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Mobile Apps

General Apps

DynaMed    Apple Android

Database of clinical topic summaries, includes grading the quality of evidence cited, designed primarily for point-of-care use. 

Access for MAHEC staff, faculty, & residents with ADL logins - Instructions for access.

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UpToDate   Apple Android

A clinical decision support resource combining the evidence with expert opinion and designed to be useful at the point-of-care. 

Access for HCA users with 3-4IDs 

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StatRef    Apple | Android

Access selected medical, dental, nursing and pharmacological textbooks and dictionaries, as well as medical calculators, ACP Smart Medicine, and AHFS DI Essentials.

Access for MAHEC staff, faculty, & residents with ADL logins - Instructions for access.

PubMed for Handhelds     Apple | Android

This is an app alternative to the PubMed Mobile website. Search PubMed by PICO (patient, intervention, comparison, outcome) or regular Medline search

Free 

VisualDX    Apple | Android

Designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. Shows disease variation with images.

Access for UNC users with ONYENs

HerbList App     Apple Android

From National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) this app offers research-based information about the safety and effectiveness of herbal products.  Includes access to science-based summaries on more than 50 popular herbs, such as aloe, chamomile, ginger, and turmeric.

Free

Prevention TaskForce (formerly ePSS)   Apple | Android

Designed to help primary care clinicians identify clinical preventative services that are appropriate for their patients. Search or browse U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPTF) recommendations.

Free

EBM Stats Calc

EBM Stats Calc  Apple | Android

Calculate NNTs from rates, percentages, or raw event and patient numbers. Use sensitivity and specificity of likelihood ratios to go from a pretest probability to posttest probability and positive predictive value and negative predictive value.

Free

Calculate by QxMD     Apple Android

More than 400 unique calculators and decision support tools.

Free

Shots by AAFP/STFM     Apple Android

American Academy of Family Physicians and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

CDC vaccine schedules and footnotes and important up-to-date information about each vaccine, including: dosing schedule, high-risk indications, adverse reactions, contraindications, catch-up, administration, epidemiology, brand names and coding information, and excipients/additives.

Free

IDSA Practice Guidelines App     Apple Android

Infectious Diseases Society of America

Free

Wiki Journal Club

Journal Club for iPhone/Android

Landmark trials at your fingertips.  Summarized by physicians.  Share articles with colleagues. Instantly sync for new summaries. Powered by Wiki Journal Club.

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OB/GYN Apps

LactRX     Apple | Android

From MotherToBaby, a free app with information on the use of medications, vaccines, diagnostic agents & drugs of misuse during breastfeeding. LactRx provides access to the LactMed database, a resource from the National Library of Medicine. 

Free

ACOG app

ACOG     Apple | Android

Get the latest clinical guidelines and updates on news, tools and resources to help you in your practice. Includes calculators for EDD and indicated delivery.

Free

CDC's Prevent Group B Strep (GBS)   Apple | Android

Generates customized guidelines based on user input of patient characteristics. Use it to achieve better implementation of evidence-based guidelines to prevent cases of GBS disease.

Free

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Contraception    Apple | Android

Easy to use reference that combines information from the CDC family planning guidance. 

Free 

STD Treatment (Tx) Guide   Apple | Android

An easy-to-use reference that combines information from the STD Treatment Guidelines as well as MMWR updates, and features a streamlined interface. 

2021 Update under construction - see the CDC for more details

Free 

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MenoPro    Apple

From the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).  Helps clinicians and patients work together to personalize treatment decisions.  Has a separate mode for clinicians and for patients.

Free

ASCCP   Apple | Android

Covers the Updated Consensus Guidelines for Managing Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests and Cancer Precursors. Recommendations and algorithms can be viewed after entering important patient data.

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Contraception   Apple | Android

Brings together information and guidance from Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP), CDC, FDA prescribing information, and many other sources, to guide prompt and skillful provision of contraception care to women and couples.

Free

OB Wheels

OB Wheels   Apple | Android

Basic OB Wheel based on most recent ACOG dating guidelines.

Free

Psychiatry Apps

 

APA App Evaluation Model

Outlines 5 steps to evaluate mental health apps.  This hierarchical rating system and rubric brings awareness to the very important information that should be considered when picking an app that is not exactly the same as the information used to judge a medication or therapy.

Free

APA App Evaluation Form 

Have an app you would like to evaluate? Use APA’s free mobile apps evaluation tool. Your submission will help APA better understand which apps our members are using.

Free

 

DSM-5-TR® Diagnostic Criteria Mobile App 

Designed to help mental health practitioners, researchers and students fully integrate the new DSM-5-TR criteria and codes into their practice and study. Users have full offline access with dual-use modes to toggle between the diagnostic criteria and classification. Powerful search and customization tools aid and enhance assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical and administrative settings. 

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Other Specialties

Sublux   Apple Android

Plain film x-ray interpretation

Review from iMedicalApps

Free

AO Surgery Reference Mobile   Apple | Android

An online repository for surgical knowledge

Review from iMedicalApps

Free

AOTrauma Orthogeriatrics    Apple | Android

Orthogers is an educational tool for healthcare professionals managing older adults with a fragility fracture

Review from iMedicalApps

Free

CDC Vaccine Schedules     Apple | Android

Quick access from CDC to ACIP-recommended immunization schedules, complete with footnotes

Free

Bullets*    Apple | Android

The companion APP for Orthobullets.com and Medbullets.com

Review from iMedicalApps

Free

PedsGuide    Apple | Android

For evaluating febrile infant

Free

Pediatric Blood Pressure Guide   Apple

This app is based on the August 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline from the AAP on the screening and management of high blood pressure in children and adolescents.

Review from iMedicalApps

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FHR 5-Tier   Apple | Android

This app is intended for obstetricians, midwives, and nurses who use electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) in laboring patients

$$

ASCVD Risk Estimator Plus     Apple | Android

More than 400 unique calculators and decision support tools.

Free

PFT eval     Apple 

PFT eval walks a clinician through a quick simple stepwise approach to analyse Pulmonary Function Tests (PFT's) in order to arrive at ventilation and respiration disorders and diagnostic ideas about patients.

Free

Choosing Wisely     Apple | Android

Choosing Wisely aims to promote conversations between clinicians and patients by helping patients choose care that is supported by evidence, not duplicative of other tests or procedures already received, free from harm, and truly necessary.

Free

MDCalc Medical Calculator     Apple | Android

More than 400 unique calculators and decision support tools.

Free

epocrates     Apple | Android

Supports clinical decisions; saves valuable time; keeps the focus on patients

Free

Formulary Search from MMIT     Apple 

for checking drug coverage by insurance company

Free

American College of Cardiology Anticoag Evaluator    Apple | Android

make informed decisions on initiation of antithrombotic therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who do not have moderate to severe mitral stenosis or a mechanical heart valve. 

Review from iMedicalApps

Free

Anticoagulation Manager (CDC)     Apple

a resource for clinicians that will guide them to utilize the appropriate laboratory testing and administer the appropriate anticoagulant drug in the correct dosage and at the right frequency to patients. 

Review from iMedicalApps

Free

Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide    Apple | Android

a comprehensive web and mobile resource that delivers up-to-date, authoritative information on infectious diseases, drugs, and pathogens written by the experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine

 

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Opioids Dosage Conversion     Apple

an opioid analgesic dosage conversion calculator for use by trained medical professionals

Free

ESC Pocket Guidelines App   Apple Android

Always be up-to-date and never miss any of the current clinical practice guidelines in cardiology!

Free

Administrative Apps

Doximity Apple | Android

Call your patients from your cell phone while displaying your office number.  Protects your privacy and also displays a number to the patients that may be familiar. 

Free

LastPass     Apple | Android

Get the latest clinical guidelines and updates on news, tools and resources to help you in your practice. Includes calculators for EDD and indicated delivery.

Free

Keepass   | Android

Generates customized guidelines based on user input of patient characteristics. Use it to achieve better implementation of evidence-based guidelines to prevent cases of GBS disease.

Free

Evernote    Apple | Android

Input typed notes or scan handwritten notes. Add to-do’s, photos, images, web pages, or audio ... and it’s all instantly searchable

Free