Ok this kind of dovetails with my previous blog about how the sale of PDAs has been declining. According to that article the biggest obstacle seemed to be PDAs are still thought of as PIMs (personal information managers), basically your daily planner book on steroids.

Well I just happened to run into a great article about this MIT grad who is developing healthcare software to be used on PDAs in developing countries. It is on CNN.com and it is called, "Humanitarian's tech for health care."

In this article it talks about how Vikram Kumar, a graduate of MIT with degrees in medicine and engineering, and is a pathology resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, devleoped several medical software programs to be used with PDAs in developing countries. One such program in rural South Africa, allows outreach workers to use software distribute HIV test results in remote settings while ensuring confidentiality. Another is a software program being used in India that helps collect data on patients, schedule immunizations and prenatal care and record routine demographic changes.

So here is some evidence of PDAs being used in many other ways than just your glorified daily planner.