Mobile apps for healthcare tools

There are a growing number of healthcare tools and resources available via mobile devices, either as mobile-friendly web-based resources or mobile apps. Here is a selection that you might find helpful.

AECC Search (searches across PubMed, Index to Chiropractic Literature, MEDLINE, AMED, Alt-Health-Watch, Cochrane Library, Best Bets) - can by accessed on mobile devices, using either of the URLs below. You will need to use the username and password on the AECC Medical databases intranet page (login to the portal required) to access it: http://search.ebscohost.mobi/ http://m.ebscohost.com/.

mySearch from Bournemouth University can also be accessed via your mobile device. You will need your myBU username and password to access this.

Best Practice Support from BMJ - includes 20 free sample topics and further upgrades can be purchased. Using this app you can "check guidelines and evidence, consult expert opinion, brush up on rare conditions, and confirm that you are taking the correct course of action".

BNF (British National Formulary) - includes "key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines".

Diagnosaurus - explore symptoms and diseases, purchase required for some operating systems.

iTriage - symptom searcher.

iTriage - symptom searcher (mobile version).

Mediquations - medical calculations (purchase required).

Medscape Mobile - includes drug checker, disease reference, procedures, protocols and speciality news (US-based).

NEJM This Week - latest news & headlines from the New England Journal of Medicine.

NHS Evidence - simple search of accredited sources for healthcare related evidence.

NICE Guidance - available from the iStore and Android Market.

PubMed - search PubMed from your mobile.

Pubmed on Tap - extra functionality to support searching on PubMed.

Pubmed for Android - a range of functionality to support searching on PubMed.

Trip Database - clinical search engine, provides answers to clinical questions.

The Department of Health is also gathering a range of useful apps for both patients and staff - see Maps and Apps.

This information is up-to-date as of 30/03/2012, however this is a rapidly changing environment. The details presented here are for information purposes only and any inclusion, or exclusion, does not represent any endorsement, or not, by the library. Although some apps may be free, they may include advertising or you may be required to register - please take care to read any terms and conditions. We can not accept responsibility for the sites or apps linked to, or the information offered.

If you are aware of any healthcare-related mobile-friendly resources that you think will be useful to our students and staff then please let us know.

Thanks to Keele University Library for some of the information above.

New AECC Library Integrated search

The AECC Integrated search (available via our databases intranet page) is our new search interface which allows you to search across a range of major databases simultaneously.

It searches across PubMed, Index to Chiropractic Literature, MEDLINE (full-text), AMED, Alt-Health-Watch, Cochrane Library, Best Bets (& some e-books) all from one search bar.

The database will also make finding AECC full-text articles a more seamless, and faster, process.

Please carry out a search and give us your feedback.

New database that includes JMPT full text - Alt Health Watch

We have a new database for you - Alt Health Watch. It focuses on the ‘many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care. It includes full text articles for more than 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals and reports’.

Most importantly, it includes full text articles from Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) 1995 to present.

You can find the link to it on this page: http://aeccweb/library/live/databases.htm (under ‘Chiropractic and Complementary Health Databases’ - you will need to log in if off campus).

This is on trial for 1 year and we would appreciate your feedback. Do let us know what you think of it.

New resources on the Library Intranet

The following resources are now available on the Intranet:


Databases:

• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) from Bournemouth University

• MEDLINE

• National Council for Osteopathic Research
  
  Follow this link to the databases (you will need to log in if you are off campus).

Medical Images

• Medical Imaging Resource Centre
  'The MIRC project was initiated by the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee to construct a library of medical information, globally accessible to the imaging community through the Internet'
  
  Follow this link to find MIRC (you will need to log in if you are off campus).

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