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An app a day keeps the doctor away

Stiff neck, headache, tingling in your fingers. You list your symptoms, answer a few questions about how long they’ve lasted and whether they seem to be getting worse. Then, without ever leaving home or queueing at the clinic, you get the diagnosis: a strained neck. Or, at least, eight out of 10 people with those symptoms have one. (You also learn that 1 in 1000 people with these symptoms turn out to have degenerative cervical spine disease. Would you like to have your case reviewed by a human doctor? That will be £14.99.)

This isn’t some future scenario. The free app Ada, which offered up this diagnosis, was launched in the UK in April. It took six years for 100 data scientists to…

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 An app a day keeps the doctor away

Healthcare is poised for an upheaval, with the arrival of artificially intelligent health apps that could replace visits to the doctor.

Top 3 Medical Apps for Doctors That Went Big

To understand what lies behind a win-win scenario for both app users and app owners, let’s look at the success stories of three mobile medical apps to learn some valuable lessons.

Top 10 must have Medical Apps for Medical Students and Doctors

Summary from Daily Rounds.

5 Must-Have Apps for Physicians

With so many apps available, and new ones popping up each day, it's impossible to keep up with which of are the best mobile tools in the market. Regardless of whether you're an Apple or Android user, we've separated the wheat from the chaff to present five must-have apps for physicians.

6 medical apps that doctors actually use

A quick glance at the "Medical" category in any app store shows that there are hundreds of medical apps available for download, ranging from white-noise machines to 3-D anatomical models.

7 medical apps healthcare professionals should know about

Living in an increasingly fast-paced world, we have become more reliant on technology. The medical world has also ridden on the back of technology to allow doctors to increase connectivity with patients, make diagnoses quicker and keep up to date with medical news around the world.

8 Medical iPhone Apps You Should Prescribe to Your Health-Care Professional

It’s a safe bet that one of your doctors has an iPhone. But what you may not realize is that he or she is using it as part of your overall treatment. From reading APGAR scores to x-rays, there is a fascinating array of health-care tech available in app form. Some are created by savvy developers, while others are built out of necessity by the doctors.

The 23 Best Medical Apps for Doctors

In today's digital age, there's an app for almost anything. In fact, many professional industries are beginning to rely heavily on apps, whether it's social media or other helpful tools. The same is true for the medical sector. Whether you're a nurse, doctor, physician's assistant or surgeon, there is an app — in fact, there are several — that can help you become a better medical professional.

The Top 9 Medical Apps for Doctors

Everyone, including doctors, is living in a mobile world. As mHealth becomes more popular and patients adopt health tracking apps and fitness measuring wearables such as Fitbits, savvy physicians know they can benefit from using mobile health apps in their practices.

iMedicalApps

The iMedicalApps Team consists of a group of physicians and medical students who provide commentary and reviews of mobile medical technology and applications. Our reviews and commentary are based on our own experiences in the hospital and clinic setting.

Medical App Journal

Medical App Journal is an independent website created by and for medical professionals. Our goal is to only index and review applications used by medical doctors and healthcare professionals in clinical care. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive database of independent, insightful, and unbiased reviews of mobile medical apps by the very professionals who use them on a daily basis in clinical practice.

Top Medical Apps

Medical apps have come a long way and have become more useful to help your life as a doctor. We have been testing lots of medical apps and chosen our favourites, all of which are free and available on both Apple and Android

3DBrain

Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research.

Anesthesia Case Tips

This App simply explains to the anesthesia provider how we REALLY manage over 400 cases. Note: Surgical cases vary according to surgeon, facility, and patient.

Art of Injection

This app will help you become a master of injection therapy. Cortisone injections are without a doubt the most effective treatment for localized inflammatory pain. They are less expensive and have fewer side effects than NSAIDs.

Calculate by QxMD

From the developer of 'Read by QxMD', 'The ECG Guide' and 'Pedi STAT' comes 'Calculate', a next-generation clinical calculator and decision support tool, freely available to the medical community.

CDC

CDC content in your hands 24/7.

CDC Vaccine Schedules

Quick access from CDC to ACIP-recommended immunization schedules, complete with footnotes. Intended for healthcare professionals recommending and administering vaccines to infants, children, adolescents, and adults.

Daily Rounds

Cases from over 120 institutions and medical schools.

ECG Guide

The most comprehensive ECG app in the iPhone App Store - over 200 examples of common and uncommon ECGs.

EMRA PressorDex

Newly revised and updated for 2015, PressorDex is a comprehensive therapeutic guide to the myriad of pressors, vasoactive drugs, continuous infusions, and other medications needed to treat the critically ill patient. Written by emergency medicine physicians for emergency medicine physicians, this indispensable app gives you concise tools

Epocrates

The Epocrates Rx free drug reference enables healthcare professionals to find medical information more quickly and confidently at the point of care. Our continually updated drug database provides monographs for 3,300 brand and generic drugs, including dosing, adverse reactions, interactions, pharmacology, and pricing, as well as images of the medication.

Eponyms

Are you a doctor or medical professional? This is the iPhone version of Andrew Yee''s huge eponym database consisting of over 1,600 medical eponyms.

Eye Emergency Manual

This app is designed for use by all medical, nursing and allied health clinicians in Emergency Departments across New South Wales.

Genius Scan

Genius Scan is a scanner app in your pocket. Quickly scan your paper documents on the go and export them as multi-page PDF files.

IBM Micromedex Drug Info

Micromedex® Drug Reference Essentials provides on-the-go access to the industry’s most trusted and comprehensive drug information, when and where it’s needed most. Users will find peace of mind knowing the content is backed by the same thorough, unbiased editorial process as all Micromedex solutions.

InstantECG

The Instant ECG iPhone App teaches the basics of electrocardiogram (ECG) electrophysiology, myocardial action potential, associated waveforms, intervals and segments in order to help you develop a framework needed to analyze ECGs.

Johns Hopkins Guides

The Johns Hopkins POC-IT Antibiotic (ABX), Diabetes, HIV, and Psychiatry Guides are regularly updated, evidence-based decision resources to help you answer critical questions at the point of care.

MDCalc

Since 2005, MDCalc has been the leading medical reference for the most relevant, up-to-date, and widely-used clinical calculators that support evidence-based patient care.

Medscape

The fastest, most comprehensive medical app designed for healthcare professionals.

PalmEM

No yearly subscription fees. Always up-to-date. Essential Emergency Medicine.

Pedi-STAT

Pedi-STAT is a rapid reference for RNs, paramedics, physicians and other healthcare professionals caring for pediatric patients in the emergency or critical care environment.

PEPID

PEPID's trusted clinical resources are formatted specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With specialized clinical content, PEPID iPhone medical apps offer a variety of product suites for healthcare professionals of all types.

PocketDr

PocketDr is the must-have app for all junior doctors with on-call responsibilities. It is an aide-memoire for the things you know - but may not recall quickly in the dead of night with constant bleeps and distractions.

Psych on Demand

How convenient would it be to have a comprehensive collection of industry-standard mental health screening measures at your fingertips? Designed by a clinician from the ground up, Psych on Demand enables medical professionals, researchers, residents, students, and supporting staff to have point-of-care access in a variety of inpatient, research, and outpatient settings.

Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment

When every second counts, turn to Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (QMDT)--the ultimate on-call and office companion. This streamlined, alphabetically arranged reference delivers evidence-based diagnosis and treatment information on more than 950 diseases and disorders regularly encountered in hospital and outpatient settings.

ReachMD

ReachMD MedicalRadio delivers world class medical content directly from ReachMD, the leader in medical education and information for medical professionals.

Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy

The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy mobile app includes all the content from the print edition, plus expanded digital-only content, multi-term search functionality, calculators, tables, customizable bookmarks, and more!

WikEM

WikEM is a database of concise emergency medicine notes to assist physicians with their daily practice. Via wiki notes on http://www.wikem.org, WikEM features a continually available updated set of notes and checklists that allow for rapid reference of key information. WikEM is intended for clinicians only and not directly for patients.

AgileMD

You choose which resources to download to your phone. We give you the latest updates so you always have the best information available.

Healthvana

We believe that healthcare systems should talk to each other so you and your patients always have actionable health information at your fingertips.

Orca Health

Learn faster. Retain more. Orca Health apps are multisensory to provide a more powerful learning experience. Let's face it–learning is about doing. Every Orca Health app helps you learn using touch, sound, sight, and real interactivity.

pMD

We develop software that Makes Doctors Happy™. pMD lets you use your mobile device to quickly capture charges, access information and communicate securely, vastly increasing your efficiency. That means you'll spend more time being a doctor, and less time acting like an accountant with a really expensive medical degree.

SonoSupport

This mobile app will deliver all the important information you need to perform clinical ultrasound examinations at the bedside. The app's concise, step-by-step instructions will guide you through how to obtain the best images for integration into your clinical practice. Designed to meet the needs of health care professionals at any level of practice, SonoSupport is the only ultrasound app you will ever need.

unboundMedicine

We provide physicians, residents, and students with quality drug, disease, and research information via our apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone devices.

VisualDx

The VisualDx decision support and reference tool for physicians includes 1,300+ diagnoses and 28,000+ medical images to aid diagnosis and therapeutic decisions. REQUIRES a VisualDx subscription.

Voalte

In today's healthcare scenario with its shortage of nurses and other caregivers and the growing demands of an aging population fast, effective, unified communication is more important than ever before.

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