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NCurse I’ve recently come across a nice app that helps perform ECG with your mobile. Though they are still awaiting FDA approval. Read More
Jul 7, 2011

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NCurse The American Medical Association came up with a nice challenge for doctors and medical students. An excerpt from their announcement: The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced its first-ever app designed specifically for physicians that allows them to quickly find CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) billing codes. Read More
Apr 7, 2011

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NCurse Wheelmap: iPhone City Guide for Wheelchair Users The iPad 2, healthcare, and platform agnosticism Boy, 4, Diagnosed With Leukemia After Picture Is Posted on Facebook Philip Rice posted the photo of his son, Ted, on the social networking site after putting him to bed with a rash. A family friend, Dr. Read More
Mar 17, 2011

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NCurse I’ve already written about numerous ECG solutions in smartphones (see below), but a recent Medgadget report beats them all.What you need is an iPhone with the special app, a wireless case and you can perform an ECG. There are so many great ideas which will probably never be used in practice, but this, I believe, [...] Read More
Jan 7, 2011

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NCurse IBM 2010 Predictions For Next 5 Years The Top 10 in 2010 Global Health Communication If global health communication was characterized by anything in 2010, it was the rise of Twitter and other social media among non-profit organizations as a way of bypassing increasingly irrelevant traditional media and taking their messages directly to their target groups. [...] Read More
Dec 30, 2010

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NCurse Mobile application search on Mimvi.com Med Schools Flunk at Keeping Faculty Off Pharma Speaking Circuit A ProPublica investigation found that more than a dozen of the school’s doctors were paid speakers in apparent violation of its policy—two of them earning six figures since last year. Doctor-patient relationship compromised by Facebook The VCL’s are software applications [...] Read More
Dec 22, 2010

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NCurse There is no question about the growing importance of mobile applications focusing on health and medical communication. I thought I would share some tools and websites with you that will help find the most relevant medical mobile apps either for Androids or iPhones. Read More
Nov 24, 2010

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NCurse Google Celebrates Discovery of X-rays With Special Doodle New Medical Calculators in Wolfram|Alpha Wikipedia hard-cover editions now available Top 10 EMR and operational iPhone medical apps Imagine Medicine: The Photography / Photoshop Contest Welcome to the Imagine Medicine contest! We are looking for fascinating medical photography that… imagines medicine. Read More
Nov 18, 2010

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NCurse Blekko is a new search engine that aims to remove spam content from search results by slashtagging websites. What to Do When Patients Contact You on Twitter Five ways your cell phone can save you Illustrated licensing tutorial for Wikimedia Commons Free knowledge is the foundation of all Wikimedia projects: anyone is free to use, [...] Read More
Nov 12, 2010

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NCurse Recently, more and more incredible mobile health applications and solutions have been coming to the market so I thought I would share some of these in one entry. First, here is Instant Heart Rate, an Android app which I use myself. Read More
Oct 13, 2010

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NCurse Medgadget just shared Nimble an EMR solution which looks quite amazing on iPads. I thought I would share some other solutions designed for iProducts because there are more and more of them. Read More
Oct 7, 2010

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NCurse I’ve been writing about whether iPad could be used in medicine and healthcare for some time (pros and cons, real examples and infographics) and now it seems Apple just confirmed its aim to use it actively in healthcare in a recent commercial. Read More
Sep 15, 2010

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NCurse I just came across these videos from drchrono.com describing how drugs can be ePrescribed through an iPad. Read More
Sep 10, 2010

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NCurse Medgadget reported a new development achieved by the University of Washington engineers. They focused on enabling deaf and hard-of-hearing students communicate via mobile phones with sign language. Read More
Aug 27, 2010

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NCurse Back in February Robert Scoble said: if you miss Siri you’ll miss the future of the Web. Well, he must be right,  and after checking Siri, you’ll probably think the same. Read More
Aug 16, 2010

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NCurse I’m a big fan of health-related mobile applications, so I was glad to read the recent Medgadget entry about a cheap eye test. If you click on this link, you will find dozens of similar apps but in dermatology or neurology. Read More
Jun 30, 2010

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NCurse Medgadget has recently featured a great application, Gyromaniac, that helps students and gastroenterologists about performing colonoscopies and what they exactly see on the monitor. An excerpt from. Read More
Jun 29, 2010

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NCurse When the iPad was launched and I wrote about the pros and cons regarding its use in healthcare, I was sure only about one thing: there would soon be many potential applications. Well, PadGadget col. Read More
Jun 28, 2010

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