Palm Pilots to aid scheduling (Score 1)

I come from Springfield, MO, a major medical town for the area where many doctors now employ palm devices to track complicated lists of patients, numbers for pharmacies, and other information. This IS a step forward in medical technology, using something that doctors can carry around and track patient lists, but many times these PDAs are not in the hospital "network", and do not exchange information, such as patient status or call schedules. But of course, this is a large leap in technology, and the medical industry needs something to be more efficient with the ever lowered spending with medicare and the HMOs. Perhaps this technology, when used correctly, can improve productivity, but for now, it is limited to being something for personal use by many doctors.