Mobile Health & Research Apps at UNC
UNC subscribed mobile apps for medical and health practice and research
About Apps
The Health Sciences Library provides several mobile apps and websites for the UNC Chapel Hill and UNC Hospitals community.
- If you access any of the mobile websites from off campus, you will be prompted to enter your Onyen and password to access them, but the mobile apps will typically NOT require you to login every time once installed.
- Please review the Access Instructions tab for more details on installation or email an HSL Librarian if you need assistance.
Point-of-Care Apps & Mobile Websites
Mobile Apps
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AccessMedicine
This diagnosis app includes a suite of McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine diagnostic resources including Diagnosaurus 2.0, Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas of Clinical Dermatology, the Quick Medical Dx & Tx (QMDT), and the Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests. iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android. App will work offline.
Note: The Access Medicine app does not include access to the books available here in the web version of Access Medicine.
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AHRQ ePSS (Electronic Preventive Services Selector)
An app designed to help primary care clinicians identify clinical preventive services that are appropriate for their patients. Search & browse U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations. iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android, Palm, Windows. FREE
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BoardVitals Mobile App
Prepare for the medical boards with online board-style practice questions from BoardVitals. To access:
1. Navigate to the Google Play store on Android or the Apple App Store on iOS.
2. Search for "BoardVitals."
3. Tap download.
4. To access your subscription, use the same log in credentials you used to register your BoardVitals account.
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Canopy Speak Medical Translator App
Translator app for clinicians interacting with limited-English patients. Includes a large library of pre-translated phrases with text and audio in 15 languages. Set up a link to UNC Health Care or UNC Dentistry translation services.
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Epocrates
Free, clinical decision support tool app. Provides drug, disease, and diagnostic reference. iPhone, iPad, Android. Individual subscription version available with enhanced content in Epocrates Plus
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Heartpedia
To educate families about the heart, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center offers an interactive, 3D app for iPhones, iPads and Android Devices. The app shows anatomically accurate images of congenital heart defects and repairs of those defects.Heartpedia includes an interactive model of a normal heart in addition to interactive models of several defects and their associated repairs.
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IMAIOS e-Anatomy
IMAIOS e-Anatomy is an atlas of human anatomy for physicians, radiologists, medical students and radiographers, with over 375,000 anatomic structures and more than 5,400 translated medical labels. iPhone, iPad, Android
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Red Book Online (AAP)
Download the current Red Book, containing information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases. iPhone, iPad, Android. App will work offline.
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STAT!Ref
Access selected medical, dental, nursing and pharmacological textbooks and dictionaries, as well as medical calculators, ACP Smart Medicine, and AHFS DI Essentials. iPhone, iPad, Android
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UpToDate
The premier evidence-based clinical decision support resource authored by physicians to help healthcare practitioners make the best decisions at the point of care. iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows
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Visual DX
A point-of-care visual diagnostic clinical decision support system including more than 17,000 dermatology, oral pathology, ophthalmology, public health, drug reaction, and other images; differential builder, travel info, mobile app available. Enter a travel destination to see all currently endemic diseases and/or outbreaks.
Mobile Optimized Websites
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PubMed for Handhelds
Search PubMed by PICO (patient, intervention, comparison, outcome) or regular Medline search. FREE
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MedlinePlus Mobile
Health information for patients and families. Covers diseases, conditions, medications, wellness topics, and the latest news. FREE
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Drug Information & Prescribing Apps
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mobile Micromedex Drug Essentials
Drug Essentials section of Micromedex. Provides drug, alternative medicine, disease, and toxicology information. Additional sections are available to users at a discounted personal cost. iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows
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LactMed App
Find information about maternal and infant drug levels, possible effects on lactation and on breastfed infants, and alternative drugs to consider. iPhone, Android. FREE.
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The Medical Letter
Critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drug classes for common diseases. iPhone, iPad, Android.
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mobilePDR app
Prescriber's Digital Reference App with quick drug lookup, current drug information, drug comparison, drug interaction checker, pill identifier
Research Apps & Websites
Mobile Apps
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EBSCO Database Collections App
Use the Ebsco mobile app to access databases, including CINAHL, PsychInfo, Academic Search Complete, and SPORTDiscus, as well as a large collection of eBooks. iPhone, iPad, Android
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F1000 Prime App
Use F1000 Prime's app to browse article recommendations from respected scholars and researchers for the most exciting new research in your field. iPhone, iPad, Android
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JoVE - the Journal of Visualized Experiments App
View, save, and search JoVE videos from UNC's subscriptions using this app. iPhone, iPad, Android Tablet, Android Phone, Kindle Fire Tablet.
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Sciwheel
See the boxes below to download the mobile apps from Google Play or the App Store.
Download the SciWheel Mobile App
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Wiley Online Library
Many Wiley Online Library journal titles have individual mobile apps on which to read content. To access via UNC's institutional subscriptions:
1. Open the app and go to the menu in the top right corner and go to Settings. You should see an institutional access page.
2. If your access is current, you will see messages that say "your institutional access will expire on..." with a date.
3. If your access is not current, or to update your access before/after that date, you can click "Get Access" or "Refresh Institutional Access.
4. On the "Get Access" menu, select “I already have access” and then “I use the network at the workplace or university” and then follow the instructions to log in from within the app to your Wiley Online Library account and verify your access.
Mobile Optimized Websites
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JAMA
JAMAevidence provides tools for students and clinicians to evaluate and interpret medical literature and make the best treatment decisions for their patients. The mobile version includes "Quick Reference" pocket cards from Users' Guides to the Medical Literature and "Make the Diagnosis" sections from The Rational Clinical Examination.
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Psychiatry Online
Collection of resources for mental health. Includes the DSM-5, DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and DSM-5 Casebook.
eTextbooks and eBooks
Mobile Apps
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EBSCO Database Collections App
Use the Ebsco mobile app to access databases, including CINAHL, PsychInfo, Academic Search Complete, and SPORTDiscus, as well as a large collection of eBooks. iPhone, iPad, Android
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STAT!Ref
Access selected medical, dental, nursing and pharmacological textbooks and dictionaries, as well as medical calculators, ACP Smart Medicine, and AHFS DI Essentials. iPhone, iPad, Android
Mobile Optimized Websites
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eBrary
eBrary is a large and growing collection of current English-language e-books, most of which are scholarly monographs covering a wide spectrum of subjects from the humanities to the health sciences. Mobile website.
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Harrison’s Online
Access Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th edition, including Laboratory Values of Clinical Importance and eChapters.
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Tintinalli’s Online
Access Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7th edition.
