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.

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The App, 3D Brain, has been out since October, but it’s location under the “education” category of the App Store allowed it to slip under our radar.  The 3D app is derived from the Genes to Cognition Online website, funded by the Dana Foundation and Hewlett Foundation.  Using the native iPhone gestures, the app allows you to zoom and rotate images of the brain in a three dimensional fashion.  In this post I’ll cover how this app can be used with your patients.

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There has been a flurry of H1N1 applications, and they are all a bit hard to differentiate. There is a notable app that was recently released. The app, HMSMobile Swine Flu Center, was developed by Harvard Medical School and costs $1.99. This is the first Swine Flu App in the App Store with a big-time medical name behind it. The app itself has built in videos explaining H1N1 and other related topics. It also has the "outbreaks near me" feature that most of the swine flu applications have. Of note, the app has a "business add on" feature, that provides advice to businesses on how to prepare for outbreaks in the workplace.

There is a nice video of the application on the Harvard website that can be found here:

The iTunes link to the application can be found here.

Fish4Health is a free application that provides fish information for pregnant and nursing women. This app is particularly useful for all the Obstetrics providers who get asked about fish consumption by their pregnant patients. Purdue University provides a lot of the information about this application (fish4health.net), so it has a solid academic backing.

The application itself has a solid build. The app has a list of all the major types of fish, tells you how much mercury is in the fish and how much you should eat per week. There is a fish consumption toolbar, where the best choices for fish consumption are listed, as well as the fish to avoid.

You can find a recently written article on this application here. This is a good application to recommend to your pregnant patients who love eating fish. Continue on to comment-

-iMedical Apps Team

iEmergency, by Kavapoint LLC is an “In Case of Emergency” program for the iPhone and iPod Touch devices and costs $0.99 for the full version, and is available in a “Lite” version for free. We’ll be reviewing the full version in this post (hoping that in case of an emergency, we opted to spend the dollar).

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