The Krafty Librarian

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Medical Applications on Mobile Devices

Alison Aldrich on the Dragonfly blog published and interesting post on medical applications on mobile devices. She notes a report stating, "54% of U.S. physicians own a PDA or a smartphone, and more than half of them consider the device to be an integral part of their practice.

As these devices become more common, more of our patrons will be using them in the medical lives as well as their personal lives. Alison directs us to a newly recorded presentation by Shikun “KK” Jiang, Medical Applications on Mobile Devices, reviewing several free and fee-based applications for health professionals.

I thought I would add to the list:

I just received an email from McGraw Hill stating that AccessEmergency Medicine is available for mobile devices. Users can go to m.accessem.com to use it. You need to use your MyAccessEM to login even if you are on their institution's wifi.
HeartIT Physicians can simply click on a web link sent via email by one of their colleagues, enter their password, and, for example, instantly view movies of a patient’s beating heart halfway around the world. They can even put their colleagues on speakerphone and carry on a medical consultation while simultaneously browsing through the imaging results.
Pubget allows you to search PubMed and get the PDF right away (if possible), works with institutional subscriptions to get the PDF.
MIMvista provides mobile medical imaging applications and software for radiologists and oncologists.

Libraries interested in providing a list of mobile medical applications should check out LSU Health Science Center New Orleans Ische Library. Their web PDA Resources web page is very extensive listing databases and software available on mobile devices. They also list which devices are compatible with each resource and whether it is free, paid or institutional resource.

There is so much out there, it is always nice to learn about new resources for the smart phone.

Labels: Databases, SmartPhones, Technology

3 Comments:

At 12:08 PM, Amy said...: Hi Krafty!

I just wanted to say that I think it's neat that your post came out at the same time as a post I just did for our library on medical applications for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Feel free to let me know what you think.

http://blog.hsl.ecu.edu/blog/?p=119
At 3:37 PM, Molly K said...: Thanks for the plug Krafty! Have to say, Univ. Connecticut has the most comprehensive list of PDA software out there -- highly recommended!
http://library.uchc.edu/pda/

(Also great to see AccessMedicine going mobile to some degree. Their past attempts at this were rather lame text downloads that required additional reader software.)
At 4:39 PM, Alison said...: Thanks, Krafty! In the interest of full disclosure, I do not actually own any of these nifty mobile devices (KK does, that's why I linked to her presentation) but I am very close to investing in an iPod Touch.

Amy, I'd love to know more about your equipment lending program. Do you have a sense of how people are using the iPod Touches they check out? How are the license restrictions on these apps?