New apps last week(from 5/nov - 12/nov): ~ 43.
We were selected these 7 new and noteworthy medical apps only:
1. ACLS Advisor – Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
“run codes like an Expert!”
This app is used during codes.
This is an expert decision-engine that assesses patient characteristics and administers advanced cardiovascular resuscitation. ACLS advisor follows the American Heart Association guidelines. Inputs are interpreted by the cardiology decision engine, which advises the exact action that should be performed. Defibrillator energy dosages and resuscitation drug dosages are given.
Physicians, nurses, medical students, paramedics, and EMTs, can use this application to effectively administer ACLS and basic life support.
Categories: Basic life support, ACLS, pulseless arrest, acute coronary syndromes, bradycardia, tachycardia, pulseless electrical activity, asystole, stroke, anaphylaxis, electrolyte abnormalities, asthma, toxicology, medications, pediatric basic life support.
2. Touch Health
Touch Health from MilkTouch Software allows you to easily organize your health and medical information. Medications, allergies, events (appointments, surgeries, etc), and emergency contact info are all available at the touch of a button. Touch Health also displays your name and picture, assisting emergency responders in identifying you in case of emergency.
3. Procedure Tracker
This is an application to assist medical professionals log their procedures. This is will record patient data along with procedural information to give a complete overview of procedures successfully completed. This is perfect application for all levels of medical professionals including students to attendings.
4. Health 101
Go! / App Store
A glossary of common illnesses and diseases. Almost 1000 diseases and conditions are described in this glossary. This is not a comprehensive reference, but simple a glossary of the most common illnesses that your family is likely to encounter. This is a good reference for childhood and family medicine. It is not intended to be a professional reference, and the information contained in this application may be inaccurate.
This reference includes publicly-available information on common household, family, and childhoood illnesses and diseases, mostly culled from the National Institute of Health database.
5. iMediMinder
In a frizz with your medications? Get confused with what you’re taking? Are people always asking what you take and how many, how often, morning or night? Even while you’re passing out!? Have you ever taken …? When? Were there side effects? When did you stop taking … ? And on it goes. When you get to the point where these questions matter, you’re often too ill or confused to deal with the answers. iMediMinder may help.
iMediMInder is an iPhone interface to the Google Health (GH) server at http://www.google.com/health for managing both your own personal health records, and those of your family and loved ones. No data is stored permanently on your iPhone. Create a free account at the site; store your username and password in the iPhone’s Settings for iMediMinder.
6. iDOC
iDOC is a real life iDoctor on call that can answer your specific and personal medical questions. Get answers to your health related questions from a real Doctor or healthcare professional whenever and wherever you are! Simply by touching “Ask the Doc”, you can now ask a real life Doctor or healthcare professional any question related to your healthcare or a medically related topic. Your question will be forwarded to the most appropriate Doctor or healthcare professional that will send you back an answer to your specific question in your inbox.
7. Pocket Protocols
Pocket Protocols provides Medical and Trauma BLS Protocols, Dispatch Codes and much more for EMT-Basic’s. (Specifically NYS)
The first application thats specifically designed for the iPhone and iPod touch!
