August 2009

OsiriX Medical App Puts a Small DICOM Workstation in Your Pocket [App Review]

Aug 30, 2009 by
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OsiriX puts a small DICOM workstation in your pocket. This app was featured in one of Apple’s App Store commercials and allows you to view radiology images on your phone.

Guest Contributors to the Medical App Review Site

Aug 30, 2009 by
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Our goal is to provide a site that allows the medical community an information hub to medical applications that are actually beneficial in practice. If you’d like to contribute to this goal and submit a review of a medical or healthcare application to this site, email us. We welcome nurses, PAs, physicians, medical students, and anyone else in the healthcare field to write a review. A prerequisite to reviewing an app is you can’t have any affiliations with the developers [Read more]

mVisum, Helping Interventional Cardiologists Relax

Aug 28, 2009 by
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There’s a nice article from the San Francisco Chronicle about the medical app mVisum, and how it was developed. The app is actually a product of the VA. It was originally made for the blackberry, but recently has been available for the iPhone. The article doesn’t mention the iPhone compatibility though. Dr. Shroff and her team at DCVAMC launched mVisum in January 2009. mVisum helps cardiologists remotely diagnosis heart-attack-types and quickly communicate with relevant people who are working to help [Read more]

App Giveaway: We’re giving away 3 copies of the Joslin Chest Atlas App($14.99) to our readers

Aug 27, 2009 by
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Courtesy of Dr. Joslin, we’ll be giving away 3 promotional codes (free copies) of his newly updated Joslin Chest Atlas Medical App to the first 30 people to participate in the giveaway (usual price is $14.99). We just reviewed this innovative app in our prior post, and we’re definitely fans of the medical app. The App’s purpose is to help healthcare providers improve their ability to read chest x-rays. It can be used by healthcare providers of all types, and [Read more]

Joslin Chest Atlas App Helps You Learn Your Chest Films [App Review]

Aug 25, 2009 by
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This app aims to help healthcare providers improve their ability to read chest x-rays. It is also aimed at students and residents learning how to read chest x-rays. The app presents key examples of chest films with explanations.

PediDoser App Helps You Prescribe Pediatric Drugs [App Review]

Aug 22, 2009 by
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This is a pediatric medication dosing tool. The app’s goal is to help you calculate pediatric dosing in a quicker fashion than by using traditional medication calculators.

New Blue Light Therapy App a Bit Shady. Does App Store Approval Process Need to Take This Into Account?

Aug 21, 2009 by
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A new healthcare app just released on the market claims to treat seasonal depression, called BluWave. Dr. Grohol has an entertaining read about how this app is a bit dubious. He gives great clinical research data, and how the makers use shady research to market this device. The app claims to use "Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology to deliver blue light adjustable in specific Nanometers (nm). Blue light therapy has been clinically proven to combat seasonal affective disorder (SAD), depression, [Read more]

How the iPhone has paved the way for a quicker transition by the Healthcare industry to an Apple OS Tablet

Aug 19, 2009 by
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Rumors of an Apple tablet have been all over the place during the past few weeks. Although Apple is notorious for pulling off clandestine product launches, the consensus appears to be that Apple will launch a tablet early next year. With the $19 billion dollars from the stimulus package set aside exclusively for electronic medical records, it would make business sense for Apple to venture into making tablets that can be used for electronic medical records. So then hypothetically, if [Read more]

MedAbbreviations App is now free, for a limited time only [App Review]

Aug 18, 2009 by
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Medical Abbreviations are great to use in practice, but they can be a hassle to learn when you’re new to healthcare. This app contains thousands of medical abbreviations so you don’t have to feel so clueless when you’re starting in the wards.

We’re now on Twitter!

Aug 18, 2009 by
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We’re now on Twitter! Apparently it’s all the rage. Follow us to keep up to date on the latest medical app reviews, news, and price drops.

Some site news

Aug 15, 2009 by
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We have a copy of the just released Handbook of High-Risk Obstetrics app ($50), and we’ll be posting our review soon. Today is the last day for the AnatomyLab App giveaway. We have a few contestants so far, so if you want a chance to get this $10 app for free sign up before midnight. A new feature on this site will be “Healthcare App for your patients”. The below post is an example. As an increasing number of patients [Read more]

Healthcare App for your patients: Fish4Health

Aug 15, 2009 by

Fish4Health is a free application that provides fish information for pregnant and nursing women. This app is particularly useful for all the Obstetrics providers who get asked about fish consumption by their pregnant patients. Purdue University provides a lot of the information about this application (fish4health.net), so it has a solid academic backing. The application itself has a solid build. The app has a list of all the major types of fish, tells you how much mercury is in the [Read more]