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Top 3 Must-Have Apps for Medical Professionals

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:15:33 +0000

There was time when there were very few medical applications were available for iPhone, but it has changed tremendously. We now have so many apps that now we have difficult time choosing which one we should have on our iPhone or iPod touch. The following Five apps are very important for all medical professionals who are seeing patients. These apps serve the most common information needs of a clinician.

Epocrates. This application has evolved a lot since it started. It not only provides most up-to-date drug information but it also provides information on diagnostic test, symptoms, diseases and antibiotic guide. The Fee Rx app is good but the Epocrates Essentials offers a lot more.
ICD Meister. It is an app for practicing physician and healthcare professionals who needs to look up ICD-9 codes during billing process. Now you have this search capability as well as option to look up frequently searched codes right in this small app. This app will not only allow you to search the ICD-9 codes but allows you to bookmark the frequently searched codes in your favorite for quick reference later.
Medscape from WebMD. This app is new in the block but it free and offers Medical News, CME credits, Drug information, Drug Interaction informations, Physician / Pharmacy / Hospital directory with options to make call directly from the app. The Medical news is customizable to your specialty and interests.

National Library of Medicine for iPhone or iPod touch

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:07:25 +0000

National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections stand at more than 9 million items–books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world’s finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works.

You can access a lot of this information via very simple interface designed specially for mobile devices, such as, iPhone and other PDA. The URL for the mobile friendly site is:

http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/sec508/

You can see the screenshots of the website below. The search engine is very robust and occurs almost in real time. You can view the ABSTRACT right there and if the articles is freely available you can even download the PDF of the article right then by following the FULL TEXT link.

You should bookmark the above URL for all your quick medline reserach. This is even better than paying for medline apps for iPhone and iPod touch.

ICD-9 Consult for iPhone and iPod touch

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:24:41 +0000

Another great app for physician and health professionals searching for ICD-9 Codes. This app puts the complete, latest ICD9-CM on your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can search the codes many ways:

Browse the ICD-9 codes by categories
Search the ICD-9 codes by diagnoses and as soon as you start typing the diagnosis, closest match lists below
You can also type in the ICD-9 codes to find out what diagnosis it belongs to
Option to add the frequently searched codes in favorite list allows you to search those codes quickly in future

Special Features of this App:

Complete 2009 ICD9-CM diagnosis codes and 2008 ICD9-CM procedure codes, with all subcodes and all long descriptions: over 21,000 individual codes, instantly accessible
Search automatically attempts to expand abbreviations and terms for the best results; e.g. “MI” ? “Myocardial Infarction.”
Keep a Favorites list of diagnoses and procedures, which may include specific and nonspecific codes.
Browse diagnoses and ICD9-CM procedures by category and subcategory; easily limit searches to particular categories

ICD Meister for iPhone and iPod Touch

admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:46:12 +0000

It is an app for practicing physician and healthcare professionals who needs to look up ICD-9 codes during billing process. Now you have this search capability as well as option to look up frequently searched codes right in this small app. This app will not only allow you to search the ICD-9 codes but allows you to bookmark the frequently searched codes in your favorite for quick reference later. There are several options for you to look up a ICD-9 code:

Browse through the extensive list of categories and find your code
Search the medical condition using the powerful search feature. You can not only search the medical condition but also search for medical condition associated with a particular ICD-9 code.
Use the favorite to look up bookmarked ICD-9 codes

Special features of this app:

The powerful search function lets you search for abbreviations & acronyms. Search for Afib, DM, CHF, SK, FTT, SCFE, AGE, NAFLD, FB, LBP, CVA, DUB, CAD – just some of the hundreds built into ICDMeister
Search for full words or part of a word. Can’t spell De Quervain’s tenosynovitis? No problem. Just search for querv and find the code you want in seconds.
The author claims that all of the codes in ICDMeister are current (2009) and valid (no non-billable codes). That is great plus…
Option to adjust the font size of the text is built in the program.
You can search the sign and symptoms to find the correct ICD-9 code that is billable
Osteopathic (Non-allopathic) conditions are listed as well

Get it at iTunes

EMR for iPhone – Life Record

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:13:09 +0000

Life Record with EMR Anywhere technology is the first and only EMR to run perfectly on the Apple iPhone. As always you can access your Life Record EMR on your Mac, Windows, or Tablet PC, but what if you are in a restaurant and do not have your laptop with you? What if you are on the golf course and you’re miles away from your laptop? Have no fear, pull out your iPhone, log in to your Life Record with EMRAnywhere technology and you are not only viewing your patient records, you can add, edit, make changes, issue prescriptions, and review images from the palm of your hand in a mobile beauty that has never before been realized. Never before has an EMR been so fast, easy, beautiful and mobile.

If you have your iPhone in hand, give it a try now! Open Safari on your iPhone and visit http://iphone.liferecord.com

You can see it in all it’s splendor on YouTube! View it now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX_6yIO2bR8

Source: Life Record EMR

View your Medical Images on iPhone

admin — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:01:55 +0000

Long gone are the days when you physically have to walk to the workstation to view patient medical images. With the advancement of world wide web technologies (Web 2.0), physicians can watch the images now on their iPhone.

Heart Imaging Technologies is offering a non-proprietary PACS (picture archiving communication and storage) systems, as opposed to others that are tied to specific hardware. Medical images displayed in a web browser have traditionally been of lower quality and therefore had limited diagnostic utility. This technology is the first to provide physicians with the ability to drill-down and view medical images, including movies, on a hand-held device. Physicians can simply click on a web link sent via email by one of their colleagues, enter their password, and, for example, instantly view movies of a patient’s beating heart halfway around the world. They can even put their colleagues on speakerphone and carry on a medical consultation while simultaneously browsing through the imaging results.

Source – Heart Imaging Technologies