Thanks to HIFA member Irina Ibraghimova for the July 2014 issue of the AIHA Internet Resources Digest (American International Health Alliance)

This free newsletter contains descriptions of several “free and low-cost apps that help clinicians find evidence-based answers to their questions at a point-of-care”:

• – PubMed for Handhelds
• – LactMed App
• – Medscape
• – Evidence Central
• – 5-Minute Clinical Consult
• – ACP Clinical Guidelines from the American College of Physicians
• – QMDT (Quick Mobile Diagnosis & Treatment)
• – Guideline Central
• – EBM Rater
• – Evidence-based Medicine Toolkit
• – Qx Calculate
• For further details, see http://www.healthconnect-intl.org/resources.html

Which apps have you tried and which do you find most useful?

These apps are (I think) primarily aimed at health professionals in high-income countries. I would be very interested to learn from HIFA members about their applicability in low-resource settings.

Also, the newsletter points to an interesting related article ’10 mobile applications for evidence based medicine’:

“Evidence-based medicine has quickly moved from the background to the forefront as a determiner of treatment pathways, and the mobile health app marketplace has responded in kind. Dozens of EBM apps are available in Apple’s App-Store and Google’s Android Play for smartphones and tablets, many from major medical institutions and most of them free or for a nominal fee. …When doctors are overwhelmed with data points and don’t have the time or bandwidth to read through all the journals and abstracts, these programs can separate the signal from the noise and allow them to focus on the most relevant information, as well as making sure they answer the right questions.”

http://www.mhealthnews.com/slideshow/10-mobile-apps-evidence-based-medicine

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