• Tweet
• Email
• Sharebar

• Tweet
• Email

Smartphone technology has revolutionized more than just the way we text or surf the web. From doctors to nurses and anyone else in the medical profession, smartphones present a new way to access technology and life saving information. Whether you’re refreshing yourself on patient charts or needing immediate information during a crisis, smartphone and tablet apps now give you the ability to get the information you need without flipping through books and charts and wasting precious time.

And apps aren’t just limited to dictionaries, either! Physicians can now use their phones to check medications, calculate doses, look up reference texts, and even use in-depth anatomy applications to show patients exactly what’s going on in their body. More than just making the physician’s lives easier, medical apps allow better demonstrations with the patient and help the physician to provide an extremely high level of care.

From iPhone to Android, smartphones to tablets, there’s an app out there for just about everything. Let’s take a look through the top 5 most useful apps for medical practitioners.

1. Medscape

Available For: iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Kindle Fire
Useful To:  Doctors, Nurses, Med Students, and more.
Category: Reference, News

Medscape is a well-known name when it comes to medical news and information, and now they’ve put all of their best resources into a useful app for medical professionals. The Medscape app does it all: drug references, disease and condition references, procedures and protocols references, and more. No matter what you’re trying to reference, chances are there’s a source for it in this app. In addition to these fabulous reference tools, Medscape also provides you with up to date medical news from the databases of Medscape and MEDLINE. You can read articles as you go or save them to your device to look at later.

The Medscape app is also perfect for med students looking to keep up to date on their studies, as the app provides more than 100 videos demonstrating common procedures, as well as tables and protocols for review.

Whether you’re a student or an active medical professional, having the Medscape app at your fingertips provides you with a world of helpful knowledge and news.

Source.

2. Mobile MiM

Available For: iOS only
Useful For: Doctors, Patients
Category: Radiology

Technology takes another step forward with Mobile MiM, an FDA-approved radiology imaging application that provides doctors with high quality x-rays stored within the cloud, so no matter what device you have at hand you’ll always be able to access the x-ray scans that you need. With the scans at your fingertips, you’re free to zoom in and out on selected areas to get a better view of a specific section for your analysis.

Utilizing popular cloud-based technology, patients can also access their x-rays at home for their own review. Now patients and doctors don’t have to worry about storing and organizing all of their x-rays, and can instead feel comfortable knowing they have access to high quality images at the touch of their fingers.

Source

3. Epocrates

Available For: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile
Useful For: Medical Students, Medical Physicians
Category: Teaching, Drug Reference

With tiered apps available at every price point (from free to $199 a year), Epocrates is an app that every medical student and physician should have access to. Epocrates provides everything you could want when studying or practicing your profession, allowing you to quickly and easily access drug references, disease monographs, and diagnostic tools. There are also unique and highly functional references in the app, such as procedure cost estimators, reference tables, and more.

No matter what point you are in your medical profession, Epocrates provides you with valuable information on the go.

Source.

4. Disease Codes ICD-10

Available For: Android
Useful For: Medical Professionals
Category: Reference

Doctors once had to rely on stacks of books to organize lists of references to all international diseases, but not anymore. Disease Codes ICD-10 provides all of this information on your smartphone or tablet, so you’ll have access to the information wherever and whenever you need it. Utilizing a fast, objective interface, you can search this reference book either by typing the disease name or code and the app will instantly pull up further information for you.

The app also offers a handy autocomplete feature to make searching easier for you, in addition to a system to bookmark any information that you’ll need to access regularly.

Source.

5. Skeletal System Pro III

Available For: iOS
Useful To: Medical practitioners in ANY field, Students, Patients
Category: Anatomical Reference, Study

As far as technology advances us, the most important part of the medical profession is the rapport between a medical professional and their patient. In the past, it’s been hard at times for doctors, nurses, and so on to communicate some of the specifics with their patients, but thanks to the Skeletal System Pro III app, you now have access to a tool that will allow you to show your patient exactly what you’re talking about.

This app is also a terrific reference to any medical students out there brushing up on their anatomy, as you can easily zoom around the human body and select parts that you would like to know more about. So whether you’re just learning or trying to explain procedures to a patient in the future, Skeletal System Pro III allows you to quickly, easily access information.

Source.

From references to teaching guides, modern smartphone and tablet technology has allowed both medical professionals and medical students of all kinds to have quick access to all of the information they need. Gone are the days of sifting through enormous medical textbooks for an obscure reference, everything you need is now at your fingertips.