Medical Software - Top 5 IPhone Medical Apps.

So I did a little bit of research (thanks to Health Line and Joshua Schwimmer’s excellent articles, Medical Uses of the iPhone (Part 2) and Medical Uses of the iPhone, and the new IPhone medicine blog http://iphonemedicine.blogspot.com/ )
And it seems the number one Medical Application right now is…

• Epocrates. Not surprising really, as it is the best one on there at the moment, and it’s FREE. Had a pharmacist run in and ask me how to install it today. This little program shows you pictures of medications, so if you don’t know what your patient is taking (and with our clients, sometimes they don’t even know what they are taking) you can use this to find out.

• Life record now allows you to save a EMR of yourself on your IPhone. The program costs $23.99 for a personal record, and 59.99 for a family one.

• Eponyms is a program that has descriptions of over 1600 common and obscure medical eponyms. Good to use if you forget one. FREE for students and 2.49 for working people like myself.

• Mediquations is a popular program that provides quick and easy access to common medical calculations. It has over 40 formulas and scores, and shows the full formula. It was developed by a third year medical student, so it might be updated fairly frequently. It’s $5.99. – Medical Calculator is a good free alternative.

• The last one that got good reviews – not really a medical program, but useful. It’s aSleep, and it plays nice music to help you get to sleep. It’s $1.19, and it looks like a good way to unwind after work.

Apps that would be useful in the future seem to be mostly e-Prescribing and the “UptoDate” website. Also, you can now get Unbound online on your Iphone, with Iphone medical software available for 49.95 to 159.95.

I’d be interested in hearing what kind of programs people would like to see on their IPhones, as I’m currently eyeing the SDK to see what sort of stuff I could do. Wouldn’t mind going back to the research I was doing before with IPods and decision trees… It was sort of like WebMD, but for dermatology. Hope that helps.