Intro to Medical Apps on the
iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, and
Android
Nancy Clark, M.Ed.
Director of Medical Informatics Education
Mark Strickland
Clerkship Director, Medical Informatics Education
Tallahassee Regional Campus FSU COM
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Goals For Session
Identify medical applications for your
device and select what you want
 Register applications via the FSU Library
 Install registered applications to the
mobile device*
 Established users—renew subscriptions
or switch devices
 Get help if needed
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*Apple iOS and Android devices
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Handouts
Powerpoint
 Checklist for writing down usernames
and password for each resource
 List of recommended free apps
 Evaluation
 Installation instructions for your device
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◦ Registration, renew, switch devices….
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While I am talking…
Run all Updates in the Apps Store
 On Apple iOS devices:
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◦ App Store > Updates … Update All.
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On Androids:
◦ run Google Play Store app.
◦ Menu > My Apps … Update all.
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Once all updates are finished, close all
running programs on your mobile device.
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What do you want to do?
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Start from scratch creating accounts and
loading your device for the first time?
Renew your apps?
Switch apps to a new device?
Load an additional device with your
apps?
Update your current apps?
Instructions are available for each of these.
Get the handout you need.
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For This to Work…
Know your email address
 Know your CoM username and pw
 Know any usernames and passwords you
may have set up at Epocrates/others in the past
 iPhone/iPad users:
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◦ Must have an Apple account
◦ Know your Apple ID username and password
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Android users:
◦ Must have a Google account and know …
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Renewing Issues:
Did you get a new device?
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Will require phone call or online chat
with customer support for:
◦ PEPID: 888-321-7828, ext 206,
◦ uCentral: 610-627-9090, ext 1
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Switched Platforms like from Android to
iPhone, iPod to Android…
◦ Epocrates: My Account, switch platform
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Do you want to add an iPad?
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Two devices are a problem with
◦ PEPID will not allow 2 devices on one
registration (email)
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Not a problem with
◦ Epocrates: allows multiple
 iPhone and iPad = 1 license
◦ uCentral: allows 1 smartphone and 1 tablet
on 1 account
◦ Dynamed: 1 serial # = 5 devices
◦ NMCD: Seems to work on 2 with 1 account
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How This Works – New Registration
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Online: Register for each Product
1. Create account
2. Get username and password
3. “Purchase” product for $0
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On the device:
1. Find product in App Store/GooglePlay
2. Install
3. Sign in and download content over wireless
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In 12 months: renew subscription online
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Wireless Operation vs 3G/4G
Cellular Operation
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Coverage and bandwidth are always an issue
Wi-Fi can be much faster than 3G to install –
wireless is under Settings.
Go to Settings> WiFi, turn on, select FSUMED,
Connect, enter password collegeofmed1
LTE(4G) faster than Wi-Fi. Turn off wireless.
Most Apps run offline
Essential Evidence Plus is PDA formatted web
page and requires wireless/cell connection to
work
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What’s Currently Available
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Browzine (Tablets Only)
Journal e-reader
 Select most FSU
COM Journals to
read
 Look like journals
 Alert you to new
articles
 Allows saving
articles
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Epocrates Essentials
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Epocrates Essentials
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Rx= Drugs
Drug Interactions
Dx=BMJ disease ref
Lab=lab manual
Pill Identifier
ID= Infectious Disease
antibiotics guide
◦ Tables,
◦ MedMath calculators
◦ Tools (BMI, MedSpanish..)
Has a separate iPad verson
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PEPID Demo
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CRC Suite
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DDX generator
Disease
Drugs - interactions
Labs
Calculators
Clinical Rotations
Images
Medical Dictionary
◦ Stedman’s
Has a separate iPad verson
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Dynamed Demo
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Has a separate iPad version
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Skyscape Medical
Tools optional, free
Huge/in-depth
Evidenced-basedmost current
Disease reference
Reviews of latest lit
on each topic
Organized by type of
question
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uCentral
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5-Minute Clinical Consult
Clinical Evidence
Diagnosaurus
Harriet Lane
Harrison’s Manual of Medicine
Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide
Johns Hopkins HIV Guide
Washington Manual of Medical
Therapeutics
Medline search linked to CoM
Journals
Has a separate iPad version
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Natural Medicine Comprehensive
Database
Alternative and
complementary
resource
 Interactions with Rx
drugs and Alt meds
 Effectiveness of alt
therapy/meds by Dx
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The Medical Letter
Read Journal Issues in
PDF
 Search old articles by
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◦ Drug, Condition or
Treatment Guidelines
Better for tablet than
smartphone
 Address: CoM Address
 Username: CoM email
 Password: Letters and
numbers (PEPID rules)
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Pediatric Care Online
Antibiotics Guide
 Interactive
Periodicity table (well
child visits –
developmental
milestones)
 Disease reference
 Redbook online only
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Also has mobile
formatted web site
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Has a separate iPad version
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Mobile Formatted Websites
Use wireless or cell signal to access
 Put a shortcut thru EZProxy on home
screen, looks and works like an app
 Library Resources with Mobile Formatted
sites:
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ACP Smart Medicine (formerly ACP PIER)
Access Medicine
Essential Evidence Plus
Pediatric Care Online (Redbook)
Pubmed
Instructions on Handout
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Mobile Formatted Medical Sites
CDC.gov
 MerckMedicus.com
 ePrognosis.ucsf.edu (estimates prognosis
for elders)
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Essential Evidence Plus
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EBM Resources
Cochrane Abstracts
InfoPOEMs
Decision Support Tools
(Calculators)
Guidelines
E&M Coding Tool
Derm Expert
PDA formatted web site
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ACP Smart Medicine
EBM Resource
 Excellent summaries
of evidence
 Useful Tables of
recommendations
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Let Resources Update
Apps icon shows a
number
 Tap Apps Store
 Updates
 Update all
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Manual Updates – look for…
Some update when opened
 Update button
 Tools > Updates in Program
 Button that looks like
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 + in top right corner
 Under Settings?
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Selecting Other Mobile Apps
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Suggested Free or Cheap Apps
CDC Vaccination Schedule
 AHRQ ePSS - USPSTF health
maintenance recommendations
 Medscape – drugs, disease, calculators,
procedures reference
 See handout for suggestions
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Additional Medical Mobile Apps
Medical reference
 Patient Education
 Health and fitness
 Personal health record
 Medical social media
 Monitor and manage illness
 If the patient has a smartphone or tablet,
prescribe apps
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What apps are you using for your own
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health orSummer/Fall
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Assessing Quality and Usefulness
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iTunes does not discriminate medical apps into
categories
Hundreds of apps for patients vs healthcare
professionals - Search ‘diabetes’ get 600 apps
Check Dx organizations for reviewed apps
FDA approving apps for Dx
New effort to curate med apps like HON code,
http://www.happtique.com/ proving to be
difficult
New www.medicalappjournal.com reviews
Peck, Andrea. A solution to app overload. Medical Economics. Dec 25, 2011.
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FDA Approvals
Lippman, H. How apps are changing family medicine. J of Fam Prac. July 2013,
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Keeping up with Medical Apps
iMedicalApps.com
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As Mobile Apps Mature
Learn from your patients
 Learn from peers and students
 Ask what apps they find helpful
 Include mobile apps recommendations
into CME sessions on disease topics
 Watch for more efforts to curate medical
apps
 Handout: List of recommended free or
cheap
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What Apps do you Want from us?
Epocrates Essentials
 DynaMed from Skyscape
 PEPID
 uCentral
 Others as applicable to your practice
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Links to Registration Sites
Log into EZProxy first, if off campus.
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Off Campus Access
IP authentication
 Proxy server – EZProxy
 FSU CoM ID and password
 Use links on library page
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EZProxy
firstname.lastname
$fsumed$xxxx
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Mobile Resources Page
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Adding Applications - Overview
1. From the Library Web Page:
Go to Resource Site
2. Register for product
Does not need to be
CoM username and
password
Please pick the correct device!!!
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Adding Applications – iPhone/iPod/iPad
1. On iPhone/iPod/iPad: Open
the Apps Store
2. Search for App
3. Tap Free
4. Tap Install (need your
iTunes username and
password)
5. Run program, and enter
your username and
password for that
application. May need a
serial number.
6. Download content.
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Android Devices
Registration same as iPhone
 Download from Google Play
on the phone
 Run the program
 Input username and
password or serial number
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Full Installation Instructions
Handout for your device
 Each individual program registration and
installation instructions
 READ and follow these step by step
Instructions
 Every registration process different at
each product site
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Using Instructions, Install Software
Write down all serial numbers, userIDs
and passwords you create on sheet provided
 Save passwords electronically as well:
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◦ Suggestions –in Outlook contacts, notes, something
that gets backed up
Raise your hand if you have a problem
 When you finish installing and have no issues,
you are finished
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2014 Schedule xxx Campus
April 17 - Intro to the Medical Library
 June 12 – Finding and Accessing Full Text
Journal Articles
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Install Software
Read the Instructions Handout
Raise Hand for help
We will circulate
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