Your android phone puts all kinds of medical information at your fingertips, which not only helps you, but can help your patients also. These 10 Android apps allow you to access the latest medical research and diagnostic tools in seconds.
- Nursing Central combines a number of useful apps into one, like Davis’s Drug Guide, Taber’s Medical Dictionary, Diseases and Disorders, Davis’s Laboratory and Diagonistic Tests, and Unbound MEDLINE. Using these apps-in-one you can look up diseases, tests and procedures within seconds.
- Pediatrics Central is similar to Nursing Central in that it combines many apps into one database of diseases, drugs and dosages, but everything is aimed at children and pediatric care.
- Harrison’s Practice for Mobile has information on over 800 medical conditions with lists of drugs, dosages, and their side-effects. The app also includes over 400 figures and tables, disease backgrounds and symptoms, diagnosis and treatments.
- Drug Facts is a giant guide of drugs and their interactions with food and other medications and reviews on natural products. The database has more than 3,900 trade name drugs and 900 generic.
- Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests lets users know which test is best for diagnosis out of more 350 diagnostic tests. It also says how to prepare patients for each test, including how to get specimens.
- ACP Handbook of Women’s Health covers female-specific medical conditions, and how common diseases present themselves in women. Physical and psychological issues are also included, like behavioral disorders and substance abuse.
- MedSurge Notes is a guide for how to care for patients with complicated conditions or post-surgical conditions. Assessments, interventions and follow-up care notes are listed. This app is especially useful for nurses caring for older patients since there is a higher risk of drug interactions and multiple health conditions.
- Red Book is an app that specializes in infection diseases in infants, children and adolescents. It has the most up to date AAP recommendations for diagnosing, treating and preventing infectious disease in those populations, and covers immunizations, drug treatments, and school safety.
- Evidence Central has the latest research and analysis of medical issues, supporting evidence-based medical practice by giving access to Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines, Cochrane Abstracts, and MEDLINE Journals.
- Skin Rashes may not win the award for best title of an application, but it is very helpful for identifying and treating common skin conditions like measles, chicken pox, and shingles.Whether you need to check a diagnosis, learn lab results in a flash, or explain conditions and treatments to your patients, Android has apps to do it.
