Attention doctors: Feel like getting your medicine on? webOS is here to help, with two new apps arriving recently in the Palm App Catalog to assist you with your doctorly needs.
First up is PEPID, a free app from PEPID. Wrapped inside this app are several medical tools including calculators for dosing, a drug interactions generator, a drug database that includes some 7500 different drugs, and more than 800 illustrations. There’s even a differential diagnosis calculator – for the non-doctor types, think House, M.D., but as a purely analytical phone. While the PEPID app itself is free, it is in reality a 14-day trial of their subscription service. PEPID offers a number of add-on packages that enhance the abilities of the software, including specialized packages for Emergency Medicine, Registered Nurses, study guides, Oncology, and more. Packages start at $89.95 for 9 months access, with longer packages available at a discounted rate.
The other medical app we’re going to talk about today is Lexi-Comp ON HAND, which we’re just going to call Lexi-Comp for short. The app, by the company of the same name, specializes in providing raw data to physicians of all varieties. Currently (and finally) available for the low cost of free from the App Catalog, Lexi-Comp comes with 30 days of free access to the popular Lexi-Drugs and Lexi-Interact databases. These clinical databases, as you might imagine, provide detailed in-depth data for thousands of drugs and detail interactions between different drugs in the same patient. While Drugs and Interact are the only two databases available for the webOS version of Lexi-Comp at this time, they expect to have many more packages available in the coming months. Currently, a one-year subscription to Lexi-Drugs and Lexi-Interact will cost $115.00, with discounts available for two- and three-year subscriptions.