Medical App Reviews
App Reviews are listed by most recent, with a quick summary and link to the full review. Most of the reviews are of iPhone Medical apps, but Android app are reviewed as well. If you’re looking for a specific app use our search function, and make sure to check out our “top 10 page”, where we have essential apps listed for students and clinicians.
Check out our Top 10 Page as well.
Emdat Mobile and PerfectServe Clinician Review
A review of two innovative medical applications: Emdat Mobile and PerfectServe Clinician
USMLE Step 3 Q-bank [iPad iBooks]
Kaplan USMLE Step 3 e-book in action on the iPad. Free for a limited time in the Apple Bookstore
Carb Counting with Lenny for iPhone and iPad
A great app aimed to educate the pediatric diabetic population on how to carb count by using games. The adult population might find themselves learning as well.
Residency Rater helps family medicine-bound medical students choose a residency
Residency Rater is a neat little app for students to organize and expand their thoughts about family medicine residency programs.
Dragon Medical Mobile Search by Nuance
Nuance, the makers of the popular desktop dictation software, Dragon Medical Dictation, have just released their first mobile medical app – Dragon Medical Mobile Search. The app allows clinicians to search online medical content on their iPhone using their voice.
Visual Dx Mobile for the iPad
VisualDx Mobile for the iPad provides a rich database of high quality dermatological images easily searchable by clinical and visual features
Hematology Miniatlas by EC-Europe
Hematology Miniatlas is a relatively simple application that could be used by a hematologist for patient education. Documents to go [iOS 4]
Medicine Recall [Android]
In depth review of an android medical app that helps med students answer tough questions on the wards.
USMLE Step 2 Secrets
The USMLE Step 2 secrets textbook is now in mobile form via Skyscape. This review covers how this Android medical application can help you study for boards.
Archimedes 360 is a medical calculator that can answer the most common or the most obscure questions [Android app review]
By Jason Paluzzi, MS
Information is everything in the field of medicine. Often, it’s necessary to evaluate laboratory or prognostic data in ways that even the most up to date medical computer system cannot provide. Other times you may want to evaluate a patient’s prognosis quickly for point-of-care medical decisions or for speaking with family members. For these reasons, it’s useful to have a quality medical calculator on hand.
This is where Archimedes 360 comes in. While some calculators focus on a specific subset of medicine, Archimedes aims to be an all inclusive calculator, with well over 200 equations (In all honesty, I didn’t count, but I’ll take Skyscape’s word for it). These equations vary in scope from physiological principles (such as the A-a gradient) to prognostic values (ABCD2 stroke score) to pharmacology and population-epidemiology.
Frog Dissection lets you see the insides of a frog while keeping your iPad clean
New Innovations GME
New Innovations iOS4 update allows health care professionals to track procedures easier
Echocardiography Atlas - edited by Scott D. Solomon, MD
Echocardiography Atlas is an app designed to help your ultrasound reading skills. The app has 250 annotated images and 189 videos – all focusing on various cardiac pathologies.
Google Translate on Android
by: Jason Paluzzi
Whether you’re a medical student, resident, nurse, or physician, you’ve no doubt encountered a language barrier at some point in your career. Interpreters are available for common languages in most settings, but if time is an issue, you may need to deliver care faster than an interpreter can arrive. Over the years, people have gotten by with language dictionaries, hand gestures, family members, blue phones, and even smart phone apps (link to Xprompt, Medical Spanish Audio) all of which have proven somewhat cumbersome and impersonal in their own way.
