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Mobile Applications for Primary Care Feb 2012 dan.kipnis@jefferson.edu
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Applications Productivity PubMed Pharmacy Reference/News Point of Care Pediatrics
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Productivity Applications Feedly Dropbox Evernote Goodreader
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Feedly-RSS reader Free, itunes and Android, highly rated Read all your favorite blogs and web sites in one place
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Dropbox 2GB free, 50GB $9.99/mn or $99/yr, 100GB $19.99/mn or $199/yr Store your documents in the cloud, itunes and Android
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Dropbox
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Evernote Premium $5 per month or $45 per year, Free monthly 60MB Premium: Search within PDFs, Android and itunes Premium: Monthly upload allowance increased to 1GB
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Evernote
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Goodreader $4.99, itunes only “a swiss army knife of awesome” PDF reader on roids
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PubMed searching apps PubMed Clip PubMed on Tap PubGet PubMed Mobile
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PubMed Clip $2.99, good UI, itunes only Facebook, Twitter, Evernote integration Proxy link for full-text Tag articles and create personal library + Advanced search option
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Library proxy https://login.proxy1.lib.tju.edu/login?qurl=
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PubMed Clip Advanced search
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PubMed on Tap $2.99, itunes
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PubGet Not all PDFs work, itunes
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PubMed Mobile Basic searches Limit to free articles Locate primary literature on your handheld Free itunes and Android http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/
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Pharmacy application Epocrates Lexi-Comp MedScape Micromedex Medical Letter Skyscape
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Epocrates Premium version runs $99-199 yearly Itunes and Android Free version offer Pill ID feature
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Epocrates Also offers Medication interactions check, but MedScape is more inclusive
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Downsides to Epocrates Free version Medical Calculator lacks content compared to MedCalc Paid version includes disease monographs with treatment options, infectious diseases and IV compatiblity checker Bottom line: Pill ID function is unique and useful
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Lexi-Comp Library subscribes to web version of Lexi-Comp (no mobile access) Includes Power medication reference, drug interaction checker, disease database Also includes: 5 minute clinical consult and Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, itunes and Android
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Downside of Lexi-Comp mobile Expensive-several hundred $$ and not that much better than free version including MedScape 30 day free trial is available
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MedScape Highly ranked mobile application Best: medication reference (drug interactions), procedure guide, and clinical reference. Over 7,000 medication and continuously updated As clinical reference does lack detail for specific illnesses A must have application! itunes and Android
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Micromedex Straightforward user interface, not include references from desktop version Includes mechanism of action and clinical teaching section Explains how a given medication works, how to take medication, side effects or toxicity alerts Lacks strong drug interaction, itunes and Android, free
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Medical Letter Free for limited access, itunes and Android Library offers web access Critical appraisals of New drugs Effectiveness, cost and toxicity and alternatives
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Skyscape Can purchase Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, 5-minute Clinical Consult, Merck Manual, Journal Watch and Pocket Medicine Free version includes: Outlines in Clincal Medicine (OCM), RxDrugs, Archimedes. OCM provides disease monographs with ~800 entries Cumbersome user interface, itunes and Android Medical Calculator ok, but MedCalc is comprehensive and easier to use
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Pharmacy conclusion Medication Reference: MedScape or Micromedex (better for trainees) Pill ID: Epocrates Drug Interaction Checker: MedScape (superior to Epocrates) Disease Monographs: among the free applications, MedScape (superior to Skyscape’s OCM) Medical Calculator: MedCalc (superior to Skyscape’s Archimedes 360 and Epocrates’ MedMath)
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Reference / News applications NEJM Harvard Public Health MedPage Today Medscape Internal Medicine News
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NEJM This Week Weekly audio summaries, itunes Videos of common procedures (paracentesis and lumbar puncture) Free
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Harvard Public Health Videos Podcasts Breaking News Free itunes and Android
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MedPage Today Designed University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Access to up-to-date news sorted by field Custom select favorite channels Audio and video-education on the go! Free itunes and Android
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Medpage Today
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Medscape Up to 30 drugs input for interactions Education and News section Free, itunes and Android
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Internal Medicine News Independent bimonthly newspaper founded in 1968 Iphone and Itouch, No Android Free Options include: News, specialty focus, blogs, videos, Facebook Include study citations for further reading Stories can take time to load depending on connection No “most popular” listing yet
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Point of care applications AHRQ ePSS Wikipanion Calculate by QxMD Medibabble OB (Pregnancy) Wheel by Quatertone Carb Counting with Lenny SafeDose Scutsheet-tracking patients Eponyms LabDx Med ExLabs UpToDate
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AHRQ ePSS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s electronic Preventive Services Selector designed by the US Department of Health and Human Services identifying what screening, counseling, and preventive services are appropriate for their patients. based on the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations input a patient’s age and other demographic variables Free itunes and Android
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AHRQ ePSS
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Wikipanion / Wapedia for Android Free
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Calculate by QxMD Challengers include: MedMath calculator, Epocrates, MedCalc and Archimedes from Skyscape. Free, itunes and Android Includes 150 medical calculators, robust search and great interface
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Medibabble Language translation (Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, and Haitian Creole) Includes guided tour ~2000 phrases Free, itunes
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OB (Pregnancy) Wheel by Quatertone Track patients pregnancy dating in order Enter first day of last menstrual period-estimated date of conception, weeks gestational age, estimated due date Can track by patient Android marketplace
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Perfect OB Wheel Inability to search by fetal length perfect replacement for traditional Obstetric dating wheels $1.99, itunes
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Scutsheet-tracking patients $9.99, itunes Android, beta, free Track multiple patients Add events for each patients Calculate important parameters Does not offer ranges Does not screen for erroneous inputs No print or email feature just yet
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Eponyms $1.99 in itunes, 1,700, 28 categories, Android, free Fully searchable from Andrew J. Yee (www.eponyms.net)
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LabDx 27 categories with ~200 laboratory tests Includes links to labtestsonline.org Downside: No pediatric values $9.99, itunes
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Clinical Trials Google maps integration Email out functionality Free Itunes and Android
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Merck Manual Professional Edition 3,000 page version The Medical Encyclopedia $34.99, itunes
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UpToDate-The Gold Standard? Pricing $195/year (.53 cents per day) for trainee and $495/year ($1.36 per day) Peer-reviewed, phar-free, comprehensive, #1 most used resource 8,500 medical topics, 385,000 total references Good search function Slow to load topics
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UpToDate
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Pediatrics Pediatrics Medical App Safe Dose Carb counting with Lenny
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Pediatrics Medical App Monthly peer-reviewed journal Text format available for all abstracts No easy way to search across multiple issues, keywords and abstract text for hits Can bookmark article for later access News and Views section for insight from editors on controversies and newest articles Low-resolution screen shots is minus Better than Pediatrics Digest
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SafeDose $9.99, Dr. James Broselow (of the “Broselow Tape”) PediSafe medications, Android $4.99 Weight 3kg to 36kg, both trade and generic, search by drug or category also includes recently viewed function
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Carb Counting with Lenny $1.99, food guide and carb games, customize food guide, itunes
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Questions? dan.kipnis@jefferson.edu Other mobile applications: http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/Technology/ MobileApps/
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