The application has been developed for the Windows CE 2.0 environment, available on Palm PCs, as well as the Palm OS 3.0 environment, available on Palm Pilots.

Physicians, nurses, and clinical research associates can use the WebTIE PPC CTC application to:

• Grade patient toxicities on the Palmtop from remote locations, such as bedside or administrative sites
  
  
• Link adverse event data collection and reporting with that of the host clinician’s facility information system through standardized user interfaces
  
  
• Train other health professionals in grading adverse events

More than one user can share the same PPC hardware, thereby offering economies of scale for organizations that do not wish to purchase an individual PPC for each application user.

WebTIE PPC CTC application development began in October 1998 under a Humanitas, Inc. contract with the National Cancer Institute. The software is distributed at no charge through the WebTIE web site. Alpha testing by NCI's user community has taken place, and beta testing is beginning as of January 2000.

Users can volunteer to be beta testers when they register to download the WebTIE CTC applications. Beta testers will provide Humanitas with feedback about the features of the applications, new functions that are desirable additions to the final version, ease of use, and overall product quality. This feedback will help the development team to ensure that the final version is a more useful and usable product.

Humanitas has developed the WebTIE PPC CTC application for use on the MIPS3000, MIPS4000, and SH3 Palm PC processors. We have tested the application on the Hewlett Packard Jornada 420 and 430, the Philips Nino 300 series, and the Casio Cassiopeia E100. The Palm Pilot version of the application has been developed and tested on Palm devices using Palm OS 3.0 or higher and having 4Megs of memory, such as the Palm Vx and the Palm IIIx.



If you are using a Windows CE-based Palm PC, you must install Windows CE Services Prior to installing and using the PPC CTC Application. This enables your Palm PC and your Desktop PC to communicate. For more information on this procedure, refer to your Palm PC manual.

If you are using a Palm Pilot, you must install the Palm Pilot desktop software on your desktop PC. This enables your desktop PC and your Palm Pilot to communicate. For more information, refer to your Palm Pilot manual.

If you have any questions about the Palm PC application, its development, or its use, please contact Humanitas at ctcpalm@humanitas.com.