Best Android medical apps for physicians
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Study finds iPad & other mobile devices can harbor dangerous bacteria
Study finds clinical iPads contaminated with resistant bugs, subpar cleaning practices
Why money flows into mobile, wearable health technology
Industry leaders at Health 2.0 share the methods behind the madness.
Three startups from Startup Health that clinicians should know about
StartUp Health announced its latest class, here are three startups that caught our eye
No more pagers, how one physician is building a smarter smartphone communication app
We interviewed Divya Dhar on her experience on going from clinical medicine towards bringing Seratis to fruition in the digital health industry
WLSA CEO Rob McCray shares insights into future of mobile health and his tips for aspiring innovators
Passionate, energetic participants drive the interdisciplinary fusion of technology and medicine — computer sciences, information science, electrical engineering with medicine and public health — into the digital health movement. However, many of these participants remain ensnared in silos delineating traditional academic departments in different institutions – a significant barrier to this important collaboration. Robert McCray […]
Google X announces plans for smart contact lens that measures glucose levels in diabetics
Google’s secretive research lab Google X has announced plans regarding their work on a “smart contact lens” that continuously measures glucose readings.
SpotCheck 2 app for iPhone checks out some of your moles
The SpotCheck 2 app was developed to allow users to send their “spots” to dermatologists for their review and advice
Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests is medical app for laboratory tests
Unbound Medicine’s Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests medical app seeks to provide health care providers who order tests a robust guide to medical tests and studies.
Evidence Based Primary Care medical app delivers data behind common tests to the point of care
The Evidence Based Primary Care (EBPC) app aims to provide metrics and probability calculations for a large number of laboratory, imaging, symptoms, and physical findings.
ACOG medical app provides premier access to key ACOG resources
You can now access key ACOG resources through the ACOG app.
Ringadoc app allows you to listen to your patient’s after hour messages on your iPhone or iPad
Ringadoc is an affordable answering service geared towards healthcare providers.
ICD Sherpa app is a searchable database of ICD-10 codes
The ICD Sherpa app seeks to provide a quick-and-easy database of ICD-10 codes.
My personal pet peeve is medical apps for specific conferences
I think that medical conference apps should have their own section of the medical category of the app store and that they should be automatically removed after the date of the meeting.
Anamnesis app aims to aid physicians in charting, but doesn’t understand workflow
Documentation is one of the most time-consuming, laborious, but necessary parts of medicine. If technology existed that enabled us to document all our thoughts, rationales, examinations and actions through the course of the day automatically, we may be able to see significantly more patients than we currently are able to. Being able to quickly look […]
St. Jude’s patient monitoring system gets host of upgrades including mobile notifications, efficacy trial ongoing
Merlin.net, St. Jude’s remote monitoring system, gets a major upgrade including the ability to sent alerts to a physician’s smartphone when a patient experiences an event. As another step in the right direction, it also gives us a lot of insight into what the future of healthcare may be.