• Internet Explorer 6.x
• Firefox 1.x
• Netscape 8.0
• Safari 1.3

• Palm OS 5.0 or later
• Palm HotSync Manager 4.2 or later
• Memory Cards Supported
• Windows PC or Mac OS X with Internet Connection

• Windows Mobile (All platforms)
• ActiveSync 4.0 or later (Win XP or earlier)
• Memory Cards Supported
• Windows PC with Internet Connection

• Palm OS 5 or later with Palm Browser v.3.0 or higher (e.g., Treo 600, Treo 650)
• Pocket PC 2003 or later with an Internet Explorer browser
• BlackBerry device with latest BlackBerry Browser
• May display appropriately on other devices

Login - Registered Users
Enter your Username and Password in the appropriate text box and click the Login button. You will be directed to your Personal Harrison's Practice Homepage.

Login - New Users
To purchase a Harrison's Practice subscription or activate a serial number you were given, click the Buy button. You will then be directed to a new page. In order to activate your account, you must enter a valid serial number in the text box provided. If you are an institutional customer and believe that you should be granted access to this site, please contact your system administrator or librarian.

Forgot your Password?
If you have already registered for Harrison's Practice, but have forgotten your password, you can obtain it by clicking on Forgot your Password?. You will then be prompted to enter either your user name or your e-mail address and then click Submit. Next, when prompted, answer the reminder question and click Submit. Your password will be sent to you at the e-mail address you provided during registration.

From your Homepage, quickly review the components of Harrison's Practice at-a-glance:

• Search Harrison's Practice content from any screen
• Browse Harrison's Practice content by either Specialty, Topic or ICD-9 Codes
• Utilize the View by Drug feature to browse generic and brand name drugs
• View saved records in MyArchive
• Use the PDA section to get an overview of the content currently loaded to your handheld device.

Additionally, you may use the links in the main navigation banner to move between the main application modules: Home, PDA, MyArchive, and Editors. While working within a particular section, you are provided with a crumbtrail which allows you to easily trace your path back to a previous page.

Harrison's Practice content is organized by several indexes: Specialty, Topic, ICD-9 code and Drug Index. You can navigate through each in this section. From your Harrison's Practice home page, choose an index by clicking one of the available buttons: View by Topic, View by Specialty, or View Drugs.

After selecting View by Topic, for example, you will arrive at a more detailed sub-index. From here, click on the name of the term you are seeking to arrive at its main page. While working within a resource, use the navigation provided to guide you through the information.

If you would like to navigate Harrison's Practice by specialty click the View by Specialty button. This will display the main specialty index. From here, click on the term you are seeking and you will arrive at its main page.

To navigate by ICD-9 Codes, select this option from the left navigation bar while in either the Topic or Specialty View. From here, click on the term you are seeking and you will arrive at its main page.

To access the View by Drug feature and browse both generic and brand name drugs, select the View Drugs button from your Harrison's Practice home page. You will arrive at the Drugs Index page, where each entry is arranged alphabetically. Navigate to the desired term and click its title. The drug information will display in a pop-up window.

To perform a search of Harrison's Practice, enter your desired term in the Search box.

To return to the Home page, click the Home link in the navigation banner.

The resources that currently reside on your PDA are listed in the PDA section of your homepage.

To manage your PDA subscriptions, click either the PDA link in the main navigation banner. You will arrive at the "Manage PDA Resources" page where you may add/remove programs and view all of the resources to which you are subscribed.

The resources currently on your PDA are displayed with a checked box before the title.

If you wish to change what is on your PDA, first locate the desired resource in the "Manage PDA Resources" section.

To add to your PDA, simply check the box next to the appropriate title(s).  Next, click the "Update" button.

To remove from your PDA, uncheck the box next to the title of the appropriate resource(s).  Next, click the "Update" button.

Any modifications to your content will be reflected on your handheld after your next Sync.

You may also use the PDA section if you wish to install the most recent version of Harrison's Practice onto your principal computer, a secondary computer, or a new handheld device.

To begin, click the PDA link in the toolbar and look to the "PDA Software" section. Click on Download Software.

Follow the on-screen instructions. The screens presented will vary depending on your PDA's operating system. After hitting the Download button, you may be prompted to designate if you want to download the file directly or save to disk. For easy installation, select "save to disk"; and then click OK.

You will be prompted to save the Harrisons_Practice.exe file to a location. The file will default to save in the last folder you used for a download. If you want to save the file to a different location, you need to specify it. It may be easiest to create a folder named Harrison's Practice and designate that as the location for the file.

When you have designated the location, click Save. This will initiate the download of the Harrisons_practice.exe file. A status bar will follow the progress of the download. Depending on your Internet connection, you may need to allow a few minutes for the download to finish.

When the file has been downloaded, click Continue.

Installing Harrisons_Practice.exe

Find the Harrisons_Practice.exe file on your hard disk and double-click on it. Follow the on-screen prompts, closing all applications and agreeing to the license agreement. This version will install over your previous version, preserving your present settings and Subscriptions. When the installation is complete, a new HTML page with instructions for completing the upgrade will launch.

Make sure you have an active Internet connection. Next, place your handheld in its cradle and press the Sync button. If you are upgrading Harrison's Practice rather than installing it, you will return to the login page when the synchronization is complete. 

If you are installing Harrison's Practice for the first time rather than upgrading, you must synchronize a second time and enter the serial number from the "Welcome to Harrison's Practice" e-mail that was sent to you during registration. When this second synchronization completes, you will return to the login screen.

Begin at the "PDA Software" section on the lefthand side of the page. Click the Download Software link. From here, follow the on-screen prompts to download the most recent version of the software.

Your personalized Serial Number is necessary to install Harrison's Practice on your handheld. It was e-mailed to you during your initial registration.

If for any reason you need this Serial Number e-mailed to you again, go to the PDA page and click on the Get Serial Number link under "PDA Software". You will receive a short message followed by a Submit button. Click Submit. A pop-up box will appear to confirm that your Serial Number has been sent to your e-mail address. Click OK to close the box and return to the Handheld page.

If you have installed Harrison's Practice on a handheld device and need assistance, you may link to the handheld User Guides from the PDA section. Go to the "PDA Documentation" section on the lefthand side of the page and click the appropriate link for the type of device you have (Palm OS or Pocket PC). The User Guide will open in a new window.

You can search Harrison's Practice from any screen within the application. Enter your desired search term in the box labeled Search Harrison's Practice and click the Search button.

The Harrison's Practice search mechanism supports searching techniques which involve changing query terms to provide a wider range of searching options. For example, you can perform:

Wildcard Searches: Single and Multiple Character

To perform a single character wildcard search, use the "?" symbol in place of a single character. The search then looks for all terms that match the word with the single character replaced. For example, to search for long and lung, use: l?ng.

Multiple character wildcard searches look for results which include your search term, plus 0 or more characters. Place an asterisk after your query term to perform this type of search. For example, to search for long, longer or longest, you would use: long*

Wildcard searches can also be placed in the middle of a term. For instance: l*ng.

Boolean Searches

A Boolean Search combines search terms through the use of specific connecting words called operators. Harrison’s Practice supports: "AND", "+", OR, NOT and "-" as Boolean operators. Boolean search operators must be in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

The most frequently used Boolean operators are “AND” and “OR”.

Example 1: The default operator is "OR". If you do not enter any operator between search terms, "OR" is used. For example, entering "heart lungs" will search for single documents where either the term "heart" or "lung" appears.

Example 2: The AND operator will find documents where both search terms exist in a single document. For example, entering "heart AND lungs" will find results containing only BOTH "heart" and "lungs" in a single document.

A search performed from anywhere within Harrison's Practice brings you to the search results screen.

Your results will be listed in one of two categories: Harrison's Book or Harrison's Practice. To the left of each entry you will find an icon indicating the resource in which the search result was found.

Harrison's Practice on the Web consists of a number of interlinking components that allow you to view and organize records saved from your handheld.

Records saved from your handheld appear in your Archive with links to more in-depth information. Preceding each entry you will find an icon which indicates the source from which the record came: Harrison's Practice or Harrison's Book.

To return to the section from which you saved a particular record (in either Harrison's Practice or Harrison's Book), simply click the link at the end of the record entry.

Records are displayed in the "Record Display" window. The default view is of your "Unfiled" records; however, you can view records in a different folder or for a particular date (see below).

Records may be content records that you viewed on your handheld or saved from the Chapter View on the Web using the Save to Archive link. The default view for your Archive shows your most recent activity, listed by date. If you decide to keep a record, and then synchronize your handheld, it will appear in your Archive.

Check the box to the left of each record to select it. You can then "File" or "Delete" using the buttons in the "Record Manager". These functions can be performed on multiple records simultaneously.

NOTE: Records are deleted when you click "delete". You will not be prompted to confirm or be able to undelete records.

The Folder Manager is located to the left of the Record Display and contains two sections. "View" allows you to switch from folder to folder. The active folder is designated by the "Open folder" icon; to open another folder simply click on its name.

The Manage section allows you to perform such functions as: Creating new folders, Modifying existing folders (renaming them, or selecting a new color), and Deleting folders. 

If you wish to delete all the records within the Folder, click on the radio button labeled "Delete Folder + All Records Within". After you have selected your preference, click Delete. A dialog box will confirm you want to delete the folder and its records. If you wish to cancel the deletion, click Cancel.

Your Archive contains a Calendar display that serves a number of purposes. Beyond displaying the current date, the calendar also displays the days you saved records in your Archive. You can select a new date using the Month and Year drop-down menus or click one of the highlighted days and the "Content Display" will be redrawn with all your saved records beginning on that date.

Harrison's Practice (HP) offers the opportunity to obtain continuing medical education (CME) credits -- up to 10 AMA PRA Category 1^TM credits per subscription year. To take advantage of this resource, you must complete the individual registration in Harrison's Practice and then answer a few relevant questions. You can access these questions either from the web or from your handheld device.

On the web:

1. Research a clinical question within Harrison's Practice.

2. From the topic level view of any record, click the "Earn CME" link located in the right-hand navigation section (it is highlighted in yellow).

3. Complete the CME form and click "Submit CME Request".

4. You will arrive at a new screen informing you of the status of your CME credit request. If your credits are accepted, you will receive a confirmation screen which also includes links to further information. If your credits are not accepted for some reason (most likely because you have exceeded your maximum number of credits per session), you will receive a message informing you of this as well.

To change your password, click on the Account link found in the footer of any page. Next, click Password within the Modify section. Select your new password. (The password you create must be between 4 and 30 characters. It is case-sensitive.) Enter it a second time in the Confirm box.

When you have entered the requested information, click Update.

In order to create a more user-friendly experience, several sections of our program utilize a computer language called JavaScript. The Subscriptions page, for example, uses JavaScript to simplify the process required to update your list of journals, or to switch from one journal to another. It is possible, however, that your particular institution/computer does not allow or support JavaScript. If this is the case, simply follow the steps below to disable the JavaScript function.
To disable Javascript:

Click the Account link in the footer of any page and then click Settings within the "Modify" section.

You are brought to the Modify Settings screen. Here you have two choices for your JavaScript setting, "On" and "Off". The default setting is "On".

Select "Off" and click the Update button. You are returned to the main Account page where you will receive the confirmation message, "Your settings have been successfully changed."

As mentioned earlier, while JavaScript makes the user's experience an easier one, disabling it will not cause you to lose access to any of our product's features.

If you need further assistance, you can access the PDA User Guide by following the links below.  Be sure to select the User Guide for your type of PDA, Palm or PPC.

To View the Palm OS User Guide click here (opens in new window).
To View the Pocket PC User Guide click here (opens in new window).

Who should I contact with questions about Harrison's Practice?

For general, editorial or technical questions, please email us at: OnlineCustomer_Service@mcgraw-hill.com.

or call us at: 1-800-217-0059.