Best Android Apps for Doctors and Physicians

The ability for doctor's to access important data immediately while helping patients can be an invaluable asset. Mobile devices like Android tablets and smart phones allow doctors to access important information such as medical journals, prescription medication guides and specialty calculators while they are sitting with their patients without having to check their computers in the office down the hall. Here is a list of some handy Android apps available now in the Google Play store.

Medscape medical app for Android

Medscape is possibly the most popular app for medical professionals. Medscape allows medical professionals from doctors to nurses to students to view industry leading news feeds. The news feeds can be customized and filtered by over 34 specialties. Subscribing members can view over four thousand articles and over six hundred videos on various diseases and procedures.

WebMD medical app for Android

WebMD is a great tool for doctors and patients to diagnose symptoms and communicate how they feel via a graphic user interface. The tool provides a three dimensional figure that patients can use to touch the areas where they feel discomfort and describe the symptoms in a standard understandable fashion.

Diseases Codes ICD-10 medical app for Android

This app from Trofo Systems allows you to look up any of the new ICD-10 disease codes easily from your Android mobile device. The auto complete search features can be handy if you need help remembering exactly what you are looking for. You can also bookmark your most accessed codes and save the whole datavase to your SD card.

Epocrates medical app for Android

Epocrates is the medical professional's choice for accessing prescription drug information, now available for Android mobile devices. With Epocrates Rx, doctors can view drug information and even look at drug interaction details to help prevent any unwanted side effects associated with mixing multiple drugs at once. Doctors can also search for drugs from a database using common names or full scientific names, and view suggested dosage amounts.

Skyscape Medical Resources medical app for Android

Skyscape Medical Resources app is a turnkey application that gives medical professionals access to a number of medical resources. Drug information and clinical information can be searched and viewed through a database of more than 850 categories. With RxDrugs, you can view information on a number of name brand and generic drugs complete with pill images and calculators for figuring suggested dosage amounts. ADS ehr software is the revolution in the world of medical technology.

PubMed Mobile medical app for Android

PubMed is an invaluable resource for any medical professional or student who needs to write papers or create journal citations for personal research projects. PubMed comes complete with over twenty one million article and journal citations, focusing especially in the biomed and life sciences specialty areas. You can save citations as favorites, share them with other doctors and search easily by keyword.

Calculate by QxMD medical app for Android

QxMD Medical Software, Inc. has provided a medical calculator application aptly named Calculate. This app includes over 150 unique specialty calculators geared toward medical health and life sciences professionals. The app also provides deep integration with the PubMed references app.

Calorie Counter – MyFitnessPal medical app for Android

Calorie Counter is a great application to recommend to patients who are on prescribed diets. MyFitnessPal Calorie Counter has the largest database of food information including both raw foods and restaurant and fast food entries.

Ob (Pregnancy) Wheel medical app for Android

While women's health specialists obviously benefit toward this app, Ob (Pregnancy) Wheel is an extremely useful application for primary care physicians or any other medical professional who sees pregnant women on a regular or semi-regular basis.

Speed Anatomy Quiz Free medical app for Android

Geared toward anyone who needs to memorize their anatomy facts, Speed Anatomy Quiz Free is a great application for students, laymen, and professionals. It contains twenty eight levels including all the major systems of the body.