Considerations for Mac Users

PH: I just wanted to point out to anyone who may view this blog who is a Macintosh user and who is considering getting a Treo Smartphone that there are some issues with some of the Drug Information softwares for Mac users. I will just point out a few examples. There are several softwares that simply cannot be downloaded onto a Mac successfully. Many of them download as an .exe file that Macs are unable to do anything with. Examples of some of the softwares for which this is a problem include Clinical Xpert, ACP's Pier and MosbyRx. Also, there is at least one software, and one that I would dearly like to load onto my smartphone, that can download to a Mac fine, but then cannot be synched to a Treo Smartphone. This software is CP Onhand. Our instructor looked into it further and discovered by calling the company that produces it that this is indeed the case. However, they suggested that their next update would correct the problem. That update was supposed to occur in November, I have not yet attempted to load it this month, if I find out that it now works I will post a comment to this blog. Many of the other softwares do work fine, but I wanted to point out that there are some issues for Mac users to consider.