I’ve also added this app to the Free medical iPhone/iPad app listing

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New free medical app: Internal Medicine News #iOS

PocketCPR by the British Heart Foundation is a new free app in the Apple iTunes store which “provides REAL-TIME feedback and instructions on Hands-only CPR that empowers ANYONE to learn and practice CPR”

Download it now from iTunes

The Free medical iPhone/iPad listing has been updated accordingly

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New free medical app: PocketCPR #iOS

If you are interested, you can head over to:
HP webOS Developer centre
and the new EnyoJS website which has some cool samples which you can run in your webkit browser (e.g. Chrome or Safari desktop, iOS or Android device):
Flicker search
Canvas sample

More articles:
HP outlines schedule for full WebOS open source release
Enyo is all up in your browsers, and there’s nothing you can do about it

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Enyo goes Open source and Cross platform

Gareth tells me that a dedicated app allows students to upload reflections on cases they have seen (with sensitive information removed) to an online portfolio in real time. Workplace-based assessments can also be completed on the spot by clinicians: in short, the iPhone is helping the medical school to provide consistent support for students, and to get them into good habits for the future: “The biggest challenge we’ve got as educators is to convince people to do things now rather than get to the point when they’re applying for revalidation, and think ‘I wish I’d done that earlier.’ Because you can’t actually go back and recapture that information.”

I think this is one area which has barely been scratched. Using a smartphone in medical education in ways beyond mere referencing by utilising all the modern features found in such devices has much untapped potential.

via @Lancet in Twitter

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An iPhone for every medical student?

If you have any medical web app that you would like us to link in Medwebapp.com, please contact us. If you have an idea for a medical web app that you would like to see, we’d be happy to hear from you too. If you are thinking of developing medical web apps but do not have a server for hosting the apps, we’d also be happy to help out – just give us a shout.

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Updates to Medwebapp.com

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Free app for iPhone: Patient Safety Manual #iOS

Medical Journals Links offers a valuable, straightforward, searchable collection of direct links to thousands of peer reviewed medical and biomedical journals websites.

At first glance it might seem like there are only two categories (Anaesthesiology and Biochemistry) but if you click on the “More” button, you are given a large list of categories. The links to journals have an icon to tell you if it is Open Access. It would be better if the authors provide the option to link to a specific journal’s mobile site if that is available e.g. I notice that the Blood journal link is to the full site and not their mobile one.

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Updated: Mobile Friendly Medical Websites

hi and thankd for years of utility in searching the scientific literature from just about anywhere when I have a few free minutes. I have a Palm Pixi now (was an avid Treo user for a decade) and downloaded PubMedLite. How do I get the fullversion, can I do more advanced searches as I used to with MDonTap? Thanks for your time & consideration!

Hi Ken – thanks for using PubMedLite. For the full featured app, you can download PubMedPlus for webOS from the App Catalog. For additional filters, you can actually type in the search box stuff like Hoelzer[Author] etc.

More medical webOS apps

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Feedback: Pubmed for webOS

Well, Datecalc is a web app which does all of the above for you and more. It is a full featured app which runs in your browser and when saved as a shortcut on your mobile phone’s Homescreen is also capable of running offline without an Internet connection.
This post is a short review of Datecalc and will also serve as a guide for first time users on how to use the features of the app.

When you first load the app in your browser, you’ll notice a little black bar at the bottom as the app data loads. Be patient and let this finish before you run the app. This happens only when you run it the first time or if there are app updates (which will automatically load if you are connected to the Internet). Note that the app data is stored in your browser cache so if you clear the cache, the app will have to re-load.

The Set buttons will call up a spinning wheel Date picker which allows you to set either the 1st or 2d Dates. iOS5 users will be re-directed to a newer version of Datecalc which uses a spinning wheel Date picker on the Date fields itself so there are no Set buttons in this case. Once you set either date, the date calculation is performed automatically. Please note the Date pickers can be used only on Touch screen devices. If you are using a desktop browser e.g. Google Chrome or Apple Safari, you’ll have to use your keyboard to manually enter the dates. Tapping anywhere on the screen after manual entry will perform the date calculation.

The above screen shot shows you how to set the 2nd Date 4 weeks ahead. Enter 4 in the box below “Change 2nd Date”, then hit the large “+” button. This will add 4 weeks to the existing date in the 2nd Date field. The automatic calculation will confirm that the two dates are indeed 4 weeks apart. You can change the interval to Days instead of weeks and also change the 1st Date if you wish. The “-” button will as expected subtract weeks or days from the selected Date.

Use the Reset Dates button to set both dates to the default System date of your device to start afresh.

The Swop dates button is a convenient way to interchange the 1st and 2nd Dates if you wish

Datecalc allow you to save up to 10 favorite Dates and this requires a little more explanation.

Decide which date you wish to Save or Update – 1st or 2nd. The Save/Update is initiated by hitting the Mem button. You are then given to option to Save or Update the 1st or 2nd Date.

You are next presented with a list of 10 available slots for storing or retrieving your Dates. Tapping on any of the slots gives you additional options

“Use this date” button will allow you to select the previously saved date and auto-fill the Date field
“Update saved data” button will update the selected slot with the date from the Date field.

If you choose “Update saved data” you are presented with one more step to optionally input a description for the saved Date.

Well that’s it. It sounds more complicated than it actually is. Play around with the app to get a feel of all the functions.

Datecalc is a free web app which should be compatible with most modern mobile devices – all iOS devices (Phones, iPod Touch, iPAds), Android phones, Blackberries, webOS and possibly Windows Phones too.

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An in-depth look at the Datecalc app

In case you have been reading all the doom and gloom about webOS and thought it was dead – it’s not quite dead, Jim. Seriously, a pretty sad turn of events after a roller coaster ride for HP webOS in 2011 summarised nicely by webOS Nation. I think it was basically mismanagment leading to products with sub-stellar hardware (though not as bad as some make it out to be) and a very competitive market. If HP had priced it right, the Touchpad could have been a greater success from the beginning. The firesale was a huge success even though people knew it was an EOL product and webOS as a multitasking OS is still great to use. In fact I use my multi-boot (Android/webOS) Touchpad more than my iPad.
What happens next? webOS isn’t dead yet and at least Meg Whitman has done the right thing by planning to put it to Open Source pasture. Whether it die a slow death there or perhaps someone picks it up and we see another revival, only time will tell. Perhaps in the near future, if there is no new smartphone manufacturer who will use webOS, we could be flashing Opensource webOS to say an HTC or Samsung phone. The webOS community remains vibrant with Homebrew and leaders like webOSinternals in charge.

It’s a pity that it’s basically a two horse race now with webOS out of the picture and Windows Phone struggling to break in. It’s a race that Android is winning for now and to me it looks like the old Mac vs Windows game again. I predict eventually the iOS market will shrink to a small niche area – perhaps 10-20% of mobile users and Android will dominate like Windows did for the next 3-5 years. I doubt Apple can pull any rabbits out of the hat without a visionary like Steve Jobs. It all depends on what they release this year so we’ll know soon enough.
As for medical users, iOS probably dominates though like the rest of mobile users, I suspect Android usage will increase as medical apps for Android are also increasing in number.

As for me, my gadget lust is being pandered to by my Palm Pre3, HTC Android and iPhone 4 smartphones My desire for tinkering with app development has since moved on to mobile web apps so I can use (and share) my work on any mobile device I use. At least webOS development has opened my eyes on how easy it is with just HTML5 & Javascript to make an app which runs well in a webkit browser. Multi-platform web app development will be my direction for now and with the increasing use of the connected mobile devices over traditional laptops and PCs (Gartner predicts that by 2013, mobile phones will have overtaken PC’s as the most common way to access the internet), I believe web apps will become more popular.

The advantages of web apps:
- no need to develop specifically for one platform
- rapid and easy development for hobbyist coders (no need to learn complex programming languages!)
- runs fast within modern webkit browsers given improvements to the way Javascript is handled
- can run offline if need be
- can be easily converted native apps with utilities like Phonegap

There are some disadvantages
- inability to access some phone specific functions
- requires Internet access to run (initially at least)
- lacks the visibility that an app market will provide for each specific OS

Are you a medical mobile user who wishes to explore web app development? I shall share my experience in this blog as I make my journey in this direction. I have some exciting plans as well in this area so stay tuned.

Have a great year ahead,

Palmdoc.

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Happy 2012!

There are six specialty areas in the EMCL app: Trauma, Stroke, Eye, Pediatric, Cardiac, and Burn. Only the most advanced and state of the art emergency care facilities with improved patient outcomes are included within the app. Some emergency rooms do not meet our criteria of having proven diagnostic and treatment capabilities in their care speciality with the most experienced staff.

The app doesn’t spell out what their criteria is for including “qualified” ERs and I’m curious as to what criteria they actually use. It also may not work well for users outside the US – it certainly couldn’t locate ERs in my current location. Otherwise it is easy to use and a good start for a free app.
Download it for free from iTunes

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Free app to help you locate an ER #iOS

I downloaded the free eM app on my HP touch but it is only palm size on the screen. Is there a way to make it fill the screen on my HP touch?
Old eyes, technologically stunted! Thanks!

Hi Jenny,

Thanks for your feedback on eMed, an app I wrote to enhance the usability of Medscape‘s mobile website. It’s an app I myself use whenever I’m on my Palm Pre/Pre2/Pre3 and I am pleased others find it useful judging from the app ratings and the kind reviews. In lieu of an official mobile Medscape app for webOS, I trust it is an adequate replacement for a webOS smartphone.
The application was written with Ares, HP/Palm’s browser based development tool for webOS/Mojo. Apps for the Touchpad require programming in Enyo, and I hope to upgrade my Mojo apps to Enyo if and when Ares is updated to support Enyo.
On the Touchpad however, the browser is not recognised as a mobile one, so you what get when you surf over to http://medscape.com is the full rather than the mobile view and that appears in eMed as well if you run eMed in the Touchpad. I can easily update the eMed app to allow fullscreen in the Touchpad but it is still Mojo and the Mojo webView control used in eMed is buggy on the Touchpad and does not call up the software keyboard when you try to input something in a search field. If Ares is updated to be Enyo compatible I shall try to update it – I guess an app to wrap the browser to provide handy shortcuts and the ability to save links to articles and drugs like in eMed would be useful.
When will Ares 2.0 be released if ever? We’ll know in the coming months of 2012.

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Feedback: eMed for #webOS