From the January/February 2014 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
QuantiaMD
If Figure 1 is the Instagram for clinicians, QuantiaMD is the Facebook. About 200,000 U.S. doctors are already using QuantiaMD, a social learning and networking platform for providers. The platform’s app offers a community where doctors can learn from experts and peers, connect with colleagues, and earn CME credits. Users can submit, view, and comment on presentations using their smartphone or tablet. And it’s on course to become an even bigger physician social network — in 2013, QuantiaMD raised $10 million to expand the platform’s reach.
Education
Read by QxMD
More and more clinicians are using Read by QxMD to stay up-to-date on the latest medical research. The app enables providers to easily access a number of medical publications and resources using a simple and intuitive interface.
Read by QxMD allows providers to personalize their medical research reading experience. Clinicians can browse through topic reviews, read their favorite medical journals, and access full text articles using their institutional subscriptions. Users can also share articles with colleagues via email and social media.
Reference
Epocrates Rx
Epocrates Rx is a free drug reference app that offers extensive information on brand, generic, and over-the-counter medications. Physicians can use the app to review drug prescribing and safety information for thousands of drugs and even look up approximate retail drug pricing for patients paying out-of-pocket. Epocrates Rx also offers information on drug interactions, enabling physicians to check for potentially harmful interactions for up to 30 drugs at a time.
The app was downloaded 50,000 times in the first week of its release, and was the number one most used iPad app by U.S. physicians in 2013, according to a report by the research company Manhattan Research.
NeuroMind
Ranked most highly among neurology and neurosurgery apps, NeuroMind is free and available for Android and iPhone users. The app serves as a single source of reference for neurosurgeons who are interested in getting an in-depth look into a specific brain region prior to surgery.
The app features high-resolution diagrams and offers clinical decision-making support for a variety of pathologies. Every aspect of each diagram can be zoomed in on to provide a more comprehensive view. The World Health Organization’s Safe Surgery checklist is also embedded into the app, making it easily available for reference before a procedure.
VisualDx
VisualDx is a leading web-based clinical decision support system that’s currently in use at more than 1,500 hospitals nationwide. The accompanying app brings thousands of medical images to the clinicians’ fingertips at the point-of-care.
