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Genetics and Genomics: Point of Care Apps

Point- of Care Tools at NML

The National Medical Library subscribes to a variety of point- of care tools from witch medical students and professionals can access updated evidence based information through their computer or mobile devices.

Read more about mobile access in our guide for Mobile Apps or download the apps directly via the icons.

Visual DX

 

 

VisualDX 

VisualDX is a clinical decision support tool designed to help with diagnosing of dermatological, infection, genetic, metabolic, nutritional and occupational diseases. Settings for pediatric or adult diagnosis available. The resource includes more than 140,000 images of visually identifiable diseases, drug reactions, and infections. Basic descriptions of different diagnosis and direct links to UpToDate and PubMed, provides the users with clinical background and support information. A mobile app is available for easy access to VisualDX at the point of care.

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ClinicalKey

 

  

ClinicalKey                                            

 Gives you full text access at the point of care to selected medical texts, journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, videos, images and more. The database gives access to daily updated information within more than 30 medical and surgical specialties. A presentation maker and print, save and e- mail functions makes it easy to store selected information and share with others.

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UpToDate

UpToDate 

UpToDate provides current, synthesized clinical information and evidence based recommendations to medical professionals and students at the point of careThe information can be accessed both from  a computer or through any mobile device. UpToDate includes a variety of medical calculators, a drug interaction database and features for easy bookmarking and sharing of information. All search results are divided by pediatric and adult medical information and a library with patient education handouts on different levels are available for all topics

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Free Resources

Medscape

Medscape is a free point of care tool that provides clinical answers to physicians, medical students, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. With Medscape, physicians can stay current with the latest medical news, earn CME points, look up medications and dosages with a drug reference tool and more

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