Five Best Android Apps For Doctors

For a doctor life is not that easy the way we think.Going to the hospital, attending patients at clinic, keeping yourself updated with the latest advancements and news, the list of things you need to do never ends.

But luckily, with smartphones getting better day by day and availability of apps for literally anything and everything, technology may make your schedule a relaxed one.

Here are the list of Top 5 apps available on android for doctors:

1) Epocrates Plus - 

This is a great app for medical professionals.It includes clinical practice guidelines, information on diseases reviewed by doctors, information about various lab tests and their interpretations, treatment recommendation, and substitute medicines.

In this app the drug information includes:

• Adult and pediatric dosing for FDA- approved and off- label indications
• Black box warning, contraindications, adverse reactions and drug interactions
• Safety/monitoring, including pregnancy risk categories, location safety rating, monitoring parameters and similar drug names
• Pharmacology, including metabolism, excretion, subclass and mechanism of action
• Manufacturer, DEA/FDA status and approximate retail price

2) Amion -

This app helps doctors organize their shifts better.They can view their on-call and daily schedules directly from the homepage and can organize their shift schedule in a calendar format.What makes it even more better is that it enables the doctors to plan their schedule for weeks or even for months in advance.

This app also helps the doctors to add their colleague's schedule so that they can plan their shift in a better way.It also notifies the user when changes made.

3) Consult and profile management(Practo) -

Since practo is gaining popularity among the smartphone users, it is only wise for a doctor to get themselves registered on it.Through this app, doctors can manage their profile on the app by keeping a record of how many times their profile has appeared in search results in the last 6 weeks, and by doing so they can manage their appointment accordingly.

4) Curofy -

Curofy is a doctor's networking app that enables chat and case discussions.With curofy doctors can easily find other doctors, chat with them and can get the latest medical news. It also act like a job search portal for medical students.

5) Medscape -

Medscape can be used by doctors, students and nurses as well.It provides information on various drugs and diseases.It also keeps users updated on medical news and let them use medical calculators via the app itself. Most of the app comes with access to the internet,but the good part of this app is that it can work even offline.