Patient Communication

Vox Spanish English Medical Dictionary iOS app seeks to improve care by reducing language barrier

5 days ago by
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This is an app review for the Vox Spanish-English Medical Dictionary and Verbs App, which provides English to Spanish and Spanish to English translations of medical terms.

HealthTap Express Connects Patients To Over 5000 Physicians Via Your Smartphone

Oct 04, 2011 by
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HealthTap Express is a unique online space, helping patients and physicians connect via social media.

Phrase Board iPad app can help patients with speaking difficulties communicate short messages

Dec 13, 2010 by
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Phrase Board uses the iPad as a writing and communication tool for patients with speech difficulties or for those unable to talk.

Apple squashes any hopes of flash based electronic health records on the iPhone or iPad

Apr 12, 2010 by
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We posted an article a few weeks ago detailing how a form of Adobe’s flash player, the ubiquitous platform used to stream videos and play games, was coming to the iPhone operating system.  We were excited about this because many electronic health record (EHR) vendors developing web-based (“Saas”) EHRs, including Practice Fusion, Hello Health, and Care Cloud have relied on Adobe Flash technology for portions of the user interface. [Check out our video of Care Cloud’s EHR in action – [Read more]

Top 5 Medical Apps for the Upcoming iPad [Health Care Professionals Edition]

Mar 25, 2010 by
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Top 5 Medical Apps for the Upcoming iPad

Merck Manual Home Edition Aims to Help Patients Communicate More Efficiently With Physicians [App Review]

Nov 26, 2009 by
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This is the home edition of the Merck Manual app made for people without healthcare experience. It aims to help improve the doctor patient relationship. We reviewed the professional edition of this application in one of our prior reviews.

Medical Spanish App adds Audio in Latest Update, and We’re Definitely Smitten [App Review]

Sep 03, 2009 by
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Audio and text for over 3,000 spanish phrases. This massive directory is easily searchable and comes with an array of features.

Blausen Human Atlas App Enhances Physician Patient Relationship [App Review]

Aug 13, 2009 by
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This app is aimed at improving patient and healthcare provider communication. The app includes massive amounts of pictures showing different pathologies. The most key feature included are the short concise videos that can be used to explain medical diseases to patients.

Medical Spanish (1.2) [App Review ]

Jun 23, 2009 by
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We have an updated review of this application highlighting it’s new features. The review can be found here.

Medical Spanish is an app that helps you communicate with Spanish speaking patients in a health care setting. The app has a very detailed description in the App store, so I won’t get into the “nitty gritty”, but instead I’ll focus on the usefulness of the app. I’ll touch on this later, but you can use this app even if you do not know a single word of Spanish.