iPod Touch and iPhones can know what ails you
By Gareth Powell
A company called Unbound Medicine has now produced a series of applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. It promises faster, more reliable access to clinical data.
The first native iPhone application to become available on the Unbound Platform was Nursing Central which provides up-to-date information on diseases, tests, drugs, and procedures. Nursing Central also provides cross-links connecting related information and personalized bookmarking of favorite topics
Unbound on the iPhone delivers frequent content updates, tables of contents from just-published journals, and citations and abstracts from more than 18 million medical journal articles.
Now it is available for the Apple iPod Touch. The idea is to provide point-of-care clinical information to healthcare professionals.
Bill Detmer, MD, president of Unbound Medicine, said, ‘Although Unbound has supported the iPhone since it was launched, we are delighted to now support native applications delivered through iTunes. We can help busy health professionals answer questions that arise during the course of patient care and also stay abreast of the latest developments in their fields.”
Anent which a personal story which shows how essential such up-to-the minute information can be.
Late last year I was in England and suddenly my right ear started hurting in a most serious way. I went to see a local doctor, a Sri Lankan, who gave me antibiotics and drops. Finished the antibiotics during which it cleared up. Five days later it came back like thunder. Went to same surgery, saw different doctor, got different antibiotics and pain killers. It cleared up. Five days after the tablets stopped it came back like thunder. Had to fly to Thailand the next day and did it on more Panadeine than I will tell you.
In Thailand went immediately to Bumrungrad Hospital and saw ENT specialist who gave me different antibiotics and pain killers. Cleared up only for it to come back as I boarded plane to Sydney. In Australia saw my normal doctor who gave me still different antibiotics and different pain killers.
And as the antibiotics finished so the pain came back.
Went, on a recommendation, to a diagnostician who listened to my story, checked it online and then made me tell it again. And asked where I had been. He made a guess at my problem — he was right — but sent samples to be tested.
I had picked up an infection, possibly in a spa in Bangkok, known as pseudomondas. This unlovely infection is resistant to most antibiotics and must be treated totally differently. Now it is cleared up and I have a minor but probably permanent lost of hearing.
I checked. Pseudomondas is on the Unbound Platform of Nursing Central.
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January 30th, 2009
Uhhhmmmm, you forgot the part about the subscription. According to the description, you need a subscription to use it after a brief demo. I went to their site, $159 yikes! Is there some cheaper way of using this program that I have missed?
good luck on the ear.