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Healthy smartphone:

Healthy smartphone:. Health Oriented Apps. Martha Earl, AHIP, Assistant Director Michael Lindsay, AHIP, Serials/E Resources Librarian Preston Medical Library, UT Graduate School of Medicine 1924 Alcoa Hwy Knoxville Tennessee, 37920. General. webmd.

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  1. Healthy smartphone: Health Oriented Apps Martha Earl, AHIP, Assistant Director Michael Lindsay, AHIP, Serials/E Resources Librarian Preston Medical Library, UT Graduate School of Medicine 1924 Alcoa Hwy Knoxville Tennessee, 37920

  2. General

  3. webmd • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Android • Commercial, Ad Supported • Features: • Symptom Checker • Drugs & Treatments • Pill Identification Tool • Local Health Listings

  4. Medline plus • Mobile Optimized Website (http://m.medlineplus.gov/) • So you can use it on any device with a browser! • Free; Medline Plus is produced by the National Library of Medicine • Search on: • Health Topics • Drugs • Medical Terms • Also available in Spanish • Tip: On IPhone, I Pod Touch, Add to Home Screen for icon on your device.

  5. Livestrong english-spanish dictionary of cancer terms • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad • Free • Features: • Searchable dictionary of over 6,000 definitions provided by the National Cancer Institute

  6. Skyscape Medical resources • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Android, Blackberry • Free • Features: • RXDrugs – information on thousands of Brands and Generics including interactions and dosing calculators • Archimedes – medical calculator with 200 interactive tools • Outlines in Clinical Medicine – Evidence Based clinical information on hundreds of diseases and symptom-related topics.

  7. Medscape • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Android, Blackberry, Kindle Fire • Free App from WebMD, more oriented toward healthcare professionals. • Features: • Medical news & alerts for 34 specialty areas • Can find, save, and email articles from the app. • Includes drug information on over 8000 drugs • Drug Interaction Checker • Can save searches

  8. Fitness & nutrition Apps

  9. Weight watchers mobile • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Android • Free from Weight Watchers • Features: • Monitor and track food and activity points • Check point values for favorite foods • Includes social networking functions

  10. Runtastic • Downloadable App for IPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone • Free for basic version. • Maps your workout with built-in GPS, tracking your progress by distance, calories burned, speed, heart rate, etc.

  11. My fitness pal • Downloadable App for IPad, IPhone. • Free • Calorie Counter, Diet Tracker • 1.1 million foods in database • Fast data entry

  12. Calorie tracker • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Blackberry, Windows Mobile. • $2.99 from ITunes Store • Features: • Includes database of food & restaurant items • Personalized Daily calorie intake based on goals • Weight tracking and charts • Can track water intake • Daily reminders to help stay on goal

  13. DailyMed • Mobile-optimized website: (http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/mobile/index.cfm) • Free • Features: • Search on over 36,000 drugs • Quality information from National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine

  14. Fooducate • Downloadable App, available for IPhone, IPad, and Android. • Free • Features: • Includes barcode reader, scan UPC codes and learn about food before you buy.

  15. Food & fitness tracker for Sparkpeople • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Blackberry and Android • Free • Features: • Food & calorie tracker with more than 1 million foods in the database • Daily meal plans customized for your goals • Weigh in page that graphs weight and progress over time • Boasts the most detailed weight and calorie reports of any IPhone food tracker • Track calories and workouts in one app.

  16. Food safety & recalls

  17. recalls • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad • Free • Features recall information from: • FDA • USDA • CPSC • EPA • NHTSA

  18. calculators

  19. Archimedes free medical calculator • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Android, Blackberry, Palm, and Windows Mobile • Free download included with Skyscape • Features: • Over 200 interactive tools, organized by specialty

  20. Bmi calculator • Downloadable app for IPhone, IPad, Android. • Free download, commercial product • Features: • Can set how length and weight are measured • Strong user ratings

  21. Nhlbi Bmi calculator • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad • Free from The National Institute of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute • Features: • Can toggle between English/Metric measurements • Includes normal ranges

  22. Heart rate monitor by logyourrun • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad • Free • Features: • Monitor pulse by tapping the screen or counting heart beats • Calculates heart rate zones and where which zone you are in • Works with heart rate straps, eliminating the need to count your heart beats.

  23. Chronic disease management

  24. STAT framingham heart age • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad • Free • Features: • Calculates 10 year Cardiovascular Disease Risk, based on: • Age • Cholesterol level • Blood Pressure • Smoking

  25. Glucose buddy • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad • Free • Features: • Provides a convenient way to log, graph, and store glucose readings.

  26. Breast cancer: beyond the shock • Downloadable App from National Breast Cancer Foundation • Free • Features: • Content to help users learn more about the condition • Hear stories from women • Ask questions

  27. Asthma md • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad • Free • Features: • Track asthma symptoms, triggers, peak flow, medications • Visualize asthma activity on a color graph • Map PFM to severity zones • 5 star user rating

  28. T2 mood tracker • Downloadable App available for IPhone, IPad, Android • Free • Features: • Monitor moods on six pre-loaded scales, anxiety, stress, depression, brain injury, post-traumatic stress, general well-being • Custom scales can be built • Can add notes to document daily events, medication changes and treatments.

  29. EmergencIES, disaster safety & Public health

  30. CDC App • Downloadable App for IPad, or available as mobile optimized website: (http://apps.usa.gov/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention/) • Free from Centers for Disease Control • Features: • Data & Statistics • Information on diseases & conditions • Disaster safety • Environmental health • Healthy living.

  31. Health map mobile • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Android • Free • Features: • Mapping of disease outbreaks near you

  32. FEMA App • Downloadable App for IPhone, Android, Blackberry, and as mobile optimized website (http://apps.usa.gov/fema-mobile/) • Features: • Information on preparedness • Contact information for FEMA • Where to go for help

  33. Poison Center Help • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad • Free App Developed by American Association of Poison Control Centers • Features: • Free, confidential access to poison control experts • Keeping the app on hand means never having to worry about where to find the number in an emergency.

  34. EPA airnow • Downloadable App for IPad, IPhone • Free • Features: • Real-time, location-specific reports • Current air quality • Air quality forecasts for ozone and fine particle pollution

  35. UV index from epa • Downloadable App for IPhone, Android, Blackberry, and as a mobile optimized website (http://apps.usa.gov/uvindex/) • Free • Features: • UV Index • Air quality ratings wherever you are.

  36. other

  37. Drop box • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, also accessible from your web browser. • Free • Features: • Securely store files online. • Share files with other users

  38. Weather underground • Downloadable App for IPhone, IPad, Android. • Free • Also available as a Mobile-optimized website: http://m.wund.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=mobile&query=37920 • Features: • Users can set up their own weather station, to add their readings to the Weather Underground network. • Over 22,000 personal weather stations report data • Interactive Wundermap • Temp, ‘feels like’ temp, wind speed & direction, humidity, dew point, visibility, pressure, gusts and severe weather covered.

  39. Quixey • Note: Not an App • Search engine designed specifically for apps • https://www.quixey.com/

  40. USA.gov Mobile apps directory • Mobile-optimized website http://apps.usa.gov/ • Free from USA.gov • Directory of US Government Apps • TIP: Browse this for mobile apps

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