December 2009

Evidence Central App – Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines Instantly Available in Mobile Form [App Review]

Dec 30, 2009 by
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Review of Evidence Central, an app that gives the user access to a number of respected medical references for up-to-date recommendations.

Interview with Dr. Lieberman, creator of the iRadiology App

Dec 30, 2009 by
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Last week we did a feature review of the iRadiology App, a recently released free radiology learning tool.  I thought it was a must have medical application for medical students and residents.  The application provides over 500 radiology cases explained in detail.  I had a quick Q&A with Dr. Lieberman to discuss the direction of this great learning tool and whether or not it will remain free. 

MedPage Today Mobile App Puts Breaking Medical News in the Palm of Your Hand [App Review]

Dec 28, 2009 by
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Review of MedPage Today Mobile App, which puts the breaking news and commentary of the website as well as the ability to obtain CME credits into the palm of your hand.

App Giveaway – USMLE Q-bank and USMLE Flashcards App

Dec 25, 2009 by

Merry Christmas everyone! The iMedical Apps Team has been busy with holiday traveling and festivities, so our apologies on the infrequent updates this past week.  In the Christmas spirit, we’re giving away 10 promo codes each for two USMLE study apps. Continue on for promo codes for these USMLE study apps.

Review of Electronic Personal Health Records

Dec 23, 2009 by
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The Wall Street Journal has a great article mentioning most of the current mobile electronic personal health records for the iPhone and how they are being used. The article talks about the usefulness of these mobile records and also tells of some of their pitfalls. One of the biggest pitfalls mentioned is how users have to input their own medical data manually.  Currently some insurance companies and hospitals offer tethered systems, where they will automatically update your personal health records.  [Read more]

iRadiology App Provides Massive Amounts of Radiology Content, and its Free [App Review]

Dec 21, 2009 by
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Review of the iRadiology App, a learning tool with a catalog of over 500 radiology cases designed to help medical students and residents improve their plain film,CT, and MRI reading skills. The cases are derived from Dr. Gillian Lieberman, who is the currently Director of Harvard Medical Student training and Associate Director of the Residency Program at Beth Israel Medical Center. In this review we’ll discuss the application further and also show you how to turn on the “Zoom” feature built into the iPhone that will enable you to improve the utility of this medical app.

Optimizing Your Medical Practice Experience with the iPod Touch

Dec 18, 2009 by
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To our readers: We will be providing commentary and short reviews to medpagetoday.com two or three times a month.  We feel honored to be included in their short list of talented and well respected bloggers.  The following is a little clip from our first post titled, Optimizing Your Medical Practice Experience with the iPod Touch. Rest assured, we’ll keep the frequency of our posts and reviews the same on our site. There has been a great deal of commentary profiling [Read more]

FDA Drugs App Provides a Mobile Interface to FDA Drug Approval Data [App Review]

Dec 16, 2009 by
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Review of FDA Drugs App, which provides the usual drug data of other references with the added wrinkly of providing FDA drug approval information as well.

Apple Patents Show Interest in Mobile Vital Sign Monitoring Systems

Dec 15, 2009 by
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We’re currently still waiting to see when Apple will attempt to directly link its mobile devices to possible health care monitoring devices.  Although AirStip OB provides some sort of monitoring system, its still not an example of a completely mobile one.  This might be changing with Apple’s increasing interest in the fitness arena, especially in regards to it’s partnership with Nike.  According to Apple Insider, a iPod nano-compatible heart rate monitor is already on the way. Mobihealthnews actually had this [Read more]

ECG Apps Reviewed – Improve your ECG Interpreation Skills

Dec 15, 2009 by
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With our post today of the ECG Interpreter, we’ve reviewed three of the main ECG Apps in the App Store. The following are the links to each.  We also plan on having a comprehensive review comparing the three to each other.  Each app has it’s positives and negatives, but if you read into our posts, you can probably tell the app that will most likely win in our comparison. ECG Interpreter Instant ECG The ECG Guide In other news, we [Read more]

ECG Interpreter App – Does this get our heart beating? [App Review]

Dec 14, 2009 by
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Review of the ECG Interpreter App, a learning tool that provides practice in interpreting a variety of ECG’s.

Three Free Useful iPhone Medical Apps [Recently Released]

Dec 11, 2009 by

The free applications covered in this post include: A Framingham Scale, Drug Trials App, and A Radiology App