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Skyscape Medical Resources

by Eric March on October 15, 2008 at 10:57 pm

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App Name: Skyscape Medical Resources
Developer: Skyscape
Category: Health & Fitness

Medical apps, and in particular medical calculators seem to be all the rage these days. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — it’s good to see the iPhone making inroads in high powered professions, so the more the merrier, really — as long as they aren’t crap, of course. Words to live by.

So far most of the medical apps have been relatively single-purpose — a medical calculator, 3D imager, OB/GYN tools, etc. This one however reaches out to a number of disciplines of medicine to deliver a vast array of resources to the fingertips of physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, EMT/EMS providers, medical/nursing students, or just about any other health care professional.

It includes four essential free resources broken down into categories to anyone for the asking: Rx Drugs, which includes dosing information on thousands of pharmaceuticals both generic and name-brand and includes over 400 dosing calculators; Outlines in Clinical Medicine, which is a resource for clinicians and doctors providing outlines of diseases and symptoms; Archimedes, a medical calculator with over 200 interactive tools; and MedAlert, a medical news and information aggregator to keep professionals up to date on the latest in journal summaries, clinical trial results, drug information updates, and more.

There are loads of additional resources available as well — but you’ll have to pay a premium for those. However, if you’re a medical professional, you can probably afford them — and the convenience of having what seems like just about every bit of information you’ll ever need at your fingertips in just one app sounds like a good deal to me. Hey, if I suddenly start violently expelling bits of me that ought not to be seeing the light of day and Gregory House isn’t available, then I’m going to want whomever treats me to have the best information available.

Although if there’s any chance that House might be free some useful amount of time before I perish, I’d really like to see him. Seriously, what is this thing? It looks important.