Technology has managed to make life easier in many ways and with iPad we’ve got a tool that works in most areas, including one of the issues that concern us the most i.e. health. It can be a great tool to help medical students in doing their thesis or preparing a scientific research project. So, here’s a list of top iPad medical apps for health care service providers. If you’re a doctor, you’ll love this article.
Medscape:
The most downloaded free medical app, Medscape, is a great tool that can be used for reference, contraindications and combinations of drugs. It consists of videos and pictures for most diseases and risk factors, procedures and protocols. The basic modules of Medscape for iPad include extensive information about drugs, diseases and risk conditions, care protocols and daily news in different specialties. Most importantly, no internet access is required.
MedPage Today:
MedPage Today is a resource site for medical professionals. A lot of information is managed in collaboration with the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania which ensures their academic credentials. This application tries to put the major medical news into practice. You can also get audio and video through this. With the latest update MedPage allows text searches of all articles published since 2007.
MicroMedex:
MicroMedex is an application that contains a database with information on over 4,500 concise drugs. It boasts of a wide advanced search system over a wide range of categories such as brand names, generic (including combination products), therapeutic area, indication, interactions, toxicology, and mechanism of action, adverse effects, recommended dosage and information on contraindications.
You do not need internet connection to use the app, so from anywhere and at any time, users can get instant reliable information.
Epocrates:
With this application, we can find branded, generic and OTC drug information. It also incorporates current news and research information. On the other hand, offers the ability to customize our home page to have quick access to all the features we use most often. In addition to this, a directory of specialized healthcare applications is also available for download.
UpToDate:
It consists of evidence-based information created by physicians to assist physicians in making decisions. The data is referenced, consisting of literature reviews, Meta-analyzes and controlled clinical trials. Every four months, an update is released that includes the latest articles on a huge range of issues, updating the relevant pages of the previous version.
ReachMD CME:
ReachMD Medical Radio is a medical application for iPhone/iPad that provides informative medical content via podcasts and Live Streaming. Programs last 15 minutes on average and are distributed via satellite exclusively through the Sirius-XM XM channel 160, directly to your iPhone/iPad. Its main features include live streaming of programs directly from ReachMD, access to a database of over 5,000 podcasts with medical, educational and informative data, advanced keyword search in the database podcast, selecting radio programs according to your medical specialty, content repository news, including the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and CDC (Centers for Disease Control), featured content lists by users and weekly updates.
Dental Expert:
Dental Expert is an iPad app that explains many of the typical dental treatments. It will give us all the information we need to help us have a nice smile. This application will tell us from how to perform different types of dental restorations or how to prevent bad breath to important aspects of dental surgery. Dental Expert consists of a comprehensive database of questions and answers that a normal patient would question about to his/her dentist. Expert Dental care is an application developed by Cosmetic aesthetic innovations.
modalityBODY:
This application summarizes medical information from their own sources to create custom collections – very useful for collecting images and texts of anatomy and health sciences. Users can also upload their own notes along with their clinical case images. One can store tons of pictures in this single app.
Blausen Human Atlas HD:
We are facing an iPad application that combines 3D animation with cross-searchable glossary and still images. It is an excellent complement to learning and / or support in the doctor-patient communication, with over 150 videos in 3D, 3D figures with 360-degree views, over 1500 medical terms, over 1000 animations and the ability to purchase in 15 different languages. It is an application to be considered by both students and medical professionals.
Visual DX:
With over 25k medical images that represent over 1.2k+ adult and pediatric conditions and their diagnoses information, it proves to be one of the best apps for physicians. It combines standard terminology, expert medical knowledge, best medical images and an intelligent search algorithm to deliver accurate and concise answers to its users. It is a rare app that demonstrates disease variations and various conditions with multiple images of each condition/disease.
These were the top 10 iPad Medical Apps for Health Care Service Providers. But, apart from these, there are numerous other apps that have helped its users with various medical aspects.
