Free iPhone medical apps that every doctor can use

Tech
March 3, 2010

by Iltifat Husain, Yousif Alkadhi, MD, and Satish Misra

If you’re a physician, medical student, or in any other health care related field, trying to find the best free medical apps for the iPhone is a hassle.

Apps such as “Dream Meanings”, “Relax Ocean waves”, and “Stool Scanner Lite” dominate the Top Free Medical Apps list in the App Store. Our top 10 iPhone medical apps list contains no such app, …

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Free iPhone medical apps that every doctor can use

10 ways an Apple iPad can help doctors improve patient care

Tech
February 2, 2010

The current (first generation) Apple iPad probably won’t run a robust electronic health record (EHR).

apple ipad However, it may run some iPhone/iPod touch EHR/EMR apps. I think most physicians will prefer to use a standard tablet PC instead of the iPad. However, given that a large percentage of physicians are not using the tablet in the outpatient office setting, perhaps …

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10 ways an Apple iPad can help doctors improve patient care

Why there needs to be a national healthcare information database

Tech
January 24, 2010

The majority of Americans have a great deal of personal health information in their physician’s medical record. Many of these physicians have an electronic healthcare record (EHR) to store this information.

Unless you are in an integrated healthcare system, and most Americans are not, this information is just not available to you or any physician seeing you who does not belong to the same physician group as your primary physician. Even …

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Why there needs to be a national healthcare information database

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