Free Healthcare Apps for Your iPhone

by Alex A. Kecskes

If you carry an iPhone, there are well over 1,500 medical apps you can tap into to boost your efficiency as a healthcare professional. Here's a short list of some popular apps that are free as of this writing:



Medscape -- Offers constantly updated drug reference tools, medical news per a specific specialty and mobile CME, physician and pharmacy directories. This app saves health care professionals time when faced with making decisions at the hospital bed or ER.



Epocrates Rx -- Designed for healthcare professionals, this continuously updated drug database lets doctors, nurses, and other professionals pull up medical information--like drug interactions.



ReachMD CME -- Ideal for physicians on the go who want to earn Continuing Medical Education credits, but don't have the time. They can now download the program and take the corresponding CME test from their iPhone.



ICD-9 LITE –This app simplifies medical diagnosis coding by disease classification. Old, typed-in search techniques are replaced by a more convenient "drilldown" format.



Skyscape Medical Resources --This four-part app keeps users up to date on the latest medical information. It includes RxDrugs, which provides access to dosing info for both brand name and generic drugs. Another feature outlines clinical medical information--both disease and symptom related. There's also MedAlert, which provides various drug updates, trial results and journal summaries.



MedCalc -- This medical calculator gives physicians easy access to complicated medical formulas. Favorite equations can be customized and frequently used equations can be saved.



The art and science of medicine is clearly going mobile. I recently wrote about a system that connects physicians in major U.S. hospitals with patients in remote 3rd world countries—by way of totally mobile telemedicine technology. Check out AET Systems for more information on this exciting new breakthrough.



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Alex A. Kecskes has written hundreds of published articles on health/fitness, "green" issues, TV/film entertainment, restaurant reviews and many other topics. As a former Andy/Belding/One Show ad agency copywriter, he also writes web content, ads, brochures, sales letters, mailers and scripts for national B2B and B2C clients.





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