Today we look at 10 apps that will make your iPad adhere to your medical needs for free. Starting from giving you an eye exam to helping you remember your periodic doses of medicine and much more.
Vision Test is an iOS 4.0 or later compatible app that is sized at 7.7 MB. This app supports English and French languages and features Visual Acuity Test, Astigmatism Test, Duochrome Test, Colour Test, Far field vision test, Optician Finder, Eye Quiz and Eye Advice and facts. With this you can give yourself an eye exam when ever you want and save yourself the time and money spent on eye clinic visits.
Skyscape Medical Resources By Skyscape
Skyscape Medical Resources is an iOS 3.0 or later compatible app that is sized at 7.7 MB. This app comes with a valuable package of medical resources, including drug information, medical calculators and clinical information on over 850 topics. This app contains for free Comprehensive information on thousands of brands and generics, with interactions (including multi-drug analyzer tool), pill images and over 400 integrated dosing calculators. It also outlines in Clinical Medicine: Evidence-based clinical information on hundreds of diseases and symptom-related topics, presented in convenient outline format and In-context and specialty-focused journal summaries, trial results, breaking clinical news, drug alerts and other information.
Medscape is an iOS 3.0 or later compatible app that is sized at 4.9 MB. This app includes Fast & Comprehensive Drug Reference, Powerful Drug Interaction Checker, Disease & Condition Reference and Treatment Guide, Procedures Reference, Tables & Protocols Reference, Daily Medical News & Alerts, Continuing Medical Education (CME/CE) activities, Physician, Pharmacy, and Hospital Directories. This is a full app that comes for free which gives you offline access to the clinical reference so that you do not require an internet connection all the time.
Dosecast By Montuno Software, LLC
Dosecast is an iOS 3.0 or later compatible app that is sized at 5.8 MB. This app features reliable push notifications, flexible scheduling, customizable dose amounts and instructions. You can also postpone your reminders or use smart silencing it silence your reminders. This application is private and secure as it does not take any of your personally identifiable information and keeps all your drug information encrypted. It can keep record of multiple drug types and can track you drug quantities and give your refill alerts. This app requires a 3G or Wi-Fi connection to send you notifications.
Calculate (Medical Calculator) by QxMD By QxMD Medical Software
Calculate is an iOS 3.0 or later compatible app that is sized at 5.7 MB. This app has been developed by a collaboration of clinician experts from diverse backgrounds, Point-of-care tools in the areas of cardiology, internal medicine, nephrology, general practice, hematology, gastroenterology, emergency medicine, oncology, orthopedics, respirology, neurology, neurosurgery, general surgery and obstetrics. It converts recent research publications into practical handheld tools and automatically adapts to your self-described clinical practice. Its unique ‘Question Flow’ technology gets you answers, fast and you get detailed references with Pubmed integration, comprehensive and insightful results. Its elegant design and intuitive interface makes its use very easy.
Medical Wizards Library By Medical Wizards Corporation
Medical Wizards Library is an iOS 3.0 or later compatible app that is sized at 2.2 MB. This app download is free and it gives you access to @Hand: Chief Complaints in Pediatrics for 90 days. This app will give you access to popular software titles that are available for you to purchase. These titles offer essential drug reference, symptom, diagnostic, laboratory, and advanced calculator tools to help improve your decision-making and patient care.
MedPage Today Mobile By MedPage Today
MedPage Today Mobile is an iOS 3.0 or later compatible app that is sized at 3.4 MB. This app lets you access 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. It has been written for physicians and other healthcare professionals. With this app you get, breaking medical news, audio reports, video reports and free CME/CE posttests.
inteleGRID is an iOS 3.2 or later compatible app that is sized at 0.6 MB. This app allows you to utilize the inteleGRID by Intelemage to share, receive, and view DICOM medical images. The images that you have access to can be viewed using the basic viewer (Pan, Zoom, Series Selection, Scrolling, Window/Level is supported). You can also mark studies as favorites to keep and view offline whenever you want.
BMJ (British Medical Journal) By BMJ Group
BMJ is an iOS 3.2 or later compatible app that is sized at 16.1MB. With this app you get to access the weekly BMJ print journal selection of research, comment, and education (with added interactivity). You also get live feeds of the latest news, blogs, podcasts, and videos to appear on bmj.com. The app has easy to read one page summaries of research papers, relevant editorials written by experts, video channel and search of all iPad journal content. However, the free version of the app only gives you a free sample copy of BMJ iPad version. To use the app and get weekly BMJ you need to subscribe which will cost you $16.99 which gives you access to current and 3 subsequent issues.
This is an iOS 3.0 or later compatible app that is sized at 5.7 MB. It contains free previews of medical animations and a description of its topic. To access the full animation you have to make an in app purchase for $4.99. The app includes previews of animations and descriptions from the first Animated Atlas of Human Anatomy and Physiology. The animated anatomy and clear narration makes health information easily understandable or more accessible. The topics include Skeletal and Muscular System, Nervous System, Circulatory System, Respiratory System, Digestive and Excretory System and Reproductive System.
