iPhone : Browsing medical knowledge with iPhone #02 : iPhone enabled Medical websites
[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
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I think most app don’t need to be native app but just web mobile app, that works same way. Dictionary or encyclopedia and others don’t need to spend all that time to make a native app but a mobile web app is the same. I started focusing on web app as Google did so you get more phones not only iphone into your ideas an dprojects. Mobiworx
@David : I believe you are right , but i also believe its more than that actually , now developers are looking and working on solutions to provide the way to write the application web2.0 style as in write once and run on all . somehow that is going against what the big corp(s) want . which is making communities of developers to stand for their platform . which will not work for Mobile device world .There are http://www.appcelerator.com/ and http://www.appcelerator.com/ . which they claim can work on many mobile systems . i believe the cross platform applications is the term we will see moving to mobile`s world as well !
Thanks a lot for commenting
Very useful information, always good to learn more.
the iPhone has become a great unexspected healthcare tool for both doctors and patients. How much our technology has advanced in the last 15 years is amazing.
the iPhone has become a great unexspected healthcare tool for both doctors and patients. How much our technology has advanced in the last 15 years is amazing.
Physicians can view messages, check their schedule, review charts, and write prescriptions. Doctors who treat patients in more than one location will greatly benefit. They can check on patients between hospital rounds, nursing home visits and more.
Physicians can view messages, check their schedule, review charts, and write prescriptions. Doctors who treat patients in more than one location will greatly benefit. They can check on patients between hospital rounds, nursing home visits and more.