As if I didn’t have enough side projects to maintain, I have decided to enter the world of medical calculator websites.

Many medical calculations are tiresome to perform by hand, and thus prone to errors. In the past, I have used Palm-based medical calculators, but it can be cumbersome to enter values into a handheld device. Web-based calculators have the promise to be more convenient, but most web-based calculator sites I’ve come aross have been poorly designed and slow to use. Nearly all require use of a “calculate” or “submit” button, which seems redundant given the power of modern computers, most of which can perform these calculations instantaneously.

In that setting, I set out to create a new site (largely for myself at first) that would allow for instantaneous calculations and keyboard navigation. This required the use of dynamic HTML which sacrifices some compatibility (ironically with the Palm OS web browser), but I think ultimately it is worth the sacrifice.

The new site is now up at http://www.calculomatic.com. Right now, I only have a few renal calclulators available, but I hope to expand this with time.

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