5 Apps for the Gastroenterologist

Track, sort, plan and email your CME activities directly from your iPhone!

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Haha this is really funny considering my father is gastroenterologist. Lol he has most of these apps except the mobile MIM...he doesn't use them very often though...

By far the best application for literature searches and management is the simply titled Papers. Do proxy searches for articles that your institution has access to, then download the PDFs into your collections. Add your own keywords for easy future searching. Sync with the iPhone papers app. Not free, but there is a 30 day trial period.

http://mekentosj.com/papers/

Apart from this function, the MTS to iPhone Converter Mac can also help you watch more videos on your iPhone such as AVI, MP4, MOV, 3GP, MKV, etc.


http://www.mtsconvertermac.org/

I'm a med student, and to me this is a pretty good list, and a great idea for a recurring series. I use Epocrates and MedCalc all the time, but most of the rest of the things I access are online web-apps or just web pages Safari. My institution's patient records database is accessible through Safari (when on their wifi) and that plus some pertinent e-books for whatever service I'm on is great. YouTube, as it turns out, is also great- there are good demonstration videos for a lot of procedures that I can review before trying them on a patient (and yes I see doctors do them for reals beforehand too). I'd say DxSaurus is also a good choice for clinicians and students for thinking about alternative diagnoses for patients.

NextBio is much better than PubSearch IMHO.. If you want something free that doesn't have the email or search limitations.

Not to sound snarky, but this could have been called 5 apps for any doctor. Now, 5 apps for the radiologist.. that could be interesting.

As a Corrections Officer I use the free version of Epocrates all the time to identify pills. You'd be amazed at what those silly inmates will try to pass off as "heart medication" or "blood pressure medication".

Although this review makes it sound like DocWrite offers transcription, I went searching for info on the security/confidentiality of this process (assuming it was done by humans) and ended up concluding that the app doesn't actually offer this at all. Rather, from the material I've been able to find, the service seems to facilitate transcription of your dictations by providing a web-based interface that a designated transcriber can use to access the audio files, perform the transcription and then store the results (which may be automatically relayed back to the app). Thus, you pretty much already need to have a dictation/transcription methodology in place, with DocWrite simply making it easier by providing a mobile app and an infrastructure for shuttling the audio and transcribed file around securely between the "dictator", transcriber and storage.

Do I have this correct? I'd like to know since I have a person in mind who I'd like to tell about the service.

I believe MIM for iPhone was released at the initial launch of the App store but has since been pulled. I think I even have a copy on my iTunes server

Just checked. I do indeed have a copy. I work in the medical imaging field so I checked it out. Fairly nice, though as I understand it, it relies on a MIM server to do a lot of the actual work. Osirix has an iPhone app that is also pretty cool when it comes to imaging.

Not much point for FDA approval though. If I found a doctor had made a diagnosis off his iPhone I'd sue the piss out of him, even with as much as I like Apple :)