WebOS Developer here

I am now an "official" developer, having posted an app to the HP Palm Application Catalog (Web Distribution feed).  It is just a simple Bishop Score calculator that I am using to teach myself how to make apps for HP WebOS devices (currently Palm Pre, Pixi phones.  TouchPad tablet and more phones and even desktops coming).

 I am doing this because I am a obsessive-compulsive technophile family doctor.  I like good tools - whether it is in my pocket in Labor and Delivery, on the ranch fixing fences, on my camper, or on my computer.  The old PalmOS PDAs and phones had great medical tools for obstetrics.  However, WebOS doesn't yet have the depth of medical apps. 

Fortunately, Dr. Alan Teh in Singapore has stepped forward and made a whole suite of medical apps. His site is here: http://palmdoc.net/ .  Also, in response to some ideas back and forth on PreCentral.net, SiratoXero started OB Tracker, an app to keep an OB list on WebOS devices.  Sirato got busy though, so he handed the code off to me to finish.

Since I know (knew) nothing about coding other than some high-school programming courses on TRS-80's in the 80's(!), I am starting by programming a Bishop Score calculator to learn how to do this.  Dr. Teh graciously got me started with instructions and a code framework to flesh out.  It is a free app, available here: http://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.monkonapps.bishopscore . 

When this app is satisfactory and I have learned more (a long ways to go!), I will start working on the OB Tracker app.  The goal of the OB Tracker app will be an encrypted HIPAA-compliant  list of pregnant moms that can be sync'd to a laptop without every putting any information on the cloud".  With it, a doctor or midwife will be able to keep their pregnant mom list of EDD's, blood types, Group B Strep status, G's and P's, and a free-text note field, too.

Why is this important?  So we can plan when to be out of town!  (That and the rather more important ability to instantly look up critical information on moms during obstetric emergencies or while discussing with consultants or checking out to partners, etc).

HP requires developers to have a web site.... so this is it.  Leave me comments/questions, and I will try to check this enough to be helpful.

A huge "thanks" to the moms who let us be part of their miracles, and to Dr. Alan Teh of Singapore, and SiratoXero, without whom I would still be trying to figure out what JSON is important for!