Iphone/Ipod/Ipad resources
Licensed iphone/ipod app
- VisualDX Mobile
- Go to the VisualDX website
- Click the get VisualDX free for your Iphone link
- Complete the username and password request form
- Follow the instructions in the activation email to install from app store and register to start using VisualDX
- Micromedex Apps (Drug Information, Drug Interactions, IV Compatibility)
- Go to Micromedex 2.0
- Click on Mobile
- Follow the instructions for each app (quarterly password in instructions)
- return to the instructions every 90 days to get that quarter's password for the drug interaction app and drug compatibility app
- Gale Encyclopedias (works best on iPad)
- go to http://www.gale.cengage.com/apps/aml/CollegeLibrary/ to learn more
- collection of encyclopedias for undergraduates
Licensed ipad app
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Go to the Chronicle web site
- Create an account
- Install the app from the appstore
- Use the login and password you created to enable the app
Licensed browser/safari apps
- AccessMedicine Mobile
- AccessPharmacy Mobile
- EBSCOhost (search MEDLINE, CINAHL, and other EBSCO databases)
- Epocrates online premium
- Facts & Comparisions® Mobile
- FirstConsult (requires you to setup a personal login from the regular website first)
- MDConsult Mobile (requires you to setup a personal login from the regular website first)
- STAT!Ref Mobile
- JAMAevidence
- create a my jamaevidence login at http://www.jamaevidence.com
- then use the bulleted link above, or go to http://m.jamaevidence.com
- UpToDate
- only works through PDA's web browser
- Summon (quick search of many full text resources)
- Lexis/Nexis Mobile news & business search
- Mobile Web of Science
Recommended free iphone/ipod apps
- ePocrates drug info, interaction checker, news, calculators
- Micromedex Drug Information app
- Go to Micromedex 2.0
- Click on the Mobile tab at the top of the page
- Follow the instructions for the Drug Information app
- Kindle for Iphone/Ipod ebook reader
- Medscape for Iphone/Ipod drug info, disease info from emedicine, interaction checker, procedures, news, directories for physicians, pharmacies and hospitals (requires free registration)
Recommended iphone/ipod apps to purchase
- Pubmed on Tap
- Lexi-Comp Creighton affiliates get a discount
- Diagnosaurus OR use for free through safari at Accessmedicine Mobile
Free PDA / Mobile / Smartphone Resources
- Acrobat Reader for Mobile Devices
- Mobile Merckmedicus
- NLM Mobile
- Pubmed for Handhelds
- Medscape for Android or Blackberry has drug info, disease info from emedicine, interaction checker, procedures, news, directories for physicians, pharmacies and hospitals (requires free registration)
PDA / Mobile / Smartphone Resources Licensed by HSL
- AccessMedicine Mobile
- AccessPharmacy Mobile
- Diagnosaurus is a differential diagnosis tool from Accessmedicine
- Downloads for Palm, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry are free. Iphone/Ipod costs 99 cents.
- JAMAevidence Mobile
- UpToDate
- only works through PDA's web browser
- LARA
- use your HBOC Care Manager login
- must access from CUMC's wireless network
Consider making a web app on your smart phone
- Accessmedicine Mobile
- AccessPharmacy Mobile
- Mobile Chronicle of Higher Education
- EBSCOhost (search MEDLINE, CINAHL, and other EBSCO databases)
- Epocrates online premium
- Facts & Comparisions® Mobile
- MDConsult Mobile (requires you to setup a personal login from the regular website first)
- Micromedex 2.0 Mobile (instructions)
- STAT!Ref Mobile
- JAMAevidence
- UpToDate
- only works through PDA's web browser
- Summon (quick search of many full text resources)
- Lexis/Nexis Mobile news & business search
- Mobile Web of Science