Medical Software for Android
Medical software for Android is becoming increasingly available. QxMD has just released Cardio Calc, Heme Calc, GI Calc, Pregnancy Wheel and Neph Calc. Unbound Medicine has released a host of new software titles, including Taber’s Medical Dictionary, Davis’s Drug Guide, The Merck Manual, 5-Minute Clinical Consult (5MCC) and more. Epocrates isn’t on Android yet, but a petition has been started.
Medical iPhone App “Recommended Reading” for Georgetown University Medical School
The adoption of the iPhone in the medical community has steadily been increasing. Point in fact, the Georgetown School of Medicine now requires that medical students obtain and use an iPhone as part of their studies. In an iPhone first, the Georgetown Medical School now recommends that medical students going through their cardiovascular rotation use the iPhone app “The ECG Guide”, an educational tool to help learn and review electrocardiogram interpretation. The ECG Guide has been ranked as a “Core Medical App” by the Georgetown School of Medicine.
At QxMD, we are pleased and honored to have had our software reviewed and selected for use in a formal medical school curriculum. We endeavor to provide the highest quality paid and free mobile medical apps. Since its release in December 2008, ‘The ECG Guide” has consistently ranked as a top paid medical application.
Learn more about The ECG Guide or download it from the iTunes App Store.
AF Guide – The Atrial Fibrillation Reference
Atrial Fibrillation is commonly encountered by nurses, paramedics, students, residents, and physicians (both primary care and specialist). ‘The AF Guide’, compiled and written by Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, amalgamates the complex recommendations surrounding the management of patients with this common arrhythmia and distils them into an easy to use app.
Written by the author of ‘The ECG guide’ and ‘Cardio Calc’, ‘The AF Guide‘ covers the following topics:
✦ Management of acute atrial fibrillation (as encountered in the ER, ICU or hospital ward)
✦ Management of chronic atrial fibrillation with subsections dealing specifically with the strategies of rate control and rhythm control
✦ Using evidence-based strategies to decide when to use anticoagulation vs antiplatelet agents
✦ Balancing risk of stroke vs risk of bleeding in language that is easy to comprehend for health care professionals and patients alike
Key features include:
✔ Estimate stroke and bleeding risk with a concise, evidence-based recommendation as to whether treatment is most appropriate with antiplatelet agents or anticoagulation.
✔ Explain competing risks of stroke vs bleeding in terms patients and health care professionals can understand. ✔ Warfarin dose calculator – Once the decision is made to start chronic anticoagulation, this tool provides simple dosing recommendations based on INR and current warfarin dose.
✔ E-mail results to your patient
✦ Send your recommendations and rationale for treatment directly to your patient
✦ Send warfarin dosing directly to your patient.
✔ Quick access to drugs and dosing needed when managing patient in the acute setting
QxMD Negotiates Educational Pricing on New BlackBerry Smartphones
QxMD is pleased to announce an agreement with Simplexity, the leading online seller of cell phones and wireless service plans, to provide educational pricing on new BlackBerry® smartphones for its extensive network of medical users.
The Simplexity-powered website will help QxMD users gain access to special educational pricing when they upgrade or buy new BlackBerry devices. Users are expected to save time and money due to accesss to an unmatched selection of wireless plans, cell phones and accessories.
For more information about this program, visit http://www.QxMD.com/EducationalPricing.
About Simplexity
Simplexity is the leading online retailer of cell phones and wireless plans. Simplexity’s technology solutions include merchandising, procurement, customer service, billing, customer relationship marketing, order processing and cell phone activations for the largest carriers in the U.S. They operate private label websites for some of the largest names in retail using unrivaled, proprietary systems. For more information about the company, its products and services, visit the Simplexity corporate website at www.simplexity.com.
Mobihealthnews.com Recognizes QxMD BlackBerry Apps
In a September 8, 2009 post on mobihealthnews.com entitled, “The Real Top BlackBerry Medical Apps”, QxMD applications take up 4 of the top 7 positions.
Recognized Apps include:
Learn more about QxMD apps on the BlackBerry App world.
Pedi-STAT launches on App Store
QxMD announces the launch of Pedi-STAT, designed as a rapid reference for pediatric patients being cared for by healthcare professionals in the emergent or critical care environment.
Pedi-STAT features include:
- Rapid results for airway interventions including endotracheal tube sizes, depth, intubation medication dosages, ventilator settings, and sedation Cardiac resuscitation data including weight specific dosages for resuscitation medications, cardioversion, and defibrillation
- Access to age and weight specific pediatric equipment including foley catheters, airway management, chest and NG tubes, peripheral and central line sizes, and more
- Seizure medication dosages
- Management of hypoglycemia including age specific dextrose concentrations
- Reference of age specific normal vital signs
- Procedural sedation dosages including single dose meds and infusions, as well as reversal agents
- Calculated pain management medications
- Medical management of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis
Users can quickly access critical information accurately, without having to rely on memory or cumbersome textbooks. With just a few taps, users have access to all the necessary data to care for a pediatric patient in the emergent setting, including weight-based and age specific medication dosages and equipment sizes.
Since many of the patients present with minimal known information, all the results can be calculated rapidly with only a known age, date-of-birth, weight, length, or height. Simply enter the known variable and the data is instantly calculated.
Developed by an Emergency Physician, this app minimizes the risk of medical errors allowing the provider to spend more time caring for the patient, and less time looking up and calculating doses. It is a critical companion for any physician, nurse, paramedic, or medical trainee involved in the care of critically ill pediatric patients.
Learn more at QxMD
Press release
Medical Software for Emerging Devices
Looking for medical software on some newer smartphones?
Lexi-Comp announced today that their highly-rated drug information software will soon be available on a host of new devices. Their content has been available for the Palm OS® and Pocket PC platforms for years and they’ve recently expanded to include the iPhone™ and iPod touch®. Soon, Lexi-Comp content will be available for Palm® Pre™, Windows Mobile® 6, and Google™ Android -powered devices.
BlackBerry App World Webstore
Looking for medical applications for the BlackBerry? Frustrated that the App World listings could only be found while using your BlackBerry and not available online. That’s all changed.
The BlackBerry App World listings can now be viewed on their webstore. One can view listings by:
1) Category, for example medical guides: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/category/61
2) Developer, for example QxMD: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/vendor/198
3) Individual App, for example The ECG Guide: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/881
Another nice feature of the webstore is that it allows emailing a link to one’s BlackBerry device to facilitate downloading the app of interest.
Happy exploring.
BlackBerry App World Creates “Medical Guides” Category
After much waiting, the medical community finally has a true “Medical” category in the BlackBerry App World! In the category Health & Wellness, one will find 4 categories:
- Fitness
- Health & Diet
- Healthcare Services
- Medical Guides
“Medical Guides” is where you will find applications from Skyscape, QxMD (The ECG Guide, Cardio Calc, Pregnancy Wheel, GI Calc, Heme Calc, ICD9 Coder, Neph Calc), Unbound Medicine (5 Minute Clinical Consult, Davis’s Drug Guide), Lexi-Complete, and more.
The number of medical apps pales in comparison to that found in the medical category for the iPhone. Let’s hope that changes…
Applyzer Analyzes App Performance Geographically
In follow-up to our last post on how we analyze performance of our paid and free medical applications, we’d like to share Applyzer.com with you. While the site design and interface may not be as clean as we’d like, the actual functionality is quite good.
We paid our 0.75 Euros and started analyzing performance of The ECG Guide for iPhone. Of particular interest is the screenshot (edited for layout) below:
Applyzer Allows Geographic Analysis
What this nicely shows is that App performance varies across the myriad of app stores from around the world. Most users only can access their own App store and probably aren’t aware that App ranking varies considerably, country to country. (Read this post if you manually want to look at different app stores from iTunes.) You can see in this limited screen shot that The ECG Guide is the number 2 App in El Salvador and Taiwan, number 3 in the USA, number 4 in Canada and going down the page, number 8 in Hong Kong. The screenshot above is truncated, but if you followed it further down, one would see that our rank falls to the 20- 30 range, especially in countries with limited use of English.
