There is no clear winner in this category, so we do not currently have a recommendation to make. Most of the products available are too expensive, too specialized, too American, or too complex to be of general interest or use at the Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine. Some of the options include PatientKeeper ( www.patientkeeper.com ), PatientTracker ( www.handheldmed.com ) and WardWatch ( www.torlesse.com ), and HandEchart ( www.ddhsoftware.com ).
The Palm committee is currently considering a plan to create a customized patient tracker for use by Dalhousie medical students and residents using hanDBase, making the widespread use of a standard database program like this much more important.