Biolox Inside

Company information about biolox ceramic implants

Biolox has produced this information app to give providers detailed product information regarding their ceramic implant component and designs. The app is well-made and include very technical information regarding the shape, size, and cautions with using their ceramic products for hip, knee, and shoulder arthroplasty.  The app includes numerous videos, 3D animations, and booklet handouts on the topics of wear, fretting corrosion, implants, and results.  Overall an informative app for medical providers who want to learn more about these implants.

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My Academy

AAOS Academy Meeting 2015 

My Academy is the AAOS 2015 official academy meeting app. My Academy is meant to help academy members and vendors navigate the Academy meeting. This app is a dramatic upgrade from prior academy meeting apps. I can honestly say the AAOS did it right this time. The app has features that allow you to easily search lectures and vendors, find out when and where they are and point you in the right direction with a map. The interface is friendly and easy to use. The messaging features and auto-reminders help you manage your time. The app is free with registration and will be a must have at the next Academy meeting.

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Ortho10 Pro

Simple ICD-10 look-up for orthopaedic surgeons

Ortho10 is the first and only ICD-10 code look-up app specifically for orthopaedic surgeons.  The app has a very simple and intuitive interface which makes finding the proper code, and saving common codes, very easy to do.  Any user can easily find the proper code within less than 6 taps, regardless of any pre-existing knowledge of ICD-10. The app first opens to a list of body parts each on separate tiles.  Once a body part is selected, you have specific options relevant to that region, such as osteoarthritis, fracture, joint pain, sprain, etc.  As the user continues to drill down in choices they are prompted to select a more specific diagnosis, laterality of the injury or pathology, and the type of encounter (initial or subsequent, as required by ICD-10).  The user is then clearly presented with the diagnostic code and a description of the code.  At every level, there is the opportunity to move back up the selection tree and change a response.  And, once a code is selected, it can be saved in favorites for quick reference at a later time.  Overall, the app is easy to use and will be very important and useful as the mandatory transition to ICD-10 takes effect.  The app has already undergone revisions and improvements since its initial release, and we anticipate additional improvements and expansions.  There is currently a free version with all codes but limited additional features, as well as a paid version with enhancements such as “favorites” and “recently used” codes.

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MedTunnel

HIPAA-Compliant secure healthcare communication

This app is meant to remove fax and paper from cluttering your life. MedTunnel is trying to revolutionize the way the healthcare providers share and send information. This company has provided a service that protects patient privacy, but improves communication and makes your phone easy to use. Many apps already offer HIPAA compliant text or email tools via your phone. However, MedTunnel has given users the tools to make sharing information between physicians and patients more robust by giving users the ability to email or send documents. MedTunnel is one of the only HIPAA compliant messaging services that allow a user to take a photo with their phone and turn it into a pdf file and allow pdfs to be viewed and annotated, all on a phone. These two features make the app one of the best HIPAA compliant communication tools on the market. In addition the app is only a small portion of the larger desktop platform that has been created by MedTunnel. The desktop version allows users to have more control of their content and allow all files on any desktop running MedTunnel to securely be saved to the cloud. One concern about the app is you need the desktop version to set up some of the features and without setting these features the app is not the easiest to use.  For the app to be useful to you and your practice you would need the staff and other providers in your practice to adopt the app for the best use of these features. Overall an excellent HIPAA compliant communication app for healthcare professionals.

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Hand.MD

A personal practice app for Dr. Orrin Franko with patient information, videos, and peri-operative as well as post-operative rehabilitation education.

This personal practice app is a full-featured patient portal for Dr. Orrin Franko. Powered by CARE, the app provides a personalized website and personalized physical therapy/rehabilitation protocols for patients.   The app is incredibly comprehensive by providing information to patients about their surgery, their surgeon, and lists the exercises they should be performing week-by-week after surgery with complete video demonstrations.  Pre- and post-operative information is available to patients, and the post-operative physical therapy protocol is clearly organized for patients to reference either at home or at the gym.  The user interface is intuitive and visually appealing. Overall, the application has been well implemented and would be a great benefit to any patients of Dr. Franko.

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TOA – Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance

A personal practice app for the Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance.

This is a personal practice app for the Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance.  The user interface is refined and intuitive, and the current features include requesting an appointment, calling the office, linking to the TOA website,  a patient portal, and inbox/message functionality.  The features all appear to work as expected without any significant issues.

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Insights Orthopedics

Orthopaedic journal and news aggregator with personalized information.

Insights Orthopedics is a comprehensive and visually stunning news and research aggregator for orthopedics.  With a recent redesign in October 2014, their interface has become even more streamlined and visually appealing. Using their specialized search engine, the app collects orthopaedic journals, videos, full-text articles, news, podcasts, images, clinical trials, and association information and presents it in a clear and functional format.  The app looks and feels like the “flipboard for orthopaedic surgery.” The initial landing page presents the various modules, including journal clubs from various institutions, leading journal articles, videos, upcoming events, bookmarks, and industry.  A simple swipe of the keyboard quickly scrolls through the various articles and videos permitting continued browsing of abstracts.  With the new features, thousands of institutional library subscriptions have been adding, permitting full access to the article for users.  The intuitive user interface includes the ability to bookmark resources for off-line browsing or share links via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, email, and SMS.  One of the apps most versatile features is the Aggregator function, which works as a search and includes many pre-populated key terms as well as the ability to type in your own words.

Overall, this app has the look and feel of a “top app” with a number of useful features for any orthopaedic surgeon or trainee.

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Kayal Orthopaedic

Personal practice app for Kayal Orthopaedic Center in New Jersey.

This is a typical orthopaedic practice app for the Kayal Orthopaedic Center in New Jersey. The app includes general information such as location, phone number, contact information, photos, videos, and inquiry forms.

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HC Chang Orthopedics

Personal practice app for Dr. Chang, Singapore

This is a personal practice app for Dr. Chang, sports medicine specialist who practices in Singapore.  The app includes the typical information, including information about calling, emailing, location, about the surgeon, and links to the website and other resources.

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DocSpera

HIPAA compliant secure collaboration platform for surgeons

DocSpera is a company and app developed specifically for collaboration and case sharing among medical professionals.  With an orthopaedic surgeon co-founder, it has been tailored for the proceduralist, and functions well as a networking and case-sharing tool for surgeons.

The app requires registration as a verified physician. Once complete, all functionality is available for free, including access to the contact list, invitations to join specific networks, the ability to upload documents and images to a personal filing cabinet, and messaging features.  Some of the most useful features include the ability to create a personal network for a practice, society, or specialty interest group.  Discussion threads can be initiated by any group member and are visible only to those within the group.  In addition, because of its HIPAA compliant standards, specific patient information is secure through the platform and protected for public view.

Overall, DocSpera is a great solution for practices or providers looking to collaborate and share information about patients and cases.

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California Orthopaedic Association

Conference app for the 2014 California Orthopaedic Association and QME Course

This app is created for attending the COA 2014 Annual Meeting in Monterey, CA.  Presumably, future meetings will have similar apps that will support equivalent functionality, including an agenda, speakers/evaluations, list of attendees, social events, QR reader, map, photo feed, etc

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Spine MD

A personal practice app for Dr. Todd Lanman with patient information, videos, and peri-operative as well as post-operative rehabilitation education.

This personal practice app is a full-featured patient portal for Dr. Todd Lanman, a spine surgeon in Beverly Hills. Powered by CARE, the app provides a personalized website and personalized physical therapy/rehabilitation protocols for patients.   The app is incredibly comprehensive by providing information to patients about their surgery, their surgeon, and lists the exercises they should be performing week-by-week after surgery with complete video demonstrations.  Pre- and post-operative information is available to patients, and the post-operative physical therapy protocol is clearly organized for patients to reference either at home or at the gym.  The user interface is intuitive and visually appealing. Overall, the application has been well implemented and would be a great benefit to any patients of Dr. Lanman.

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Orlando Orthopaedic

A personal practice app for the Orlando Orthopaedic Center with offices, physicians, and appointment information.

This is a personal practice app for the Orlando Orthopaedic Center.  The format is unique in that the landing page asks patients to point to “what hurts” on a silhouette of a body.  Once selecting a region, however, you still have to select the area that hurts and are then provided with a very brief synopsis of pain in that region.  The apps more useful feature includes address information for the Center’s  5 office locations, biographic information for the 17 physicians, and contact information to make an appointment.  This app is only useful for patients of this group needing an address or wanting to get in touch with their physician

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KOC – Knoxville Orthopedic Clinic

A personal practice app for the Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic.

This is a personal practice app for the Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic.  The user interface is refined and intuitive, and the current features include requesting an appointment, calling the office, linking to the KOC website,  a patient portal, and inbox/message functionality.  The features all appear to work as expected without any significant issues.

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PingMD (updated)

HIPAA compliant messaging

PingMD is a creative app to help providers securely and efficiently communicate with patients and other providers. This app creates HIPAA compliant text-messaging. If you did not know, text messaging through your phone provider does not meet HIPAA compliance guidelines. As a result, PingMD was created to fill this void. Overall the app is very user friendly and has a clean interface. Patients and other coworkers can send messages, photos and videos to help communicate with one another. The main criticism with PingMD in my prior review was that it was cumbersome to find other coworkers and patients. *PingMD has just released an update that allows users to easily find coworkers through their current phone contact list.* This update is a powerful move by PingMD. This network based app depends on other providers and patients using the app for it to be successful. Over time as more hospital systems adapt and integrate mobile health solutions this app will likely becoming an everyday part of patient and physician interactions. 

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Sookasa

Cloud based file storage that is secure and encrypted

Sookasa is a great HIPPA compliant solution to file sharing through the cloud. The seamless integration with Dropbox (the most popular free data cloud service) makes Sookasa very user-friendly and easy to use. Sookasa is valuable to medical professionals because it finally offers an easy to use cloud platform that is not exposed to security and compliance risks. You can encrypts files, create an audit trail, track files and allow administrators to easily delete and retrieve files.  The app allows users to securely view encrypted documents on your iPhone or iPad device. This service is a must have for all medical professionals who use dropbox/googledrive/box or any other cloud device where patient information is stored. If you are not using cloud based file storage in your practice due to concerns for security there is now finally a solution. Sookasa is a revolutionary new product that can change the way you manage your practice.

*The Fees are subscription based and can be pricey based on usage, but likely a worthwhile investment*

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Kerlan-Jobe

Easy to use app for patients to keep in touch with Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic

Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic based out of Los Angeles has created an app to help their patients keep in touch through an iPhone/iPad device. The app is easy to use and allows patients to read up on Kerlan-Jobe physicians and see where other practices are located. The app does a great job including relevant information about Kerlan-Jobe in the news and gives patients contact information and parking information about Kerlan-Jobe’s different clinic. However, the app is not as advanced as other clinic apps and doesn’t include any patient information about rehab services or surgery specific information. I was particularly disappointed that the app also did not allow patients to make appointments through the app interface itself and required users to call the scheduling desk or have the scheduling desk call them. Overall a nice app for Kerlan-Jobe patients, but not the best one on the market.

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UCSF Center for Joint Replacement

Mobile-based post-operative rehabilitation exercises for UCSF Joint Replacement patients

UCSF has teamed up with CARE to set the standard for the future of mobile rehabilitation.  Currently implemented by the UCSF Joint Replacement program and created by physical therapists, the app provides a personalized website and personalized physical therapy/rehabilitation protocols for patients.   The app is incredibly comprehensive by providing information to patients about their surgery, their surgeon, and lists the exercises they should be performing week-by-week after surgery with complete video demonstrations.

When a patient is enrolled he/she will only see information and post-operative protocols that have been specifically selected by their surgeon.  The app itself consists of the sections described above.  Pre- and post-operative information is available to patients, and the post-operative physical therapy protocol is clearly organized for patients to reference either at home or at the gym.  Overall, the application has been well implemented

*Requires enrollment by the UCSF Joint Replacement program.

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Orthopedics Today Healio

Mobile Access to the Orthopaedics Today Magazine

This is a good mobile version of the Orthopaedics Today. The app updates with the latest and most recent articles within different topics of orthopaedics daily. While this app lacks a search option and the ability to find to find old articles, it does allows you to star favorite articles and is trying to build a video library of expert talks in the field.

Overall a good app for a useful magazine.

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OrthoMind

Mobile access to OrthoMind.com, professional management for orthopaedic surgeons.

The orthopaedic practice management site www.OrthoMind.com has released an app for mobile access to posts and messages.  The app replicates many of the most popular features of the website: Clinical Posts, Business Posts, and Messages.  This includes the ability to post new messages with photos included.  The posts are viewed in the standard fashion, and I experienced no delays accessing content or viewing comments.  This is a perfect adjunct to the website for registered users.

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Orthopaedics Today Europe

Mobile access to the Orthopaedics Today Europe magazine.

This app is a very good mobile version of the Orthopaedics Today Europe magazine.  The app includes full access to new and old issues, including options to download the document to the device or view online.  There are nice features such as a robust search option, as well as ways to share the content via email.  Overall, a very good mobile adaptation of a useful magazine.

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British Orthopaedic Association

Simple app to learn shoulder exam and special tests

I commend the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) for creating a mobile app for patient and surgeon education.  The app includes modules such as news, multimedia, membership information, publications, events, etc. The app is easy to navigate and includes a somewhat eclectic collection of resources for surgeons.  This app may be moderately useful for members of the BOA.

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Coastal Orthopaedics

A practice app for Coastal Orthopaedics in Florida.

A practice app for an orthopaedic group in Florida.  This app is one of the more complete practice apps available, and includes information about the building and facilities, preparation for exams and imaging tests, physician directory with bios, location information, and the ability to make an appointment.  A very good clinical practice app.

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Heel Thy Tendon

Lightweight informational app for patients with foot tendinopathy including information about the disease and treatments.

Heel Thy Tendon (creative name) was developed by an orthopaedic surgeon from Lewisburg, PA and includes general information about 4 common types of foot tendinopathy.  The app begins by asking the patient to select the area of pain and isolates either Achilles tendinopathy, posterior tibial tendinopathy, peroneal tendinopathy, or plantar fasciitis. Each section includes a powerpoint with generic information and treatment options (surgery, platelet rich plasma, shockwave therapy, and non-operative treatment).  There is also a text-based summary of each condition.  Overall, the app provides general information about four common causes of foot pain and may be useful for patients looking to learn more about chronic foot pain and to help guide them to an appropriate specialist.

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HandMD

A personal practice app for the hand surgery practice of Dr. Jeffrey Wint in Springfield, MA.

This app is a personal practice app for Dr. Jeffrey Wint.  The app includes information about Dr. Wint, including office information, location, hours, Twitter feed, and various podcasts.  A tab also includes various academic and professional achievements, including education/training information and recent awards.  Users can send a private message to Dr. Wint via the app.

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Top Ortho “App”

Download the www.TopOrthoApps.com iPhone app!  You’re already on the website, why not have on-the-go access direct from your iPhone?  This app has all of the best Top Ortho App lists that you’re used to: Top Apps, Free Apps, iPad Apps, Journals, Sports Apps, and much more!  Full reviews and screenshots are all available for free.

This app has all of the best Top Ortho App lists that you’re used to: Top Apps, Free Apps, iPad Apps, Journals, Sports Apps, and much more!  Full reviews and screenshots are all available for free.

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Biolox

CeramTec’s product information app about their line of ceramic hip arthroplasty products with useful animated videos.

For surgeons who already use CeramTec products, or who are interested in learning more about ceramic technology, this app includes a lot of useful information.  Four products are highlighted: the ball, insert, DUO, and OPTION.  Each section includes product information, as well as tips, handling recommendations, brochures, and news.   A number of high quality animations are included and fun to watch.   The app also includes news articles and brochures from the company, which might be useful to some surgeons, but difficult to read on an iPhone.

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OrthoNow

Practice app for Dr. Badia’s walk-in orthopaedic clinic in South Florida.

This practice-specific app is for Dr. Badia in South Florida. It includes information about the practice location, about the practice and surgeon, a brief description of services provided, some general FAQ questions, and contact information.

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Hospital for Special Surgery: Top Ranked Hospital

A personal practice app for the Hospital for Special Surgery, this app provides comprehensive patient information about orthopaedics and the hospital system.  Unlike other orthopaedic practice apps, the developers have included patient information for 40 common orthopaedic conditions with links to more information online.  Under the Treatment heading, all hospital staff is listed, either by name or specialty, with a brief CV and practice contact information. The Rehabilitation tab includes affiliated rehab centers, and the Wellness tab lists affiliated Yoga, Pilates, and T’ai Chi classes.  The app includes a hospital map, contact information, and links to social media and podcasts.  This app is most useful to current or prospective patients, or those in the greater New York area.  Overall, a complete and well-designed patient-information app.

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Dr. DeGroot On Line

A personal practice app for Dr. DeGroot, this provides patient information about the practice, credentials, e-mail information, location, and phone number.  No general medical information is provided.  Probably only useful for current or prospective patients in the greater Boston area.

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Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center

A personal practice app for the Andrews Center, this provides patient information about the practice, appointment information, contact information, location, and links to the website.  Expanded patient information about the practice is provided through a web portal.  This app is probably only useful for current or prospective patients, or those in the greater Birmingham area.

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