Top 15 Medical iPad and iPhone Apps

With the advent of new technologies in recent years, the medical community is increasingly leaning on technology to help them learn new skills, provide better patient care, eliminate paper waste and confusing charts, and to constantly improve the state of the medical profession. With the advent of the Apple iPad and its many wonderful capabilities come real and valuable tools to the medical community.

I have compiled for you, the male nursing community, the top 20 iPad and iPhone apps available to you, the healthcare professional. Use these tools, the best iPad apps available for the medical profession, and make yourself a more valuable tool in the medical community!

All links go to the iTunes store.

Encyclopedias

Carter Encyclopaedia of Health and Medicine
Category: Encyclopedia
Description: Written for the general public but useful for nurses and paramedics, this encyclopaedia has the definitions and explanations of every medical term and health problem likely to be encountered as a living, breathing human being. Surgery, lifestly experiences, and medical histories are all included in this comprehensive encyclopaedia.
Price: $9.99

Medical Encyclopedia
Category: Encyclopedia
Description: The University of Maryland free Medical Encyclopedia contains more than 50,000 pages of high-level articles in both English and Spanish. The information is divided into categories to allow for easier browsing, including symptoms, injury, and disease, among others. The search feature also allows you to easily find the information you are looking for. Best of all, once you have found the information, you can email it directly to your colleague who needs the information immediately.
Price: Free

Merck Manual - Home Edition
Category: Encyclopedia
Description: The name Merck is synonymous with innovation and education for pharmaceutical drugs. That said, to find the best information existing regarding current drugs on the market, use the Merck Manual - Home Edition to quickly find information about needed pharmaceuticals. You can browse by section or explore the index alphabetically. This app, though $9.99, comes highly regarded by the medical field.
Price: $9.99

WebMD
Category: Encyclopedia
Description: When people get sick, they no longer call their doctor first. Most go to WebMD and instantly search their symptoms. This app puts all of the WebMD information onto your iPad, so that you can quickly access the information.
Price: Free

Lexi-Complete
Category: Encyclopedia
Description: The Lexi-Comp Encyclopedia offers free access to their comprehensive, well-respected databases when you download this app. A year-long subscription will cost you $285, but this is a small price to pay for the hundreds of images, charts, and tables, available without a cell or wifi connection.
Price: Free to download, $285 per year subscriptions

Resourceful iPad Apps for Medical Professionals

Medical Spanish
Category: Help
Description: In the medical world of today in the United States, Spanish is increasingly becoming necessary to know for medical practitioners. The numbers of Spanish speakers are rising, so be prepared to offer them the best medical care possible by studying up on Spanish medical terms.
Price: $4.99

Nursing Central
Category: Help
Description: From the site: ursing Central helps nurses and students find detailed information on diseases, tests, drugs, and procedures. The moment a question arises you can consult the automatically updating database of 5,000 drugs, find a definition in the dictionary with more than 60,000 entries, interpret hundreds of lab and diagnostic tests, and consult the latest disease information. You can also keep up with your favorite nursing journals with tables of contents, citations, and abstracts delivered directly to your device.
Price: Free to download, paid subscription

PubSearch
Category: Help
Description: PubMed brings thousands of published medical articles right to your iPhone or iPad. This app lets you concentrate on finding the articles you want and need with its easy-to-use and intuitive user interface.
Price: Free

Universal Doctor Speak
Category: Help
Description: The medical field contains its own language and terms, many of which the common patient will not understand. This app helps you translate what you are saying so that your patients understand better the care they are receiving. Let this app help break down communication barriers and help you provide your patients with better care.
Price: Free

Visual DX
Category: Help
Description: Touted as he ONLY medical app to show disease variation with MULTIPLE images of each disease,?Visual DX helps you diagnose your patient ailments by allowing you to compare their symptoms to photographic examples contained within the app.
Price: Free

Medical Medications Apps

iPharmacy - The Drug and Medication Guide
Category: Medications
Description: iPharmacy calls itself ?1 Medical App of 2010!? Containing a guide of over 10,000 medications and prescriptions for doctors, nurses, and consumers alike, iPharmacy contains descriptions, dosages, notes, and other important information for everyone from the consumer and medical professional to the pharmacist responsible for filling the correct order.
Price: $0.99

Mediquations Medical Calculator
Category: Medications
Description: Calling itself the ost comprehensive medical calculator on the App Store? Mediquations includes 230 formulas and scoring tools in an intuitive user interface. Supporting both US and SI units, it allows you take into account a host of factors involved when setting dosage amounts for patients.
Price: $4.99

Fun iPad Apps for Medical Professionals

Anatomy Quiz
Category: Fun
Description: Anatomy Quiz is a fun, simple quiz that is great for testing your own knowledge or the knowledge of others. You can use this app to teach about anatomy as well. Challenge your fellow nurse friends to a game and see who remembers more!
Price: $0.99

Sleep Cycle (iPhone only)
Category: Fun
Description: The app description says n alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you in the lightest sleep phase - a natural way to wake up where you feel rested and relaxed.?The acceleromator in your phone analyzes your sleep schedule and then finds the optimal time to wake you up within a set 30-minute window. Brilliant! I may even download this one for myself!
Price: $0.99

Speed Bones Lite
Category: Fun
Description: Another fun anatomy quiz, Speed Bones Lite tests how quickly you can identify bones in the body. It tests your knowledge of bones and increases your reflexes. Combine this with Vessels MD, Bones MD, and Muscles MD to have a comprehensive quiz set for your friends and patients.
Price: Free

Conclusion

We hope that you find the above apps helpful. If you find or use other apps that are helpful, please share them in the Comments section!

About the author: John Doherty is a copywriter for an online portal representing over 100 accredited online colleges. During the day he helps prospective students find the right online degree programs for their future. In the evening he is a photographer and traveler.
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