Quick survey of mobile health care applications for physicians and medical professionals.

1. Mobile Applications for Physicians

2. iPhone – Infuse Medication infusion and bolus calculator built for healthcare providers. Medications can be added, edited, removed, and dosages can be adjusted. (Infuse)

3. iPhone – ReachMD CME An iPhone App that allows users to listen CME (Continuing Medical Education ) content and take a CME certification test for credit. Has a questionable privacy policy. (ReachMD CME)

5. CME prep and ‘activities’

7. iPhone – EyeChartRandomEyes EyeChartRandomEyes is an app to perform a quick eye test. The user can randomize the letters in order to test people who may have memorized the standard letter list. The app is built for medical professionals. It gives them the ability to perform vision tests on the go with measuring using a headphone cable. (EyeChartRandomEyes)

9. Built in quiz mode.

11. Insertion

12. Action

13. Innervation

14. Anatomical Relevance(Netter’s Anatomy)

17. Clinic and hospital scheduler.(iChart)

19. Zoom, Pan, Change contrast on images with finger motions.

20. Scans images within the set with a horizontal slider.

21. Measures sections of an image using finger motions.

22. Interacts with desktop interface.

23. Patient/Database search.(OsiriX) (OsiriX – Demo Video)

25. iPhone – ICD-9 ICD-9 is an iPhone app for querying ICD-9-CM codes on an iPhone. There is also a free version of the app called ICD-9 LITE. ICD = International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. Published by the World Health Organization and used worldwide for morbidity and mortality statistics. (ICD-9)

27. News can come in rich media forms (podcasts, video, and images.)(BlackBag)

29. Specific use suits sold along with subscription services.

30. Common functions across all suites

31. Drug Database

32. Medical Calculator

33. Drug Interactions

34. IV Compatibility Tool

35. Personal Notes

36. (Some) Product Suites include:

37. Emergency Physician Suite

39. Toxicology

40. Primary Care Plus

41. Similar to the Emergency Physician Suite

45. A very large selection of formulas and scores.

47. Customizable list of favorite equations.(MedCalc)

49. Infectious disease treatment

50. Medical Dictionary

51. Symptom Assessment

52. Medical CalculatorEpocrates has some free services, and installs are generally free. The service and updates require paid contracts. (epocrates)

53. Cross Platform – Epocrates Epocrates has several other applications in addition to being a mobile resource tool. Epocrates has a market research service where market researchers can survey healthcare professionals. Clinicians can submit data to research projects using their mobile devices. Hospital formulary hosting for custom prescription pricing and availability, accessible by mobile device by physicians. CME (Continued Medical Education) can push news about new studies and treatments to physicians durring point of care. (epocrates)

54. Cross Platform – Skyscape Skyscape is similar to Epocrates in that if offers reference and calculators for a number of mobile device platforms. The focus is less on general prescription decision making and more on specialty focus. Users can download reference manuals, calculators, assessment, and treatment software specific to a physician specialty. Skyscape is marketed toward for physicians, nurses, and students with specific collections of software for each. (Skyscape)

55. Cross Platform – Skyscape Skyscape has several different applications in addition to specialty reference tools. CME STAT is a learning tool, where users are given information about new standards in treatments (specialty specific) and then tested on the content. Med Alert ports breaking medical news and Journal summaries directly to the device. It can all be filtered by profession and specialty. (Skyscape)

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