5 Best Medical Apps in 2018 for Doctors

Well, today, everyone is living in the era of mobile.


More or less, every business is going mobile to ensure enhanced productivity and more customer engagement that will result in overall revenue growth. The popularity of the mHealth is the proof that the health and medical field is no exception to it. Nowadays, worldwide medical professionals are using various medical apps and technology in their practices.


According to the Zion Market Research, the “mHealth market size projected to reach USD 102.43 billion by 2022”. So, it is easily understandable how mobile apps are influencing the healthcare and medical industry.


This is the reason why worldwide the mobile app developers and various mobile app development companies are showing great interest to build health care and medical apps. Such apps not only help the doctors to diagnose accurately but also help the patients in several ways to get the right treatment.



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Here is a list of some of the most popular medical apps in no particular order for healthcare professionals and doctors based on the number of downloads and reviews.


Medical Reference Apps


It is available for both Android and iOS devices. Globally, thousands of doctors have installed this mobile app for the good reasons obviously. According to them, this is not only full of detailed medical knowledge but also provides the necessary answers to varieties of clinical questions.

While downloading, you can get it for free. However, to get access to the wealth of information, you need to get a subscription.


Another great mobile app for doctors’ use is Epocrates and it is available for both Android and iOS devices. This helps the physicians in finding information on particular drugs along with the interactions. Also, it is helpful in finding other providers for referrals and consults. Moreover, this medical app helps to calculate patient measurements like BMI instantly.

You can download it for free and most of the contents are also available for free in it. However, to get an access to additional information such as alternative medications, disease information, and lab guides, You need to make the in-app purchase of the Epocrates Essentials.



WebMD has come up with this great medical reference app that is available for both iOS as well as Android devices. Latest news on the medical industry, drug information, details of disease reference tools etc. are available in Medscape.

No in-app purchase is there for it. You can get the complete access to it without spending a single penny. However, you need to register to the app. Medscape is ad-supported.

PEPID is another great medical reference app for the doctors.

Apps for Clinical Decision


This content-rich app is available for both Android and iOS devices. It offers content written by professional medical experts. You can find detailed information on over 150 diseases covering more than 35 speciality areas. The MDCalc website boasts that worldwide across almost 190 countries, over 1 million doctors use this application every month.

Medical Journal Apps

It is available for both Android and iOS devices. It offers a recommendation engine that is powered by the machine learning algorithm. Currently, this app supports 81 medical specialities. More interestingly, you can follow over 100,000 keywords in it. For instance, an oncologist does not necessarily have to follow all the cancer journals. The doctor can follow other gene, protein, or pathway that are related to cancer as well. The Case follows an algorithm based on the Google Tensorflow that surfaces various journal articles depending on your past behaviour and interests while reading articles and journals. This amazing app is available for free.

Another popular medical journal app is Read by QxMD.

Apps for Social Networking

Two of the most popular apps for social networking are


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