Top Must-Have Medical Applications for the iPhone

So you're going into medicine? Maybe you are a medical professional now. Either way, we've scoured the web for you and put together the top medical apps available for Apple's iPhone. If you are serious, and we know you are, you need to check these out and discover their power for yourself.

3D4Medical

For the anatomy student, this is an indispensable tool. Whether you're just starting out, an advanced student, or even a medical professional, you will find the features in this application quite intriguing. It goes well beyond flashcards to a new level in interactivity, including a quiz component for testing your skeletal and ligament knowledge. It's a veritable powerhouse of a reference tool, giving you zoom in and out capability as well as a look-up identification tool.
The opening screen shows you a high quality three dimensional model of a human skeleton. As you zoom in, different flags allow you to identify the different bones by pressing the flags. Labels are in English and Latin for easy reference.
The index allows you to look up a specific reference and then visually identifies it for you. It automatically zooms in to the selected region and labels the part in question.

Every view imaginable is available in this very versatile application. These include the x-ray and skin views, as well as the anatomical views: anterior, lateral, posterior, medial and even inferior and superior where appropriate.

Al-in-all, a very useful iPhone medical application. You even have the opportunity to ask the developer for other features you would like to see added.

Airstrip Technologies

This is certainly not Dr. Marcus Welby "I play a doctor on TV" kind of thing. The days of the obnoxious pager are long gone, the future of medical technology is now, and Apple iPhone medical applications are the keepers of the gate. Airstrip Technologies has developed an unbelievably sophisticated suite of applications for the iPhone that allows the doctor to monitor patient's vital signs remotely—through the iPhone!
Their flagship product, Airstrip OB, delivers vital patient waveform data "in virtual real-time directly from the hospital labor and delivery unit" to the doctor's iPhone. Imagine the freedom of movement this would allow without having all the complications potentially associated with situations needing you in two or more places at once. You now have the ability to monitor your patients 24/7 right from your coat pocket. There is even access to nursing notes, vital signs and order results built right in,
To put the icing on the cake, a trial version is available, as well.

Doctors' Hangout

While technically more a social app than a medical one, it certainly has its medical uses.
It features a chat room, member profiles, and a forum, the forum discusses such varied subjects as internal medicine, neurology, USMILE, medical eBooks, technology, and much more.
The opportunities to meet other professionals while learning about new methodologies and cultures are priceless. Yet another social engineering coup by the Apple iPhone.

ICD9-CM

Can you imagine? Now you can carry all the information contained in a 30 pound reference resource in your pocket! This very useful iPhone application puts all the current diagnosis codes in the palm of your hand.
You can search and browse the traditional categories, by code or diagnosis. Choose to search the whole reference or just a category or nonspecific code. You have the ability to identify specific or nonspecific codes, as well as to view and save the full long description to your Favorites.
Once again the iPhone3G is revolutionizing medical technology. 21,000 codes at the command of your fingertips; power, innovation, knowledge. An unstoppable combination.

With the expanse of human knowledge inflating at an unprecedented rate, now, more than ever, you need the power of the iPhone. With the ability to carry a world of information and data in your pocket, the iPhone is not a trendy gadget. It is must-have 21st Century technology. The implications are hard to ignore.