a form that helps you clarify your thoughts and compose a workable research question using the categories of Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome. Then the topics are searched in MEDLINE. The page is designed to be mobile-device friendly. More mobile friendly resources, such as MedlinePlus and a couple of disaster-related resources are also available from NLM.



Websites referenced:
http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/
http://go.usa.gov/xFb
http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlmd/pico/piconew.php

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/