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Best iPhone and iPad medical apps for the week of February 28th

Feb 28, 2011 by
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This past week yielded a surprisingly impressive release of quality free and paid medical apps for both the iPhone and iPad. Those in cardiology have a couple app releases that should make them very excited, but this list also contains many apps that primary care and other specialists should be interested in as well.

iPad found to succeed where Kindle failed for university education

Feb 19, 2011 by
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Reed College has released a detailed report documenting the outcomes of their iPad pilot study — and the results look good. The college had first tried a pilot study using the Kindle, but the Amazon e-reader came up short in key areas that are important for education: highlighting and manipulations of texts. The study was focused on how the iPad could be used for learning, especially in regards to reading texts and PDF files. Some of the highlights of the [Read more]

Blio Reader Could Launch a New Digital Era of Medical Textbook Publishing

Apr 28, 2010 by
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We’re giving out promo codes for a popular medical app in the comments section of this post The medical textbook has long been a ripe target for digital enhancement. In the 1990s the paragon of digital publishing was the CD ROM. At that time, publishers produced premium versions of their leading texts which included a CD ROM with additional images, search capability and even videos. As the internet became a viable distribution model, publishers moved the supplementary content to the [Read more]

iPad Medical Textbooks (E-books) on the Way With Key Partnerships Announced: Why the Healthcare Community Should Be Excited

Feb 03, 2010 by
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It was only a matter of time before partnerships between medical textbook publishers and the iPad development community emerged. One key partnership the Wall Street Journal just announced is between ScrollMotion (app developer) and McGraw-Hill’s Education division, with the purpose of developing e-books for the iPad.  And why does this matter? Because if you’re a medical professional, you most certainly have read or own a medical text from McGraw-Hill. McGraw-Hill is the publisher of Harrison’s Internal Medicine, Schwartz’s Principles of [Read more]