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But what if you’re a medical professional or student (or concerned parent) and you’d like to have a few great resources in the palm of your hand? Well Brett over at MedPageToday has compiled a list of the top 5 medical apps for Android: 1. Epocrates Quickly and easily access reliable drug information with Epocrates Rx beta! It provides multiple clinical tools in one easy-to-use application. Join more than 950,000 healthcare professionals who rely on Epocrates’ innovative clinical products to make more confident decisions at the point of care. SD card is required. 2. Skyscape Skyscape Medical Resources is a collection of Medical Information & Decision Support resources for Healthcare Professionals like Physicians, Nurses, PAs, NPs Medical Students, Nursing Students and more. When you install the App, it will download your FREE resources which include RxDrugs, OCM & Archimedes. Brett had this to say about Skyscape “Many Android users will download Skyscape simply to get the Archimedes, a highly useful collection of hundreds of commonly used medical calculators.  Skyscape, however, does have other medical resources for health care professionals and students.  For Android users with OS v1.5 or lower who cannot run Epocrates, one of Skyscape’s main features, “Rx Drugs,” is a fine substitute.  Outlines in Clinical Medicine (OCM) comes with the free version, and is particularly useful for students learning a new topic in medicine (e.g. pediatric vaccination schedules).  Users, however, will find many of Skyscape’s more robust features unavailable in the free-edition.” 3. PubMed Mobile With PubMed Mobile you can search the PubMed database that contains over 19 million citations for biomedical articles and life science journals. Features include: PubMed Mobile also allows you to select and read abstracts, save searches and articles, and send articles to the printer, email, or social networking websites. 4. CPR – Choking Brett had this to say about CPR-Choking “A wonderfully simple video-based app for learning basic life support skills on the fly.  The depth of information may not be sufficient to learn every caveat of BLS – and it certainly does not touch on ACLS, but for a quick refresher or first-time learner this app is a great starting point.” 5. First Aid Brett’s article cheated a bit and had a security app as #5, saying that security is important in the medical field. While I don’t refute that at all, I’d like to keep this a exclusively medical-related so I did a little searching Read More

Posted by Comments For those who think Google’s Android mobile operating system is a hobby and not capable of taking on business enterprises should think again. We compiled some interesting statistics in the short 18 months since Android’s debut will peak interest of any business or investor pounding about the success of the platform. Businesses and IT departments are experiencing employees opting for Android phones as corporate communications tools over Blackberries as they offer powerful apps and ever increasing hardware specs. With the help of Sprint and their much capable HTC EVO 4G, we’ll recommend 7 Android Apps for Business Enterprise: 1. – Mobile workforce management solution with mobile timesheet functionality that automates the entire timesheet / payroll process by integrating to payroll systems, such as ADP. 2. Citrix Receiver™ – Extend access to a customer’s Citrix hosted environment to mobile users; provides a platform that enables mobility for enterprise software. HTC EVO 4G has been verified as Citrix Ready®, a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix, providing confidence in joint solution capability. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. 3. – Extends Intuit’s payment services by enabling anyone selling products or services outside the office to process credit card payments on a mobile phone without requiring additional hardware. 4. Real Estate by Smarter Agent – Gives consumers instant access to homes for sale, recently sold homes and rentals. Real estate professionals can get a personalized application to help their clients. 5. Epocrates® application provides quick and easy access to reliable drug information for healthcare professionals at the point of care. 6. SkyMobile for SAP by Sky Technologies – Provides access to SAP CRM, so sales and service personnel can stay connected and access their customer data. 7. MobilePower from ZSL – Provides a smart client that gives full access to MS Dynamics CRM and ERP. Is your enterprise ready for Android? Updating... You must be logged in to post a comment. Read More

Sometime this summer a wiseacre commenter (we get a few) suggested we do a "Five Apps" for a variety of somewhat offbeat topics. One wasn't so far-fetched however: gastroenterologist. One could say that a gastro doc has about the same needs as any doctor, of course, and that's an easy out. So here are 5 apps that are great for gastroenterologists and possibly any medical specialist... Coming soon: 5 apps for the lemur owner. Epocrates Rx - This free app looks up drugs and is updated weekly. Epocrates [iTunes link] has already been available for other mobile platforms for a while, this is a must-have for physicians, I would think. There's also a Pro version that is designed for medical professionals, and it requires a yearly subscription fee to work. It's $99 for one year, which is pretty reasonable for what this does -- which includes an amazing pill ID tool. DocWrite - Another free app with a service you subscribe to, but this may appeal to more than doctors. DocWrite [iTunes link] is a transcription service that sends your ramblings securely and sends you back a complete transcription in PDF or Word. DocWrite has a web-based dashboard for your stuff, too, so you'll never be without those documents in text or audio. PubSearch - PubMed is a massive database of medical research papers and PubSearch (free version) [iTunes link] is an iPhone app that'll search them. Yes, of course you need a subscription to the database (noticing a trend here?). PubSearch also has a Mac desktop app, although there does not seem to be any coordination between the two. I'd imagine something like sharing bookmarks would be helpful. PubSearch Plus [iTunes link] costs $1.99 and is really the more functional version as it will show full articles and use EZProxy (where supported). Medcalc - A free medical calculator? Yep, Medcalc [iTunes link] includes a ton of formulas for doctors, plus a few indices and charts and whatnot to keep a handy reference for those who need it. This app seems to cover a lot of ground, although I'm not sure how much applies to the field of gastroenterology. Mobile MIM for iPhone and iPod touch - Sadly, this has yet to be released. But I'm guessing it'll be at the top of many doctors' wish lists. MIMvista makes real-deal medical imaging stuff and the MIM app for iPhone was demonstrated Read More