Technology is booming in an exponential way and most of the industries are getting countless benefits out of it. The healthcare industry is no exception to this. As about everyone is part of today’s mobile era, these enhancements not only make things easier for the patients but for the doctors as well. Here is a list of a few handful and trending medical mobile applications based on diverse categories such as medical references, clinical decision, medical journal and social media applications.
Medical Reference
#1 Epocrates
Due to being amazingly feature-rich and effective, this mobile app is pretty much popular in community of the doctors. This app is extremely handy for interacting and finding useful drug information. More interestingly, this app would let the user find other referral and consultation providers easily. Another important feature of Epocrates is that it can instantly calculate some patient measurements like BMI. Both iOS and Android version of Epocrates in available. You can get this app for free. However, to get most of the useful features like disease information, alternative medications, lab guides etc. in-app purchase option is there.
#2 UpToDate
Answering the commonly asked clinical questions becomes remarkably easy using this dynamic mobile application UpToDate. It offers the users so quality and in-depth content on diverse medical fields that is very beneficial for the medical experts and physicians. UpToDate is available for both Android and iOS version. You can download this application without spending a single penny but to get access to the wealthy information, the subscription is necessary.
Clinical Decision
#3 MDCalc
This application is extremely beneficial for the practising physicians. MDCalc becomes handy for them as it offers in-depth study materials and details on different medicines. Moreover, one can go through the content submitted by veteran physicians that would help the practising physicians to take decisions. The decision tools provided by MDCalc covers a vast range of diseases along with plenty speciality areas. This worldwide famous mobile application is available for free and is available for both Android and iOS platform.
Medical Journal
#4 Case
Using this application, reading different journals on medical research becomes very efficient. More interestingly, this application would let the users follow almost 100,000 keywords. This feature becomes very useful when you want to search journals based on any particular keyword. Another mentionable feature of Case is it would show you articles and journals based on the type you read in the past. The most exciting part about this application is it is available for free of any kind of cost.
Other than all the above-mentioned apps, social networking apps like Figure 1, Doximity etc. are very popular in the medical field