USBMIS: Benchmarking Medical PDA Applications
Dynamic Hierarchy Technology (Patent Pending)
The Dynamic Hierarchy Technology (DHT) combines the traditional medical algorithm of inductive and deductive reasoning with Personal Digital Assistant technology. The principle is simple. Medical texts, for the most part, do not contain continuous free-flowing text. Rather, medical texts, as well as scientific texts, compartmentalize information into logical categories and subcategories.
We have managed to bridge the gap between PDA technology and traditional medical/scientific text by creating software that compartmentalizes the book or journal contents into a logical dynamic hierarchy. The user is able to navigate through the contents by choosing options in a hierarchy which is inherently organized by the text or journal and expands or contracts depending on subject matter or level of specificity. The hierarchy is dynamic because the list expands and contracts in real time allowing the physician or scientist to think and use the application simultaneously.
Dual Display Technology (Patent Pending)
Dual Display Technology (DDT) utilizes the high quality graphics found on Pocket PC platforms by integrating two separate screens into one interface. The top portion of the screen contains a Dynamic Hierarchy and the bottom screen contains the textual information. This is a very powerful tool as the physician is allowed to synthesize information faster by making inductive or deductive decisions while reading content at the same time. This is an elegant combination of technology with the traditional architecture of medical texts.
