MedAbbreviations app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 400 ratings )

Reference Medical
Developer: Evan Schoenberg

0.99 USD

Current version: 5.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 23 Jan 2009
App size: 5.71 Mb

MedAbbreviations provides instant access to over *fourteen thousand* abbreviations. If you are a medical professional, or if you ever read what a healthcare professional writes, you need to be able to understand those cryptic shorthand scrawls. MedAbbreviations is your solution.

Over 14,000 medical abbreviations: scrollable, searchable, and bookmarkable. Why pay more or get less?

A tool like this is only as good as its consistency. MedAbbreviations is the right tool for the job; competing applications, with significantly smaller databases, have 1/10th the chance of providing you with the explanation you seek every time.

Search by abbreviation via the instant search bar, or scroll with the alphabetical index on the right side. Find what you need, the way you want to find it.

You can add abbreviations to your Favorites list by just double-tapping an entry; a star then appears by its name. Your Favorites list is yours to control, ordered how you want.

Tapping an abbreviation shows a details screen, with the term and its meaning in large print. MedAbbreviations automatically determines whether a Wikipedia article is available for the meaning. Just tap "View in Wikipedia" or "Search in Google" to do so directly from MedAbbreviations.

FEATURES

• 14,079 abbreviations, including medical terms, common shorthand, and professional associations and organizations
• Definitions shown directly in the main list
• View explanations in Wikipedia, with automatic article verification and iPhone-friendly formatting
• Fast search, always available and live updating
• Fast scanning via the alphabetical index
• Favorites list

The abbreviations and definitions will be expanded via free updates. Please email [email protected] with any requests, reports, or comments, including any other abbreviations you would like to see included!

Pros and cons of MedAbbreviations app for iPhone and iPad

MedAbbreviations app good for

Some abbreviations are actually hard to guess. This app helps a lot.

Very useful , never know when it could be important to know what an abbreviation means

Medicine uses a lot of abbreviations Without this app one could get lost.

Very good for those off the wall abbreviations no one can figure out.

Havent used it as much as I thought I would but but helpful when I need it.

I use this app frequently @ the hospital, it is super helpful. I highly recommend it.

Some bad moments

Although the program has a lot of abbreviations, it is missing a key feature for anyone who will use it on a day-to-day basis. The author needs to implement the functionality to enter your own custom abbreviations. Until then only 2 stars.

Lots of abbreviations.... But many of them very obvious.... Or very obscure. Not ver useful for thru day-to-day use or charting.

I would give a negative 4. At precent there are probably less than 50 medically accepted abbreviations

Was hopeful but didnt have the first acronym I tried to look up. Ill keep trying but honestly if youre charging for an app I shouldnt be googling medical acronyms.

I thought this would be useful when transcribing, but so far abbreviations I needed are not found in this app and I have to go to Google instead. I was hoping that would eliminate that for me, but this is not the case. I tried one more time and found the abbreviation I needed, but it was incorrect. So instead Im just going to use Google instead of using your app as a portal.

With all questions answered, this app never did return results in identifying meds. Very POOR.

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