Free Resources for Mobile Devices
The following lists of free resources has been taken from library subject guides and resource lists. e-HLbc has not evaluated any of the following resources.
Please note that several of the listed resources are known to collect and report what their users have been searching. Please consult the privacy policy of any resource before downloading it to your mobile device.
Descriptions of each resource are taken directly from the home page or “about” page of the resource.
Free Resources for PDAs
Databases
Drug Reference
eBooks
Evidence Based Medicine
Guidelines and Decision Making Tools
Medical Alerts
Medical Calculators
Medical Dictionaries
Medical Reference
Free Resources for iPhones and other Apple products
Anatomical Diagrams
Clinical Decision Support
Drug Reference
Eyecare
Flashcards/Games
Guidelines and Decision Making Tools
Medical Calculators
Medical Dictionaries
Mental health
Medical Reference
News and Alerts
Neurology
Obstetrics
Patient Care
Pediatrics
Pocket Guidelines in PDF format
Point of Care Tools
Pronunciations/Translations
Study Guides
Free PDA applications
Pubmed on Tap
PubMed on Tap / Medline Database on Tap is an application for PDAs that retrieves MEDLINE citations directly from the PDA through a wireless connection to the Internet. The MDoT project stopped developing client software for handheld devices (PDAs/Smart) in 2007. While they no longer provide client application support, they still maintain the server that clients connect to. You are welcome to download the software, but regretfully they cannot guarantee that their applications will work properly on your device.
Epocrates Rx
Free mobile drug and formulary reference.
Geriatrics At Your Fingertips
Free for students. This annually updated, comprehensive pocket-sized reference to clinical geriatrics provides practical information on the evaluation and management of diseases and disorders most common to older adults.
Harrison’s PIM v. 15
Harrison’s Principle of Internal Medicine stripped and converted to iSilo format.
Mobile MerckMedicus
To help you work more efficiently with your personal digital assistant (PDA), MerckMedicus is excited to provide you with several options to use an integrated set of useful medical resources for your PDA. The Merck Manual, Professional Edition, Harrison’s Practice - Answers on Demand, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Reuters Medical News, MEDLINE Journal Abstracts. Requires registration.
NCBI Bookshelf
In collaboration with authors and publishers, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is adapting biomedical books for the web. Some of the books available in the Bookshelf can be downloaded to a handheld device.
MedRules
MedRules features useful clinical prediction rules taken from the medical literature. This application is for educational use only. It should not be used to make decisions affecting patient care.
Guidelines and Decision Making Tools
Allscripts Remote
Enables providers to remotely control their Allscripts Enterprise EHR or Allscripts Professional EHR from any location. In a matter of seconds, providers can access their practice’s EHR through their Apple® iPhone™, iPod Touch®, BlackBerry®, or Windows Mobile device.
AIDSinfo Guidelines
Users of Pocket PC and Palm PDAs can access the federally-approved medical guidelines on-the-go by downloading them in PDF format.
ATP III Cholesterol Management Implementation Tool
This interactive guideline tool will assist the clinician in implementing the ATP III Cholesterol Guidelines at the point of care.
Clinical References
A collection of Recommendation Summaries for all current ACP Clinical Guidelines is now available for PDA. This page also contains links to other resources for guidelines - not all of them are free.
CliniPearls - Canadian content!
CliniPEARLS delivers access to clinical guidelines for decision support at the point-of-care. Evidence based content is available to physicians in a portable format for handheld (PDAs) to facilitate the use of and adherence to the guidelines. Content is automatically updated in a central database through a content management system, and the new content is automatically updated on the PDA through synchronization to their PC. CliniPEARLS provides up-to-date, evidence-based guideline information at the point-of-care.
COPD Guidelines Tool 1.0
You can assess and monitor COPD in various settings, reduce the risk of developing COPD and slow its progression, and manage stable COPD and acute COPD exacerbation.
Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS)
The USPSTF (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force) reviews the evidence, estimates the magnitude of benefits and harms for each preventive service, reaches consensus about the net benefit for each preventive service, and issues a recommendation.
HandHeldDoc.com
This site was developed for medical practitioners (physicians, nurses, prehospital care providers, medical students etc) to be able to access decision making tools quickly, at the click of a button.
- Sepsis EGDT
This is a program designed for implementation of Early Goal Directed Therapy (EGDT). This program includes information about antibiotics, indications/contraindications to activated protein C (Xigris), steps to complete EGDT, adjunct therapies and walks the clinician through EGDT. - EM Rules
This is a compendium of decision rules, calculators, scores and frequently forgotten tables designed for the Emergency Physician, but applicable to many other specialties as well. This is a free tool designed to help physicians risk-stratify patients and make point-of-care clinical decisions. - Cinci Stroke
Cinci Stroke is designed to help practitioners with the management of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. Cinci Stroke is based on the 2007 guidelines put out by the AHA for acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. - Cinci ACS
Cinci ACS is our newest project designed to help practitioners with the management of Acute Coronary Syndrome. Cinci ACS is based on the 2007 guidelines put out by the AHA for STEMI, non-STEMI and Unstable Angina management.
JNC 7
The Palm OS (Operating System) and PocketPC 2003 program for application of The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) is now available. This interactive guideline tool will assist the clinician in implementing the JNC 7 High Blood Pressure Guidelines at the point of care.
National Guideline Clearinghouse PDA Guideline Links
Links to Clinical Practice Guidelines for Handheld Computers.
OEI Treatment Guidelines Implementation Tool
Treat overweight and obesity according to the Clinical Guidelines on Overweight and Obesity in Adults with this free interactive program.
Pediatric Hypertension Clinical Reference Tool
This interactive guideline tool will assist the clinician in implementing the 4th Report on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents at the point of care.
Shots 2008
Shots 2008 is a quick reference guide to the 2008 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules, a collaboration of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the 2007-2008 Adult Immunization Schedule, recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Details on each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names.
MedAlert(tm)
Free Journal/Research summaries on your cell phone and mobile devices. Too busy to keep up with the daily barrage of medical information? Skyscape’s MedAlert(tm) service helps ensure you stay up-to-date by delivering the latest medical information and breaking news by specialty directly to your PDA whenever you sync.
MedStream(tm)
MedStream is a collection of dynamic medical information channels that keep you up-to-date on a broad range of journal articles, medical news and research studies. You’ll have all of this information conveniently aggregated and delivered directly to your mobile device or desktop PC.
MedWatch
Drug Alerts for your Mobile Device - FREE MedStream Channel_MedWatch — a FREE MedStream channel for your mobile device, provides information from the FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program.
Archimedes
Archimedes provides you with over 130 pre-programmed formulas that include specialties such as Cardiology, Pharmacology, Hematology, FEN, Pediatrics, Pulmonary and Renal.
BMI Calculator
Provides information about BMI from the Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: the Evidence Report and the Practical Guide to the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults.
Drips v1.4
Calculates IV doses for drugs.
EBM Calculator - Canadian content!
EBM Calculator is designed to calculate relevant statistics for Diagnostic studies, Prospective Studies, Case Control Studies, and Randomized Control Trials (RCT).
Golden Ratio Design Palm Applications
EBM Calculator is designed to calculate relevant statistics for Diagnostic studies, Prospective Studies, Case Control Studies, and Randomized Control Trials (RCT).
- Lab Code
NCD Medical Necessity coding tool using latest Medicare medical necessity requirements included in the 23 lab test National Coverage Decisions. - MentStat
Mini Mental Staus Exam: Freeware application for administering and scoring the standard MMSE on a single screen of your PDA, making this very quick to use. Includes instructions. - PainStat
Pain medication conversion calculator. Fully functional shareware version, provides rapid calculation of suggested dose conversions for opioid pain medications. Intended for prescribing clinician use only.
ICUmath
Medical calculator for adult ICU that uses 85 medical equations, including pulmonary, cardiology, BNP CHF nomogram, pharmacokinetic dosing, renal, electrolyte, chemistry, nutrition, TPN, perioperative risk, biostatistics, acls, apache II, unit conversions, rules of thumb, and an RPN calculator with TVM.
MedMath
MedMath is a medical calculator for rapid calculation of common formulas in adult internal medicine. Features more than 20 formulas sorted by category, with selectable units and onscreen numeric keypad.
OB Suite v7.0
OB Suite is a freeware Palm OS program that helps family physicians, obstetricians, and medical students with common obstetrical calculations.
OB Wheel
OB Suite is a freeware Windows Mobile Program that helps family physicians, obstetricians, and medical students with common obstetrical calculations. These include gestational age (from LMP, EDC, or US data), when a patient will be a goal gestational age, when the trimesters start and end, and Bishop score.
OsteoEd Prediction Calculators
Contains 2 calculators:
- WHO Fracture Risk Assessment (FRAXTM)
A fracture risk assessment tool developed by the World Health Organization integrating the risk associated with clinical risk factors and BMD of the femoral neck. - SCORE The Simple Calculated Osteoporosis Risk Estimation
SCORE is a validated clinical prediction rule that selects patients who are appropriate candidates for DXA screening.
Pneumonia Severity Index Calculator
This program is an interactive tool to assist clinicians in determining the most appropriate care for newly diagnosed cases of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) at the point of care. It will help calculate the severity index of a pneumonia patient. The output includes mortality rates and pneumonia class types.
StacWorks Calculators
The following free calculators are available from StacWorks:
- ABGPro
A program that will completely analyze arterial blood gases for you! No longer will you be confused by ABG’s. Not only will the program tell you whether or not you have a metabolic or respiratory acidosis or alkalosis, but it will also calculate expected PCO2 and expected HCO3 when needed, and will then tell you if there is a concominant acid-base disorder. - PediTable
A quick and easy way to look up dosaging information for pediatric medications. - PregTrak
Easy-to-use replacement for the old paper pregnancy wheel. Guaranteed accuracy, more accurate than a paper wheel, which can often be off by up to 1-2 days (depending on user eyesite…). Plus, keep easy track of the current gestation of all your OB patients. No need to re-enter Mrs. Jones’ LMP, because it’s already there telling you exactly how far along she is the next time she comes in for her prenatal care. Sort patients by name or due date.
Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
This FREE Medical Abbreviations Lexicon for BDicty Dictionary Reader. It contains over 440 entries in 7 kB. A FREE Light version of BDicty (reader program for the dictionary) is included in the downloadable ZIP file with a User_Manual.pdf.
Medical Dictionary
About 5100 terms with clear explanations of technical terminology and technologies used in the Medical field.
Medical Eponyms
Here’s a list of 1,600 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing’s sign, Virchow’s node) with descriptions.
Medical Mnemonics
A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details.
MedScape for PDA and iPhone
An authoritative and accessible point of care medical reference. The evidence-based content, updated regularly by more than 8,000 attributed physician or health care provider authors and editors, provides the latest practice guidelines in 38 clinical areas.
.911(tm) - FREE Emergency Management Resource
.911 incorporates the most vital and up-to-date information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The World Health Organization (WHO), The Medical Letter, and Outlines in Clinical Medicine/Medical Emergencies into a concise and easy-to-use reference tool for use during infectious disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and bio-terrorism threats.
ABX Guide
Covers infections disease problems with diagnostic and treatment recommendations. Comprehensive yet concise information on indications, dosing, pharmacokinetics, side effects, and drug interactions. Specific information relating to microbiology, diagnosis, and therapy. How to handle common syndromes with advice on differential diagnosis and treatment. Immunization recommendations including administration and contraindications.
Act In Time to Heart Attack Signs: Physician Quick Reference Card
This handy card give physicians and other health care providers talking points for discussing heart attack warning signs and survival steps with patients. It outlines the T.I.M.E. method for helping patients understand and feel comfortable with the advice being given. The reference card also includes suggested responses to common patient concerns, including questions about heart attack treatments, embarrassment about calling 9-1-1 for a false alarm, and worry about upsetting family members.
Cultural Competency
Cultural competence is the integration and transformation of knowledge about individuals and groups of people into specific standards, policies, practices, and attitudes used in appropriate cultural settings, to increase the quality of services and thereby produce better outcomes.” Free but requires registration.
Diagnosaurus
McGraw-Hill’s Diagnosaurus 2.0, the FREE medical PDA software, is completely updated for the new age in healthcare and used by tens of thousands of students, physicians, and health professionals. The FREE Diagnosaurus 2.0 PDA tool has 1000+ differential diagnosis to help you make informed decisions. Diagnosaurus 2.0 is derived from McGraw-Hill’s most trusted CURRENT Consult Medicine 2007.
PalmEKG_The Arrhythmia Field Guide for Your Palm Computer
CDC Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines 2004 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Available as a PDA file for viewing on a Palm OS device.
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
Developed through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory and HealtheTech, Inc. Under this agreement, HealtheTech is developing software applications that allows consumers and professionals to download the USDA food database to their Palm OS(r) device or WindowsTM PC via the Internet through the Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) Web site.
WISER: Wireless Information Systems for Emergency Responders
WISER is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.
Resources for iPhones and other Apple products
SoftwareAdvice.com’s best medical apps for doctors and medical students
UBC Health Wiki’s list of iPhone apps
Muscle Head and Neck System
This app is a high-end learning/reference application covering the muscles of the head and neck.
Clinical Decision Support ACC Pocket Guidelines
This clinical practice support tool set from the American College of Cardiology Foundation includes the Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography (TTE/TEE) Appropriateness Criteria Tool which provides a list of common uses of echocardiography and a decision support application that helps guide physicians in the ordering of SPECT MPI for the detection and risk assessment of coronary artery disease.
Epocrates Rx
Free mobile drug and formulary reference.
Skyscape RxDrugs: Dosing Companion
Provides dosing guidelines on thousands of commonly used brand and generic drugs and now includes nearly 400 integrated weight-based drug dosing calculators.
EyeChart
A Snellen Eye Chart is an eye chart used by eye care professionals to measure visual acuity. While the classic Snellen chart is typically placed at 20′ or 6m, pocket-sized versions such as this one can provide useful screens for rough visual acuity.
Diagnose the Disease Game
Race against the clock to diagnose the disease and test your knowledge! This game challenges you to identify diseases as the images are revealed. Physicians, nurses, medical students or others interested in medicine will find this game interactive, educational and fun.
Speed Bones Lite
A must have game if you are tackling anatomy for high school, university or medical school. It is more captivating than flashcards and practice mode allows you to learn specific regions without doing all the previous levels. Review mode lets you replay all the mistakes you’ made in the last game to facilitate learning.
Guidelines and Decision Making Tools
Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
State-of-the-art resource for diagnosing, managing and treating infectious diseases. All handheld, mobile devices are supported including Palm, PocketPC, BlackBerry® and iPhone. Mac and PC compatible.
Johns Hopkins HIV Guide
All handheld, mobile devices are supported including Palm, PocketPC, BlackBerry® and iPhone. Mac and PC compatible.
American College of Cardiology
Multiple cardiac pocket guidelines.
StatCoder Medical Calculators
The following free calculators are available from Statcoder:
- Stat Growth-BP:
Calculate accurate growth percentiles and Z scores using the latest CDC Growth Charts including the Body Mass Index-for-age charts. - Stat Cholesterol:
This interactive application guides clinicians through the new ATP III cholesterol guidelines released in May 2001. It includes calculation of Framingham MI risk, total heart disease risk, and target LDL levels based on individual risk factors. - GRACE ACS Risk
This beta test program predicts the likelihood of death based on a GRACE risk model. It incorporates the following variables: age; CHF; heart rate; systolic BP; serum creatinine; cardiac arrest at admission; ST-segment deviation; elevated cardiac enzymes. Includes new nomogram for death and death/MI up to 6 months. - Stat Cardiac Clearance
Two step-by-step, side-by-side algorithms guide you through the most recognized guidelines for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation: American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association (2002 Update) and American College of Physicians (1997) - Stat Hypertension JNC 7
The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (May 2003) provides new guidelines for clinicians. This easy-to-use program puts the drug lists and 45 individual clinical topics at your fingertips for rapid reference. - Stat A-Fib Stroke Risk
Calculate the individual 5-year risk of stroke and stroke or death based on a study recently published in JAMA by The Framingham Heart Study. - Depression PHQ-9 Score
The Patient Health Questionnaire contains a brief, 9-item, patient self-report depression assessment specifically developed for use in primary care (PHQ-9). The PHQ-9 has demonstrated usefulness as an assessment tool for the diagnosis of depression in primary care with acceptable reliability, validity, sensitivity, and specificity. - Stat Diabetes
A new consensus algorithm for the management of hyperglycemia in Type 2 DM published in August 2006. - ICD-9 Search Tool
STAT ICD-9 Search 2006 is a freeware database which is identical to the search module of STAT ICD-9 Coder. TealDoc is used to search the official ICD-9 code list by text entry.
MedCalc
A popular free medical calculator.
Eponyms
Brings a short description of more than 1,600 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing’s sign, Virchow’s node) to your iPhone or iPod touch. A perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym.
MedScape for PDA and iPhone
An authoritative and accessible point of care medical reference. The evidence-based content, updated regularly by more than 8,000 attributed physician or health care provider authors and editors, provides the latest practice guidelines in 38 clinical areas.
Riley Kidometer 4.4 for the Palm OS
User-friendly database of age-based norms.
iRadiology (Harvard University)
A catalog of radiology cases designed to help medical students and residents improve their plain film, CT, and MRI reading skills.
NeuroMind
An iPhone app that offers neurosurgical differential diagnosis (text & mindmap), clinical scores, and the WHO Safe Surgery checklist.
MSK Radiology Teaching Files – LITE
A free version of Radiopaedia.org’s Radiology Teaching Files
Medical Encyclopedia
This comprehensive and free medical reference is from the University of Maryland Medical Center, one of the nation’s oldest academic medical centers. It contains more than 50,000 pages of in-depth and consumer friendly medical information in both English and Spanish.
Skyscape Medical Resources
A collection of free Medical Information and Decision Support resources for Healthcare Professionals, including Physicians, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Medical Students, Nursing Students, and more.
BLACKBAG Medical Resources
BLACKBAG™ offers medical news, tools, and resources for healthcare professionals across 35+ specialties and therapeutic areas.
Mental Illness
Mental Illness is a useful application that discusses the most important topics in mental health. This application is ideal for all medical professionals, medical residents and interns, nurses and medical students.
Psych Drugs
Learn important and useful information about various psychotropic medications such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and anti-anxiety medications. You can use the search box to type a psychotropic medication you are looking for, or you can scroll alphabetically through the list and quickly jump to a letter with an A-Z side panel.
PsychTerms
Contains a rich selection of 1000+ frequently used psychiatric and mental health terms, phrases and definitions — concisely written for quick and easy review. Ideal for all medical and mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students, psychology students, therapists and counselors.
MedPage Today Mobile
Breaking medical news from MedPage Today and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Medical Radio
A satellite radio channel, by medical professionals, for medical professionals, on XM 160. Access over 5,000 searchable podcasts featuring medical information, conversation and education, or look up programming based on your specialty.
Drug trials
FDAble aims to be a central warehouse for health-related data provided by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and other health-related institutions. FDAble Mobile gives you access to news about recalls, drug shortages, clinical trials and more.
AirStrip OB
Let’s obstetricians monitor patients’ statuses, such as baby’s heartbeat, remotely. Requires the AirStrip fetal software suite to be installed at the hospital.
Allscripts Remote
Doctors can review a patient’s summary while speaking with the patient on the iPhone, quickly access prescription details–including favorites and full medication search–and send up-to-date patient summary information directly to emergency rooms.
Pediatric Care Online (PCO)
Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and powered by Unbound Medicine, Pediatric Care Online delivers fast, to-the-point guidance on the clinical problems pediatricians face in everyday practice.
Pocket Guidelines in PDF format
Clinical History and Physical Exam
USAMRIID’s Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook (Blue Book)
Free pdf download
Allscripts Remote
Enables providers to remotely control their Allscripts Enterprise EHR or Allscripts Professional EHR from any location. In a matter of seconds, providers can access their practice’s EHR through their Apple® iPhone™, iPod Touch®, BlackBerry®, or Windows Mobile device.
Care360 Mobile
Free mobile interface Care360 Labs & Meds.
Anatomy Pronunciations Lite
Plays back audio of the correct pronunciations of many of the anatomy terms you have trouble with. Lite version has 100+ pronunciations. Full version has 700+ pronunciations!
Drug Pronunciations Lite
Simple application that will play back audio of the correct pronunciations of over 200 drugs used in medicine today. Be confident when pronouncing drugs by knowing how to pronounce them properly beforehand.
BoardReview
Busy students can prep for their board exams by reviewing electronic drug information on their iPhone or iPod Touch. nursing students can study electronic nursing review cards to prep for the NCLEX-RN, on their iPhone or iPod Touch so they can test their nursing knowledge anytime, anyplace.
