[W:iPhone] is an Internet enabled phone , means it has an Internet connection , can browse websites , and surf the Internet . Customizing a site to be [W:iPhone] enabled website , ain’t that hard , cause all it needs is the same technologies to build the website ( may be less ) .
Some medical websites now declare they have customized iPhone interfaces for easy iPhone – iPod Touch browsing . So doctors can find their way around now to the medical websites , especially the knowledge base type .
Other browsers :
User can access those sites easily through [W:Safari] browser ( apple web browser for [W:Mac OSX] or Windows ) or even [W:Firefox] .
Features :
Most of those iPhone enabled sites , have a simple look , with browsing in Safari browser or Firefox , and that because it made originally for iPhone , and making use of its browsing features , and small screen .
iPhone enabled medical websites :
The goal of this post to make a list and a guide of the medical website which make an iExtension for their portals for iPhones and iPodTouch .
1-WebMD Mobile ( link ):
WebMD is comprehensive resource for doctors to look for Treatment , Disease , Drug and First aid , WebMD mobile is a site specific browser application that made by WebMD , Its free for download .
2-Taber’s Medical Dictionary iPhone ( link) :
Taber is a [W:medical dictionary] and [W:encyclopedia] contains over 60,000 terms, 1,000 images and 30,000 audio pronunciations , Taber has ported applications for mobile devices including iPhone . Taber`s iPhone is not a free application and it comes with a subscription for one year about $50 .
3-Pubmed search and Pubmed Search Plus ( link ) :
unboundmedicine.com has an iPhone port for searching [W:Medline] and [W:Pubmed], Unbound Medline contains citations to ~17 million medical journal articles found in MEDLINE and PubMed . iPhone port for [W:UnboundMedicine] through this link .
4-Therapeutic Guideline ( link ):
Therapeutic Guidelines Limited is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to deriving guidelines for therapy from the latest world literature, interpreted and distilled by Australia’s most eminent and respected experts.
They have their iPhone , iPod Touch application , which demands iSilo the docuement reader application for iPhone and OSX , iSilo has ports to other mobiles systems as Android , Symbian and Windows mobile . ( but i didn’t find information if it’ll run Therapeutic Guideline on other systems than iPhone ) . 
5-Medscape iPhone ( link ) :
[W:Medscape] iPhone application is a comprehensive [W:drugs database] ( 6.000 brands and generic names ) , with easy to search for drugs , and get all the information about specific drugs as drug interactions , it saves time with its usability features . Medcape iPhone application contains also a medical news reader with a directory for CME . Its an offline content based application , you can search , locate and read the contents mainly without Internet connection .
Medscape iPhone is also providing a very handy tool to access physicians lists ( about 400.000 physicians ) , pharmacies ( 57.000 pharmacies ) , and about 6.000 hospitals . search by location , name or specialty .
6-California Healthline iPhone application ( link ) :
Its a [W:Californiahealthline.org] to interact with the site content , as reading latest stories , listen to audio reports, personalize the news feed, and email any article to a contact .The application is free and require no register . California Healthline iPhone application works very well when there is no internet connection , it saves the latest updates when the user is connected and the user can browse them later .
California healthline iPhone is at iTunes app store .
7-UMMS Medical Encyclopedia iPhone ( UMMS ency , iPhone app ) : ( University of Maryland Medical System )
[W:University of Maryland Medical System] , has over 50000 pages of medical information , doctors can access the web page of the encyclopedia through their web browser . their web portal does not have much different than the iPhone application even in toggling the language ( English – Spanish ) .
Medical information is organized according to symptoms, injury, disease, and surgery, nutrition , poison ,tests , and special topics .
8-Doctor’s Digest ( website ):
[W:Doctor's Digest] released their iPhone and iPod Touch application , which offers the user free 2009 subscription , you can find it in iTunes app store .
9-caBIO :The Cancer Bioinformatics Infrastructure Objects :
is an ongoing effort to model the rapidly-changing genomics and proteomics domain and to integrate data from numerous sources providing a holistic view of the human and mouse genomes.
caBIO iPhone application is based on caBio DataService ( API , for developers – check out -) and developed by Konrad Rokicki ( blog ) .For more information visit caBIO . The iPhone application at iTunes app store . More information about the application and screenshots in appshopper .
10-Eponyms ( link ) :
[W:Eponyms] It is one of the first medical database works for iPhone online . It is also ported to other hand-held deviced .
11-Wikipedia :
Well wikipedia today is one of the most used knowledge based portals , and I believe doctors needs any source of medical knowledge available . so how about Wikipedia in your iPhone ? .Wikipedia has many many iPhone – iPod Touch applications . you may choose the best for you based on your experience , but if you are looking for comparison for iPhone Wikipedia`s applications , follow this link .
12-Skyscape iPhone ( link ):
[W:Skyscape] offers Outlines in Clinical Medicine, Archimedes , Medical Calculator, RxDrugs , Drug Dosing Tool and MedAlert . its Free to download and use .
Note : Its not a medical enabled web site , though i believe it should mention in here .
Finally :
You can easy use iPhone others application to manage your iPhone Internet life , as reading the latest stories , news from medical journals through your RSS reader application , or subscribe to [W:medical podcasting] and vodcasting sites with your podcast reader and player .
Hamza Emadeen Mousa
