Mobile MerckMedicus for the iPhone

Mobile MerckMedicus, which gives you 24/7 access to clinical resources, helpful tools, and medical content wherever you go, is now available for download at the Apple iTunes Store.

MerckMedicus is an advertising-free medical portal designed specifically for U.S. healthcare providers. MerckMedicus provides breaking medical news, a wide variety of scientific learning resources, and cutting-edge diagnostic tools, all with no access fees. Merck launched MerckMedicus in 2001 as part of its century-long commitment to providing unbiased health information as a public service to consumers and health care professionals, which began with the publication of the first Merck Manual in 1899.

Registered users can simply download the application to their iPhone® or iPod touch® and log in with their username and password for MerckMedicus™. For more information on the application or to see a full list of devices compatible with MerckMedicus, click here.

PLEASE NOTE: This application is for U.S. healthcare professionals who are registered users of MerckMedicus. Please visit www.merckmedicus.com to create a username and password, which are required to download content to this application.

Mobile MerckMedicus for iPhone

Did you know that Mobile MerckMedicus™ is available on the Apple® iTunes® App Store?

Mobile MerckMedicus, which gives you 24/7 access to clinical resources, helpful tools, and medical content wherever you go, is now available for download at the Apple iTunes Store. Registered users can simply download the application to their iPhone® or iPod touch® and log in with their username and password for MerckMedicus.

Top free medical apps for Android in 2009

This year, we saw Android emerge as a leading smartphone OS. In 2010, we'll see Android begin to dominate the smartphone marketplace (especially among health care professionals such as physicians, medical students, pharmacists, and nurses).

Let me list some of the top free Android medical apps for 2009 and then list my prediction for 2010. Here's the current list for 2009:

• Skyscape Reader: includes RxDrugs, Outlines in Clinical Medicine (OCM), and the Archimedes set of medical calculators.
• QxMD (pregnancy wheel and several different medical calculators)
• QuantiaMD (medical content, CME, medical challenges, and more)
• Mobile MerckMedicus (powered by Unbound Medicine)
• AgileMedCalc (several different medical calculators)

In 2010, you can expect this list to include some additional free resources such as:

• Epocrates
• MobilePDR
• WebMD/Medscape
• Medical encyclopedias
• Medical calculators
• Drug guides
  
• and many more!

So, are you excited about Android? I hope to see many electronic health record (EHR) vendors creating mobile apps for Android. The Apple iPhone continues to gain popularity among medical professionals, but Android will be right up there next to the iPhone in 2010 once we see a larger supply of medical apps for Android. As more medical students and physicians create medical apps for Android, we'll see growing excitement about this OS within the medical community.

Mobile MerckMedicus

Looking for some free medical software for your smartphone? Have you tried Mobile MerckMedicus? It's free and it's easy to use (thanks to Unbound Medicine). It's currently available for the following smartphone operating systems:

• BlackBerry®
• Windows Mobile®
• Palm OS® (v.5 or later)
• Android™

Yes, that's right: Android. That's Google Android. So, if you have an HTC Hero or a Motorola Droid, you're in luck!

Now, what's missing from this list? Where's the Apple iPhone? Where's webOS for the Palm Pre?

What type of content will you get? Here's the current list:

• The Merck Manual, Professional Edition [ 10 MB PDA Memory]
• Harrison's Practice - Answers on Demand [ 16 MB PDA Memory]
• Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, 5/e [ 4 MB PDA Memory]
• MEDLINE Journals, Selected [ 15k PDA Memory]
• Reuters Medical News [ 15 KB PDA Memory]
• RSS News Feeds [ 5 KB PDA Memory]

You can pick and choose your content based on how much storage space you have on your device. I suggest that you use a memory card for all these large medical apps. You may quickly run out of internal RAM if you try to store these large books on your handheld.

To access Mobile MerckMedicus, visit: http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/hcp_mobile_medicus.jsp