Essential Medical Apps
App Name
ALL-IN-ONE
Epocrates Rx
PHARMACEUTICAL GUIDE
Monthly Prescribing
Reference (MPR)
Micromedex
GoodRx
ANTIBIOTICS GUIDE
CDC Antibiotic
Guidelines
Bugs + Drugs
The Sanford Guide
Johns Hopkins ABX
Guide
PREVENTION/SCREENING
ePSS AHRQ
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
Diagnosaurus
DDx Pocket
IMMUNIZATIONS
CDC Vaccine Schedule
Shots Immunization 2014
LAB VALUES
3-in-1 Lab Values
Pocket Lab Values
Description
Price
Epocrates offers a free drug reference application—Epocrates Rx—featuring thousands of
drug monographs, drug-drug interaction checker, pill identifier, and health plan formularies.
The premium application, Epocrates Essentials, includes additional features such as
disease information, alternative meds, billing codes, and more.
FREE
($159.99)
Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR) provides concise prescription and OTC drug
information, side effects and interactions for medical professionals. The MPR iPhone
Edition is a compiled database of up-to-date drug monographs from all MPR print
publications (MPR, NPPR, PAPR, Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology, OB/GYN,
Pharmacists, etc.)
Micromedex contains the industry’s most comprehensive drug information and is backed by
the same thorough, unbiased editorial process as Micromedex. Now from anywhere,
clinical care teams can instantly get information to support confident treatment decisions.
An internet connection is not required, allowing for access at anytime from anywhere.
Help patients without insurance to locate the lowest local prices for their prescriptions.
Includes coupons and vouchers for even more savings.
Antibiotic Guidelines features the most recent CDC antibiotic recommendations for
infectious diseases, including the most recent infectious disease updates from Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC Antibiotic Guidelines includes built-in calculators for
calculating creatinine clearance and adjusting renally excreted antibiotics.
This free app is an antimicrobial susceptibility reference that provides geolocated bacterial
resistance data sourced from athenahealth's cloud-based EHR to support your clinical
decision-making at the point of care. The CDC recently reported that every year more than
2 million people in the U.S. contract infections that are resistant to antibiotics and at least
23,000 people die as a result. Epocrates and athenahealth understand the growing
superbug threat and developed Bugs + Drugs to equip clinicians with the information they
need.
The Sanford Guide is the essential resource for healthcare professionals who care for
patients with infectious diseases. The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2013
application provides fast, convenient access to critical information on treatment of infectious
diseases, for timely, effective decisions at the point of care.
Find answers that are easily accessed, promptly applied, and frequently updated.
The official Johns Hopkins ABX (Antibiotic) Guide from the Johns Hopkins Medicine
features up-to-date, authoritative, evidenced-based information on the treatment of
infectious diseases to help you make decisions at the point of care. This comprehensive
resource organizes details into easily accessible, quick-read entries.
The ePSS application was developed to assist primary care clinicians identify the
screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their
patients. The ePSS information is based on the current recommendations of the U.S.
Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and can be searched by specific patient
characteristics, such as age, sex, and selected behavioral risk factors.
Quickly search over 1,000 differential diagnoses by organ system, symptom, disease, or
browse all entries to help you reach an accurate diagnosis. Use the "See Related DDx"
feature within each entry to consider alternative diagnoses and quickly link to those entries.
Bookmark entries in Favorites to retrieve later.
The Differential Diagnosis pocket is a compact reference work that provides the basic
foundation for formulating a thorough list of differential diagnosis.
This is the full updated CDC Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule United States
formatted for your iPhone/iPod Touch. It includes all adult age groups and vaccine schedule
based on medical and other indications. All footnotes are included.
The most comprehensive immunization app. Get quick correct immunization information.
What vaccines would you recommend for a 10 month-old who has had only one dose of
each of the basic vaccines and at what times would you have him return in order to catchup? How about his cousin who babysits? She’s a 19 year-old college freshman with asthma
who thinks she might be pregnant. Or their grandfather, a 62 year-old with diabetes? By the
way, he has renal failure and is on dialysis.
The lab reference app with by far the most features on the app store! Now available for
both iPad and iPhone in a single app! 3 in 1: Lab Values, Abbv, Prefix/Suffix is the premium
resource for all healthcare professionals and students. Inside this one app you’ll find Lab
Reference Values, Medical Abbreviations and Medical Prefix/Suffixes.
Pocket Lab Values is the perfect companion for medical professionals with access to over
320 common and uncommon lab values. Designed for medical staff in training and in
practice, each lab contains important clinical information, critical lab values, differential
diagnoses, tube colors, useful websites, and easy access to related lab values needed for
work in a hospital or primary practice care setting.
FREE
$2.99
FREE
FREE
FREE
$29.99
$29.99
FREE
$1.99
$9.99
FREE
$3.99
$2.99
$2.99
App Name
CALCULATORS
MedCalc (Pro)
Calculate by QxMD
Mediquations
MediMath
BOARD REVIEW QUESTIONS
AFP By Topic
ABFM Exam Prep
Case Files by McGrawHill
PHYSICAL EXAM
Physical Exam
Essentials
iOrtho+
EyeMD
MEDICAL NEWS
MedScape
NEJM This Week
MedPage Today
Read by QxMD
PSYCHIATRY
Mental Illness
Psych Drugs
OB/GYN
Perfect OB Wheel
OB Wheel Pro
Description
MedCalc provides easy access to complicated medical formulas, scores, scales and
classifications. This app features: A very large (more than 300) selection of relevant
formulas, scores, scales and classifications; detailed information and bibliographic
references for each formula; support for US and SI units, with easy switching from the
keypad; custom overlaid controls: no sliding in and out to input values; search for equations
by name or keywords; customizable list of favorite equations.
Clinical calculators & decision support tools for healthcare providers. Free!
From the maker of the apps 'The ECG Guide' and 'Pedi STAT' comes 'Calculate', a nextgeneration medical calculator and decision support tool, freely available to the medical
community.
The most comprehensive medical calculator for smartphones. Mediquations makes getting
the answers you need quick and painless. With 232 formulas and scoring tools and an
intuitive interface, Mediquations is the smart choice for anyone looking for a medical
calculator for the iPhone or an Android device.
MediMath puts 144 of the most important medical calculators and scoring tools on your
iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Its fast, native interface and comprehensive results help you
spend less time crunching numbers and more time caring for patients.
American Family Physician (AFP) Online for over 50 clinical topics available in one place.
This "AFP By Topic" app enables you to browse this content from virtually anywhere using
almost any web-enabled mobile device.
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) mobile application provides family
physicians with useful information to assist with preparation for the ABFM Maintenance of
Certification Exam. This module turns your iPhone into an invaluable tool for keeping you in
touch with what you need to know as you enter your certification or recertification year.
50+ clinical cases, each with USMLE-style questions with clinical pearls that highlight key
concepts. A primer on how to approach clinical problems and think like a doctor; proven
learning system improves your shelf-exam scores. Available for Family Medicine, Ob/Gyn,
Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, and more.
Physical Exam Essentials is your source for a quick overview of the patient physical exam.
This is the ‘must-have’ reference app for anyone studying, practicing or interested in
medicine. Never forget important exam techniques again. This application provides quick,
easy-to-use reviews of procedures and techniques for 14 different categories.
iOrtho+ is a mobile guide for orthopedic information. This App is a comprehensive
reference for orthopedic Special Tests and joint Mobilization Techniques developed from
advanced, evidence-based knowledge and extensive clinical practice.
The EyeMD app is a mobile eye exam tool that contains a Snellen eye chart, a penlight, a
pupil size chart, and detailed eye anatomy pictures. All this in an elegant interface.
Price
FREE
($4.99)
FREE
$4.99
$4.99
FREE
FREE
FREE
($29.99)
$2.99
FREE
FREE
Medscape from WebMD (medscape.com) is a comprehensive medical resource used by
physicians, medical students, nurses and other healthcare professionals for clinical
information.
FREE
The latest medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety
of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice, from the most trusted
name in medicine. This free app allows access to audio, video, images, and articles.
FREE
MedPage Today Mobile puts breaking medical news and CME/CE credits at your fingertips,
with daily coverage of over 30 specialties and annual coverage of over 60 meetings and
symposia. Written for physicians and other healthcare professionals.
FREE
Read by QxMD helps you keep up-to-date with groundbreaking research in your area of
practice. Leverage your existing university affiliation and subscription to get one-touch
access to thousands of premium PDF articles from high-impact journals like the New
England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet right on your iPad, iPhone, Android and webenabled desktop.
FREE
This useful app discusses the most important topics in mental health and is ideal for all
medical professionals, medical residents and interns, nurses, medical students, and of
course curious lay people who just want to learn more about mental illnesses. Topics
include anxiety, ADHD, autism, depression, Bipolar, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, and
more.
With Psych Drugs, you can learn important and useful information about various
psychotropic medications such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and
anti-anxiety medications. Some major classes of psych drugs include: SSRIs, TCAs,
MAOIs, second generation (atypical) antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and meds for
insomnia, anxiety, depression, ADHD, alcohol dependence, opioid dependence and
nicotine addiction, etc.
Simple, fast, yet more thorough than any other pregnancy wheel available for the iPhone,
Perfect OB Wheel is better than just a replacement for your trusty paper wheel.
Multi-function pregnancy calculator. Calculate dates of pregnancy: Last menstrual period
(LMP), estimated date of conception, weeks gestational age (WGA), WGA obtained by
ultrasound, and estimated due date (EDC).
$2.99
FREE
$1.99
$2.85
App Name
Description
PAP Guide
The Pap Guide app pulls together and presents guidance to clinicians on cervical cancer
screening and Pap smears. Organized by female patients' age and/or circumstance, Pap
Guide advises doctors when to start doing Paps, how to incorporate HPV testing, when to
stop, how often to do them, how to manage the results of Paps. It also offers guidance on
how HIV, pregnancy, and hysterectomy may impact screening regimens and results
management. The main source of guidance is the 2012 ASCCP et. al. consensus guideline
supplemented by guidelines from ACOG, the US Dept. Health & Human Services, and
more.
GBS guide organizes and presents the practical and hard-to-remember guidance on
intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis and newborn management in order to prevent invasive
GBS disease of the newborn. It is based upon the guidelines on this topic from the Center
for Disease Control & Prevention from 2010. The app contains 4 algorithms each presented
as a cascade of clinical decisions as well as in pictorial scheme of the entire decision
flowchart. A general discussion of invasive GBS disease of the newborn prevention is also
provided.
The ASCCP has developed a comprehensive, user friendly app for the Updated Consensus
Guidelines for Managing Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests and Cancer
Precursors. Each individual recommendation and the algorithms can be viewed following a
few keystrokes to enter important patient data. The app is simple to use and will come in
very handy when you are on the fly and busy seeing patients.
GBS Guide
ASCCP Mobile
LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
Medical Spanish by
Mavro
MediBabble
ABBREVIATIONS/EPONYMS
ABB Store (Lite)
Eponyms (for students)
MEDICAL DICTIONARIES
Oxford Medical
Dictionary
Dorland’s Medical
Dictionary
Stedman’s Medical
Dictionary
POINT-OF-CARE REFERENCE
Up To Date
Essential Evidence Plus
VisualDx
Cancer.net
Price
FREE
FREE
$9.99
This Medical Spanish app is a tool designed for non-Spanish speaking health care
professionals to quickly ascertain vital medical information.
FREE
MediBabble is a free, professional-grade medical translation tool. MediBabble is a robust
history-taking and examination application designed to improve the safety, efficiency, and
overall quality of care for non-English speaking patients. A timely and accurate history is
the cornerstone of medical diagnosis and treatment; the relative difficulty of obtaining one
with non-English speakers is a significant barrier to care. This app provides a portable,
widely available, real-time communication solution.
FREE
AbbStore is the complete resource for medical abbreviations, acronyms and eponyms. This
app comes preinstalled with over 13,500 medical abbreviations, 1600 Medical Eponyms,
over 600 MRI acronyms and over 300 synonymous MRI vendor terms.
Eponyms brings a short description of more than 1700 common medical eponyms to your
Android device. A perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym. It uses the
beautiful eponym database from Andrew Yee (http://www.eponyms.net/), updates can be
installed right from within Eponyms.
This market-leading illustrated dictionary contains 12,500 authoritative entries on all
aspects of medical science. Written by a team of medical experts, all entries have been
revised and updated for this new edition to reflect the very latest in medical knowledge and
practice. Entries are accessible and jargon-free and are complemented by over 140
illustrations and diagrams.
Dorland's Medical dictionary with 40,000 entries and 350 illustrations. Dorland’s Medical
Dictionary contains approximately 40,000 entries and 350 illustrations and provides
authoritative, concise definitions for a wide range of terms used in the health sciences,
including anatomy, physiology, diseases, drugs, tests and procedures and much more.
Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition, is the most reliable, must-have resource
available for healthcare professionals. Charts and tables enhance definitions, and powerful
navigation and search tools let you find terms quickly and easily. One of the main highlight
of 28th edition is that it provides audio pronunciations for almost 42,000 new and current
terms. Includes more than 100,000 terms, more than 5,000 new to this edition.
Find clinical answers at the point of care or anywhere you need them! Now you can access
UpToDate's current, synthesized clinical information — including evidence-based
recommendations — quickly and easily. Subscription required.
Essential Evidence Plus (EE+) delivers evidence-based clinical decision support to your
fingertips for the point of care, optimized for iPhone and Android devices. The EE+
websites been enhanced to fit mobile screens and is included as part of the online
subscription.
Tap into the world’s best medical image collections and handbook-length clinical text.
Quickly tackle challenging cases by building patient-specific custom differentials. Reassure
and educate your patients using images from world-class academic collections. Access
images and information on drug eruptions. Use Promo Code MEDPAGE34 for 34% off.
Accurate oncologist-approved cancer information from Cancer.Net, with tools to help plan
and manage your cancer treatment and care. From the American Society of Clinical
Oncology (ASCO).
$1.99
(FREE)
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$14.99
$19.99
$51.95
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