Skyscape a provider mobile medical solutions, announced today that over 300,000 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, physician assistants, residents and medical students, are registered users of its software. This is an increase of 300 percent in less than two years.

These professionals are using Skyscape to access more than 200 titles for Palm and Pocket PC smartphones and handhelds. These titles include clinical references, drug guides, dictionaries, drug interaction guides and calculators across 35 medical specialties, such as oncology, cardiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, EMT/paramedic, psychiatry and nursing.

All references use Skyscape's smARTlink for cross referencing between titles. Another technology, ARTbeat, provides continuously updated content that integrates with the medical references.

This channel based technology now includes Chronic Disease (PCD), a peer-reviewed electronic journal established to provide a forum for public health researchers and practitioners to share study results and practical experience.

In addition to the new, free PCD channel, Skyscape offers other free and paid channels, including CDC Spotlights, MedWatch and Connections.

Survey Says

In a survey released at the American Psychiatric Association’s 157th Annual Meeting last month, respondents stated that PDA use provides significant benefits by enabling them to spend more time with patients, while still treating more each day, and by improving the overall quality of patient care.

More than 64 percent of those surveyed use their PDA more than four times a day, with 12 percent using it more than 25 times a day. When asked how they use their PDAs, 68 percent of psychiatrists reported they rely on their PDA for treatment purposes, primarily using it for drug references, clinical references, drug interaction guides or treatment guidelines. When asked to quantify the specific benefits PDAs bring to their daily practice, 82 percent of respondents concluded that PDA use enables them to provide more care in less time.