Licensed Applications (free to Yale University/YNHH affiliates)

Application Name/Basics

Description

Platform

First Time Users - You must register before you install the application.

iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad: Get the UCentral App through Apple's App Store.

This is the institutional gateway from Unbound Medicine. Users can install one or more of the availble resources including:

• Harrisons' Manual of Medicine, Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
• 5 Minute Pediatric Consult, Essential Evidence/POEMs
• Clinical Evidence (BMJ), Cochrane Abstracts
• Emergency Medicine Manual, Manual of Anesthesia Practice
• Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Journal Tables of Contents
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Follow the above link and click on Mobile or go directly to the Apple Apps store or the Android Market.

Android and iOS versions of the Micromedex Drug Information database are available for free. For Apple iOS users only, there is an App for Drug Interactions and another for IV Compatibility. Note: Interactions and IV Compatibility are free only to institutional subscribers (which includes YSM and YNHH). You will need a special institutional code to activate these Apps. Go to the Web version of the full Micromedex , click on the "Mobile" link and scroll down to find the code to activate your subscription. It is the same code for both Apps.

Online access for all mobile devices including Blackberry. Get the Yale username and password under the "Mobile" link.

ePocrates

• Request a certficate or discount code

Premium versions are available for iPhone/iPodTouch, Blackberry, WindowsMobile and Android. iPad users can run the iPhone version.

This popular drug resource is the single most used medical PDA application. Free basic version available for all devices. Other versions require annual subscription fee.

*** Yale University affiliates can purchase premium versions of Epocrates at a discount. Complenmentary certificates are available for Yale Medical students. For details....

MDConsult Mobile

• Provides online access to a subset of MDConsult's ejournals, ebooks, guidelines and "the Clinics" on your mobile device. A personal login to MDConsult is required .
• Create your username and password BEFORE you go to the MDConsult Mobile site. For easiest access to this and other Web-based mobile resources, use the link on the Medical Library's Mobile page ... www.med.yale.edu/library/m

An online version of the popular AccessMedicine suite of ebooks and resources optimized for mobile devices is available You must first setup a personal "My AccessMedicine" account from the link on the main AccessMedicine homepage before you can use the mobile version. Among the resources available on the mobile site are:

• Harrisons Online
• Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
• Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas
• Diagnosaurus
... and more

Stat!Ref Mobile uses a special application to access an online version of this Ebook collection optimized for handheld devices. iOS users can get the free App from the iTunes App store, Android users from the Android Market & Blackberry user through this link. As with AccessMedicine & MDConsult Mobile, you first must create a personal account before you can access the content:

• Access the online STAT!Ref site
• Click the “Your Preferences” link in the upper right corner. If you do not have a “Your Preferences” account, set-up your account.
• Click the “Temporary Login Account” tab and click the “Activate/Renew” icon.
This is the username/password you will use when prompted by the Stat!Ref Mobile App.

• ACP PIER (Physicians' Information Education Resource) with ACP Journal Club
• DSM-IV-TR
• AHFS Drug Information
• Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
... and a collection of nursing Ebooks

Selected Free/Low Cost Applications

MedCalc is a medical calculator around since the Palm days. It is designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in clinical medicine (including anesthesiology, pediatrics, emergency, intensive care and internal medicine). Includes an iPad Pro version. Some version are paid apps.

‘Calculate’ is a next-generation clinical calculator and decision support tool for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry, freely available to the medical community. Focused on highlighting tools which are actually useful in clinical practice and serve to impact diagnosis, treatment or determining prognosis.

The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is an application designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients.

The ePSS is available both as a web application and a mobile application. Information is based on the current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Radiology 2.0: One night in the ED

Radiology 2.0 is "one of the most innovative educational resources in the field, Radiology 2.0 presents teaching files in a way not previously seen; the 2.0 denotes the next generation in interactive radiology education". Developed by Yale faculty member, Dr. Daniel Cornfeld.

(aka 'Medline Database on Tap"; formerly known as "PubMed on Tap")

MD on Tap is an experimental application for PDAs that retrieves MEDLINE® citations directly from the PDA through a wireless connection to the Internet. MD on Tap features include:

Medical Eponyms

Medical Eponyms lists over 1,600 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) with descriptions. Medical Eponyms is not trademarked and in provided at no cost by the author, Andrew Yee.

Medical Eponyms for WindowsMobile & PocketPC

version 1.85 (July 2006)

Medical Eponyms is a Pocket PC program that contains a list of over 1,500 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) with descriptions. Medical Eponyms is not trademarked and in provided at no cost by the author, Andrew Yee.

Medscape Mobile (from WebMD)

Registration Required

Medscape Mobile contains selected information from WebMD's Medscape and eMedicine online sites. This free product for the iPhone/iPodTouch, iPad and Android includes:

• Drug reference with interaction checker
• Multimedia clinical reference with over 4,000 diseases, conditions and procedures
• Clinical Procedures database [most unique features compared with other apps]

The Blackberry version is limited to the drug database and interaction checker

Shots is a quick reference guide to the Childhood Immunization Schedule, from the Group on Immunization Education of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

version for Apple iOS devices or from the Android market

Cost: FREE

mobileMerckMedicus

For Blackberry users this is an ONLINE application. For other devices, this is a download and local install.

This free application includes Pocket Guide to Diagnostic test and MEDLINE journals from our UCentral platform although there are some unique resources including The Merck Manual, Professional Edition and Harrison's Practice - Answers on Demand. If you already have UCentral, you can choose not to include the Pocket Guide which is already included in that package..

This program is free for healthcare profesionals. Registration required.

STUDENTS: you'll be asked to enter a student number in the State License # field during online registration. Simply enter any number in this field.

Diagnosaurus

Free (for Palm and WindowsMobile) medical and surgical differential diagnosis tool from McGraw-Hill. Based on content from Lange series.

Now a 99 cent paid App for the iPhone/iPodTouch and Android

This is also available online through AccessMedicine Mobile (see the entry above)