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Mobile Apps for Health Professionals

General Medicine Resources

CDC

The official CDC Mobile application for your tablet and/or smartphone and access the most up to date health information. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

Diagnosaurus

With Diagnosaurus you can quickly search over 1,000 diagnoses by organ system, symptom, or disease, or you can view all entries. Dignosaurus is also available through the library subscribed AccessMedicine app. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play

Eponyms (for students)

Eponyms brings a short description of about 1800 common and obscure medical eponyms. Download the app from iTunes.

Figure 1

Figure 1 is an image sharing medical app. Photos are categorized by anatomy and specialty. A discussion section focusing on presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of illness is included. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

iAnatomy

A portable anatomy atlas of the face, neck, chest, abdomen, and pelvis featuring images, CT scans of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. Download the app from iTunes.

Med Mnemonics

Medical Mnemonics puts 1796 clever acronyms, rhymes, and memory tricks on your iPhone or iPod Touch, covering topics ranging from Anatomy and Biochemistry to Pharmacology and Surgery. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play. $ Fee is required.

OT Kinesiology Pro Consult OR Musculoskeletal Pro Consult

Created by Augusta University the app is a resource to learn how to correctly and accurately measure joint range of motion. See the movement being measured in clinic, highlighting goniometer placement and the prime muscles involved in an animated 3D skeleton.  Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

Orkov

All the options of PubMed's web pages are wrapped into a powerful iPhone app that is easy to use and navigate. Search journals and review abstracts. Bookmark, download and save PDFs of Full Text articles whenever available and email the abstracts, search results, full text and downloaded PDF articles with notes. Download this app from iTunes.

PubMED for Handhelds

Mobile site features multiple ways to search PubMed/MEDLINE: PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome); askMEDLINE, a free-text, natural language search; and Consensus Abstracts. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

Tox-App

Tox-App lets users search for industrial facilities that most recently reported releasing certain chemicals into the environment to the US EPA TRI program. Download the app from iTunes.

Upper Respiratory Virtual Lab

Created by Augusta University, the Upper Respiratory Virtual Lab forms a unique transition between book-learning and real-world experience by allowing users to study the anatomy in a 3-dimensional space. Tappable targets provide access to clinical information, photographs, and medical illustrations. Download the app from iTunes

​UpToDate App

UpToDate is the leading clinical decision support resource with evidence-based clinical information - including drug topics and recommendations that clinicians rely on the point of care available for tablet or phone. https://www.uptodate.com/home/uptodate-mobile-access 

 

Medical News

Augusta University Health Jagwire News and Events

News and information from Augusta University Health includes Health System events and updates from the CEO and health system leaders. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play

Medscape (Free Mobile App)

Medscape is the leading online global destination for physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide, offering the latest medical news and expert perspectives; point-of-care drug and disease information; and relevant professional education and CME/CE. There is a premium version of the online resource and corresponding app, but the University Libraries does not subscribe to this resource. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

 

Emergency Medicine Apps

Gout Diagnosis

A primary care and rheumatologist team of Dutch researchers led by Hein Janssens derived and published a clinical decision rule in 2010. This app brings that decision rule to primary care physicians, rheumatologists, and acute care (ER/urgent-care) clinicians everywhere. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

OrthoFlow

Helps with fracture management, but helps understand the key things orthopedic surgery is looking for when they see a fracture. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

ACEP Toxicology

This app walks you through how to exactly dose antidotes. The best way to use the app is to search for the actual ingestion – e.g. “Tylenol” or “tricyclic” – and then it delivers the antidote to you. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

SALT Triage

Created by Augusta University the SALT Triage app is designed to assist an emergency provider in performing triage and keeping count of victims from a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI). The app allows the creation of a disaster event, provides information on critical actions and initial steps to perform triage and life saving interventions. The app will keep track of the number of victims on scene and the number that have been transported in each triage category.   Download the app from iTunes

Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER)

Wireless System for Emergency Responders, a downloadable application to assist emergency responders in hazardous materials incidents. Download the app from iTunes or Google Play.

Mobile Friendly: web based

TOXNET Mobile

The Harriet Lane Handbook, 20th ed. 2015