Welcome/Intro

Hello everyone! This is Ben Colwell, and on this blog I am going to be posting about electronic drug information and drug information software for PDAs. I am currently a third-year pharmacy student at the University of Iowa, and I am posting on this blog as required by a course that I am currently taking at Iowa.

I really feel that electronic drug information and the use of PDAs is going to prove invaluable in my career as a pharmacist. Using drug information is efficiently and effectively is going to help me provide the best patient care, and doing so electronically is the best way to accomplish this goal.

The problem, however, is knowing which electronic sources are going to work the best for me. I have some experience working with electronic drug information, but I hardly fancy myself an expert, and I hope that this class helps me become more comfortable with different electronic drug information sources, so that I may choose which ones are going to be the best for me in my future work. I will probably only use one or two programs on my PDA once I begin practicing, and I believe that being exposed to the array of different products that are out there will help me make the best decision.

For now, I don't have a lot of actual commentary on any particular products, because the course has just begun, but in the weeks ahead, I will be commenting on various electronic drug information sources and PDA software programs. This class is going to be a learning experience for me, and hopefully through this blog it will also be a learning experience for those of you lucky enough to be reading this blog.

Thank you for visiting my blog, and I hope to be hearing from you as well in the form of comments!