If you’re a physician, medical student, or in any other health care related field, trying to find the best free medical apps for the iPhone is a hassle.  Apps such as “Dream Meanings”, “Relax Ocean waves”, and “Stool Scanner Lite” dominate the Top Free Medical Apps list in the App Store.  Our top 10 iPhone medical apps list contains no such app, and this isn’t a re-hash of the top downloaded free medical apps either.  Rather, this list contains the top 10 free iPhone medical apps health care professionals and students can actually use on a day to day basis.

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By now many have heard the amazing story of how Dan Woolley, a Colorado man in Haiti, used the Pocket First Aid & CPR app to help survive severe injuries he sustained in the earthquake.  We highlighted this story last week when it broke, and we’ve always thought Pocket First Aid & CPR was a great app when it was first introduced in the summer of last year, and we even wrote about it back then.

At that time we put it in our “Apps for Patients” category not only because of the useful information it provides, but because it’s backed by the American Heart Association, the organization that sets the standard of care on first aid procedures. This app review will focus on the features of the app that helped Dan Woolley survive the injuries he sustained during the earthquake.

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This is the second part in a series we’re doing on iMedicalApps. On a daily basis, there are plenty of free medical applications released for the iPhone and iPod Touch and most of them aren’t useful, hence the “free” tag.  Some of these free medical apps actually do provide key functionality.  This app review will cover four apps that meet the above criteria.  Remember, some of these apps are only free for a limited time.

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Now that Apple’s bombshell has finally been dropped and the world has met the iPad, its finally time to begin separating fact from fiction. Will the iPad boast the same outstanding user interface as the iPhone and iPod Touch? Yes. Will the iPad solve world hunger? Probably not. Will the iPad be a useful tool in medicine, perhaps even transform the way healthcare is delivered or electronic medical records organized? The jury is still out on that one but, admittedly, I am skeptical. Here are a few of the reasons why.

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I was introduced to Harrison’s Manual of Medicine via Access Medicine back in my first year of medical school (most academic centers have a subscription to Access Medicine).  I needed to find a good resource for my PBL(Problem Based Learning) small group sessions and it seemed the easiest to read for a kid fresh out of undergrad.  Later on I found resources such as UpToDate and eventually developed the ability to actually understood research papers, but Harrison’s Manual of Medicine was great to read early on.  Not only is it great to use in Medical School, but It’s a textbook you’ll often find in the clinic setting and is read and referenced by practicing providers.

It would then only seem natural to have the full text or even the online version (via Access Medicine), translated to a mobile application.  When you search for Harrison’s in the App Store you’re presented with 3 Apps!  Inherently, I thought I’d only have one option.  There is a version by Unbound Medicine, Skyscape, and MedHand.  The price to access/download each is $59.99, the key difference is that the MedHand version does not require a yearly subscription.  You pay the flat rate of $59.99.  Also, the MedHand version is a stand alone application, not requiring you to access the internet, unlike the others.  Because of these advantages, the MedHand version was chosen for a full review of Harrison’s Manual of Medicine(17th edition).

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