My Medical iPad App Review
My Medical offers the opportunity to keep all your medical information together, at hand and accessible. It supports limitless capabilities to add other peoples’ medical information as separate records.
Our Rating ****
iPad App – Designed for the iPad. iPhone version available
Developer: Steven Chaitoff
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.4
Device Reviewed On: iPad
Layout/Design: ****
Controls: ***
Usability: *****
Reliability: *****
Overall Rating: ****
New Record
Getting started with this app means you need to create a New Record. This is simple to do by selecting the people icon at the bottom left of the page. Next, you need to complete the default forms. These are straight forward and comprehensive. Starting with General Information which consists of name, address, employer, height, weight those kind of details. Once you add your height and weight the BMI is automatically worked out.
Information
The medical information that you can add within My Medical is extensive. From standard details such as your blood group, to details of upcoming tests, surgical procedures and the name and contact details of your consultant.
Calendar
One aspect we particularly like is the facility to link appointment dates to your calendar. Once the appointment has been added within My Medical your calendar will alert you to it from your iPad.
Calendar View On iPad
Design
The design is very fluid and clean. The app works promptly and comes complete with a whole host of templates to ensure you have a complete picture of your medical health and anyone else’s’ that you look after. There is also the facility to add documents from your photo album. These don’t have to be specifically photographs, they could be scanned pdf’s/X-rays, from other medical professionals, or perhaps additional information that you wanted to talk to your consultant about.
Who Would Use It?
We see this app appealing to a very wide audience. From mothers needing to keep records of their children’s’ medical appointments and history to professional healthcare workers and it could even be developed in a less domestic fashion for medical staff on hospital wards.
There are only a few niggles we have with this app. These include the fact that this version is tailored specifically to the US market. That’s fine of course, but if the developer wants to attract other markets then some of the categories will need to be changed. For example, in the UK everyone has a GP so that would need to go in. GP stands for General Practitioner which is your local family doctor. Perhaps the main niggle relates to the weight and height measurements. In the UK, weight is still commonly described in stones and pounds, typically someone would say they weigh 9st 6lb. My Medical cannot accept this yet but the developer will amend it in a future update. Finally, one personal category I would like to see added is ‘organ donation’. It would be a great opportunity to add this in and get the patients consent.
Access Via Your Computer
If you find the thought of adding huge chunks of information on your iPad to be rather hideous, My Medical have a website and you can add the data to that and it will transfer automatically to your iPad into all the correct categories, you can find that here.
To conclude, this is an excellent app through and through, from the original concept and right down to the actual design and usability. It only needs a few very minor tweaks to make it a perfect app. There’s no question that really this should be one of the first apps you purchase for your iPad.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
One Comment
Wanda Murray
Please make this app available to people who have android. Not everyone can afford to buy an iPad/iPhone or an Apple/Mac product.