Top 5 Medical Apps for the Upcoming iPad [Health Care Professionals Edition]

(3) Procedures Consult from Modality, are a series of apps that provide the user with extensive information on a number of procedures. With apps geared towards Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Ob/Gyn, and a number of other specialties, this family of apps has something for most specialties.

The highlights of these apps are the fantastic video tutorials complete with a narrator, interspersed still images to highlight key learning points, and integrated “clinical pearls.” There are even post-procedure videos that highlight things like how to submit pleural fluid to the lab.

procedures consultThe Procedures Consult series was clearly designed with the learner in mind. And as good as these videos are on the iPhone, they will be even better on the iPad – I can’t stress enough how helpful it will be to see, say, an LP on the iPad screen vs. the iPhone screen. And another big plus for these apps is that all videos are stored locally on your device, a crucial feature in the hospital or even rural clinics where internet access may be iffy.

Links: Procedures Consult – Internal Medicine review, Procedures Consult – Family Medicine review, Procedures Consult – Musculoskeletal review
iTunes Links: Internal Medicine Procedures, Musculoskeletal Procedures, Family Medicine Procedures

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  • You bet, Satish. Thanks for the endorsement!

    At Blausen Medical we, too, are excited for all to see our Blausen Human Atlas iPhone app, running on the iPad. With its larger screen real estate, our 150 3D animations of common medical conditions and treatments will be even more powerful in terms of patient education right at point of care (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… ).

    Can’t wait! April 3 can’t come too soon….

    Bruce Blausen Founder & CEO Blausen Medical http://www.blausen.com

  • It will be interesting to see if Orisix plans on coming out with a custom app for the iPad itself. Although looking at it now, you would think their App was really meant for the iPad, not the iPhone

  • That’s Cool for the iPhone Lovers and the Health care……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anyone figure out a good system for reading medical journals on the ipad?

  • Mostly it is useful for reference material. I go into more detail here: http://www.macadamian.com/insi

  • Are there other iPad H&Ps than iPad EMR (the cost is $2000). This is a bit too expensive. All I want is a basic H&P as I primarily work locum and don’t need an extensive EMR H&P.

    With all the money spent by government, why isn’t there a basic EMR H&P available FREE to all practitioners? This could be the stimulus to start using/developing a nationwide EMR H&P that has the transferable information to another more complex data base. I guess I just look at wrong. If I have hypertension and I’m poor, broke or unemployed recently, how do I get my blood pressure or diabetes prescription renewed. I guess I need to spend $150 or more on a physician’s office visit for a blood pressure check or blood glucose/A1C check (and another $200 on labs that are likely not to change my prescription) and finally spend $20.00 on inexpensive meds that is the only part I can really afford.

    I’ve often thought that every person needs to have a basic H&P to personally realize their personal health status. Why aren’t there free walk-in clinics to do these basic H&Ps and to check your blood pressure and renew your meds as above. Sure, there are liability issues involved, but why is that. Laws can be made to protect practitioners. Let’s start with the basic health care. Let’s start providing free, non-liability health care in the community. No, we are not going to answer all the questions or save all the lives, but it is a start, and more than we have now. The current system of providing “health insurance” to everyone is too expensive and is going to bankrupt our nation. What we need is “health care”, not more expensive health insurance.

    I’m off my rant. Back to my question: Anyone know of an inexpensive basic iPad EMR H&P? Have a good day!

  • Has anyone pinned down how to allow referring physicians using ipads to be able to access images from the PACS system yet? We have several referrign docs that want to access reports and images from our RIS/PACS. I have gotten it too work within our domain, but when outside of it I run into the issues of securing the connection. i beleive thta I had the VPN setup correctly, but still had issues pushing the images to my ipad as a test from the local starbuck (seattle IT guy… i know).

    Any ideas?

  • hey i never knew about medical apps idea..great man.. :) thanx for sharing..

  • There is an app for medical use that allows patients who are unable to speak or write to point to icons of commonly requested items. Bedpan, Lights, etc. It is a free app too. It is called “Picture Board” and runs on the iPad. It can be used by hospice and elderly care facilities as well as the deaf and dumb.

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