Using Read to Tweet
We’ve noticed many of our users are using Read to share outstanding medical & scientific content with their Twitter followers. As a result, we’ve added closer integration with Twitter. As always, sharing with Twitter is simple. Just tap on the sharing icon and choose “Share on Twitter”. By integrating with Twitter cards, any articles shared to Twitter...
Read MorePush Notifications for Read
Starting in the next couple days, we’ll start to send push notifications to ‘Read’ subscribers whenever a journal they follow releases new articles. We hope this will help our subscribers keep at the cutting edge of medical science. Forget email based electronic table of contents (eTOC). With Read’s push notification system, it’s as simple as getting an alert,...
Read MoreRead by QxMD Opens Up To 3rd Party Integration
As scrutiny over the quality, accuracy and reliability of medical apps increases, it is becoming more and more important to include detailed references in a mobile application. While offering users a link from a reference to the PubMed citation is helpful, it generally only provides access to the paper’s abstract, unless the paper happens to be open access. Perusing an abstract can...
Read MoreRead by QxMD Comes Out of Beta
At QxMD, we believe that knowledge translation– the process by which new knowledge is incorporated into clinical practice – is an important and unsolved challenge for our health care system. Calculate (iOS, Android, BlackBerry) is our best known app to date and has focused on converting clinical prediction rules and medical calculations into simple to use tools to enhance point of care...
Read MoreQxMD Presents Keynote at BC Digital Health Demo Day
Daniel Schwartz, Medical Director of QxMD, was pleased to be invited by Sanotron’s Michael Bidu to present a keynote address at the digital health accelerator’s inaugural event. In this 15 minute presentation, he discusses the importance of enhancing decision support at the point of care and gives concrete examples of work being done by companies such as IBM, Airstrip Technologies...
Read MoreCalculate by QxMD Enhances Decision Making at the Point of Care
Calculate by QxMD has surpassed six hundred thousand downloads across multiple mobile devices, including iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Android. Calculate is also now available for the BlackBerry Playbook. In a recent article on Crain’s New York there is a nice commentary on the utility of point of care decision support tools like ‘Calculate’. Dr. Jonathan Austrian, a hospitalist...
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