Researchers from the Emergency Medicine Network at Massachusetts General Hospital today launched a free application for the iPhone that will tell you where the nearest hospital emergency rooms are in the United States, along with directions and other information designed to help people away from home.
via MGH launches ER finder for iPhone – White Coat Notes – Boston.com.

I tried it, and it worked very well for me (not needing it, just testing it out).

Oddly, the blog article tells all about it, except its name (true, it’s in the headline but that looks like a generic description, not the app name) which I had to watch the video to find. It’s EMNet findER, free in the iTunes app store.

I cannot think of a reason not to have this on your iPhone, especially if you ever travel.

Update: from Richard Winters (twitter) (blog):

@gruntdoc do they have an app that finds a consultant who doesn’t call back? or one that finds my stethoscope?

Heh.

Other needed apps:

ER FindMyNurse – patient
ER FindMyDoc – patient
ER Find the Nurse I need – doc
ER BoxLunchMenu
ER INeedAMiracle – everyone…

Got an ER app you need?  That’s what the comments are for…

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has released an iPhone app called “NEJM This Week”

via NEJM This Week iPhone App at MedGadget.

Very nice!

Meat stylus for the iPhone.

Another use for SlimJims….

I found out the hard way recently that you can’t make the iPhone touch pad work with gloves on…and these Koreans figured out a workaround.

via Symtym on Twitter.

iMedicalApps.com is the new home for the former iphonemdeicalappreview.com I linked to a while back. (Kudos on the name change, the original isn’t easy or intuitive to type).

From their email today:

Just wanted you to know we changed our blogs name from iphonemedicalappreview.com, to iMedicalApps.com. We now have a team of physicians and medical students writing reviews and commenting on mobile applications for the iPhone and other devices (reason for the move: Our first name was entirely too long, and we moved to WordPress).

So, a site for medical app reviews, and a better name, too!

Recently I asked if people were still putting ICE (In Case of Emergency) information in their cellphones.  (The surprising answer was yes, showing that it’s an idea that resonates, at least with my audience).

I lamented that I have that information in my iPhone, but since it’s passcoded no rescuer would be able to access my dutifully entered ICE contact information.  (I then had delusions of retiring on just such an app).

There is a solution.  It’s brilliantly simple, and works. Polka have written an iPhone app called “Close Call” that fits the bill perfectly.  And it’s free!

I made one for this review, using a picture in my camera:

Many thanks to Ramona for finding this!

FTC disclaimer: this was completely voluntary.  I paid for my own free app.

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I have installed a plugin for WordPress that displays the blog contents on the iPhone on a more user-friendly way.  If you don’t like it you can click the link at the very bottom of the page and get the full view.

I’d be interested in iPhone users’ comments.

I’m throwing this out there hoping someone has a solution.

Since I got my new iPhone several months ago it’ll go through periods where it gets a lot of wrong number calls.  After several weeks of this I started asking people the number they were calling, and that’s where the weirdness comes in.

(For illustration, this isn’t my number, don’t call).  My number is (817) 555-1234’ all the wrong number calls are for (555) 123-4xxx.  For some reason the Bell system forgets my area code and drops in the middle three as my area code.

After about 10 calls from one person we figured out a fix, having the wrong number dialer enter a 1 before they dialed, and they’d get the number they were dialing.  I suppose the good news is there’s only about 1,000 wrong number combinations I could get…

I have asked AT&T to look into it (to his credit the tech I spoke with realized it’s not something amenable to the first-level tech script, and spared me that), but I haven’t seen a change and haven’t heard back from them.

Other than getting a new number from AT&T, any ideas?

I’ve been using the above iPhone program for the last month or so, and here’s a short review and interview of the programmer.  Disclosures: they gave me a free $1.99 copy to use.

My review: a very useful reference for those new to medical terminology, or who teach the same group.  Could use a search function, but otherwise it’s worth the price.

My review after the fold:

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Let’s find out.

Yes!  Yes it does.