Table 10 General Healthcare Applications
From: A Systematic Review of Healthcare Applications for Smartphones
Application | Version (price) | Platforms | Description | Functions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HCSIT URL50[72] | 2.0 (free) | Palm OS, WindowsMobile | An application to assist clinicianswith smoking cessation counselingof patients at the point of care. | Includes Public Health Service guidelines onsmoking cessation; smoking cessation drugprescribing information; FTNDs questionnaire forscoring nicotine dependence; recommendpharmacotherapy for highly dependent smokers. |
Borboleta URL51[73] | 1.0.2 (free) | Palm OS, SymbianOS, WindowsMobile, Android | A mobile telehealth system forprimary homecare. | Registration of patient home visits; presentspatient data, patient caregiver data, patientsocioeconomic data, scheduled visits, newvisit registration, visit history of the patient,disease catalog, and medication catalog. |
LIFe-reader [52] | Not Found | Windows Mobile | A smartphone-based CDSStapplication with a barcodereader designed for nurses ingeriatric homecare. | Scans EANu codes on drug packages; obtainspatient’s medication profile; checks forinappropriate drugs, drug-drug interactions,therapeutic duplication, and warnings forunsuitable drugs for elderly people. |
MultimediaPaging BasedClinical Alarm [75] | Prototype | Web-enabledsmartphone | A real-time clinical alarm systemto monitor intensive care patients. | Color-based severity indicator; displays thealarms for an intensive care unit; displays vitalsigns at the moment of alarm; displays allalarms for a patient bed. |
OutbreaksNear Me URL52[39] | 1.1 (free) | iOS (iPhone,iPod Touch, iPad),Android | An application for real-timedisease outbreak information. | Displays outbreak location in Google mapand outbreak details from HealthMap database,which utilizes medical email list services, news,media report, official alerts, etc. |
H1N1 SwineFlu Update URL53[39] | No longersupported | iOS | A newsreader application forSwine Flu (H1N1) outbreaks. | News feed on H1N1 outbreak from CDCv,WHOw and major news organizations. |
WISER URL54[74] | (free) | Windows Mobile,Plam OS, iOS,BlackBerry,Android | An application for EmergencyMedical Service Specialists thatidentifies chemical andbiological hazards on the basisof symptoms and signs. | Provides access to NLM’s Hazardous SubstancesData Bank (HSDB); radiological and biologicalsubstance report. |