Young Doctors Everywhere- Run Your Practice (or part of it) From Your iPhone!!!
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Yes, its official, there ARE medical applications for the iPhone. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine has posted a host of things doctors can now do via their iPhone. With the iPhone 3G there has been an increase in applications and tomorrow..who knows…soon they will be passing iPhones out with the stethescopes.
Here is just a taste of what the docs can do with their iPhones-
List of iPhone medical applications
AirStrip OB - remote patient monitoring
Apple website iPhone demonstration
DynaMed and the iPhone - stay tuned for other EBSCO announcements
Epocrates demonstration
Heart It iPhone demonstration
iChart Sync - CareTools for the iPhone
MacPractice iPhone Interface
Mediquations - Medical Calculator for iPhone and iPod Touch
Medical eponyms database for handheld devices
Merck Medicus - PDA tools
MIMvista - Presents Multi-modality Imaging on the iPhone™
Modality Learning: we make small screens smarter and potential iPhone applications for medical students
Podcasts and Videocasts
PubGet Mobile
Unbound medicine simulation
Wikipanion - wikipedia for mobiles
Yale’s Cushing/Whitney Library Mobile site and PDAs, Handhelds and Mobile Technologies in Libraries
Unbound Medicine & the iPhone
Unbound Medicine is one of the few medical information tools specifically designed for the iPhone. It places emphasis on current information, and book titles such as Harrison’s Manual of Medicine and Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests from McGraw-Hill, 5-Minute Clinical Consult from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Red Book® from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Davis’s Drug Guide and Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary from F.A. Davis.
Unbound MEDLINE tracks medical journals and searches 17 million citations.
Unbound Medicine’s customized iPhone interface takes full advantage of the built-in Safari™ web browser to give health professionals quick answers over cellular and WiFi networks. Users navigate intuitively by tapping on index terms or by entering searches into clinician-friendly forms. Cross-links and lists of related content instantly take a clinician from a disease management discussion to a drug monograph for the correct dose, possible interactions, and adverse effects of a recommended medication.
In addition, iPhone and iPod Touch users can use iPhone-optimized Unbound MEDLINE on their WiFi or cell-enabled device by simply going to: http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline (go there with a web browser you’ll get the web version).
Medical library websites & iPhone
A number of American medical libraries have started to develop special pared-down, ‘optimized’ versions of their library websites.
See Yale’s Cushing/Whitney Library cool mobile site
The idea with minimalist library websites is to help users navigate library resources on small mobile screens. In that small content, you should be able to use the iPhone to find books, specific journals or articles in medical libraries with no difficulty.
Some health librarians report that pdfs open but take time to load on the iPhone; lengthy articles may time out before they are completely downloaded (this has also been observed in loading web pages). Some articles open up in ‘html’ which may be a more sound option.
iPhone and medical faculty & students doing research
Books and articles should be searchable/findable on the iPhone
Health professionals should be able to determine, if needed, the physical location of library items using the iPhone
Copies of articles to view or print later should be easily sent via email on the iPhone
Also, abstracts and articles can be shared with colleagues, residents or medical students via email.
Patient monitoring, x-ray and scan viewing, patient charting, are all coming to the iPhone.