What is GuineaPSYCH?

GuineaPSYCH is a Palm application that assists medical students and physicians in tracking their psychiatric patients.  While there are many patient trackers available, there are few that were written specifically for psychiatry.  With GuineaPSYCH, it is easy to enter psychiatric information like the DSM-IV Multiaxial Assessment Diagnosis, results of your mental status exam, past psychiatric history, and much more.  In addition, users can share their patient data by simply beaming the patient record to the other user's Palm.

• Storage of detailed patient data including DSM-IV Multiaxial Assessment Diagnosis, laboratory values useful for psychiatry (e.g., drug levels, thyroid profiles, etc.), demographic information, imaging studies, histories, to do lists, physicals, assessments, plans, personal notes and much more.
• Option to define how patients are classified (e.g., hospital, clinic, etc.) and ability to view patients in a particular class.
• All patient data fields are optional.  Use GuineaPSYCH to keep incredibly verbose data, or simply use it to store your hospital census for morning rounds.
• At-a-glance lab viewing (CBC and chemistry panels appear on a summary screen).
• Beaming of patient record to other GuineaPSYCH users.
• To do list has a reminder option that will activate the Palm's alarm system.
• 30 day demo version is not crippled in any way. 

How do I install GuineaPSYCH?

Simple.  Unzip the demo version and simply install the G-Psych.PRC onto your Palm.  After that, you're ready to go!

How is GuineaPSYCH different from GuineaTRACKER?

Download the demo and see for yourself!  You'll find that they are quite different.  The patient history section for GuineaPSYCH is much different from GuineaTRACKER.  Many of the history questions are geared more towards psychiatry (e.g., childhood trauma, childhood behavior, etc.).  In addition, the laboratory portion of GuineaPSYCH stores more psychiatric-specific lab data (drug screens, etc.).  So you'll see that GuineaPSYCH and GuineaTRACKER are quite different.

The lab setup is different than most other patient trackers.  What is "Quick Labs?"

When I'm on the wards and I'm following a dozen patients, I print all of their labwork out at once from a hospital computer.  This gives me a nice big stack of papers to carry around.  Other patient trackers would required you load each patient, add new labs, exit the patient, load a different patient, add their labs, exit, etc. etc.  I designed GuineaPSYCH (and GuineaTRACKER!) to have a feature called "Quick Labs" in which the laboratory database is stored completely separate from the patient data (but still accessible from the patient database, of course).  So with GuineaPSYCH, on the lab screen you can add labs for any patient in your database.  What this means is that you just need to keep tapping "New Labs" and using the pulldown selector to select the patient.  Then away you go!  You can enter your lab data for all your patients at one sitting without having to bounce around patient databases!  This has an important implication for beaming data (see below). 

Finally, GuineaPSYCH also has great at-a-glance lab viewing (mentioned above in the features section).

Can I beam data to other users?

Yes!  There are three ways to beam information.  You can select to beam laboratory data, progress note data or patient data.  Why three separate ways?  With some patient trackers, when you beam patient data you run the risk of wiping out the data the other user might already have on that patient!  Needless to say, they wouldn't appreciate that very much.  So with GuineaPSYCH, you can opt to just beam laboratory data if you wish so that your colleague's data on assessment, plan, etc. are left intact.  To beam patient data, select the beam icon at the top of the screen on the patient data screen.  To beam laboratory data, select the beam icon at the top of the screen on the lab summary screen.  A general rule-of-thumb to remember is that beaming from the patient data screen sends all patient data (history, physical, assessment, plans, etc. with the exception of labs) while beaming from the laboratory screen sends the current laboratory data (with no history, physical, etc.).

Can I beam GuineaPSYCH data to GuineaTRACKER users?

No.  The two use completely different file formats that are incompatible. 

When I'm drawing in a scratchpad, how do I erase what I've drawn.

If you shift (upstroke in the graffitti area), the pen becomes an eraser.  Simply draw over what you've drawn and watch as your sketch disappears.

Can I run Palm Hacks while using GuineaPSYCH?

You can try.  But if GuineaPSYCH begins acting odd, turn your hacks off and try again (this applies to any and all software, not just the GuineaSOFT line of products).

How do I register?

Visit our REGISTRATION page for more information!

If I register, will I lose all the data I've entered already?

No.