Best Medical Apps For Doctors And Patients

As it is said an apple keeps the doctor away now technology is helping us to keep the doctor away for our most common health problems simply by dashing out your new generation mobiles or iPad.

The technology as medical apps will provide you with suggestion, help to clear doubts and transmit medical health data to your doctor. These medical apps can tell you about your heart rate, recommended dosage of a particular drug and your BMI with this  the amount and type of exercise or food you do or do not require. There are also apps specially designed for the use of doctors.

The doctors fell that though these apps can act as a first aid kit for people but those that act to physically diagnose a patient for medication need to be cross checked.

MONITOR YOUR HEALTH

Macaw –Android, IOS [Free]

This trendy bird helps to keep track of your nutrition, fitness,weight and calorie intake by making assessment of your personal profile. It’s built in GPS records the calories burnt while doing any physical activity.

WebMD –Android, IOS [Free]

It a general medical app guide for a common man that tries to detect symptoms, suggests a list of aids for it and gives an info on the drugs or supplements that can be used. WebMD with the help of its video tutorial, tips and instructions provides guidance related to health and growth according to age for children and adults.

KEEP YOUR SELF UNDER CHECK

GluCoMo – IOS [$0.99]

 The app GluCoMo works as an electronic diary for the diabetic that can store your data for blood sugar levels, weight, insulin intake, pulse rate, blood pressure and other information. You can access this data in form of graph for analyses of your health situation.

AsthmaMD – IOS [Free]

 AsthmaMD is an award winning app by UCSF collaborative research network grant. As in the previous app this app too helps the asthma patient to maintain a digital record of the medical history like what makes your attack of asthma to trigger and thereupon what medications you took can be viewed as a graph.

Stress Check – Android [Free] , IOS[$.99]

Stress check by Azumio, a leader in biofeedback health applications has made for both Android 2.2 or later version and IOS 3.0 or higher version an app that can measure your stress level. For this you just need to hold your index finger over the LED camera flash of your phone for 2 min. With the help of light the app can measure blood flow of your finger by taking in notice upon the color changes of skin surface and records the pattern of stress hormone through it.

FUN GUIDE TO HEALTH

BabyBump - Android[Free], IOS [$3.99]

BabyBump is a great app to keep track of the stages of pregnancy by taking in your info; it keeps you informed about the development of baby at various stages of pregnancy. BabyBump records your mood, weight, kicks, doctor appointment and the last when your newbie comes it even shares the news directly on social network.

 Sprout– IOS [$3.99]

Sprout too is a pregnancy app telling you about the growth of your baby with 3D images each week. Sprout also makes you ready for the essential items required for the newborn.

EMERGENCY KIT

Pocket First Aid & CPR– Android [$ 2.99], IOS [$ 1.99]

Pocket First Aid & CPR app has a clear interface along with information regarding procedures of first aid and emergency through videos and images of high quality provided by American Heart Association This app gives you a data of the common severe health problems like cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in all age groups, bites, choking, burns and more. For safety measures you can also create your medical profile adding emergency contact derails with information about insurance.

CPR & Chocking –Android, IOS [Free]

This app developed by doctors and educators of university of Washington is a great guide by its short videos at times of emergency especially during times of CPR & choking.

HELP FOR DOCTORS

Airstrip CARDIOLOGY – IOS [Free]

Airstrip CARDIOLOGY by Airstrip technologies can transmit patients ECG through wireless to the phone of the doctor. It is capable to detect the cardiac health of the patient and by this helps to save the life saving time of the patient. The app provides with a very accurate and clear waveform. You can also make a comparison between your various tests conducted. To able to use this app you need to get yourself registered first on the website of Airstrip.

Drchrono EMR –IOS [Free]

This app totally meant for doctors schedules and maintains the complete doctor’s diary. With Drchrono EMR a complete history of the patient can be tabled including prescriptions, visits, videos and images. More to it Speeches can also be recorded and converted to text. Faxes of the patient reports too can be received by the doctor that can be further shared

Medscape – Android, IOS [Free]

Most popular app among the medical professionals and said to be an encyclopedia. Medscape app gives doctors an access to the information about drug brand database of more than 8,000 drugs with their dosage and effects, 3,400 kinds of diseases and 600 clinical procedures aided by images and videos with updates and offline referral content help.