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The term “Gray’s Anatomy” has become synonymous with the popular ABC show featuring surgeons who have ridiculous amounts of drama while somehow still finding time for the OR.  I’ve only seen one episode of the show, and would describe the main character as a black hole for drama, but anyways, before the show, “Gray’s Anatomy” was synonymous with gross anatomy, a very familiar text with medical students.  The full version of the Gray’s Anatomy text has now gone mobile and is ready to use on your iPhone.  There are a few versions of this app out, but I’ll be reviewing the Deluxe version.  In this review I’ll focus on how useful it might be for gross anatomy during the first year of medical school.

Unlike many applications in the medical section of the App Store, Merck Manual is not made for medical professionals.  Instead, the app is aimed at lay people with no healthcare experience.  The app hopes to help these people understand medical knowledge easier.  We were definitely fans of the Professional Edition, which we recently reviewed.  The Professional Edition does a great job with synthesizing the information medical professionals need the most, and basically putting a medical encyclopedia in your hand.  I liken the Professional Edition to a Medical Wikipedia, at least in terms of the pertinent content it contains and the feel.  The user interface, navigation, and content are beautifully laid out in the Professional Edition, I was hoping to find the same features in the Home Edition as I was preparing for this review.

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.

There are few moments in medicine where your immediate actions lead to a direct, life altering result for your patient. Obstructed airways and anaphylactic reactions come to mind, but neither of those occur as often as a code (“code blue”, and I’m not talking about when the cold activated indicator on your beer lets you know it’s ready to drink).

Back in medical school, before we entered the wards 3^rd year, our school made sure we were ACLS certified. I realized how lucky I was that my school taught such a rigorous ACLS course when I was doing an away rotation at another medical school and students were complaining about their lack of ACLS training. Enter the “ACLS Advisor – Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support” App (currently $5.99 in the App Store) from Current Clinical Strategies Publishing.  This review will cover how this well organized and easy to use application walks you though various ACLS algorithms and then some.

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 Motorola Droid superior to the iPhone. The long trail of negative comments on the site demonstrate that perhaps not all readers were swayed by his arguments. This post is an attempt to clarify or rebut some of the points made in that post. I will not address every issue, as there are too many. I will try to maintain a tone of neutrality, at least until towards the end.

By: Matthew DeAugustinis, MD/MPH student, MS4

The Google behemoth has brought us many life-simplifying applications in the last decade (gMail, Google Calendar, etc…). Health professional have found these applications priceless in many aspects of our busy lives. Whether keeping that Grand Rounds top on the agenda or making your kids recital, having access to the data of our lives wherever we have internet is something we cherish. In December 2008 Google released another web based app to organize our lives, Google Tasks.

Google Tasks functions as a simple to-do list, with the ability to create multiple lists, provide due dates (and sort by due dates), add notes and access these lists through gMail, Google Calendar or on a standalone web app. This enables individuals with busy lives, i.e. medical professionals, to keep tabs on what’s most important, when it’s important and if we’ve yet done it. Unfortunately, like many Google applications, Google Tasks is solely web-based requiring the use of a browser and internet connection to access your tasks (both on a PC and Mobile Device). This issue has been remedied in the past for gMail and Google Calendar by the native Apple applications “Calendar” and “Mail” which sync with Google but retain information for offline viewing. Apple has no such native app for tasks. In comes GeeTasks to solve this issue.

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.

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 the growing pains of a new site, not made easy with the fact that we all have our own clinic, class, and OR schedules to follow. But we’re working on it and look forward to keep improving the site!

-iMedical Apps Team

UPDATE: All the links are operational now. Sorry for the brief inconvenience! If you find any issues feel free to contact us!

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 sites are saying, it should be noted this isn’t really a direct linkage of the iPhone and stethoscope.  You’ll see what I mean when you read the full post.  Below is a website clipping from the makers of the iStetho Adaptor.

Continue on to see a video of the iStethoscope Pro App being used and more pictures of the iStetho iPhone holder device.