Unbound Medicine and Johns Hopkins Launch HIV Website for Central America

Unbound Medicine and Johns Hopkins Launch HIV Website for Central America - Spanish-Language Guide Created and Distributed Using the Unbound™ Platform

Charlottesville, VA, December 06, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Unbound Medicine, a leader in knowledge management solutions for healthcare, announced the launch of La Guía del VIH de Johns Hopkins, a web service developed in partnership with the Johns Hopkins POC-IT Center. The service, a Spanish-language adaptation of the Johns Hopkins HIV Guide, is a collaborative project of The Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education, the Pan American Health Organization, and Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama. The entire project, from content creation through web delivery, is supported by Unbound Medicine's end-to-end digital publishing platform.

Unbound Medicine and Johns Hopkins Publishing Point-of-Care Resources

This press release came out a few weeks ago. If you're looking for a way to view and access Johns Hopkins Guides on your smartphone, then look to Unbound Medicine.

Unbound™ Platform Used to Create, Update, and Distribute Johns Hopkins Guides

Charlottesville, VA, April 12, 2011 — Unbound Medicine, a leader in knowledge management solutions for healthcare, has been named today by Johns Hopkins University as the official electronic publisher of the web- and mobile-based versions of Johns Hopkins’ highly regarded Antibiotic (ABX), Diabetes, and HIV POC-IT Guides, clinical decision support tools that bring trusted information to healthcare professionals at the point of care.

5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult

Unbound Medicine, a leader in knowledge management solutions for healthcare, recently released 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult for mobile devices.

What's Important:

* 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult puts hundreds of urgent care topics on mobile devices in a proven, rapid-access format that's ideal for on-the-spot consultation.
* 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult is available on mobile devices or within Emergency Central, a bundled app with a companion website that includes a drug guide, a diagnostic test reference, treatment guidelines, and disease information.
* 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult is available for iOS (iPhone®, iPod touch®), Android™, BlackBerry®, and Windows Phone® devices.

For more information, click here.

Save 20% on Unbound Medicine

Shopping for some medical apps this holiday season? Enter the discount code GIFT10 when you're shopping with Unbound Medicine.

Unbound Medicine’s products give physicians, nurses, students, and clinicians access to medical information wherever and whenever they need it.

Some popular titles include:

• 5-Minute Clinical Consult
• Medicine Central
• Harrison’s Manual of Medicine
• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual
• The Merck Manual
• Davis’s Drug Guide
• Taber’s Medical Dictionary
• Evidence Central
• Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests

Find that medical app by visiting: http://www.unboundmedicine.com/

Black Friday Deals: Medical Apps for Smartphones

Here are some Black Friday deals for smartphone medical apps:

Skyscape: save 20% on all medical apps!
PEPID: save up to 80%

With Unbound Medicine: Shop between now and December 1, 2010 and take 10% off all products. Use promotional code WEB10. http://www.unboundmedicine.com/

Don't forget about Epocrates, Lexi-Comp, and all the others. They could be having some incredible deals as well.

Additional medical apps for my wife's new Android smartphone

When my wife (a family physician) received her HTC Droid Incredible last week, I loaded the following medical apps on her Android smartphone:

• Epocrates
• Skyscape
• QuantiaMD

Here are some of the other medical apps I recently installed for my wife:

• MedPageToday
• Lexi-Comp
• QxMD

She may purchase a medical book through Unbound Medicine. She's using UpToDate via the super-fast mobile web browser on her HTC Droid Incredible.   If you haven't tested the web browser on this phone, you have to give it a try. It's phenomenal!

She's still waiting for an Android app from Medscape and ReachMD (so that she can listen to my Mobile Medical Minute on ReachMD). 

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?

5 BlackBerry Apps for Medical Professionals

This is a guest post by  Ashley Jones.  If you're interested in submitting a guest post, please contact me.

No matter how popular the iPhone may be, there are some people who just cannot live without their BlackBerries. It was a pioneer in pushing email to your phone back in the days when most people did not even own a computer, and it’s one device that even most technophobes are comfortable with. The Blackberry does not seek to compete with the other smartphones around; it takes pride in knowing it was one of the first on the scene, and that its loyal supporters will never switch to the competition. So it’s only fitting that developers come up with apps for the Blackberry; there may not be as many as the number of apps written for the iPhone, but there are enough for serious professionals. So if you’re a doctor or work in any part of the medical field and own a Blackberry, let me tell you about five apps you may want to consider. We all know about the big players like Epocrates, Skyscape, PEPID, Lexi-Comp, and others.

Here are 5 additional medical apps that you'll find on the BlackBerry App World:

• ECG Guide: Whether you’re a cardiologist or not, this is one application that will come in handy when you have to interpret ECG charts. This app includes more than a hundred ECG examples and also helps you improve your reading and analysis skills with a quiz. Best of all, it costs less than $10.
• GI Calc: This free app helps doctors manage patients with gastrointestinal problems and liver disease. It helps you calculate risks and determine the need for intervention based on standard scoring and classification methods.
• ICD9 Coder: This app costs under $10 and comes in handy for primary care providers who need to look up ICD9 codes that they use often. It is a simplified collection of ICD9 codes from the American Academy of Family Physicians’ list. The list replaces ICD9 descriptors with problem-oriented descriptors of conditions that are relevant to family practice.
• Cardio Calc: Another app that’s for the entire medical community rather than for just cardiologists. The Cardio Calculator not only helps determine cardiovascular risk and guide lipid treatment, but also provides information and utility value for medical practitioners in other fields of medicine like hematology, gastroenterology, nephrology and obstetrics. This app is free of cost.
• Davis’s Drug Guide Mobile and Web: A great app for under $50 which you can use to access the complete version of Davis’s drug guide from the web. It’s updated regularly and you can find the information you need thanks to a powerful inbuilt search engine. The guide includes generic and trade names for various drugs, therapeutic classes, and even natural and herbal products.

This guest post is contributed by Ashley M. Jones, who writes on the topic of pharmacy technician certification. She welcomes your comments at her email id: ashleym.jones643@gmail.com.

Top medical and health apps on the Android Marketplace

The Android Marketplace is the App Store for Android powered smartphones. If you're running Android 2.0, then here are the "top" medical apps under the "health" section of the Android Marketplace as of March 2010:

Top Free Health Apps:

1. Calorie Counter by FatSecret
2. Diet & Food Tracker
3. BodyFitness
4. CardioTrainer
5. Favorite Recipies
6. White Noise Lite
7. Lightning Bug - Sleep Clock
8. Best Self-Help Quotes
9. Epocrates
10. Medical Spanish - AUDIO (Lite)

Top Paid Health Apps:

1. Racing for CardioTrainer
2. ICE: In Case of Emergency
3. HappyCow VeginOut Guide
4. White Noise
5. Weight Loss for CardioTrainer
6. Calorie Tracker by LIVESTRONG
7. Men's Health Workouts
8. GymBook
9. Fast Food Calorie Counter Pro
10. Baby ESP

I wonder if we'll eventually see a "Medical" category in the Android Marketplace. As you can see from this list, many of these apps really aren't professional medical apps. They're really geared for the consumer. What's also interesting is that I don't see medical apps like Skyscape, Unbound Medicine, Lexi-Comp.

Top 5 Android Medical Apps

If you're using an Android smartphone, then you've probably discovered that the list of professional medical apps is relatively short compared to the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and even BlackBerry. This trend will change dramatically this year as more medical app developers and publishers release medical apps for Android.

Here's my current list of "top 5Android medical apps" (this list will probably change in a few months):

1. Epocrates (now available for Android!)
2. UpToDate (via mobile web browser)
3. QuantiaMD (you'll have to try it. it's a great app that provides education and other resources)
4. Skyscape Android Reader (plus, the entire list of books and references)
5. Unbound Medicine (plus, the entire list of books and references) 

When it comes to specific books and references, I would suggest the following:

• 5-Minute Clinical Consult
• Davis's Drug Guide 
• Taber's Medical Dictionary
• Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests 

I realize that we're going to see many new medical apps arriving in the next few months, so stay tuned and make sure to follow this blog for the latest updates. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list, since there is no way I could possibly highlight all the medical Android apps out there (like Lexi-Comp, PEPID, Mediquation, BEIKS Medical Dictionary, and all the other medical Android apps that are being developed). We'll have to revisit this list in a few months to see how the landscape has changed.

Finally, please remember that this is simply my personal "top 5" list based on my personal use experience. This list is likely to change over the next few months as apps evolve and as I try new and different apps. If you're currently developing a medical app for Android and you'd like me to review your app, please make sure to contact me.

Unbound Medicine launching "Relief Central" for relief workers in the field

Unbound Medicine announces the release of Relief Central™, a free disaster relief resource developed by the staff of Unbound Medicine for relief workers, first responders, and others helping in the field. This ongoing initiative delivers the latest information to mobile devices and the web, helping anyone traveling to disaster sites to assess damage, learn about the geographic location, view journal citations and abstracts, and access the latest news.
 

Relief Central includes:

• The World Factbook from the CIA
• The Field Operations Guide from USAID
• MEDLINE Journals
• Relief News

Relief Central, available for iPhone®, iPod touch®, BlackBerry®, Android™, Palm®, and Windows Mobile®, utilizes Unbound Medicine's award-winning platform to quickly and easily deliver answers at the point of need. With it, you get superior navigation tools, an intuitive interface, clean design, and the Relief Central content available on the web.

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.

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. 

Diagnosaurus DDx for Android

I remember when Diagnosaurus DDx was first released. If you're an Android user, you may be happy to know that you can get Diagnosaurus DDx for your smartphone. You may not find too many medical apps for Android right now, but that should change in the early part of 201.


Package name : com.unbound.android.cqdz

Diagnosaurus DDx:

• 1000+ differential diagnoses
• Search by disease, symptom, or organ system
• Derived from CURRENT Consult Medicine 2007

Here is the QR Code: 

Save 20% on Unbound Medicine

Unbound Medicine has some great titles for smartphones, including Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, and Google Android. You could also run their apps if you have a Palm Pre (webOS) as long as you're running a Classic Palm OS emulator. Otherwise, you can access some of their titles via a mobile web browser. Use the code "GIFT09" when you're checking out to save 20%.
Visit: http://www.unboundmedicine.com

Medical apps for Droid (Google Android)

Updated on Oct, 2010

There are many newer medical apps for Google Android, so I've decided to update this blog post.

People are now looking for medical apps for the Motorola Droid, Droid X, Droid 2, HTC Droid Incredible, Google Nexus One, Samsung Galaxy S, and other Google Android smartphones on Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile, and other wireless providers. What have you found out there?

There are a growing number of options and new medical apps are popping up all the time. Let's take a look at some of the most popular ones:

• Epocrates is now available for Android! You can also use your mobile web browser and access drug info at m.epocrates.com
• Unbound Medicine has medical references, textbooks, and other resources for Android.
• Skyscape also has medical references, textbooks, and other resources for Android.
• MobilePDR is a drug reference app that is available to health care professionals as a free app. Non-clinicians can purchase this app. It's powered through Skyscape.
• UpToDate can be accessed via any mobile web browser. So, it's available for Android, but not as a standalone app.
• QuantiaMD (you'll have to try it. it's a great app that provides education and other resources)

Well, this is just the beginning. It won't be long before we see a robust selection of medical apps for Google Android. Stay tuned and make sure to subscribe to stay current as new medical apps get released for Android.

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

Pediatrics Central Dx

Take a look at Pediatrics Central Dx for iPhone:

Pediatrics Central™ is the all-in-one solution that puts valuable medical information in the hands of clinicians treating infants, children, and adolescents.

Medical software for Google Android

What type of medical software can you get for smartphones running Google Android? Your options are quite limited at this point. However, Unbound Medicine has several titles that are currently available for Android. We should also see mobilePDR for Android released in early 2010. It's only a matter of time before we start seeing many other providers offering medical software for Google Android. My prediction is that we'll see Epocrates, Skyscape, and PEPID come up with software for Android. You can always get access to certain references via mobile websites. Epocrates and UpToDate both have mobile-friendly websites that can be used by almost any smartphone.

Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests for iPhone

Here's an interesting utility from Unbound Medicine