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In spite of having the feeling of ‘having it all’ when it comes to the Android apps within the medical arena, we all know that deep down you rummage the Google Play store every day to download some of the top ranking and path-breaking applications. In this article, I will take you through some of the most useful medical apps available in the Android market place that might just prove your satisfaction levels a touch shorter than what could actually be. 1. MEDSCAPE One of the most commonly used med apps on the Android market; Medscape offers a range of features of users from daily medical updates to easily downloadable protocols. Further, like a lot of other medical applications, it possesses a Drug reference tool which allows the user to talk with experienced personnel for advice on a drug or even get his prescription checked. The good part about this tool is that it extends its services to the herbal field as well. In an attempt to make life in a laboratory easy, Medscape offers readily downloadable protocols for procedures ranging from isolation of DNA to ChIP on ChIP sequencing. Many of these procedures would definitely have certain clinical implications and in cases like these, Medscape takes a step further and offers excellent videos providing brief glimpses of some of the real time applications. With all the above taken under consideration, one has to nonetheless agree that irrespective of the solutions that an application might provide, it can never match the seasoned suggestions offered by another person who’s undergone something similar or is truly an expert on the subject. With this in mind, Medscape has a directory where people can get in touch with doctors, scientists and other experts easily built into the app. 2. EVERNOTE This application is truly handy. How often have we forgotten an appointment with the doctor simply because we had put it down on a piece of paper only to find it lying near the trash bin a week later? Evernote is the most effective solution to the above problem. The application helps one remember everything as and when he wants to. Yet another interesting feature of this app is its ability to capture videos and then store them for later use. Yes, agreed that this feature is not out of the ordinary, but the app also allows one to add additional details to the video in a format that can be easily understood by him, which is a sheer value addition. ‘ Penultimate’ is an important tool present within this app that allows users to take down notes or important points or significant results of an essay in his/her own handwriting, allowing him to make necessary alterations. Another noteworthy tool within Evernote is’ Skitch’, which makes any presentation that you want to make and make it look attractive by inserting some pertinent images. Last but not the least, ‘Web Clipper’ is another useful tool that enables one to store anything and everything, be it an entire page or a URL or a portion of a magazine on the World Wide Web. 3. Calculate by QxMD As the name suggests, this app is an extremely user-friendly tool for all those people who hate doing conversions and other calculations in the field of Medicine. A notable feature of the app is that it offers the user to solve his problem of concern in a multi-step procedure; that is, it provides an interface wherein the user is made to answer several questions at every stage of the problem, in order to arrive at the exact issue. The calculators present within the tool provide dozens of applications from cell counting, to calculations relating to risk and mortality. 4. SKYSCAPE Skyscape provides a range of benefits from free access to paid journals and books to a wide selection of medical and healthcare calculators. RXDrugs is a tool present within Skyscape which offers complete details about a drug of interest. One attractive quality about RXDrugs is that it provides a multi-drug analyzer program to present interactions and their clinical implications. Archimedes is yet another interesting tool available in the Skyscape market that provides the user with a range of medical calculators to choose from. With talk on tools that Skyscape offers, MedAlert definitely deserves a mention for its scientifically legitimate resources such as paper abstracts, summaries, alerts on new drugs and allied. The best thing about the Skyscape application is that it is compatible with all the Android OS versions. We would be covering a few more interesting and useful Medical apps from the Android Market Place in our coming articles.
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