Pharmacy: Mobile Apps & Websites
Created by Health Science Librarians
Apps / Mobile Databases
mobileMicromedex is available for free to UNC-CH students, faculty, and staff. You must be on campus to register but may be off campus when using your device. Instructions for registering are at Mobile Instructions.
The UpToDate app is also available for Android, iPhone and Windows. Instructions for registering are at Mobile Instructions.
A list of additional apps and mobile resources is in the Mobile Health & Research Apps guide.
Using Apps / Mobile Databases
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 guide 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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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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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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Free, clinical decision support tool app. Provides drug, disease, and diagnostic reference. iPhone, iPad, Android. Individual subscription version available also with enhanced content.
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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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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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Website providing access to all NLM mobile resources. FREE
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Mobile Optimized Websites
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Search PubMed by PICO (patient, intervention, comparison, outcome) or regular Medline search. FREE
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Health information for patients and families. Covers diseases, conditions, medications, wellness topics, and the latest news. FREE
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Drug Information Apps
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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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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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Critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drug classes for common diseases. iPhone, iPad, Android.
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Physician's Desk Reference App with quick drug lookup, current drug information, drug comparison, drug interaction checker, pill identifier
eTextbooks and eBooks
Mobile Apps
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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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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 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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