Best Medical Apps This Week (Sept 7, 2018)
Hundreds of new apps hit the Android and iOS app stores every week. We’ve sorted through them to pick the best medical apps for medical professionals. iOS The Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgical Operations is the iOS app version of the reference text of the same name from McGraw-Hill Education. The contents build upon the […]
These are the 15 not so obvious medical apps Emergency Medicine physicians should have
These “not so obvious” medical apps range from orthopedic apps to toxicology apps to ultrasound apps.
Natural Cycles App Review: The First FDA-Approved Contraception App
Discussions about, and prescriptions for, contraception are one of the most common reasons women visit their doctors. From preconception counseling to prescribing oral contraceptives to intrauterine device (IUD) insertion to consults for sterility procedures, not a day goes by in my practice that I don’t perform one of the above interventions for my patients. Patients […]
All the Apple ResearchKit apps and medical studies available for patients and physicians
This list shows all the Apple ResearchKit apps you can enroll in. Physicians can recommend these apps to their patients.
These are the CDC apps physicians need to download
The CDC has nearly 30 apps available for smartphones. These are the ones you should download.
Best Medical Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android Devices This Week
Hundreds of new apps hit the Android and iOS app stores every week. We’ve sorted through them to pick the best medical apps for medical professionals. Harrison’s Manual + Rx DDx Tx Harrison’s Manual + Rx DDx Tx is an app bundle offering over $100 in savings with in-app purchase of the collection. Users gain […]
Best Medical Apps for iOS and Android This Week
Hundreds of new apps hit the Android and iOS app stores every week. We’ve sorted through them to pick the best medical apps for medical professionals. iOS Medical Apps AskPCOS Ranked number 96 in the medical category of the App Store, AskPCOS was developed as the first app focused on providing information on Polycystic Ovarian […]
Best Medical Apps This Week – August 10, 2018
Hundreds of new apps hit the Android and iOS app stores every week. We’ve sorted through them to pick the best medical apps for medical professionals. Best Medical Apps for iOS Elderly TBI Outcome Calculator Utilizing new data published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, the Wake Forest Elderly TBI Outcome Calculator […]
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) Standards of Care 2018 App Review: The Wait Is Over!
Type 2 diabetes remains a global epidemic. According to a 2017 CDC report, over 100 million Americans have prediabetes or diabetes. Diabetes was the number seven leading cause of death in 2015. The World Health Organization (WHO) published a report showing a quadrupling of the prevalence of diabetes since 1980 worldwide. According to the CDC, […]
This Week’s Top Apps
Hundreds of new apps hit the Android and iOS app stores every week. We’ve sorted through them to pick the best medical apps for medical professionals. iOS Antibiotics Simplified is now available on iOS devices in app form after purchase in the App Store. Netter’s Anatomy Atlas 7e is the app version of this reference […]
SmokerStop App Review: A Motivational Tool for Your Patients
Tobacco use remains the #1 preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide. Overall, cigarette smoking among U.S. adults (aged ≥18 years) declined from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 15.5 percent in 2016. Still nearly 38 million American adults smoked cigarettes in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and […]
NARCAN Now: A Free Guide to the Use of a Potential Life-saving Treatment for Opioid Overdose
Prescription and non-prescription opioid abuse has risen to epidemic proportions. Statistics from the CDC are staggering. Deaths from opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 1999 with over 165,000 fatalities. Every day in the U.S., 44 people die of prescription opioid overdose and over 7,000 are treated in ER’s across the country. Over 2 million people in […]
Thinksulin App Review: A Resource for Managing Insulin
Insulin dosing errors in hospitalized patients are a common source of patient errors and serious inpatient morbidity and mortality. The National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine have been reporting on the frequency (epidemic?) of medical errors for decades. Some authors have even argued that medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death. Despite that […]
Best Medical Apps of the Week
Hundreds of new apps hit the Android and iOS app stores every week. We’ve sorted through them to pick the best medical apps for medical professionals. iOS ZOLL’s Virtual Rescue Mobile ZOLL’s Virtual Rescue Mobile app allows users to witness, in virtual reality, a simulated cardiac arrest rescue. The 360-degree video can be viewed through […]
STFM Shots App 2018: The Best Immunization App Just Got Better
One of the most critical yet easily overlooked tasks during any clinic visit or hospital discharge is to ensure patients are up to date on their vaccinations. Recently at our clinic, we have been working on two new large vaccination initiatives — one involving the HPV vaccine and the other implementing new Army vaccine guidelines […]