Medical Reference Apps For Android #mHealth

By providing the latest evidence based medicine updates at the point-of-care, Smartphones are proving to be a very important tool for improving quality of healthcare. These inexpensive handheld computing devices allow users to download third party applications (apps) which can perform specialized tasks.  5 Free Medical Reference Apps For Android Smartphones which physicians can use everyday for clinical purposes. 1) Medscape : Medscape is a popular web resource for physicians and other health professionals. This is a must have application which provides offline access to clinical reference tools like Drug Reference, Disease & Condition Reference and Treatment Guide, Procedures Reference, Tables & Protocols Reference and Drug Interaction Checker. 2) Skyscape...

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Practice Websites - Helping Patients

The logical first step to creating rich Databanks of Provider Information is to create identities for Providers in the electronic world. The simplest way to do this is to Create Websites for Doctors, Clinics and Hospitals. This may not necessarily be individual websites for practices which don’t want to invest in one, but can even be simple informative single web pages to fulfill the purpose of creating an identity for them aka http://www.about.me Such websites can be optimized to convey Services, Location and Contact Information, Medical Notes, Special Cases treated. Such optimization will help in disseminating useful provider information to people looking for the same. This isn’t advertising, it’s a service: people today face many choices and are hampered by lack of information, improving...

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Coleman 's 12 Laws of Medicine

Dr Vernon Coleman qualified as a medical doctor in the UK published an excellent series of books on health and wellness. Packed with wise insights and commonsense ; many of these are as true today as when they were first published !COLEMAN’S 1ST LAW OF MEDICINE  If you are receiving treatment for an existing disease and you develop new symptoms then, until proved otherwise, you should assume that the new symptoms are caused by the treatment you are receiving.  COLEMAN’S 2nd LAW OF MEDICINEThere is no point in having tests done unless the results will affect your treatment.  COLEMAN’S 3rd LAW OF MEDICINEIf the treatment doesn’t work then you should consider the possibility that the diagnosis might be wrong. This is particularly true when several treatments have been tried.  COLEMAN’S...

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Survey Regarding Medical Websites for Doctors, Clinics and Small Hospitals

As a Doctor, what are your expectations from a Website. Apart from the basic features of a website, there are some simple tools which can go a long way to improve your website experience for your patients. Our aim is to recommend these tools , such as health calculators, video galleries, online patient history forms; customized ask the doctor queries; and Google maps which provide directions to the clinic. To understand you better we request you to help us out by filling in the following survey....

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