In such cases it becomes very difficult to provide medical personnel with a correct translation of information about organism specificities, chronic illnesses etc (your health and life depend on a correct understanding of data by a local physician; those who encountered such situation must understand its very criticality and importance…the author of this blog had himself witnessed such situation).

Looking through the list of new applications last week (in order to prepare a column on “New And Noteworthy IPhone Medical Apps Released Last Week In App Store”) we came across with a recently issued app  “sos4life” which solves the issue of an authentic medical translation of health-related data, supporting 10 languages.

In other words, once you enter health-related data in a native language, you automatically get its authentic translation into 10 languages; and you can be sure that in the case of a critical situation the local physician will understand all the information without the “killing” distortions.

It’s important to mention additionally that the application design  is very user friendly, compared to most of health-related applications, thus favoring to input data (while it’s a hell on earth to find time to input health-related notes in other applications).

Highly recommended for all who travels a lot!

Sos 4 Life:

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We were selected these 4 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only:

1. AnswersIn Hepatitis C

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The AnswersIn Medicine Hepatitis C module contains 50 minutes of high quality videos on the topic developed by Professor Owen Epstein and presented by Dr Mike Jacobs, a Senior Lecturer and Consultant in infectious diseases at the Royal Free Hospital and University College Medical School, London. The modules have been produced in association with University College London business (UCLB) plc.

2. Pedi meds

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Pediatric dose application. From the creators of IV MEDS
This pediatric dose application has multiple drugs in the database. The list is very long please visit our website to see complete list.

3. Geriatric – iphone medical apps – tools of the trade

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Doctot Geriatric is a suite of the most widely used clinician-administered assessment scales related to geriatric patients. Doctot Geriatric affords the medical practitioner a highly efficient and easy-to-use tool to measure important functions of geriatric patients.

4. Cardiac Stress Testing i-pocketcard

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The Cardiac Stress Testing i-pocketcards provide you with
Pharmacologic stress testing: list of drugs used in stress testing including indications, contraindications, pros and cons, side effects
Explanation of the assessment of myocardial ischemia in nuclear medicine (SPECT)
Specific comments on the diagnostic value of cardiac stress testing in women
Guidelines for the management of patients with positive studies

Smartphones will soon be diagnosing illness as well as advising on cures. Will we all become iPho-chondriacs?

Lena Bryce’s mobile phone got her pregnant. Dan Woolley’s kept him alive for days under a collapsed building. Fran Neri’s saved her from a life-threatening infection. A fast-growing array of downloadable applications for smartphones is turning the mobile phone into a doctor in your pocket, on constant call to diagnose ills and propose cures. Soon mobile apps could even provide lifesaving home treatment for millions. That’s the upside. Experts warn, though, that apps may turn us into a neurotic nation of phone-hugging iPho-chondriacs.

More: link

GoMeals™ :

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Making healthy food choices is important and can be challenging. And if you have a health condition, such as diabetes, nutritional information can be critical. Now with GoMeals, it’s easy to make smart food decisions, at home or on the go.

We were selected these 4 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only:

1. Safe Surgery for iPhone Medical

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Based on the official WHO Safe Surgery checklist, this app supports three check moments in the operating room to increase surgical safety

2. BGluMon – Medical Blood Glucose Monitor for iPhone

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BGluMon – Medical Blood Glucose Monitor for iPhone is advanced and easy-to-use tool to watch for your blood glucose concentration on a daily basis and included tools for recording, editing, exporting data, calculating and drawing statistics and reports.

3. 3MD

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Find and connect with colleagues. With 2+ million profiles, 3MD is the most comprehensive, continuously updated, US medical directory available.
Made for physicians by physicians, 3MD helps healthcare professionals connect and communicate. It’s private, secure and accessible from the web or iPhone.

4. DxScript

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Dx Script™ provides clinical-centric technology and professional services that enhance quality of patient care administrative efficiencies and staff satisfaction. Our advances mobile technology supports Federal health Information Technology (HITECH) to create a national HITECH infrastructure. These standards make patient data available at the time and place of care, resulting in improved health care quality, fewer medical errors, and lower health care cost.

After an onsite workflow analysis, Voalté worked with Huntington Hospital and Emergin to design an implementation plan to facilitate more effective communication among nurses and other caregivers. The initial implementation phase focused on replacing the pager with the iPod Touch which was then integrated to Philips monitoring through an Emergin Patient Monitoring Gateway.

The Emergin/Voalté solution then enabled “quick messaging” on the iPod Touch to facilitate real-time communication between caregivers. “The text messaging feature enables me to better prioritize my tasks and communicate more efficiently with my coworkers,” added Lee.

The results from implementation of the Emergin/Voalté solution at Huntington Hospital show a dramatic reduction in the number of phone calls made per shift and improved Press Ganey scores for the unit in the two categories, “noise in and around the room” and “response time to call bell.”

The Emergin, Inc The Voalte, Inc

The App sets a new standard for medical device user interfaces, using iPhone’s outstanding multi-touch interface.

Features:
- Record and Display waveforms and spectrogram in real time.
- Scroll and Zoom In/Out using multi-Touch user interface.
- Edit Sounds on-screen.
- Save Recorded sounds.
- Email Sounds and Images, along with notes.

Thinklabs Stethoscope App

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Beginning of the review and analysis of applications from section “Medical” can be found here: link

Functionality and sophistication of applications in section “Healthcare” (Top-100)

Average price in Top-100 “Healthcare”: $2.21

The average price in Top-10 “Healthcare”: $2.59 (the most optimal price for new applications).

Conclusions

- Applications in this section have a higher quality of implementation and design (in particular compared to those in section “Medical”).

- Section “Healthcare” already contains popular applications which use built-in sensors (allow the applications to collect additional data and significantly facilitates the interaction with a customer). Moreover, we can confidently forecast an increase in quantity of such applications in the future;

- The section is more commercially attractive for publishing new applications, compared to section “Medical” (it has applications from a general Top-100; the total number of applications is twice as much as in section “Medical”);

- there are applications with a successfully implemented model of “free basic functions” + “in-app purchase”, what obviously positively affects the general target customers of the application and profits of developers.

With respect to such criteria as quality of implementation, design, promotion of applications and business model, section “Healthcare” is a guideline for all developers from section “Medical”.
However, we have to admit that neither of the categories include application which could bear the title of “killer medical app”.

But only slow and steady wins the race!

We plan to systemically monitor in the future the qualitative changes of applications in Top-100 of this section and will publish respective reports for our readers.

The review is prepared by
specialists of The Viactivity LLC
(development and promotion of mobile applications)

We were selected these 4 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only:

1. Pedi Safe: ICU, OR, ED Medications

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Pedi Safe is a rapid reference for nurses, paramedics, physicians and other healthcare professionals who care for pediatric patients in an emergency or critical care environment.
An advanced airway management and cardiac resuscitation app. In an emergency, healthcare providers can quickly identify a patient’s weight or Broselow color, and then Pedi Safe displays all appropriate weight based dosing, equipment sizes, and normal vital signs. An excellent reference during a code for doctors, nurses and paramedics!

2.  iCoder CPTLite

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iCoder CPT Lite brings you the complete evaluation and management section of the CPT database in a simple, fast and easy to use application. You can browse codes by category, body areas or guidelines and can also do searches by single word, multiple words, fragments or the actual code.

3. MedAlert

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This is the easiest available application that reminds you when to take medicines. If you have kids, parents or even pets!!, this is the application that you need to remind you or to remind them when they need to take medicines, vitamins, respiratory therapy, etc. It was specially developed when my two kids got sick at the same time. We were like crazy with their medicines schedule of 6, 8 and 12 hrs.

4. ProLog

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Are you up to date on logging your medical procedures? Tired of trying to keep track of your procedures by scribbling them down on the back of some progress note? Need to keep track of procedures to show your residency or fellowship program?
Introducing ProLog: the only app you will ever need to keep an up to date record of ALL of your procedures. Whether its a Skin Biopsy, Central Line Placement, C-Section, Ventriculostomy, Total Knee Arthroplasty, or Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, it’s in our database!.

We were selected these 2 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only:

1. MedCalc 3000

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MedCalc 3000 is the most popular and comprehensive Medical Calculator system on the web. MedCalc 3000 has been highly acclaimed, reviewed and tested over the last 11 years. As a trusted resource it has been integrated into many prestigious websites for Medical Education, Medical Literature, Pharmacology, Nursing and more. Now you can put this invaluable resource in the palm of your hand!

2. Basal Body Temperature Tracker

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Filling out tons of charts to track Basal Body temperature was incredibly challenging first thing in the morning, so to make tracking simpler I made an app for “that.”
Although the iPhone doesn’t’ take your temperature yet, it can track and graph the results. The Basal Body temperature(BBT) Tracker Makes it super easy to enter you BBT each day and compare the results of previous months.