Purpose of App Review
To explore Your Toddler HD’s utility in aiding parents in child care
Introduction
Parenting can be a very stressful full-time job. From nutrition, to toilet training, to possible serious disease, many concerns cross parents’ minds constantly. It is presented by general practitioner and media presenter Dr. Hilary Jones.
Your Toddler HD is an iPad app that aims to provide general advice to parents to make caring for toddlers a little easier.
User Interface
The app provides advice from Dr. Jones on a number of topics pertaining to the toddler in video form which are supplemented with a text transcription of each video. The topics covered are quite wide ranging, including the areas of prevention, health monitoring, general concerns (such as crying and behaviour problems), and more serious medical issues.
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Purpose of the Review
In this review we will try to assess the value of Medic SOS from a patient’s perspective. We will look for answers to the questions:
- Is it useful to the patient?
- Does it keep patient information secure?
Introduction
Within the Google Play store there are myriad of apps that promise to store your medical information in case of emergencies. Today we decided to take a closer look to one such app and find out if it’s really something we should recommend to our patients or should to simply disregard. This app was developed by Appstivity who advertise themselves as a group of people who design new feature applications to improve your life.
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Purpose of App Review
Does the ACEP News mobile app improve the reader experience when compared to the previous print version?
Introduction
Print media is undergoing a radical transformation as more and more readers use digital media instead of traditional newspapers and magazines. Physicians quickly amass large stacks of dusty journals, magazines and newsletters that many are ready to give up in favor of more portable digital options.
Apps like Read by QxMD allow physicians to subscribe to specific medical journals and read articles in PDF form accessed through their institutional library subscriptions.
Apple set up the Newsstand folder in iOS as a one stop shop for users to subscribe to newspapers and magazines. ACEP News Digital is a new medical app from the American College of Emergency Physicians that provides a digital copy of their monthly publication. (read more)
Purpose of the App Review
1) How is the CME issued? Do I have to take a test?
2) Does the CME cost money or are there any in-app purchases?
3) Is the eTextbook peer reviewed? Can I trust it?
Introduction
iMedicalApps has long sung the praises of Projects in Knowledge and their Living Medical Textbooks series. Now, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease has a Living Medical Textbook. Like the others, they offer continuing medical education and peer-edited content that is updated constantly. The Living Medical Textbooks were created to help health professionals on the go learn at their own pace.
COPD is a medical app that was produced by Projects in Knowledge but was funded by a grant from Forest Laboratories, Inc.
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Purpose of App Review
- How well does this medical app teach clinicians to manage difficult emergent airways?
- How useful is the clinical information provided as a bedside reference for managing difficult airways?
Introduction
We Emergency Physicians fancy ourselves the Macgyvers of medicine, able to creatively solve almost any emergent problem that we come across. Still, there are a few situations which most of us would probably admit we still find a bit terrifying, because no matter how hard we prepare for them, things could still go very, very wrong. (read more)
Purpose of App Review
- How well does this medical app serve as a mobile resource for physicians and residents?
Introduction
Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim, perhaps better know as Paracelsus is considered “the father” of toxicology.
He is credited with the classic toxicology maxim, “Alle Dinge sind Gift und nichts ist ohne Gift; allein die Dosis macht, dass ein Ding kein Gift ist.” which translates as, “All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.”
This is often condensed to: “The dose makes the poison” or in Latin “Sola dosis facit venenum”.
The Poisoning and Drug Overdose app promises to be an instant-answer guide to turn to for on-the-spot treatment of poisoning and drug overdose. It also promises to deliver critical information on effective diagnosis and treatment of drug-related emergencies and chemical exposures.
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Purpose of App Review
To find out if this app can provide valuable information to physicians about Cardiology.
Introduction
As a physician in today’s world there is a need to be constantly updating our medical knowledge.
The sources of information available are many and if we simply stick to just one source, we risk missing out on important news.
Cardiology at Hand is an Android app that gathers information from several Cardiology journals like the Journal of Interventional Cardiology and the Journal of Clinical Hypertension and provides access to that information all in one place. (read more)
Purpose of App Review
- to review the user interface and images of the mammo app
- to review the usability and application of the mammo app
Introduction
Breast cancer is unfortunately very common.
Fortunately, there are ways to screen for asymptomatic cancers and established guidelines for working up suspicious findings on physical exam.
You do not have to be a breast surgeon or a radiologist to know about breast disease, mammograms, and appropriate workups for concerning breast symptoms and exam findings.
The Mammography Flashcards app aims to help your study about breast disease and imaging in a more in-depth manner.
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Purpose of App Review
- Is Atrial Fibrillation Scoring an app physicians can take advantage?
- Is it a worthy addition to your smartphone repertoire?
Introduction
The CHADS2 score is a clinical prediction rule for estimating the risk of stroke in patients with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation (AF).
It is used to determine whether or not treatment is required with anticoagulation therapy or antiplatelet therapy.
A high CHADS2 score corresponds to a greater risk of stroke, while a low CHADS2 score corresponds to a lower risk of stroke. The CHADS2 score is simple and has been validated by many studies.
This app is developed by Dr. Farookh Jishi a consultant physician in Acute Medicine. It tries to provide an easier way to get a valid CHADS2 score. Let’s see how it works. (read more)
Purpose of the App Review
- How does Ringadoc work?
- Is there any cost to me?
- How does the app work with the service?
Introduction
There’s no doubt that physicians in private practice have been getting the squeeze, with recent across the board reimbursement cuts and increasing overhead costs. As the savvy private practice doctor tries to cut costs, expensive answering services may be some low hanging fruit.
Ringadoc is an online service that will allow your patients to leave a message at the doctor’s office and send the message directly to the person on call’s smartphone.
The Ringadoc service is free for one month then $49/month for up to 4 providers.The app is free on iOS and Google Play.
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Purpose of App Review
How useful is PaediCalc as a clinical application in pediatrics?
Introduction
The mantra of pediatrics is “children are not little adults.” When treating children, clinicians must use a child’s weight and age to calculate medication dosing and choose correctly sized equipment. Even the range of normal vital signs may differ greatly based on age.
Taking care of sick children in an emergent, critical setting is a stressful situation fraught with potential for calculation errors. Several systems exist to standardize these calculations and avoid errors.
US emergency departments traditionally use Broselow Tape. Now mobile apps are being developed to make that information available in every provider’s pocket. We’ve already reviewed several apps in this category, for example: PedsMeds, Safe Dose, and Quik Calc. Pedi Safe is another popular pediatric calculation app.
Here we will review PaediCalc, a new iOS app from mobile247, an Australian company. (read more)
Purpose of App Review
To showcase an app that helps nurses to determine infusion and dilution calculations.
Introduction
Infusion Nurse was created by a nurse for nurses. It contains quick and easy calculators to help with diluting substances, infusions, drug doses, concentrations, and drop rates.
The app itself offers a number of different functions that a nurse may find useful on a day to day basis including,
- Dose/Concentration/Volume
- Dilution
- Infusion Rate
- Convert Speed
- Calculate Drop Rate
According to the description in the Google Play store, Infusion Nurse was developed by a nurse though we have no way of knowing this nurse’s credentials or affiliation. It’s apparent that the developer goes by the moniker Kingel, but there is no other online presence for this group or individual. Infusion Nurse could benefit from being more transparent about who is behind the handy tool.
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