There are a variety of ways to use an iPad; from a personal reading device to a small laptop. Many medical professionals are finding that their iPads are also great tools for work. With the right applications, you can stay organized and productive. You can even use the iPad to help diagnose illnesses and prescribe medications.

Check out these 20 iPad applications that we think healthcare professionals will love. You’re sure to want to add all of them to your iPad right away.

1. Human Body 3D Anatomy: Great anatomy reference tool for the iPad.
2. iAnatomy: Another anatomy app. This one lets you view cross sections of the body via actual CT scans.
3. Fit Link: This is a fitness community, and more! You can keep a workout journal, determine which exercises you need to be doing and even track your progress. But, you can also use it to help recommend fitness and health activities for patients.
4. Outbreaks Near Me: This application is based on health map and is being used regularly by medical professionals to track the H1N1 flu outbreaks. The application was created by researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston with help from MIT. This app is also available for the Android.
5. Influenza (H1N1) Tracker: Much like Swine Flu News Tracker, this application is specifically for informing about H1N1. This app breaks information down by country. However, within the US, you can also get it broken down by state, and includes the assessment level offered by the World Health Organization.
6. FDA Mobile: Information on this app comes directly from the US Food and Drug Administration. It’s a great application to help you keep up with food warnings, drug interactions and even disease outbreaks. You can also keep up to date on when the latest medical treatments and drugs receive their FDA approval.
7. CDC News Reader: This is all the outbreak information you need to know, straight from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Essentially, it sends you the latest news reports coming out of the CDC, including disease outbreaks, emergency preparedness and travel notices.
8. Skyscapes Medical Bag: A medical bag full of clinical tools for your iPad.
9. MedScape: This is the most comprehensive free medical app on the web.
10. Eponyms: Learn all your medical terms and symptoms for diseases with this Eponyms application.
11. Taber’s Medical Dictionary: This is an iPad friendly version of the Taber’s Medical Dictionary.
12. 3D Teeth: Great for dentists, this app shows you 3D images of teeth. It also contains tons of reference information.
13. MedCalc: This app helps you figure dosing for prescribing medications.
14. Blausen Human Atlas: View 3D medical animations with a cross searchable medical term glossary. This app is designed to help healthcare professionals improve how they communicate with patients. It’s also a great learning tool.
15. PediStat: This app contains tons of medical information specific to working with children. It’s a must for pediatric nurses, PA’s and those working in the ER.
16. Davis’ Drug Guide: This is the comprehensive Davis Drug Guide in form for your iPad. It requires a yearly subscription fee, so that you can get updates.
17. Epocrates: One of the most comprehensive drug reference guides in a form for iPad.
18. Neuromind: Look into the mind with this app that offers images as well as reference information.
19. Medical Lab Tests: This application helps you quickly find normal lab values. It includes normal ranges for more than 100 blood tests.
20. iRadiology: This application is great for students. It allows you to review radiology concepts and images. Use it to compare images of your patients.

Whether you’re a doctor who carries his iPad on rounds, or a medical administrator who uses the iPad to learn more about the clinical side of business, these apps are sure to help you stay informed on many different types of illnesses, drugs and treatments, as well as help you stay organized and informed. Your iPad can truly be one of your most useful tools in the hospital.

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Today’s Moms love their gadgets. And, they especially love gadgets that can help them stay organized and keep their families safe and healthy. Today, we’ve put together a list of 17 web applications that moms everywhere will appreciate for how they help them keep their families safe and well.

For the Android

1. USF Health News: This app offers news information about many health topics, including environmental health issues.
2. No Dry Clean: Use this application to find cleaners who use alternative methods for clothes cleaning to help you avoid toxic dry cleaning processes. Now that we’ve learned how bad toxic dry cleaning solutions can be, we certainly don’t want to have our families’ clothes cleaned in them.
3. Travel Advisory Alerts: This application is the perfect one for travelers. It quickly updates you on all travel alerts, including disease outbreaks where you’re traveling.
4. Health News: Get all the health news you need including alerts about disease outbreaks with this android app. Learn about all the communicable diseases going around in the world, including about the H1N1 in your area. This is another great app for when you’re traveling.
5. Nutrition Tips: Get tips on feeding your family better with this nutrition app. You can find lots of new ways to feed your family in a more healthy way by learning more about the nutritional contents of the foods you like.
6. Fast Food Calorie Counter: Every mom caves in and lets the family eat fast food now and then. With this app, you’ll know exactly how many calories your family is consuming. This app tracks and provides data for almost 9000 menu items from 72 fast food restaurants. It tracks calories, fat fiber, carbs and protein.
7. Vitamins and Minerals: Help improve your family’s nutrition by learning which vitamins and minerals do what, as well as learning which foods contain the ones you’re looking for. Quickly find ways to, for example, increase your family’s fiber intake or find ways to get more vitamin C in your diet.
8. Safe Neighborhood: This app gives you a visual of the locations of registered sex offenders in your area. It’s a must for all parents.
9. Ambiance: This application can help you get a cranky or colicky baby to sleep. You can download white noises or even playlists right to your phone.

For the iPhone

10. Outbreaks Near Me: This application tracks H1N1 outbreaks. Find out if the H1N1 is near you.
11. Influenza (H1N1) Tracker: This is another H1N1 tracker. It includes the assessment level offered by the World Health Organization.
12. Food Additives: This app is perfect for parents whose children have food allergies. Find out the effects of the additives in food before you let your kids eat it.
13. White Noise Lite: This is like the Ambiance application, but for iPhone. Help get baby to sleep with several choices in white noise. Choose ocean waves, rain or crickets. This is a great app for you, too, especially if you travel.
14. Baby Monitor: Put your iphone near your sleeping baby and it will call the number you designate when baby wakes up. You never have to take a baby monitor with you when you travel again!

For Your Home Computer

15. Web MD: WebMD is the number one online resource for checking symptoms and helping you determine when you should take your child to see a doctor. Web MD can answer nearly all your medical questions. It’s also a great resource to visit after a diagnosis, to help you understand treatments, etc.
16. Parenthood: This is a great site for getting your questions about your family’s health, (and many other things) answered. Their “is this normal” section helps you look up symptoms or behaviors to see if they’re normal or if you should be concerned.
17. Families.com: Whether you’re expecting, a new parent or a seasoned one, you’ll find lots of great advice on all the stages children go through and you’ll even get some good advice about keeping a happy marriage from this great website.

Not only are web applications great for keeping you organized and productive at work; they can also help you be a better Mom. With these apps, you can have all your questions about keeping your family healthy right at your fingertips, and you’ll have a much better idea about when it’s time to make a trip to the doctor, too. New applications are created every day, so be certain to keep track of all the new applications that can help you be a better “Dr. Mom.”

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Access to the internet has simplified and enriched our life. It also motivates us to stay healthy. The myriad tracking tools available online have made health and fitness an interesting and attractive proposition for many of us. Web applications that enable us to track our medical health tell us where we are going with our health and we can take remedial action as soon as we spot a trend that’s not right.

Here we list 7 free web apps to track your medical health over time -

1. Traineo – A website that combines interactive applications and community support to help create personalized weight-loss programs for people. A user-friendly log of daily caloric intake and exercise lets you track your progress in terms of weight lost / gained and physical fitness levels tracked by checking exercise trends. It’s a simple tool that does not come with many sophisticated analysis features; however a community-focus and finding like-minded members to share ideas with is one of the endearing features of this free web application.

2. Heart360 – A free online tool to monitor hearth health and reduce risk of heart attack, stroke, and heart disease. The tool helps you to track and manage steps for reducing risk of high blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, and more. You can store health information as a secure online record that only you control. Handy for tracking and sharing with caregivers and health professionals.

3. SparkPeople – The portal offers a combination of medical information, a vibrant and participative community, and numerous tools to track nutrition and fitness. The combined effect of all these is that individuals that can stay honest with their diet plans and lifestyles will benefit and attain a healthy weight. You can track the consumption of nutrients including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and also calories. Total consumption is displayed in a tabular or graphical form and you can learn about your progress. Track cardio exercises in terms of time spent or calories burnt. Overall, a nice web application that can positively affect your medical health provided you show the intent.

4. DoubleCheckMD – A simple idea executed brilliantly. The application is a truly exhaustive database of drugs, drug-drug interaction and potential adverse reactions to drugs. Use it to track your shifts from one medicine to another and the implications on your body, particularly any increase or decrease in side effects. Once you’ve added the name of the drug and the condition you are taking it for, the application will throw up a detailed evaluation about the drug including components known to cause side effects. If you recognize the side effects you can resolve them by altering the medication in consultation with your physician.

5. FreeMD – This incredible free web application does much better than just track your medical health; it guides you based on the symptom you mention. The application is capable of analyzing more than three thousand symptoms and injuries for people of all age groups. You undergo an interview based on the symptoms you enter and at the end the “resident doctor” offers recommendations. The site generates a page that carries your health data to be used for future reference or to share with your physician.

6. HighxLow – Track your daily biorhythms by simply posting to twitter. Post when you’re feeling good and mention the reason. Post when you’re feeling low and state why. You can also cheer up someone feeling low by twittering some words of encouragement. You can view a graphical representation of how you’re feeling and find out the causes that consistently make you feel high and single out reasons that make your shoulders droop. You can use the information to work on improving your mental and physical well-being.

7. Reliefinsite – ReliefInsite.com™, is a patented, secure, HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that lets you keep track of your pain based on symptoms, lifestyle, medications and a host of other parameters. The pain is characterized into descriptively worded categories such as aching, stabbing, nagging, gnawing, and more. It is also graded for severity. The consequences of the pain on your body and lifestyle are noted and an attempt is made to measure them. The entire exercise culminates in you having a better understanding of the type of pain, its cause, and best treatment procedure for you.

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