November 2009

Gray’s Anatomy brought to the iPhone, Not the Show [App Review]

Nov 28, 2009 by
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Review of Grays Anatomy Deluxe Edition App, an anatomy learning tool. While it has great text to go with is images, those images could certainly be better. Still, its affordable pricing makes it worth looking at.

Merck Manual Home Edition Aims to Help Patients Communicate More Efficiently With Physicians [App Review]

Nov 26, 2009 by
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This is the home edition of the Merck Manual app made for people without healthcare experience. It aims to help improve the doctor patient relationship. We reviewed the professional edition of this application in one of our prior reviews.

App Giveaway: Clinical ORthopaedic Exam (CORE)

Nov 25, 2009 by

The developer of the Clinical Orthopedic Exam App has been gracious enough to give us promotional codes for the readers of our site. The App costs $39.99 regularly. We did a review of this app a few months ago that you should check out if you haven’t already.  Read more to access the the promo codes.

Need to run a code? There’s an app for that! ACLS Advisor [App Review]

Nov 24, 2009 by
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Review of ACLS Adviser. This app is designed to help you during a code blue, although we think it’s ability to help you practice your ACLS skills might be its biggest asset.

Misinformation or Mistakes? Rebuttal to “Doctors should choose Google Android over the iPhone for medical apps” post on KevinMD.com

Nov 23, 2009 by
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Recently, a post on the popular medical blog site KevinMD garnered a fair amount of attention with the provocative title “Why doctors should choose Google Android over the iPhone for medical apps”. It was posted on Oct 20, 2009 and was subsequently listed as one of the most popular posts for October on the highly trafficked KevinMD site. In his post, the author seems to have gone out of his way to make a series of increasingly hyperbolic arguments declaring [Read more]

GeeTasks: Helping Medical Professionals ‘Simply’ Stay on Task [App Review]

Nov 20, 2009 by
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This is a great productivity app linked to Google Tasks. Other than traditional medical applications, we we will also review productivity applications that could be benefiical in the daily lives of medical professionals.

Diagnosing Ocular Pathologies Via the iPhone in Impoverished Rural Areas

Nov 20, 2009 by
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Imagine a rural screening center that has a technician taking snapshots of retinas and then uploading those pictures to a server that allows them to be viewed through an iPhone App for ophthalmologists to see.  The ophthalmologist can comment on the picture, diagnose, and then formulate a plan if follow up treatment is necessary. This is a project that is about to be piloted in India by the Narayana Nethralaya Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology in partnership with i2iTelesolution.

Welcome to the New site (also: Issues with Links)

Nov 19, 2009 by
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We’re currently experiencing some issues with the links on the site.  We’re working on this and will have everything fixed by this afternoon.  Until then if you’re looking for a specific review, please use the search function.  The original review is still there.  Sorry about the inconvenience! As you can see, we’ve now officially linked the old site, iphonemedicalappreview.com to the new site, iMedicalApps.com.  In that transition we had some issues with our links, which we’re working on.  These are [Read more]

iStetho Adaptor and iStethoscope app are Making Some Sound Waves, but Digital Connectivity is Still Lacking

Nov 18, 2009 by
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I’ve been sent multiple emails from friends and our readers about the iStetho Adaptor and iStethoscope Pro App combination for the iPhone.  I saw this coming a few weeks ago in a prior post, but through a different avenue.  In that post I thought the iPhone to stethoscope connection would first happen via a bluetooth stethoscope. I must say though, this is definitely a really innovative way to connect the basic stethoscope and the iPhone.  However, unlike what other tech [Read more]

Human Body 3D Anatomy App Might be Useful for Patient Education, But Not Much Else [App Review]

Nov 16, 2009 by
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This app contains some of the same fun to use 3D animation we liked in the 3D Brain App, but lacks an essential component, labels for the Anatomy.

3D Brain App is Free, Fun to Use, And Useful at the Same Time [App Review]

Nov 12, 2009 by
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This app is free, fun to use, and useful at the same time. You can zoom, rotate, and manipulate the images in a 3D fashion.

The Merck Manual Professional Edition Medical App is the First Encyclopedia of Medicine that Fits in Your Pocket [App Review]

Nov 11, 2009 by
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This is the professional edition of the Merck Manual app made for healthcare providers. Dr. Wodajo said the following while reviewing the application: “A medical encyclopedia that fits in your pocket”