TOP MEDICAL APPS

 

 

Keeping up your health can be hard work — America’s rising obesity levels can attest to that. These days, we spend countless hours gawking at our smartphone displays, continually playing borderline-addicting games and watching videos that may actually have adverse affects on our health in the long run. However, your smartphone can also be robust medical accessory with the right intrigue and set of mobile  apps.

 

There’s a variable swath of free and premium medical apps on the market, some of which allow you to better understand pharmaceuticals while others work to diagnose your symptoms and prep you for an unforeseen medical emergency. Below are a few of our current favorites for keeping you in the know. They certainly shouldn’t replace your routine trip to the doctor, but they might just make things a bit easier.

 

 

 

1)Read by QxMD

 We know you’re staying up late to catch up on your medical journal reading. Read is an app for both iOS and Android that centralizes all your medical literature and journals.  Using a magazine format, it allows you to read and download studies, journals, and articles from a host of sources including open access journals, Pubmed, and papers from linked institutions.
With tens of thousands of installs, and plenty of free content, this is a no-brainer for physicians looking to keep current in their specialty.  The app is free, but some journals and Pubmed may require an institutional or individual subscription or credentials.

 

 2) Medscape

This app, by WebMD, is another great medical reference tool offered on iOS and Android. The app is completely free, but does require registration for a free account (which you can do through the app itself) to use it. Once done, you can look up medications and drugs, check the disease reference tool, catch up on medical news, and much more

 

 

3) DrawMD

DrawMD uses the potential of the iPad to the max, or should we now say Mini!  Excellent teaching tool from doctor to paitent, their family, etc.  Covers all systems, for just about all specialties.  Excellent patient education tool, which is perfect for todays enpowered patient.

4)  Mediguard

MediGuard is a free medication monitoring service designed specifically for patients – allowing them to take a more active role in their treatment through:  screen for interdrug reactions compatibility, updates, feedback on side effects, etc.  Patient imput contributes to the all-important “Big Data”

5)  Rateadrug

The users guide to prescription drugs.  A similar idea to “Patients Like Me”, in that it is a fact gathering site from patients, to report any benefit, or harm done by a patient.  It is actually not a medical application, but an information site, to research drugs, and to report side effects, and succeses.

6)  Clarimed

 Clarimed is one of the first healthcare rating websites.  The site presents fact-based evalutations of  medical devices, diseases, procedures and manufacturers. Founded by MIT bioengineer and McKinsey & Co. veteran Nora Iluri, Ph.D., Clarimed is  the first independent rating agency for healthcare, and, specifically, for medical devices,  and is independent of any vested interest of the medical community, or private interests, such as devicde makers, but truly represents the Patient’s voice.

7)  AdverseEvents

Adverse Events, Inc.  is a website,  and  the only provider of up-to-the-minute, critical, potentially life-saving information regarding side effects associated with FDA-approved prescription medications.

8)  Mednar

Mednar  is ” a one-stop federated search engine designed for professional medical researchers. It enables users to quickly access information from a multitude of credible sources, including deep web content not indexed by popular search engines.”
“Mednar offers access to an array of databases that are simply not mined by other health search engines and features a dependable email alert service that enables users to keep up on the latest publications on the medical topics of their choice,” said AltSearchEngines reviewer Hope Leman. “Mednar is the Secretariat and gold medal winner of medical search at this point.”

9)  Diagnosia

Diagnosia.com mainly is a European drug search engine.  It has connected with many European government agencies, and will one of the more important medical applicaations in Europe. This medical application is meant solely for physicians, and is a cool app.

  10) iPharmacy

iPharmacy is a tool for both patients and doctors to identify pills and find the lowest prices for prescriptions. In addition to price comparison, the app includes an electronic discount card for use at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies. Patients can also track their medications to document whether they are following the instructions prescribed by their physicians. Pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens also have their own apps, which allow patients to use their smartphones to scan the bar code on prescriptions to place refill orders. The app is available on iOS and Android.