Medscape’s lack of Android development shows why physicians are still better off with iPhone.
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Medscape’s MedPulse app review, aggregated news for medical professionals
As a medical news app, MedPulse is an iPhone app that aggregates medical news.
Popular medical apps share physician names with pharmaceutical advertisers
Epocrates, Medscape, and other popular free medical apps share the personally identifiable information of healthcare professionals with pharmaceutical advertisers. Here we explore the implications of that practice.
Top 10 free iPad medical apps for healthcare professionals
The best iPad medical apps for physicians. Thousands of Pad medical apps were sorted through to come up with this list, ranging from prescription drug reference apps to virtual simulation apps.
Physicians, Pharma, and “free” medical apps
The medical app industry is a big business, but the apps are no longer the product – the physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers who use them are. In the first part of this series, we examined some of the financial forces driving the medical app industry. Our focus then was Epocrates, the veritable founder […]
Why “free” Epocrates and Medscape aren’t really free medical apps for Physicians
Medical apps are a big business, but not because of the apps. In this two-part series, we look at how the physicians who use these apps became the product.
WebMD launches Medscape App [App Review]
This free app helps you look up drug dosing, interactions, and pricing. It provides similar functionality when compared to the free version of Epocrates and Skyscape.