Android Medical App

Continuous heart rate monitor integrated into headphones to be unveiled at CTIA conference

Oct 03, 2011 by
mHealth News
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Much of what patient’s are asked to do, healthcare providers would have a tough time doing themselves. One reason that many of these tasks – from blood glucose monitoring to a low fat diet – are so hard is that they are generally inconvenient and unpleasant. However, as healthcare continues its move to mobile, one hope is that we can integrate many of these tasks into our patient’s daily routine. A new cardiac monitor, set to be unveiled at the [Read more]

New kit attempts to transfer low cost mobile phones into high tech stethoscopes for low resource areas

Sep 23, 2011 by
mHealth News
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A simple kit developed by Oxford University and the University of Cape Town turns a low cost mobile phone, not a smartphone, into an advanced stethoscope.

Android physicians can now manage their medical and patient communication with PerfectServe Clinician app

Sep 06, 2011 by
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PerfectServe was recently announced providing physicians an easy way to contact colleagues directly, call patients while protecting their own caller ID, and view a history of all past patient correspondence.

Trial shows medical app reduces errors in emergency situations

Aug 30, 2011 by
mHealth News
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A small trial comparing a medical app to a traditional reference shows reduced errors and improved accuracy in an emergency simulation.

UptoDate finally comes to the iPhone, but with a few catches

Jul 14, 2011 by
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Looking back on my medical internship, there are a few things I can point to as critical to my survival – a limitless supply of coffee, 24-hour availability of cheese fries, chewable antacids, and UpToDate. Whether I needed to know how to manage a patient with a pulmonary embolism or was trying to figure out what Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was, UptoDate was a go-to resource for practically any clinical situation. In fact, it became a verb among interns, as in “I [Read more]

New Android App Store by Amazon will increase number of mobile medical apps

Mar 29, 2011 by
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Amazon’s Android App Store could boost the Android medical apps ecosystem.

New England Journal of Medicine review of ultrasound use further supports smartphone-based devices

Mar 25, 2011 by
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Each year, industry giants like Apple, HTC, and Motorola spend billions of dollars finding ways to put more functionality and more processing power into their devices. While these investments are probably made with the general consumer in mind, healthcare has been an major beneficiary of these efforts. One area in which we are seeing a great deal of growth is medical peripherals for smartphones. The driving force for this trend is perhaps best summed up by Dr. Aydogan Ozcan, a [Read more]

Popular neurosurgery app Neuromind updated with iPad and Android versions

Mar 14, 2011 by
App Review
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Neuromind has appeared on both our Top 10 and, more recently, our Top 20 Free iPhone apps list in December 2010. NeuroMind is the #1 downloaded neurosurgical iPhone app and, in the last year, has been updated with native iPad and Android versions, further extending its reach.

A new iPhone peripheral that monitors single lead EKG is generating a lot of buzz – is it all deserved?

Jan 04, 2011 by
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AliveCor’s new iPhone ECG peripheral is an elegant device that will help physicians take care of patients. But its niche will be smaller than some predict.

Mayo Clinic physicians using mobile imaging technology to remotely diagnose and treat strokes

Nov 01, 2010 by
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Mayo Clinic physicians are using mobile imaging technology to diagnose and treat strokes from hundreds of miles away.

Pocket Medicine App Review for Android – Will it replace your “red book”?

Sep 06, 2010 by
App Review
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A look into the famous “red book” carried by medical students and internal medicine residents – Can the medical app on the android replace the famous text?

Need to do a Quick Survey of the Medical Literature? PubMed Mobile is Your Solution [Android Medical App Review]

Mar 08, 2010 by
App Review
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PubMed Mobile (Free) is an app for Android that allows the user to search PubMed, save articles and searches, view abstracts, and export selected abstracts and citations for future use.

The developer CRinUS also makes the similar apps: PubChem Mobile, and Entrez Sequence. All three apps are free.