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Thanks to Chris Thorman of Software Advice for providing a list of 60 of the top Medical applications we see on Android.
Please note the software is firmly steered towards the professional market rather than the general consumer.
Having said that the material would be extremely useful for anyone you know in the medical profession.
Software Advice must be complemented on the hard work we see here in this list, determining which are the best applications as there are well over 1000 titles they had to sort through.
Read here for Chris Thorman's list
Also, here's another title by GoMLV ~ Cancer Surveillance
It is explained at post 8 below.
Thanks Beards for directing us to the website
and kudos to Software Advice
My favorites among them are
Medical calculators
Lexicomp complete which i believe includes Stedmans dictionary (atleast on the iphone it used too)
Epocrates
Skyscape
There's a Medscape app on the iphone which I believe is not available on the android , its a really good free app.
sck_2000in said:
Thanks Beards for directing us to the website
and kudos to Software Advice
My favorites among them are
Medical calculators
Lexicomp complete which i believe includes Stedmans dictionary (atleast on the iphone it used too)
Epocrates
Skyscape
There's a Medscape app on the iphone which I believe is not available on the android , its a really good free app.
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What were your thoughts on the titles outlined for Pediatrics as I know that is your field of expertise.
I was very pleased to hear of this complete list put together ~ brought to my attention from out of a lecture I was conducting recently.
Looking forward to seeing titles develop as Android makes pace in the professional world where admittedly the iPhone has that very useful arsenal of applications... and a few not-so-good such as 'AcneApp' where a colleague of mine has written quite a damning paper on the subject and said application.
Whether Windows Phone 7 (which will be geared more towards professionals rather than the mainstream) can maintain a high profile will have to be seen.
If anyone finds any further material worth reading/investigating please chip in.
Beards
Beards , i could not try the Pediatrics app because most of them are paid apps and I can't download them in my country , but looking at the contents it looks really helpful with drug facts, drug dosages and redbook.
My heart goes to you in having to cope with these restrictions.
I'm a great believer in that if a tool is available for the welfare of mankind it SHOULD be available to all, no matter what.
I suppose there is no way your local medical centre/practice or medical governing body could sort this out for you and any other medical staff?
nice...
all good medical apps are hard to find ..
Thanks op. And @ the guy above - **** you warez pricks. Get a job and pay for this stuff instead of stealing. Its one thing to want a demo for more than 15 mins - another to steal. What's worse though is that you can't even find warez on ur own. Pathetic.
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Cancer Surveillance
if you are interested you can also check our new cancer related app: please allow me to desribe it to you. its free ofc.
check it in google play as cancer surveillance
This free app lets you monitor your own (or other peoples') cancer progress by allowing you to arrange and scedule the related appointments, tests and their
results.Place the appointment for any reason like cancer biopsy,mri,ct scan, blood cancer markers test, xray, ultrasound, mammo, meeting with doctor, results receive
etc. Choose your cancer type and record all the information relative with your progress and the therapy like chemotherapy, radiation, drug receive dates, symptoms,
surgery dates etc. This app can be used for any kind of cancer e.g.Bladder Cancer,Lung Cancer,Breast Cancer,Melanoma,Colon and Rectal Cancer,Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma,Endometrial Cancer,Pancreatic Cancer,Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer,Prostate Cancer,Leukemia,Thyroid Cancer, testicular cancer etc. Arrange your
appointments and mark your next one so you dont forget. Then see all the past test results (.e.g cancer markers) and monitor your progress. The perfect app for your
cancer surveillance or treatment program.
Includes a predefined wide list of cancer types, tests and events types (e.g. mri, cancer markers, ct scan etc) and markers (e.g. LDH, bHCG, CA etc) available for a
faster and easier entry but of course you can add more. You can also monitor more than one patient's cancer progress. Its like keeping a cancer related medical file on
your device.
Finally you can set a login security password for data privacy if someone else uses your device.
thks
gomlv said:
if you are interested you can also check our new cancer related app: please allow me to desribe it to you. its free ofc.
check it in google play as cancer surveillance
This free app lets you monitor your own (or other peoples') cancer progress by allowing you to arrange and scedule the related appointments, tests and their
results.Place the appointment for any reason like cancer biopsy,mri,ct scan, blood cancer markers test, xray, ultrasound, mammo, meeting with doctor, results receive
etc. Choose your cancer type and record all the information relative with your progress and the therapy like chemotherapy, radiation, drug receive dates, symptoms,
surgery dates etc. This app can be used for any kind of cancer e.g.Bladder Cancer,Lung Cancer,Breast Cancer,Melanoma,Colon and Rectal Cancer,Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma,Endometrial Cancer,Pancreatic Cancer,Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer,Prostate Cancer,Leukemia,Thyroid Cancer, testicular cancer etc. Arrange your
appointments and mark your next one so you dont forget. Then see all the past test results (.e.g cancer markers) and monitor your progress. The perfect app for your
cancer surveillance or treatment program.
Includes a predefined wide list of cancer types, tests and events types (e.g. mri, cancer markers, ct scan etc) and markers (e.g. LDH, bHCG, CA etc) available for a
faster and easier entry but of course you can add more. You can also monitor more than one patient's cancer progress. Its like keeping a cancer related medical file on
your device.
Finally you can set a login security password for data privacy if someone else uses your device.
thks
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I'll add this to the opening post gomlv.
Anyone reading past this you can also find Cancer Surveillance here.
Hi guys, i can recommend this new site for medical android apps.
Ok guys, was recently talking with a manager for a company I'm currently doing some contract work for and we were discussing ways to track inventory, both to and from in-store stock and at the off-site storage facility. Being the Android evangelist that I am, I of course mentioned how there's already a barcode scanning app out there, we just need to come up with the rest of the functionality. In a nutshell, here's what I'm after...
Main page is a database viewer (Excel style or similar) with tabs for Total Inventory, Stock Inventory and Storage Inventory
Menu functionality with options for Home (Back to main app view), Receive Inventory, Manage Inventory, Undo, Redo and Exit App
Receive Inventory opens a dialogue box first asking whether the user wishes to Add To Stock or Add To Storage, after which the Barcode Scanner app is called (No reason to reinvent the wheel, right?). Once scanned and the user confirms the information, a dialogue box should pop up asking for quantity. This should allow for negative numbers as well as positive, making it possible to add or remove items. Once quantity is entered, the app should update the Total Inventory database and the Stock or Storage database depending on what the user has selected
Manage Inventory opens a dialogue box with options for Stock to Storage or Storage to Stock., after which it should function identically to the Receive Inventory option (e.g. scan item, confirm information, enter quantity, update appropriate database(s))
Undo, Redo and Exit App should all be self-explanatory
The individual item information is very simple, just a quantity, style, color and size. I'm thinking now that Android OS has a tighter integration with Google Docs, some of that functionality should aid this project greatly! All the pieces are out there, just need someone with more know-how than I possess to put it all together and make it look nice. If you need any more clarification, please comment or PM me. If all goes according to plan, I'm hoping this could be a very lucrative venture for those involved...
So there you have it, that's what we're after, anybody feeling up to the challenge and want to make a name for themselves?
Okay, so, I summed up some 5 articles on this subject - in the hope of starting a discussion about device security. I hope you will find this interesting and meaningful and perhaps you will find out about some of the risks of using Android.
2 months ago Juniper Networks, one of the two biggest network equipment manufactures, published a blog post (1) about an intensive research their mobile threat department had on the Android market place.
In essence they analyzed over 1.7 million apps in Google Play, revealing frightening results and prompting a hard reality check for all of us.
One of the worrying findings is that a significant number of applications contain capabilities that could expose sensitive information to 3rd parties. For example, neither Apple nor Google requires apps to ask permission to access some forms of the device ID, or to send it to outsiders. A Wall Street Journal examination (2) of 101 popular Android (and iPhone) apps found that showed that 56 — that's half — of the apps tested transmitted the phone's unique device ID to other companies without users' awareness or consent. 47 apps — again, almost a half — transmitted the phone's location to other companies.
That means that the apps installed in your phone are 50% likely to clandestinely collect and sell information about you without your knowledge nor your consent. For example when you give permission to an app to see your location, most apps don't disclose if they will pass the location to ad companies.
Moving on to more severe Android vulnerabilities. Many applications perform functions not needed for the apps to work — and they do it under the radar! The lack of transparency about who is collecting information and how it is used is a big problem for us.
Juniper warns, that some apps request permission to clandestinely initiate outgoing calls, send SMS messages and use a device camera. An application that can clandestinely initiate a phone call could be used to silently listen to ambient conversations within hearing distance of a mobile device. I am of course talking about the famous and infamous US Navy PlaceRaider (3).
Thankfully the Navy hasn't released this code but who knows if someone hadn't already jumped on the wagon and started making their own pocket sp?. CIO magazine (4) somewhat reassures us though, that the "highly curated nature of [smartphone] application stores makes it far less likely that such an app would "sneak through" and be available for download."
A summary by The Register (5) of the Juniper Networks audit reads that Juniper discovered that free applications are five times more likely to track user location and a whopping 314 percent more likely to access user address books than paid counterparts. 314%!!!
1 in 40 (2.64%) of free apps request permission to send text messages without notifying users, 5.53 per cent of free apps have permission to access the device camera and 6.4 per cent of free apps have permission to clandestinely initiate background calls. Who knows, someone might just be recording you right now, or submitting your photo to some covert database in Czech Republic — without you even knowing that your personal identity is being compromised.
Google, by the way, is the biggest data recipient — so says The Wall Street Journal. Its AdMob, AdSense, Analytics and DoubleClick units collected data from 40% of the apps they audited. Google's main mobile-ad network is AdMob, which lets advertisers target phone users by location, type of device and "demographic data," including gender or age group.
To quote the The Register on the subjec, the issue of mobile app privacy is not new. However Juniper's research is one of the most comprehensive looks at the state of privacy across the entire Google Android application ecosystem. Don't get me wrong. I love using Google's services and I appreciate the positive effect this company has had over how I live my life. However, with a shady reputation like Google's and with it's troubling attitude towards privacy (Google Maps/Earth, Picasa's nonexistent privacy and the list goes on) I sincerely hope that after reading this you will at least think twice before installing any app.
Links: (please excuse my links I'm a new user and cannot post links)
(1) forums.juniper net/t5/Security-Mobility-Now/Exposing-Your-Personal-Information-There-s-An-App-for-That/ba-p/166058
(2) online.wsj com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html
(3) technologyreview com/view/509116/best-of-2012-placeraider-the-military-smartphone-malware-designed-to-steal-your-life/
(4) cio com/article/718580/PlaceRaider_Shows_Why_Android_Phones_Are_a_Major_Security_Risk?page=2&taxonomyId=3067
(5) theregister co.uk/2012/11/01/android_app_privacy_audit/
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Now I am proposing a discussion. Starting with - do we have the possibility to monitor device activity on the phone? By monitoring device activity, such as outgoing SMSs and phone calls in the background, the camera functions and so on we can tell if our phone is being abused under the radar and against our consent. What do you think?
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I am finding it sad and troubling but even more so ironic that nobody here cares about this stuff.
Pdroid allows you to tailor your apps and what permissions your device actually allows on a per app basis. Requires some setup, and the GUI is nothing fancy.. but for those worried about permissions, it is quite ideal.
Edit : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357056
Great project, be sure to thank the dev
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DontPushButtons said:
Pdroid allows you to tailor your apps and what permissions your device actually allows on a per app basis
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Sounds good for a start, I'll look it up
pilau said:
Sounds good for a start, I'll look it up
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Okay, so I looked it up, and Pdroid does look like a fantastic solution to control what apps have access to what information on your droid.
However, it doesn't cover monitoring hardware functions such as texts being sent, calls being placed etc. as described in the OP. Besides, it only works in Gingerbread as far as I could gather.
EDIT: looking at PDroid 2.0, it does exactly what I originally asked
pilau said:
Okay, so I looked it up, and Pdroid does look like a fantastic solution a control what apps have access to what information on you droid.
However, it doesn't cover monitoring hardware functions such as texts being sent, calls being placed etc. as described in the OP. Besides, it only works in Gingerbread as far as I could gather.
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I actually first found out about it on an ics rom, so it's definitely not just gb. As for monitoring, no clue. Any sort of extra process logging would likely bog down resources or space eventually.
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DontPushButtons said:
Any sort of extra process logging would likely bog down resources or space eventually.
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I definitely wouldn't know. This solution looks very complicated in first impression but on the Google play page it says 100% no performance effects.
Anyway, I looked up PDroid 2.0 here on XDA, which is the rightful successor of the original app. It does everything the original app does and also monitors many device activities! Here is the full list of features. I would add a working link but I'm still a n00b and I am restricted from doing so. Sigh....
forum.xda-developers com/showthread.php?t=1923576
PDroid 2.0 allows blocking access for any installed application to the following data separately:
Device ID (IMEI/MEID/ESN)
Subscriber ID (IMSI)
SIM serial (ICCID)
Phone and mailbox number
Incoming call number
Outgoing call number
GPS location
Network location
List of accounts (including your google e-mail address)
Account auth tokens
Contacts
Call logs
Calendar
SMS
MMS
Browser bookmarks and history
System logs
SIM info (operator, country)
Network info (operator, country)
IP Tables(until now only for Java process)
Android ID
Call Phone
Send SMS
Send MMS
Record Audio
Access Camera
Force online state (fake online state to permanent online)
Wifi Info
ICC Access (integrated circuit-card access, for reading/writing sms on ICC)
Switch network state (e.g. mobile network)
Switch Wifi State
Start on Boot (prevents that application gets the INTENT_BOOT_COMPLETE Broadcast)
I've always had the luxury of someone else integrating it into the Rom, then I just had to set it up through the app. It is time-consuming, but not very difficult at all. I say give it a shot and see if that's what you had in mind. Maybe the logging is less detrimental than I had previously thought.
I'm sure you could get your post count up by asking for some tips in that thread. Every forum on xda has at least one person that's EXCESSIVELY helpful, frequently more. So have a ball
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Good afternoon everyone,
I have been thinking about an app that my company could use when staff are sent away on weekend events.
The company hires our PDQ (payment terminals) to various markets/fairs/events throughout the country. They are based in London, with most of the events being further out in the country (Telford, Oxfordshire, to name a few). Whilst at the event I would like for our customers feedback, complaints, questions, concerns, ideas, notes on our equipment, e.t.c. to be logged using a tablet, rather than pen and paper. I feel the most effective way to do this is creating our own app. It does not have to be pristine, with a professionally chosen colour scheme, perfect graphics e.t.c., but a simple app that is user friendly and just works. Ideally we would be able to upload an Excel spreadsheet to it, containing customer details, that can be displayed using some form of table/report layout whereby notes can be added. So, for example, 50 customers and their details are on the spreadsheet, it's uploaded to the app and each one can be opened individually. A signature section to confirm receipt of the equipment would also be a fantastic bonus. Once the event is over with, it would help if the report can be pushed/emailed in a usable format (again Excel would be great) so that certain parts can be extracted and used in various other reports.
So my question is... Am I completely mad for hoping the above is achievable, or extortionately costly? Or is it relatively simple considering the advancements in app making and the kinds that are available today? Could a relative novice be able to make it, or is it best reserved for a Pro?
Any help, questions, suggestions, silly remarks welcome.
Thank you
darrenbilly said:
Good afternoon everyone,
I have been thinking about an app that my company could use when staff are sent away on weekend events.
The company hires our PDQ (payment terminals) to various markets/fairs/events throughout the country. They are based in London, with most of the events being further out in the country (Telford, Oxfordshire, to name a few). Whilst at the event I would like for our customers feedback, complaints, questions, concerns, ideas, notes on our equipment, e.t.c. to be logged using a tablet, rather than pen and paper. I feel the most effective way to do this is creating our own app. It does not have to be pristine, with a professionally chosen colour scheme, perfect graphics e.t.c., but a simple app that is user friendly and just works. Ideally we would be able to upload an Excel spreadsheet to it, containing customer details, that can be displayed using some form of table/report layout whereby notes can be added. So, for example, 50 customers and their details are on the spreadsheet, it's uploaded to the app and each one can be opened individually. A signature section to confirm receipt of the equipment would also be a fantastic bonus. Once the event is over with, it would help if the report can be pushed/emailed in a usable format (again Excel would be great) so that certain parts can be extracted and used in various other reports.
So my question is... Am I completely mad for hoping the above is achievable, or extortionately costly? Or is it relatively simple considering the advancements in app making and the kinds that are available today? Could a relative novice be able to make it, or is it best reserved for a Pro?
Any help, questions, suggestions, silly remarks welcome.
Thank you
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That certainly is a nice idea, but unfortunately it doesn't seem very realistic.
If anyone was to attempt to create that, it'd definitely need to be an experience app maker, as the code required to make an app like that is astronomically difficult.
Meh. :|
Scaling it back...
OK, I thought that may have been a lot of 'blue-sky' thinking. How about if the information was entered manually somehow and then notes were made on each one?
It would be great if each event could be stored on the app and looked back over for reference if need be. Say if the customers information was entered using the app creation tool, then a signature was taken and saved as an image, perhaps a picture of it can be taken and then uploaded to the app?
To the app developers... Is there something based on my proposal that could be made more easily?
Thank you
Hello how are you? I am Nadir, from Argentina. I am needing to develop an application for event ticket sales. Soon I will be managing live music events, on youtube-live.
I don't know where to start, the application must have a billboard where you can buy tickets to the events, with a specific price, paying by paypal, or other regional electronic means of payment. In turn, I should be able to modify the billboard at will, and automatically delete the events on a certain date, and update the billboard (with image or video content). To buy the ticket, the user should also place the youtube account through which he would see the private event, and I access that database to manually place them on the youtube-live list. I must also have access to a database that informs me which user paid the entrance, when, and how much he paid for it, in order to report to the owner of the bar. It should also have notifications and memories of the events. Likewise, a link to subscribe to the channel since some events will be free. Where do I start? If you have better ideas please share them, I'll use google translate to read them. Greetings to all, and ah! my knowledge was only 2 years of programming where I made a program for taxis in c ++, I only understand that data is generated and stored to compare and generate new data. So I will study specifically what you tell me, it gives me the head to understand. I am very grateful, greetings.