February 2010

Five iPad Accessories for Health Care Professionals

Feb 28, 2010 by
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It’s fair to say almost everyone has bought at least one accessory for their iPhone.  My own collection consists of two items, a simple protective case, and protective case with a built in battery.  I can’t emphasize how crucial my battery case has been, especially when I hit the 20th hour of a 30 hour on call shift and my iPhone’s native battery is about to die. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the development of iPad accessories, and [Read more]

iMedicalApps Will Cover HIMSS Conference in Atlanta Next Week

Feb 28, 2010 by
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We are excited to announce that the iMedicalApps team will be covering HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia next week. HIMSS – Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society – is one of the premier healthcare IT organizations and there conference is a perennial highlight of the HIT community. The iMedicalApps team will be covering the exhibition floor where vendors ranging from Epic Systems and MacPractice – both EMR vendors with iPhone/iPad interfaces – to Philips and Northrop Grunman, who bring an [Read more]

Epocrates Rx for Android gets reviewed – Our first Android medical app review

Feb 27, 2010 by
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A review of Epocrates Rx for Android phones – our first official Android medical app review. Our Epocrates review for the iPhone can be found here. In our iPhone Epocrates review we go through the premium versions of Epocrates in detail. Currently the premium versions are not offered for the Android platform.

Need to Go to the Emergency Room? Let your iPhone Medical App Help Figure Out Which One

Feb 26, 2010 by
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Emergency rooms are notorious for their long waiting times – that’s pretty common knowledge. But now the Hospitals of Central Connecticut are looking to a new medical app for the iPhone to help improve their emergency room wait times. Having spent a fair amount of time recently working in an emergency room, I (and probably everyone with similar experiences) can assure you that no one – physicians, nurses, administrators – want it to be that way. Much effort has been [Read more]

Connect Your Stethoscope to Your iPhone, Thinklabs’s Stethoscope Medical App – 3M/Zargis Not Far Behind

Feb 25, 2010 by
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Whether diagnosing a heart defect in a newborn or discovering a life-threatening rumble in a elderly man’s abdomen, I think all clinicians can relate to that surge of excitement we feel when we discover something that we could use to help a patient. But as I’ve progressed through my training, I’ve also observed how these findings inevitably lead to confirmatory tests – echocardiograms, ultrasounds, and so on. Our clinical acumen is simply not good enough. I’ve often heard the argument [Read more]

Epocrates app now available for Android Smartphone – Medical professionals with Droid and Nexus One rejoice

Feb 23, 2010 by
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Google’s smartphone operating system – Android – has been around for well over a year, yet the marketplace continues to lag behind Apple’s App Store with its meager collection of useful medical apps.  The biggest player in mobile medical reference software is now changing this perception.  Today Epocrates announced the availability of a free beta version, Epocrates Rx, for the Android platform, officially making it an android medical app. [We recently did a full review of Epocrates, including Epocrates Rx, [Read more]

Interview with the Dr. Pieter Kubben, the Digital Neurosurgeon and iPhone Medical App Developer – From checklists to the future of EMR

Feb 23, 2010 by
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It is a great pleasure to present this interview with Pieter Kubben, a Dutch neurosurgeon who is an impressive amalgam of clinician, researcher, and software engineer. He is currently in a neurosurgical residency while completing a PhD in intraoperative MRI-guided surgery for brain gliomas. As if this is not enough, as a “hobby” (his term), he also writes software, with a particular interest in computerized decision-support systems. He has three iPhone applications currently in the App Store, including his newest [Read more]

Procedures – Hospital Collection App: 15 Procedures Taught With Extensive Multimedia [App Review and Comparison]

Feb 19, 2010 by
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This is a review of the iPhone medical app, Procedures Hospital Collection. This app uses extensive multimedia to teach you 15 key medical procedures.

Windows Phone 7 could challenge iPhone in medical arena and offer unique streamline functionality in healthcare

Feb 18, 2010 by
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This week, Microsoft announced the end of Windows Mobile and introduced its successor, a completely redesigned platform called Windows Phone 7.  While Microsoft’s creative energies don’t appear to have been expended on the new name, it may be because they were drained after redesigning just about everything else about their platform. Even the more skeptical reviewers of Windows Phone 7 at least acknowledged the breadth of the overhaul of Microsoft’s mobile platform. Here at iMedicalApps, we’ve spent a lot of [Read more]

Microsoft researching how Windows Phone 7 series and XBox 360 can be used in the hospital

Feb 17, 2010 by
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In a recent Microsoft forum on health care technology, researchers made clear the company is hoping to have a larger presence in the healthcare arena using the Windows Phone 7 series platform and the Xbox 360.  They are also experimenting with connecting these products to HealthVault, their personal health records platform. The “dream” is that a user could photograph each meal with their phone to have the application return data such as caloric content, food group and allergy information for [Read more]

Top 10 Free iPhone Medical Apps for Health care Professionals

Feb 15, 2010 by
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Free iPhone Medical Apps for physicians, medical students, and other health care providers that are useful in the hospital, clinic, or for educational use.

STDMeister Medical App – STD Diagnosis and Treatment Information in Mobile Form [App Review]

Feb 14, 2010 by
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This Medical Apps is aimed at helping health care professionals diagnose and treat STDs. The User Interface for the app is cumbersome, but the app makes up for it in various ways.