What's the best allied health app? While the answer depends on your specific job and what you want it to do, some apps are definitely better than others. Here's a look at some of the best healthcare apps for documentation, scheduling, job searches, and what matters most to allied health professionals.
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The Best Apps for Allied Healthcare Professionals
If you’re an allied health clinician and you’re not using apps, you may be missing out on the chance to expand your skills, discover new career opportunities, manage your schedule, and, in general, make your job a little more convenient.
The fact is, healthcare professionals of all types now use apps for a variety of reasons — everything from digitizing documents and getting instant access to info to networking with other professionals, earning CE credits, and much more. And the best ones are more than convenient! They can actually help you reduce errors and improve the quality of the work you do.
In fact, there are so many apps out there that it might be hard to choose the right one. And, while that will ultimately come down to preference, here’s a list of the best allied health apps to point you in the right direction.
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Best allied health app for all-around reference
Medscape has hundreds of medical calculators, a huge drug reference library, guides for clinical procedures, and lots more, including the chance to earn CE credits across 30+ specialties. It's considered the premier reference app for virtually every healthcare professional. > Learn more
Best allied health app for diagnostics & decision-making
Calculate by QxMD is designed to provide fast answers when you need them most, plus hundreds of decision support tools and calculators, a famous "Question Flow" feature that covers nearly 30 specialties, and point-of-care tools for allied professionals like respiratory therapists and dialysis techs. > Learn more
Best allied health app for networking & communications
Doximity is the most-used clinical networking app, with more than 3 million healthcare professionals in its network. It offers HIPAA-compliant messaging, a huge library of articles, the chance to earn CE credits, and the power to quickly sign, date, and annotate documents, among other features. > Learn more
Best allied health app for documentation
Genius Scan turns your phone into a pocket digitizer to quickly scan and convert virtually any document, complete with a HIPAA-compliant feature so you can use it for medical documents. > Learn more
Best allied health app for managing your schedule
Go HWS Mobile from HealthTrust makes per diem scheduling a snap, giving you the power to find and book shifts from the palm of your hand. It also offers features for bulk-booking and auto-booking to save even more time and make sure you get the shifts you want, before someone else does. > Learn more
Best allied health app for anatomy
Essential Anatomy offers more than 8,200 anatomical structures in richly detailed, colorful 3D imagery, including real-time muscle motion, bone surface mapping, nerve and blood supply tracing, and more. > Learn more
Best allied health app for imaging & medical & techs
Guide to Diagnostic Tests provides evidence-based info and recommendations for ordering and interpreting almost 500 different types of laboratory and diagnostic tests. > Learn more
Best allied health app for surgical techs
ScrubUp lets you go beyond recording surgical preferences to easily build a complete guide to arranging ORs for each procedure and each surgical team you work with, among other features. > Learn more
Best allied health app for physical therapy
PhysioMaster is a handy tool that makes it easier to handle all the PT basics like analyzing posture and FMS, measuring ROM, conducting either 6-minute or 10-minute walk tests, and more. > Learn more
Best allied health app for occupational therapy
Dexteria is designed to support treatment goals and track patient progress for occupational therapy, including research-supported exercises for adults plus special features to engage kids. > Learn more
Best allied health app for respiratory therapists
Respiratory Notes is a procedure-based app developed by an accomplished RRT to put all the info you need for your job at your fingertips, complete with quick-scan pictures, bullet-point overviews of key procedures, and more. > Learn more
Best allied health app for finding & applying to jobs
Go HWS Mobile from HealthTrust is designed to give you first-in-line access to the best travel and local contract jobs, all across the country. In addition to seeing jobs before they're available anywhere else, you can also set up alerts to get instantly notified when the assignments you want open up. > Learn more
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