Medical App iTriage - Find Out What's Wrong with You! Medical app iTriage (by Healthagen LLC) will give you some peace of mind.
Especially, when it comes to finding potential answers to your family’s health concerns for symptoms, causes, conditions, for sicknesses or disease. New smartphone apps 'detect epilepsy and improve stroke care' ‘Taber’s Medical Dictionary’ App is Pricy, but Worth It. There are literally thousands of apps related to the medical field available for purchase or free download on iTunes.
Some of them are targeted while others are comprehensive in their scope. Some are meant for learning while others provide resources for practicing medical professionals. And some are even meant to help the layperson take control of their own health by providing information that will help them to avoid harmful drug interactions or deal with minor medical situations without having to run to the emergency room for unnecessary tests and treatments. But for those that are pursuing a medical education or even working in a medical field already, there are few resources that come in handy more often than a medical dictionary. Since neither students nor doctors want to carry around a heavy tome to every class or appointment, Unbound Medicine, Inc. has come up with a way to make this vast compendium of information accessible on the go via mobile application.
Medical School Training Goes High-Tech. Rare just a decade ago, high-tech simulation centers like the one at the Stanford University School of Medicine are part of a transformation taking place in medical education, fueled by calls from the Institute of Medicine and key bodies like the American Medical Association to bring medical training into the 21st century.
Practicing on a medical mannequin capable of blinking, breathing and even bleeding has safety benefits. But simulations also let budding doctors and nurses practice working seamlessly as members of a team, getting a feel for what it will be like to care for patients alongside anesthesiologists, radiologists, pharmacists and allied health professionals. Howard, D. (2013 Mar. 20) Medical School Training Goes High-Tech. Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do. By Vinod Khosla FORTUNE -- Healthcare today is often really the "practice of medicine" rather than the "science of medicine.
" Take fever as an example. For 150 years, doctors have routinely prescribed antipyretics like ibuprofen to help reduce fever. But in 2005, researchers at the University of Miami, Florida, ran a study of 82 intensive care patients. The patients were randomly assigned to receive antipyretics either if their temperature rose beyond 101.3°F ("standard treatment") or only if their temperature reached 104°F. So when something as basic as fever reduction is a hallmark of the "practice of medicine" and hasn't been challenged for 100+ years, we have to ask: What else might be practiced due to tradition rather than science? Today's diagnoses are partially informed by patients' medical histories and partially by symptoms (but patients are bad at communicating what's really going on). Healthcare should become more about data-driven deduction and less about trial-and-error.
Health Care Costs and Medical Technology. Almost everyone knows that this country has a scandalously large number of people who lack health insurance, now up to 46 million and growing.
That number is vivid and evocative. Can Medical Technology Solve the Health Care Problem? Uwe E.
Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton. He has some financial interests in the health care field. Last week I had the privilege of attending two fascinating conferences in London, each focused on basically one question: Can enterprises engaged in the development of new medical technology invent new technology that is affordable in the so-called “emerging markets” of the world –- countries like China and India, and Brazil, for example. The first conference, the Pacific Health Summit 2010, was organized by the United States-based National Bureau of Asian Research. The second, the Forum for Sustainable Health, was organized and sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Health of the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University. Participants in the two conferences included government officials, health care providers, biomedical researchers and policy analysts and industry executives from different parts of the world.
What seems feasible is encouraging. Essential Skeleton makes learning human anatomy fun. When I was in high school, one of my biology finals included memorizing every bone in the hand. That is, all of the carpals, metacarpals, and phalanxes of both hands and every digit. Of course, today there is no way I remember that information. However, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I remembered more than I thought when I downloaded Essential Skeleton. Essential Skeleton is an educational app for the iPad from 3D4Medical.
The company uses a proprietary graphics engine to create lifelike digital reproductions of medical models. Design The most attractive and interesting part of this app is its design. You can pinch to zoom in or out and drag two fingers across the screen to move around. There are a couple of easy-to-use controls on the left side of the screen to help you navigate the system. The only complaint I have is that the text is fairly small and there is no way to increase the size. App Use When you first open the app, you can watch a video tutorial.