Leerhuis bibliotheek daily apps

De Leerhuis bibliotheek geeft vanaf morgen een digitale krant uit met medische apps. Het programma heet paper.li en is via twitter dagelijks te volgen. Je kunt je ook inschrijven en ontvangt dan dagelijks een mail met daar in een verwijzing naar de Leerhuis bibliotheek daily apps.

Key iPhone medical apps released last week v13

The following is our weekly list of notable iPhone medical apps released during the past week–week 13. For each app, I have added some comments and alternative apps you might consider.

The key thing to note is that these are not all of the medical apps released in the past week. Rather, these are the medical apps that stood out to me as having potential use for medical professionals. There are some great medical apps here and many are free.

Week 13 was a disappointing one for new medical app releases. If you look at our prior lists, Week 11 and Week 12 , you will see a plethora of interesting medical apps that were released. Only two notable ones for week 13 though. They are the following:
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NEJM Image Challenge

De NEJM Image Challenge daagt uw diagnostische en visuele kennis uit met vragen over medische afbeeldingen.

Functies
•elke week 300 afbeeldingen gekozen uit Clinical Medicine
•multiple-choice vragen
•zoomfunctie
•krijg feedback na antwoorden
Kosten : betaald
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Key iPhone medical apps released last week, v12

The following is our weekly list of the notable iPhone medical apps released during the past week, week 12. For each app I have added some comments and alternative apps you might consider.

The key thing to note is these are not all of the medical apps released in the past week. Rather, these are the medical apps that stood out to me as having potential use for medical professionals. There are some great medical apps here and many are free.

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3D4Medical launch unique 3D essential anatomy app [exclusive demo]

Here at iMedicalApps, we are big fans of any tools that make our lives as physicians and medical students easier.
The introduction of the iPad and the subsequent development of novel three-dimensional anatomy apps has no doubt improved the anatomy education of medical students and clinicians alike.
One of the major developers in this area is 3D4Medical.
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All drawMD patient education apps go free to celebrate drawMD 3.0

iMedicalApps has recently done a number of articles on drawMD as they build up to their big 3.0 launch.

To celebrate the launch of their new software, drawMD have made all their existing apps free so be sure to check them out in the App Store now.
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Apple launches dedicated ‘Apps for Healthcare Professionals’ collection

One of the updates to the Apple App Store recently is the inclusion of a specific collection entitled, “Apps for healthcare professionals”.
This collection can be found within the ‘Medical Category’.
It is a useful starting point for physicians with new mobile devices looking for relevant apps.
The collection is further subdivided into: Reference Apps, Medical Education Apps, EMR & Patient Monitoring Apps, Nursing Apps, Imaging Apps, Patient Education Apps and Personal Care Apps.
Apple are to be commended for their efforts to categorise the apps within the medical category, which will no doubt help improve future app discovery.
However, the introduction of this collection also brings one or two questions that need answering.
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Health Design Challenge winners provide innovative approach to medical records

Even for healthcare providers, interpreting medical records can be tough – they are dense, detailed, poorly organized, and perhaps even illegible. For patients, interpretation of these records would be a lost cause. To tackle this problem, Nightingale, winner of the Health Design Challenge, aims to tackle this problem and created an attractive, simplified, and integrated visual interface for electronic medical records.
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In current form, iBooks will not be readily adopted in Medicine

Medical Education is undergoing a revolutionary change as we challenge the dogma of traditional teaching and try to innovate to improve both the learner experience and clinical outcomes for patients.

Some have declared that textbooks are dead and point to online media as the future of medical education.

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Royal College of Physicians launches stroke guidelines iPhone app

Here at iMedicalApps we are big fans of all medical apps that make doctors lives easier by bringing key information to the point of care.
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in the UK have recently released a new app which covers the latest national guidelines on stroke management.
This comprehensive resource covers guidance on the stroke care pathway from acute care and management and onward to more long term treatment solutions.
Stroke is the most common neurological disease and one of the leading causes of death in the developed world. Therefore, it is essential for all clinicians–regardless of specialty–to have a thorough understanding of the disease process, diagnosis, treatment and management.
The RCP have recently released their national guidelines on stroke in the form of two apps. One app is free and designed for patients and the other is very cheap and designed for clinicians.
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Hands on with the Inkling app for iPhone

For those that don’t know, Inkling is a company who is creates highly interactive medical textbooks (among others).

iMedicalApps has extensively covered Inkling before as we believe that the interactive features offered will enhance learning and engagement.
Initially Inkling only offered textbooks for the iPad, however with the launch of Inkling for Web, all of their content became accessible on any type of web enabled device including home PC, Android and iPhone.
What really excited us here at iMedicalApps, though, was the launch of a native iPhone app. This review will focus on Inkling for iPhone to see if it can really offer the same experience as that on the iPad version.
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drawMD is redefining patient education apps

One of the more popular uses for mobile devices in clinical settings is as a patient education tool.
We have reviewed a significant number of patient education apps in this ever increasing specialty.

One of our favourite developers is drawMD who are the focus of this review. This review will cover who drawMD are, their apps and also what makes their approach so special.
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How medical professionals can use Skitch app with Evernote for personal notes and presentations

Purpose of App Review

To review how Skitch can be used as an image annotation tool for medical professionals.

Introduction
We’ve already written about how Evernote is a great app for organization, efficiency, and productivity.

This “most essential” app is not inherently medical, but is tremendously useful for medical professionals by creating an organized, searchable place to put all our thoughts and notes. Evernote takes advantage of mobile camera phones, encouraging users to take photos of their notes to index them, then automatically makes any text in the photo searchable.

Skitch is a photo annotation tool created by the Evernote developers and meant to be used in conjunction with the original app. As an enthusiastic Evernote user, I was curious to see what Skitch could add, so I tried it out on my iPhone and iPad. The app is also available for Android, Windows, and Mac.
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How to use Apple’s Keynote app for medical presentations

Purpose of App Review

*To evaluate how well the Keynote app for iPad and iPhone can be used by health professionals to create and present digital slide shows.

*To evaluate how well the Keynote Remote app allows presenters to direct a slide presentation using an iPhone as a remote.

*To give a video demonstration of how Keynote works on the iPad and to show specific ways that health professionals can use it.
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Test your diagnostic skills with the NEJM Image Challenge app

Purpose of App Review
Medical providers often live for the challenge of a difficult diagnosis. Combine that with high quality photos of rare and not-so-rare diseases and you have the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Image Challenge App.

The NEJM Image Challenge App–most recently updated in December 2010 and available on the iPad and iPhone–is provided by the NEJM publishers.

The app randomly selects various dermatologic, radiologic and other pictures from the weekly published NEJM. The image is accompanied in the app with a multiple choice question, usually asking for diagnosis or presenting symptoms.
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Why you should avoid iBooks for your medical ebooks

Recently, my younger brother, who is a 3rd year medical student, purchased a medical review book through iBooks. He spent more than $50 on the book, and was using the highlighting feature and other annotation feature available in iBooks.

Then he asked me how he could access the book he purchased on his computer so he could have it open while he was in a lecture in class. I told him he was out of luck. By purchasing a book through iBooks, you lock yourself into Apple’s ecosystem, which is a walled garden.

The Kindle app by Amazon has a feature set that rivals iBooks, and most importantly, it’s device agnostic. This is crucial because the books you purchase through Amazon can be accessed on Android, iPhone and Kindle devices.

The most important part of this is you can view ebooks purchased through Kindle on your Mac — by downloading their app in the Mac App Store. Medical textbooks are usually not “casual reads”, and as mentioned above, having the ability to read the book on your desktop or laptop can be crucial.

Further, Amazon’s ebook section is vastly more populated with medical ebooks than Apple’s.

So if you’re going to purchase a medical ebook on iOS or Android — go through the Kindle app — it gives you significantly more flexibility and less buyers remorse.
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Nieuwe Epocrates app

Een nieuwe iPad app met een vernieuwde gebruikersinterface. Een aantal van de nieuwe functies maken gebruik van tabs voor het opzoeken van drugs, en een reskinned pil identifier.
De belangrijkste concurrenten voor Epocrates met betrekking tot drugs monografieën zijn Skyscape, Micromedex, en Medscape. Alleen Medscape komt dicht bij matching mooie iPad Epocrate's UI.
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Nieuw gratis iBook toont kracht van iPad als een medisch opleidingsleerplatform

Het doel van dit iBook is om studenten te helpen leren en de structuur en functie van de plexus brachialis te begrijpen door het begeleiden van de lezer door middel van vier belangrijke gebieden. Er is uitgebreid gebruik van interactieve content in de app in de vorm van video's, vraag sessies in aanvulling op de mogelijkheden die de iBooks app biedt. Dit omvat de mogelijkheid om passages te markeren, notities te maken of het genereren van studie-kaarten op basis van materiaal in de iBook.
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PDF's maken vanuit UpToDate op de iPad

Er bestaan verschillende mogelijkheden om informatie vanuit UpToDate op te slaan. Zo kun je informatie mailen, een screenshot maken, URL kopëren, delen met je pc (MAC) of het bewaren als PDF in Dropbox of Evernote.
Gebruik voor dit laatste de Readdle PDF converter ($6.99).
Het voordeel van deze converter is dat het webpagina's gemakkelijk om zet naar PDF's, het offline te raadplegen is op de iPad, te gebruiken is met al de apps die PDF's accepteren (Dropbox, Evernote) en je kunt van heel veel documenten PDF's maken.
Nadeel is dat deze PDF converter alleen te gebruiken is op de iPad en niet op de iPhone. iMedicalApps

Nieuw Medline app

Grapherence™ is een visuele zoekfunctie in Medline. Het geeft grafisch de relatie aan tussen tijdschriftartikelen Als je de Grapherence button aanklikt binnen een citatie dan geeft het aan waar het artikel aan is gerelateerd. Bij gebruik van deze visualisatiefunctie ontdekt de gebruiker snel moeilijk te vinden verbanden tussen relevante artikelen. Bron: iMedicalApps