1. 10 Best Medical Apps for
Palm and the PocketPC
last updated June 20, 2008
Paul Albert
Weill Cornell Medical College

2. 10 Best Medical Apps for
Palm and the PocketPC
last updated June 20, 2008
Paul Albert
Weill Cornell Medical College

3. 10 Best Medical Apps
Last updated Oct. 26, 2011, 1:06:32 pm EST
Paul Albert
Weill Cornell Medical College

4. uCentral
From Unbound Medicine.
Contains three popular clinical
resources:
• 5-Minute Clinical Consult
• 5-Minute Pediatric Consult
• Harrison's Manual of
Medicine
Platform: iOS, Android,
Blackberry, Palm, Windows
Cost: institutional subscription

5. First Consult
Evidence-based answers to
clinical questions.
• Succinct summaries of the
literature
• Includes diagnosis, treatment,
outcomes, preventions,
guidelines, etc.
Platform: iOS
Cost: institutional
subscription; comes with MD
Consult

6. Calculate by QxMD
150 unique calculators and
decision support tools,
grouped by specialty or select
“all”
Platform: iOS, Android
Cost: free
Similar apps:
• Archimedes (within the free
Skyscape app)
• MedMath (within the free
Epocrates app)
• MedCalc ($0.99)

7. PubMed on Tap
Search PubMed to find and
display reference information.
• keeps record of recent
searches
• filter by full text
• advanced and Boolean
searching
Platform: iOS
Cost: $2.99

8. VisualDx
Enter patient findings and
create a differential diagnosis.
• Not just rashes!
• 16,000 images representing
over 900 visually identifiable
diseases, drug reactions, and
infections
Platform: iOS, Android
Cost: institutional subscription

9. AHRQ ePSS
A quick reference for primary
care prevention.
Assists primary care clinicians
identify the screening,
counseling, and preventive
medication services that are
appropriate for patients with
specific characteristics.
Platform: iOS, Android
Cost: free

10. Micromedex
Easy-to-locate information
about drugs.
• Filter by drug or drug class
• Generic names, dosing and
indications, contraindications,
interactions, adverse effects,
pharmacokinetics, etc.
• A little buggy?
Platform: iOS, Android,
Blackberry, Palm, PocketPC
Cost: institutional subscription

11. Medscape
Lots and lots of content:
• 7,000+ drug references
• 3,500+ disease clinical
references
• 2,500+ clinical images and
procedure videos
• drug interaction tool checker
• CME activities
Platform: iOS, Android
Cost: free

12. Epocrates
Recipient of recent facelift.
Suite of products:
• Free – drug monographs and
interaction checker, pill
identifier (constant nagging!)
• Premium – herbal medicines,
disease images, ICD-9 and
CPT codes, medical
dictionary, disease
monographs
Platform: iOS, BlackBerry
Palm, Android, Windows Mobile
Cost: free, $99, $159, $199

13. Skyscape
A longstanding all-in-one app.
• medical calculators (Archimedes)
• periodically updated medical news
alerts
• practice guidelines
• paid textbooks (e.g., Netter‘s)
• drug reference (RxDrugs)
• disease monographs (Outlines in
Clinical Medicine)
Platform: iOS, Android
Cost:

14. Mobile-optimized
sites

15. Unbound MEDLINE
Powerful and intuitive
interface.
Diseases and drug are well-
disambiguated making the
browsing process surprisingly
non-horrible for a database
with 20 million records.
Platform: web
Cost: free

16. Thanks!
Paul Albert
paa2013@med.cornell.edu

17. Read more
• This presentation – http://slidesha.re/10medapps
• Top 20 Free iPhone Medical Apps For Health Care
Professionals – http://bit.ly/20medapps
• Georgetown Medical Library’s research guide –
http://bit.ly/GTmedapps