5 iPhone Apps That Are Revolutionizing The Health Care Industry
You might not realize it but some iPhone apps are so good that they go beyond being something fun to play with on your phone. Some are going so far as to revolutionize the health care industry. Here are 5 of those iPhone apps that are so much more than just another app on your phone.
iTriage
The iTriage app is a wonderful diagnostic tool. All you have to do is input your symptoms, your patient’s symptoms, or some symptoms that you make up just for fun and this app will give you a list of conditions that might be causing those symptoms. It will also provide you with those conditions’ corresponding treatments. It can function as a tool to help medical professionals consider all the options or can be used by anyone to evaluate what condition their symptoms might be coming from.
MedCodes-09
This no doubt soon-to-be-updated app is a valuable tool in the health care system. All medical conditions have corresponding codes. These codes are used for multiple purposes including billing and insurance. This app has all the information of the ICD-9, CPT, and HCPS codes. Instead of having to search long lists of codes or make your way though the large manuals that house all the codes out there, you can use this handy app to find the codes that you want quickly and easily.
Medical Encyclopedia
This Medical Encyclopedia iPhone app contains a staggering amount of information. With over 50,000 pages of medical information, this is another type of quick resource that allows medical professionals to look up anything without taking the time of finding the right book and then locating the right section in that book. This app offers information on just about everything including symptoms, injuries, diseases, surgeries, tests, and nutritional information.
Epocrates
The Epocrates app is the source for all the information a medical professional could want involving medications. This information is detailed and includes medications, dosages, possible side effects, prices, and even pictures so that pills can be readily identified. Up to 30 medications can be reviewed simultaneously so quick comparisons of different drugs can be done without any trouble.
iChart EMR
This is an electronic medical record system that can be taken anywhere. This app can make patient information easy to access and available at any time. This ease of access means that a doctor never needs to be far away from a patient’s information during treatment or at any other time.
This app lets doctors track lab results, write notes, and look up the necessary codes for conditions and procedures. All this information can then be synced to an online data center to make it even easier to use.
These 5 iPhone apps are revolutionizing the health care industry in ways that most people would have never thought possible. These vitally important uses of phones demonstrate just what ingenious tools these phones and their apps can be. Phones are no longer just for making calls. Or for playing games, taking pictures, or texting for that matter.
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Thanks for including iTriage (www.iTriageHealth.com) in your List of “5 iPhone Apps that are Revolutionizing the Health Care Industry.” We are honored that you included iTriage. The iTriage solution is also revolutionizing the healthcare industry by connecting patients with the most appropriate healthcare providers, as well as providing ER Wait Times for those providers that want more transparency around those wait times.