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Mobile medical app reviews & commentary by medical professionals

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October 2009

Is Access Medicine coming to the iPhone?

Oct 15, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

News

has a report on how McGraw-Hill is partnering up with ScrollMotion to bring their textbooks to the iPhone. ScrollMotion develops iPhone apps, and has an e-book reader for the iPhone, called Iceberg reader. Most academic institutions have Access Medicine, the subscription service that delivers most of McGraw-Hill’s medical textbooks. The Harrison’s Internal Medicine text is actually already on iTunes courtesy of Skyscape(iTunes link). The McGraw-Hill and ScrollMotion partnership already has one textbook, “How to Make Money in Stocks”, priced at [Read more]

Lange Q&A USMLE Step 2 CK Question Bank [App Review]

Oct 14, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

App Review

A full featured Q-bank at the palm of your hand. This Q-bank contains over 1,100 questions. The questions are divided into categories similar to the computer based Q-banks of Kaplan and USMLE World. This app tries to emulate many of the features found in the computer based Q-banks.

eRoentgen App Helps Physicians Choose Appropriate Imagine Studies [App Review]

Oct 12, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

App Review

This app helps you choose appropriate imaging studies based on the diagnosis and symptoms you provide.

Lumbar Puncture Procedures App Review & Merck Manual – Home Edition App News

Oct 10, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

News

1)PalmDoc.net has a great review on an app to help you train for performing lumbar punctures. The last app we reviewed, Procedures Consult-Internal Medicine, also has an excellent example of how to perform lumbar punctures. But the beauty of the Lumbar Puncture app is it’s only $1.99, as compared to the $40 for Procedures Consult. Procedures Consult consult packs 25 different procedures, so if you just need something for Lumbar Punctures, check out the LP Procedures app instead. 2) Merck [Read more]

Modality Brings Procedures Consult App to the iPhone, We’re Blown Away [App Review]

Oct 08, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

App Review

A tool for those learning how to do various procedures. This application is packed with text, pictures, and videos of actual procedures being done. Examples of procedures demonstrated are thoracentesis, abdominal paracentesis, and many more. This is the sister application of another app we reviewed, Procedures Consult: Musculoskeletal.

Wall Street Journal Chronicles Recent Mobile Platform Proliferation into Healthcare

Oct 07, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

News

There’s a good article in the Wall Street Journal about mobile technology and how it’s being used in healthcare. Of note, Blackberry is still leading leading the iPhone when it comes to physicians with smart phones at a tune of 37% to 27%. The article goes on to explain how how Apple has embraced the medical community and developers who write medical applications. Security was talked about as well: WSJ: It is security — and the rise of smart phones [Read more]

Partnership with the iPhone App Review Site

Oct 07, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

News

To our readers- 1) Just wanted everyone to know we’re working with the theiphoneappreview site to bring some of our older content to a bigger audience. They will be re-posting some of our older posts, if you click on over to their site you’ll see what I mean. We encourage our readers to check out their site for all your non-medically related app reviews/news. They have some great reviews and they periodically give away promo codes for apps on their [Read more]

iAnatomy App: Improve Your Ability to Read CT Images [App Review]

Oct 06, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

App Review

This app aims to help you improve your CT reading skills. It can also be used during gross anatomy if your tests include cross sectional images of CT scans.

Price Drops on Pre-Test, First Aid, and Lange Q&A Medical Apps

Oct 05, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

News

There are some price drops happening on some of the medical apps made by Modality. The drops are on some of their "study apps". The apps included are all the Pre-Test versions, First Aid Q&A for USMLE Step 1, Lange Q&A: USMLE Step 3 and USMLE Step 2 CK. The prices of these apps are dropping 25% until October 31st. My assumption is they’re doing this because we’re in the midst of board studying season. We’re actually reviewing another Modality [Read more]

Finding the Best Medical App for Lab Values, We Check Out the Top Four [App Review]

Oct 04, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

In this review we take four different lab value apps and put them head to head against each other.

Find out who comes out on top!

Med Mnemonics App: Great for Board Studying and the Wards [App Review]

Oct 01, 2009 by Iltifat Husain, MD

App Review

Every medical professional has used med mnemonics in their lives to help memorize the thousands of items of crucial material one needs to know in medicine. This app aims to help ease the trouble of figuring out medical mnemonics.

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