Cyber Monday sales on smartphone medical apps

Here are some Cyber Monday sales on smartphone medical apps:

All Tarascon Mobile Apps are now on sale at iTunes App Store, Android Market and BlackBerry AppWorld. 15% off sale will only last until midnight tonight EST, Monday November 28, 2011.
http://www.tarascon.com/

PEPID is having a sale where you can save over $150 on some of their bundled solutions. Offer expires at 11:59 PST on Monday, November 28th.
http://www.pepid.com/

Lexicomp had a sale last week. Maybe they'll extend it?
http://www.lexi.com/

"Like" Tarascon on Facebook and they will donate to Doctors Without Borders

Tarascon Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of a charitable Facebook campaign to raise money for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

For every person who "likes" the Tarascon Publishing's official Facebook page between Saturday, October 1st through Monday, October 31th, the company will donate $1 to Doctors Without Borders.

The Tarascon Facebook page acts as an extension of the Tarascon website and medicine blog. Updates include new product launches, promotions, monthly eNewsletter highlights, reviews, industry news and more.

Tarascon Publishing's ultimate goal is to raise more than $500 for Doctors Without Borders in the month of October, so get "liking!"

Please visit the Tarascon Publishing Facebook page to participate.

IDdx: Infectious Disease Queries for iPhone

IDdx is a decision support software tool developed by the author of OutbreakID, Dr. Jay Brown. This software is designed to help medical practitioners access information and improve the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The advantage of IDdx mobile software over a book is that it was built for queries. Users can find specific information by using the disease search criteria. The user can see all the symptoms associated with a disease or see all the diseases associated with a symptom.

* Explore the database of 275 diseases in 15 categories.
* Search by Disease Name or Disease Criteria.
* Disease criteria include 99 signs & symptoms, 39 epidemiological factors, and 16 regions of the world.
* Examples of epidemiological factors are ingest (entry), soil (source), ticks (vector), and cats (reservoir).
* Access diseases worldwide or limit the search to those endemic to the United States.
* Drill down to all infections associated with compromised hosts or bioterrorism.
* Filter the database for infections tagged as acute-severe, acute-moderate, or subacute/chronic.

Learn more here.

Tarascon Pharmacopoeia Android App

The Tarascon Pharmacopoeia continues its tradition as the most popular and most trusted portable drug reference and is now available for your Android device!

This must-have resource contains vital drug information on thousands of drugs to help clinicians make better decisions at the point-of-care.

Features Include:
- Convenient + quick portable access on your Android device.
- Expanded drug coverage from the Pocket Pharmacopoeia Deluxe Edition.
- Continuous drug updates
- Fully integrated tool for multiple drug interaction checking
- Invaluable drug reference tables and dynamic calculators
- Extensive pediatric drug dosing

$39.99
Available in the Android Market

Primary Care Pocketbook Mobile Edition

The Tarascon Primary Care Pocketbook, Mobile Edition is packed with essential lists, figures, and tables concisely covering the full spectrum of primary care medicine, providing instant reminders of hard-to-remember yet critically important clinical facts for the primary care physician. While it has been designed for the busy family physician, internist, primary care nurse or other health care provider, it is also the perfect succinct resource for specialists who are periodically required to treat more general practice issues.

Features:

* Available for iPhone®, Blackberry®, Palm®, and Windows Mobile®
* Customize your own application by book marking your most commonly searched terms and disease states.
* Searchable index
* Get quick answers while on the ward or in the clinic

Click here for more information.

Is your smartphone drug database up-to-date?

There are several different drug database software solutions out there for PDAs and smartphones. How often do you update your software? The convenience of having a smartphone is that your device can get updated automatically. My smartphone auto-updates and performs a synchronization every night. So, when I wake up the next morning, I have updated information and even a few news alerts.

So, whether you're using Epocrates, Skyscape, Lexi-Comp, PEPID, Unbound Medicine, Medscape, Tarascon, or any other drug reference software, make sure you're updating your database on a regular basis.

Here's a list of new drugs on the Epocrates drug database:

• AK-Poly-Bac (bacitracin/polymyxin B ophthalmic)
• bacitracin/polymyxin B ophthalmic (generic)
• chlorzoxazone (generic for Parafon Forte DSC)
• citric acid/sodium citrate(generic for Bicitra)
• Exalgo (hydromorphone)
• Hizentra (immune globulin (human))
• lidocaine oronasopharyngeal (generic for Xylocaine oronasopharyngeal)
• lidocaine urethral (generic for Xylocaine urethral)
• losartan (first-time generic for Cozaar)
• losartan/hydrochlorothiazide (first-time generic for Hyzaar)
• Omnipred (prednisolone acetate ophthalmic)
• Oracit (citric acid/sodium citrate)
• Pennsaid (diclofenac topical)
• Pilopine HS (pilocarpine ophthalmic
• Pred-G (gentamicin/prednisolone ophthalmic)
• Qutenza (capsaicin topical)
• Tropicacyl (tropicamide ophthalmic)
• tropicamide ophthalmic (generic for Mydriacyl)
• Wilate (antihemophilic factor/von Willebrand factor complex (human))
• Xylocaine urethral (lidocaine urethral)
• Zyclara (imiquimod topical)

When's the last time you performed a sync?

New medical apps from Tarascon

Tarascon has released 3 new titles recently for the iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad:

1. Stroke Essentials
2. Tarascon Hospital Medicine
3. Hypertension Essentials

The Stroke Essentials App is a concise, authoritative and practical guide to the detection, evaluation, and treatment of stroke including the latest guidelines, common pitfalls, comprehensive film library and clinical management algorithms.

The Tarascon Hospital Medicine App is a quick reference tool providing inpatient clinicians with critical information about the evaluation and management of all common medical disorders found in the hospital setting.

The Hypertension Essentials App is a concise, and practical step-by-step tool to diagnose, evaluate, and treat hypertension including over 50 clinical trials, common management pitfalls and cardiovascular risk reduction measures.

You can find these apps in the Apple App Store. Learn more by visiting: http://www.tarascon.com/

Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook

Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook By USBMIS, Inc. is now available on the iTunes store. So, if you have an iPhone or iPod touch and you're working in the field of emergency medicine, you should take a look at this $19.99 medical app.

All of the vital information from the Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook is now available for the iPhone or iPod Touch! The Tarascon Adult Emergency App is part of the popular Tarascon® Series which is an imprint of Jones & Bartlett Learning.

The Tarascon Adult Emergency App is the ultimate portable reference for the busy emergency physician or internist! Packed with essential lists, figures, & tables, this App provides instant reminders of hard-to-remember yet vitally important clinical information. Convenient searchable reference sections include dysrhythmia protocols, emergency drug infusions, antibiotic therapy, rapid-sequence intubation, toxicology, trauma care, burn care, and much more. Busy physicians now have all the information they need from the Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook at their fingertips!

Click here to view the Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook on the iTunes store.

Discounts at Tarascon and Skyscape

Planning on purchasing some medical apps for your smartphone or PDA? Maybe you need a robust drug reference guide or a medical text book. Perhaps you simply want a quick reference pocket guide that you can store on your smartphone. Well, both Tarascon and Skyscape offer great resources and you can take advantage of their sales right now.

• Tarascon is currently offering a 25% off Coupon: SITEWIDE2 (ends 2/19/2010)
• Skyscape: save 20% on any purchase of $75 or more through February 14, 2010.

http://www.tarascon.com
http://www.skyscape.com

Tarascon Primary Care for the iPhone and iPod Touch

If you're a fan of Tarascon products and you have an Apple iPhone or iPod touch, then you'll be glad to know that Tarascon Primary Care is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Be one of the first to use the new Tarascon Primary Care iPhone Application. This must-have app concisely covers the full spectrum of primary care medicine, allowing you to look up vital information quickly and easily right at the point of care. Numerous tables and figures as well as the ability to search by drug, class or disease allows for simple and intuitive navigation. The perfect resource for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners and PAs! 12 month subscription $19.99.

Don't forget that you can also get the Tarascon Pharmacopoeia iPhone App. You can find these medical apps on iTunes or by visiting http://www.tarascon.com/

My favorite smartphone on Verizon Wireless for 2009 is...

My favorite smartphone on Verizon Wireless is currently the HTC Droid Eris running Google Android. I realize that we don't have many medical apps for Android right now, but this will change in 2010. We'll see many medical apps released in 2010 and some of those on the top of list are:

• Epocrates
• MobilePDR
• Tarascon
  

Skyscape and Unbound Medicine already have Android apps. This means that free apps like Mobile MerckMedicus are already available for Android. QuantiaMD is another great free medical app for Android. I'll be writing some reviews about QuantiaMD over the next few weeks as I test this app on an HTC Droid Eris.

Android is going to gain tremendous momentum in 2010 as new phones emerge on virtually every wireless carrier in the United States. This means that you won't need to switch carriers to have an Android smartphone. Unless Apple moves quickly to place its iPhone on other carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile, it will quickly lose health care professionals to Android. I also predict that many Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Palm OS users will switch to Android as they recognize all the benefits associated with this great OS. 

Save 20% on Tarascon

Looking for some holiday gifts? If you know someone who got a new smartphone, perhaps he/she needs some medical apps. Well, Tarascon has always been one of my favorite resources during medical school and residency. You can save 20% on their products.

* Save 20% on our entire selection of products including the NEW 2010 Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia, Pocketbooks, Reference Cards, and Mobile Products. Simply use coupon code GIFT at checkout.

* Don’t Wait! The Holiday Sale ends December 31, 2009.

Visit: http://www.tarascon.com

Save 20% on the Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia

Speaking of software discounts, here's another one: Use the coupon code "SAVE20" and you will save 20% when you place your order for the new Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia.

The Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia Deluxe Mobile Edition is priced at $39.95, so you'll only pay $31.76 if you use the coupon code "SAVE20." If you're a traditionalist and you prefer the paperback version, then you can get away with the pocket version for only $15.95. The 2010 version contains new HIV and H1N1 (Swine Flu) drug coverage and dosing requirements.

Tarascon Pharmacopoeia® iPhone Edition

The Tarascon Pharmacopoeia® iPhone Edition is now available for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Back in the "old days," I used to carry this little green (or yellow or blue) book in my white coat pocket. Now, you can have this handy reference on your PDA.

Key features include:

• Convenient and quick portable access on your iPhone or iPod Touch
• Contains expanded drug coverage from the Deluxe Edition of the Print Pocket Pharmacopoeia®
• Continuous drug updates.
• A fully integrated tool for multiple drug interaction checking
• 47 invaluable drug reference tables and 15 dynamic calculators
• Extensive pediatric drug dosing
• Complete privacy. We never sell your personal data or product use patterns.
• 12 month subscription $39.99

This is a subscription-based service, so you should plan to budget $40/year to keep this app running. $40/year really isn't too bad, but if you're considering other software bundles, do your research before you start buying each one. You may find some redundancies if you get several different drug reference guides.

To learn more about this product, visit: http://www.tarascon.com/

Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia

If you're looking for additional medical software for your smartphone, take a look at Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia® Deluxe Mobile Edition. You can save 25% by using a coupon code: TPR (until July 31, 2009). This software runs on Palm (don't know about WebOS for Palm Pre), Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry (not sure exactly which models).

Here are a few of the highlights:

•Expanded drug information from the Deluxe Edition of the print Pocket Pharmacopoeia
•A fully integrated tool for multiple drug interaction checking
•A fully integrated "Herbal & Alternative Therapy" section
•Continuous ongoing drug information auto-updates via the internet
•Extensive pediatric drug dosing
•Unique Canadian trade names and drugs
•Software written by USBMIS, Inc.

Want to learn more? Visit http://www.tarascon.com
Don't forget that you can save 25% by using a coupon code: TPR (until July 31, 2009).