Saturday, June 16, 2012

Five Free Healthcare Apps for Android

As you're now experiencing, Android is a pool of apps that ranges from simple funny games to what controlling your PC/laptop remotely or streaming a media off your computer and much more. The app development is much more grown over several categories and medical apps in android are gaining popularity over medical students as well as normal people. Here's few free medical/healthcare apps that you'd like to have on your smartphone.


1. Skyscape Medical Resources
This medical resources application is used by millions of professionals in the healthcare field. It includes a deep knowledge base of medical terms, drug information, medical calculators, etc. the free app contains over 800 medical topics but you've an option to buy 600 premium topics often needed by nurses, physicians and HCPs.




2. Medical Abbreviations EN
The name explains it all about the application. Its a big dictionary contains about 25000 medical abbreviations. The developer say's the qualiity of the information is guaranteed by Wikipedia. Anyway this is comparatively a new application and is found good. More importantly, you can browse the information offline which is really cool



3. Epocrates
Ebocrates is a free wider drug information database. This application helps you to find the right drug for the disease avails  thousands of drug monographs, drug-drug interaction checker, pill identifier, and health plan formularies.  This app helps you to find an alternative medicine/tablet that is not currently available.



4. Medscape
This one is a top application and is one of the is the leading medical resource used by physicians, nurses and medical students for clinical information. The application features medical news in different areas and red alerts in medical fields etc. You are allowed to share the medical news and articles on facebook, also you can save it to read offline for future reference.

  • Medical news
  • Drug information
  • Diseases - Symptoms & Procedures
  • Medical calculators scales and formulas.


5. Instant Heart Rate
The four above apps are serious businesses but this one is a bit odd and its helpful as a handy instant heart beat checker. All you have to do to measure your heart rate is index finger on phone’s camera and the screen will calibrate the heart rate within seconds. Please note that this android application needs a phone with flash to for the best accuracy otherwise you need better lighting besides the camera and finger.






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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool article man, thanks. I am a medical student and my favourite application is Medscape! I have an offline version on my phone but having it on my pc would be better. Is this possible? Google hasnt been really useful.
Tim

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