STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of an iPhone App that gives whenever, wherever access to users of First Consult, an online clinical information resource that delivers quick, trusted answers to clinical questions at the point-of-care. The app is available as a free download from the Apple App Store and works on Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices.
Access is available to all First Consult individual and institutional subscribers as part of the subscription for no additional charge. Free 60-day trial evaluations are also available. Individuals who download the app by January 31, 2011, automatically are entered into a drawing to win an iPad. In addition, the institution with the most downloads of the app by the same date will be awarded an iPad for library use.
The new First Consult App was developed in partnership with the mobility team within the Information Services practice at Infosys. It supports physicians, residents and medical students who may lack an immediate data connection within a hospital, office or medical school but who still need instant, user-friendly access to the latest information on patient evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis, and prevention from First Consult.
The release of the First Consult iPhone App coincides with physicians' growing interest in mobile devices. Sixty-four percent of physicians owned smartphones in 2009, a figure that is expected to reach 81 percent by 2012, according to Manhattan Research. Moreover, 94 percent of physicians who own smartphones use them to communicate, manage personal and business workflows, and access medical information, says a 2010 survey from Spyglass Consulting Group.
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