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Five medical apps that keep your medical knowledge current

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Medical education is increasingly about debate and discussion, not simply memorizing the latest facts. Here we comment on how apps can help apply that attitude to continuing medical education.

EBM Tools provides a simple app to calculate post test probability and related statistics

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The EBM Tools medical app seeks to provide this guidance via calculating post-test probability.

QR codes added to all Oklahoma medical licenses allowing physicians to “check in” with their phone

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The Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision will be adding a QR codes to every new and renewed medical license issued.

JAMA Network Reader Web App allows you to access multiple journals on all smartphones

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The JAMA Network Reader (JN Reader) web app provides access to JAMA and the remaining 9 contemporary journals within the JAMA network.

Social media has changed Emergency Medicine education, 11 essential free resources, FOAM

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A summary article on #FOAM resources for emergency medicine and how it’s changing how emergency medicine education in consumed.

How Twitter has helped me become a better doctor

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Examples of how Twitter has helped me become a better doctor and enriched my personal and professional life.

iMedicalApps announcing inaugural medical app prize competition [Call For Submissions]

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iMedicalApps is pleased to announce that we are going to be launching our very own annual design awards for medical apps. The reason for this is we want to reward developers for the hard work that they have put in to making their medical apps. Furthermore, we want to highlight apps which we feel are particularly special as well as give our readers the opportunity to vote for their favourite app. There will be awards for four categories: 1) Most [Read more]

iMedicalApps exclusive review of Blip, the first WiFi Blood Pressure Monitor

Blip is a product of Blipcare, a company with two main creations to date — a Blood pressure monitor and a weight scale. The common theme between the two devices is they connect to your home Wi-Fi, not your phone or computer.  Blip’s Blood pressure monitor is FDA approved. At first glance, the Blip Blood Pressure monitor seems rather drab. When we reviewed Withings and iHealth’s portable blood pressure monitors, we were impressed by their aesthetics and how they connected [Read more]

Facebook Exclusive 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2013 App Giveaway

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Enter our Facebook exclusive 5-minute Clinical Consult 2013 App Giveaway by ‘liking’ our page on Facebook and following the instructions.

Janssen Healthcare Innovation sets out to improve medication adherence with Care4Today mobile platform

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Janssen Healthcare Innovation has launched a new mobile medication adherence application called Care4Today.

Open mHealth – powerful tools to accelerate mobile health innovation

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mHealth commentary on Open mHealth, an initiative to create an open source mobile health innovation and development process to improve patient outcomes

Qualcomm announces 2net app SDK, could usher in next generation medical apps

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In healthcare, the ability to collect data does not mean that we should. As mobile health tools become increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, both physicians and patients alike will soon to face an avalanche of data without any guidance on how to use it. Qualcomm Life’s announcement, at its annual Uplinq conference, that on August 15th they would release a software development kit (SDK) for the forthcoming 2net App could change that by enabling developers to access the rich data stream [Read more]