Palm Inc. demonstrated its Windows Mobile and Palm OS based Treo 700 series smartphones and Palm OS based Treo 680 smartphones, with featured healthcare applications from Palm’s third-party developer network at HIMSS07. The devices’ features include UpToDate for mobile access to current reference information;  McKesson’s Horizon Mobile Care Rounding solution for clinical reference systems that provide educational materials; Tolven ePHR for enabling consumers and their healthcare providers to wirelessly and securely access personal health records on a Treo smartphone; IQMax for mobile dictation, access to clinical results, multimedia decision support and patient charge capture on secure mobile devices; and Nuance Communications’ Nuance Voice Control standard platform with a custom add-on application, which gives healthcare workers access to medication, lab results, patient status, and other pertinent patient information via a Treo smartphone.

Palm also formally introduced its “Designed for Palm Products” program to the healthcare community at HIMSS and accepted membership applications at the booth. As part of the Palm Developer Program, application developers have an opportunity to be awarded the “Designed for Palm Products” logo, which enables developers to extend brand value through the Palm brand.