ABC News: Top 5 medical apps for Apple iPhone
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 06:06 PM EST"Although medical applications are a small fraction of the myriad of 'apps' available for smartphones, they are one of the fastest growing categories and are finding their way into hospitals, clinics, and medical schools," Devin Powell reports for ABC News.
Powell reports, "Medical apps make up a little more than one percent of all apps, but the downloadable medical apps are becoming so useful to doctors that the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., now requires all of its students to carry an iPhone or iTouch [sic]."
Powell reports, "Here's a look at some of the more popular and unusual apps developed for medicine and public health for the iPhone..."
• Epocrates: The most popular medical application for the iPhone by number of downloads; a free portable database that contains pictures of and information on 3,300 pharmaceutical drugs.
• OsiriX: Allows radiologists to view and carry around their patients' X-ray scans on an iPhone. The X-ray images can be sent from phone to phone via iChat.
• Eye2Phone: Brazilian ophthalmologist Renato Neves has adapted seven eye exam tests to be administered from the iPhone's screen.
• iBreathe: Helps radiologists aim X-rays and destroy tumors. Will be presented at a medical physics conference this month
• Swine Flu Tracker: A public health app that allows people to track its spread. The app, which is still awaiting approval by Apple, brings together information drawn from a range of different sources on the web.
MacDailyNews Take: By the time Apple's part-time summer intern, er... "formidable app validation team" gets around to approving it, we'll all be dead.
Full article here.


Flu app?! Can't wait to see google cover the globe red as the virus spreads.