Iltifat Husain, MD

AnatomyLab App Giveaway

Courtesy of AnatomyLab.com, we’ll be giving away one free copy of their AnatomyLab Application (usual price is $9.99). We just reviewed this app in our prior post, and from our review you can tell it’s not just an app for students, but can be used by a host of healthcare providers. You can find it in the iTunes App Store here. To participate in the giveaway there are a few simple steps. 1) Post a comment on any of the [Read more]

The Best and Most Useful Medical Apps for the iPhone or iPod Touch

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Our list of the Top 7 Medical Apps for the iPhone

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WebMD launches Medscape App [App Review]

This free app helps you look up drug dosing, interactions, and pricing. It provides similar functionality when compared to the free version of Epocrates and Skyscape.

iMurmur App Helps You Learn Heart Sounds Via Your iPhone [App Review]

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This is one of our favorite medical applications. It helps you learn your heart sounds by giving you examples of key pathologic heart murmurs.

CallMD and A.D.A.M. are teaming up to diagnose you, good idea?

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Well it looks like CallMD, the website that offers online and phone medical advice from doctors and nurses is teaming up with A.D.A.M. (company that provides medical technologies). A.D.A.M. already has an app out (pictured), called Medzio Health Manager. The app allows you to search for medical topics based on your symptoms and it lets you search for local clinics/hospitals. It doesn’t appear to be affiliated with any clinics, and when you do search, it uses google maps to search [Read more]

The American Heart Association offering Fist Aid/CPR app

The American Heart association is offering a First Aid / CPR app, titled "Pocket First Aid & CPR". There have a number of CPR and First Aid apps already in the app store, but this is the first one that has the backing from the people who actually set the standard (AHA). Some of the more notable features about this app are the illustrations, videos, and ability to store important medical information (insurance information, doctors information). The videos include the [Read more]

Medical College of Georgia to offer custom Medical iPhone applications

The Medical College of Georgia is going to be offering its students custom built apps. They’re offering twelve apps right now, 6 of them for more "general use", and the other 6 with a more medical focus.

Speed Bones MD App Review (v.1.2)

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This app helps you memorize your skeletal anatomy. The app is definitely on par with helping you learn the skeletal system during gross anatomy.

MedCalc App Review (v1.2)

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Medical Calculators are always useful in the wards, whether you’re trying to calculate the Parkland formula or an Anion Gap. This free app contains tons of formulas and a great search feature.

Medical Spanish (1.2) [App Review ]

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We have an updated review of this application highlighting it’s new features. The review can be found here.

Medical Spanish is an app that helps you communicate with Spanish speaking patients in a health care setting. The app has a very detailed description in the App store, so I won’t get into the “nitty gritty”, but instead I’ll focus on the usefulness of the app. I’ll touch on this later, but you can use this app even if you do not know a single word of Spanish.

Speed Muscles MD (1.1) [App Review]

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This app is similar to the Speed Bones MD app we’ve reviewed, except it deals with only muscles, as the name implies. A great source for learning your gross anatomy muscles.

ReachMD CME (1.0) [App Review]

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This app is now outdated. We recommend you try another ReachMD app, Medical Radio. We featured Medical Radio in one of our previous posts. We recommend their new Medical Radio app, which is also free, and significantly more useful.