Tagged: innovation

A heroic app story for clinician engagement

Pictures tell a thousand words and all that. If you can spare 2 minutes, please watch this: Fire Department App – PSA from Fire Department on Vimeo. The story behind the app reads like a QIPP dream: collaboration between a … Read more → – A heroic app story for clinician engagement

Published: 7 February, 2012

Julie Meyer talks about Patients Know Best

Julie Meyer, Chief Executive of Ariadne Capital and online dragon for the BBC, talks about two of her favourite entries to Maps and Apps: Patients Know Best and Rally Round. Julie highlights the benefits for patients of being able to … Read more → – Julie Meyer talks about Patients Know Best

Published: 3 February, 2012

Five useful iPad apps from the US

Technology website Mashable has provided this useful summary of five iPad apps currently in use by doctors, patients and medical students in the US. They include apps about interactive anatomy, electronic medical health records and radiology. >> Read the full … Read more → – Five useful iPad apps from the US

Published: 18 January, 2012

App to help treatment of burns victims is official medical device

A new app helps clinicians estimate burn area percentages on patients, the necessary quantity of fluid and records patients’ details. The app works on Apple products like the iPad and was developed by the Mersey Plastic Surgery Unit, led by Rowan … Read more → – App to help treatment of burns victims is official medical device

Published: 12 January, 2012

6,991 medical apps in the “iTunes room for healthcare”

Yesterday I tweeted about approaching the 400th submitted idea, and I promptly received this: Reading the ideas and following the links being shared with the hashtag #mapsandapps, I think 400 is the tip (of the tip) of the iceberg. I later … Read more → – 6,991 medical apps in the “iTunes room for healthcare”

Published: 16 September, 2011 | 1 Comment