Top 6 Medical Apps for iPad to Use with EMR

Top 6 Medical Apps for iPad to Use with EMR

Mobile tools like iPads, smart phones, and lighter weight laptops are revolutionizing medical care.  Doctors can use applications as a medical reference, to check drug interactions, view anatomy charts, and see other materials that would normally require large reference books and a trip back into the office.  What’s more, these applications and devices can be combined with EMR – giving the physician and his staff an even better way to record medical histories and provide better patient care.

iPad and other tablet devices give EMR-integrated medical offices a user-friendly and intuitive way to keep patient records and see them instantly from anywhere in the office.  Here are the top six iPad medical appsto use in conjunction with your EMR system and maximize the benefit of your EMR implementation.

1. 1.  Slingshot Scientific’s Medical Apps.  Four apps in one, this app package contains a New Patient entry screen to enter important info quickly at each visit, a medical translation dictionary for non-English speaking patients, diagnosis information, and a daily Patients Seen app that conveniently lists the ages and diagnoses of your patients.
2. 2.  Medical Lab Tests by Medicon Apps.  This app provides differential information for high and low lab test values, allowing doctors to interpret lab test results quickly.
3. 3. Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR) by USBMIS.  MPR offers quick information about OTC drugs, prescriptions, drug interactions, and side effects.  It contains much information from the print version of MPR.
4. 4.  Nimble by ClearPractice.  A revolution in EMR for iPads, Nimble allows doctors to do schedules and charts, write prescriptions, send messages and order lab workups over their iPad.  Doing this on a tablet during the workday provides live, real-time information.
5. 5. Blausen Human Atlas by Blausen Medical Communications.  This atlas helps facilitate better communication between doctors and patients.  The 3-D images help doctors show improved images and give patients better explanations.
6. 6. Procedures Consult by Modality.  These apps offer information on procedures, with particular apps built for different specialties.  The apps include video tutorials and post-procedural videos that can be an enormous help to medical staff in the learning process or who simply need a refresher.
   
   
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New York City Council votes to ban smoking in parks, on beaches

The city that never sleeps is moving closer to becoming the city that never smokes, or at least the city that highly restricts it.

Nine years after the Big Apple banned smoking in its restaurants, the New York City Council on Wednesday voted to ban smoking in city parks and on city beaches, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a written statement.

The council voted 36 to 12 in favor of the ban, much to the chagrin of those who think the government is overstepping its role into its residents' lives.

"The city is taking it too far. I think it's ridiculous," said 25-year-old New Yorker George Wells as he pressed a lit cigarette to his lips outside the Shops at Columbus Circle.

The ban prohibits smoking in all 1,700 city parks and on its 14 miles of beaches, the statement said, and is intended to prevent the harmful effects of secondhand smoke for children.

"This summer, New Yorkers who go to our parks and beaches for some fresh air and fun will be able to breathe even cleaner air and sit on a beach not littered with cigarette butts," Bloomberg said.

The measure is expected to take affect 90 days after Bloomberg signs the bill. He has 30 days to sign the ban following the council's approval.

"The statistics don't lie: secondhand smoke kills," said City Council Member Christine Quinn, who voted for the measure.

But Council Member Robert Jackson, who opposed the bill, said the ban is "going against our liberty of the people of New York City. As someone who wants to breathe clean air, I think we are going too far and being intrusive."

In 2003, a ban designed to protect workers outlawed smoking in New York City's 13,000 bars and restaurants, with very few exceptions and with stiff fines. The penalty for a first-time offense began at $200, and businesses caught repeatedly allowing smoking ran the risk of being shut down.

Meanwhile, a measure in California that would have banned smoking in all state beaches and parks was vetoed earlier this year by cigar aficionado then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

From CNN