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9/8/2010 by Press Room, Modality
Interactive Reference and Learning Volumes Featuring Anatomy Illustrations by Dr. Frank Netter Available Now for In App Purchase
Durham, NC - September 8, 2010 - Modality, Inc. today announced the release of four new content sets from Elsevier for use in the modalityBODY App for iPad. Netter’s Advanced Head and Neck Flash Cards, Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards, Netter’s Concise Radiologic Anatomy, and Netter’s Musculoskeletal Flash Cards are now available for In App Purchase via the modalityBODY App.
The modalityBODY App allows users to view, organize, annotate, search and store thousands of medical images and create custom image collections for study and reference. The store within the app offers a variety of world-class anatomical and medical imaging atlases and flash cards, all with native iPad image quality. Users may combine these collections with their own images to create a robust library of anatomical reference material. Custom structure labels and annotations may be added to any image, and a powerful visual cross-referencing index is maintained for all structures across all volumes in the app.
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9/14/2009 by Dr. Wodajo, iMedicalApps.com
In the personal library of many physicians, there is at least one hard bound collection of beautifully hand drawn color illustrations by Frank Netter MD (1906-1991). These drawings were the work of an immensely gifted graphic artist who, by stripping away every unimportant detail, made human anatomy even more vivid and more beautiful. Frank Netter was also a physician with deep appreciation for the varieties and causes of human diseases. Sometimes, the first image that comes to mind when thinking of a disease is the drawing in a Netter book.
Now, many of those drawings have been assembled and annotated for a series of four medical iPhone applications by Modality. As an orthopedic surgeon, I immediately purchased the musculoskeletal edition ($29.99). The other applications offered by Modality are geared toward general anatomy, head & neck anatomy, and neuroanatomy.
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6/30/2010 by Brian Nadel, Tech Tools
It’s clear that the iPad has the power to transform education from stationary learning to a process that can be performed anywhere. With a starting price of $500, it’s on a par with netbooks and a lot easier to swallow for a class than notebooks that cost 50 percent more. The iPad is also thinner, lighter and has a touch screen that kids can’t keep their fingers off of.
The key to any computing platform is the software that runs on it and the iPad has 150,000 programs available with many more on the way. On top of newspaper and magazine content, there are thousands of iPad programs designed for education. Some are free, $10 goes a long way with these programs and $50 is about as much as you can spend on a single education app.
Here’re more than dozen of my favorites of iPad apps for students and teachers. Send me yours.
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1/28/2010 by Alex Drossos, iMedicalApps
The iPad has created a great deal of buzz in the tech community. The medical and healthcare community at large are set to benefit from some of its key features, mentioned in our prior posting. One of these key features, the beautiful 1024 by 768 pixel, 9.7 inch screen, is set to change the overall user experience for medical apps that have a focus on imaging, such as anatomy applications. Although this medical app review was done using an iPod Touch, we can only imagine how much more aesthetically pleasing the iPad’s experience will be. As will be discussed later in the post, these applications are a perfect example of how the upcoming iPad could be used in the clinic setting to improve patient education.
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11/25/2009 by Gabriel, The Pinnacle POV
As technology continues to become a bigger part of the classroom, it is hard to determine which pieces will benefit students and teachers the most. And with the advances of mobile devices such as the iPhone, learning doesn’t have to stop once a student leaves school. Apple’s iPhone has over 75,000 apps for everything from games to business. But for those of you looking for some help in and outside of the classroom, these five apps will make you way cool for school.
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11/3/2009 by Michelle Delio, Mac Life
In the not-too-distant future, a doctor’s most valuable tool for saving lives and treating medical problems could be an Apple smartphone.
Someday an iPhone may save your life.
It could prevent you from taking (or receiving) the wrong medication, it may monitor your vital signs and automatically call 911 if a problem develops, and it may warn you if substances that can make you sick or kill you are present. Applications that will make possible these and other uses for the iPhone are currently under development at universities and private companies. Meanwhile, the iPhone is becoming the handheld device of choice for doctors who want fast access to diagnostic images and medical reference materials.
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10/14/2008 by Press Room, Modality
DURHAM, N.C. (October 14, 2008)– Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of science and health content, has once again partnered with Modality, the leader in transforming premium learning content for iPhones and iPods, to bring innovative new learning technology to busy students in medical and healthcare education. Together they have released Mosby’s iTerms Medical Terminology Flash Cards for iPhone, an application that combines text, audio, and images into an effective solution for learning medical terms.
“Mobile technology is changing the way people learn, communicate and even practice in the field of healthcare,” according to Sebastian Vos, Vice President of e-Education for Elsevier. “Our mission as a publisher is to anticipate the needs of our customers and deliver superior learning resources to them. Our partnership with Modality provides Elsevier with a clear path to students and professionals seeking proven healthcare reference content for their mobile devices.”
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9/30/2008 by Ivor Kovic, M.D., Blog by Ivor Kovic
Modality has just released their two new educational apps for the iPhone. They started with fantastic Netter’s anatomy flash cards and now they moved on to one of the most respected step-by-step guides to general surgery procedures, Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical operations. Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations consists of several parts devoted to gastrointestinal, miscellaneous abdominal, vascular, gynecologic and additional procedures. So far Modality has released upper and lower gastrointestinal procedures.
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8/5/2008 by Raymund Flandez, Wall Street Journal
Modality Inc.'s big break came calling via mobile phone.
Right after Apple Inc. announced in March that it would allow software developers to build applications for its new iPhone 3G, Modality, of Durham, N.C., got busy.
And on July 11, when Apple launched the phone and the Apple App Store to hawk those applications, Modality's product -- digital medical terminology flashcards -- was among the available downloads.
One taker was Jeff Midgley, a physician assistant at the Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn. He says he wanted something in his pocket that he could show to patients when they ask him about a simple sprain or fracture. Rather than showing them an X-ray, he can just call up the cards on his iPhone and zoom in on the bone in the correct anatomical position.
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7/24/2008 by Julie Deardorff, Chicago Tribune
iPhone health applications have just about everything but the cold stethoscope.
Cell phones can't actually get hot enough to pop popcorn, regardless of what you may have seen on YouTube. But some do have other unexpected abilities that just might help improve your quality of life.
Dozens of new health and fitness Web applications are now available for use with the Apple iPhone, which combines a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod and an Internet browser into one gadget.
The apps, which likely will eventually be available on other phones that will run on a Google-based operating system, enable third-party software developers to create a new breed of health services
These programs can literally put all your health records—including digital images such as ultrasounds and echocardiograms—into the palm of your hand. Or they can administer eye exams or keep track of your calories and exercise.
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7/10/2008 by Press Room, Modality
Elsevier partners with Modality to bring healthcare students and professionals trusted learning and reference tools for the iPhone and iPod touch
Durham, N.C. (July 10, 2008) – Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of science and health information, has partnered with Modality, the leader in transforming premium learning content for iPods, to create a line of iPhone and iPod touch applications designed to provide mobile learning and reference solutions for busy students in medical and healthcare education.
“Health sciences students are required to commit to memory a tremendous amount of information in a very short amount of time,” says Randy Charles, Executive Vice President Clinical Solutions at Elsevier, publishers of the Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards. “Our mission as a medical information provider is to deliver that information in the most useful ways possible. When Modality presented us with the opportunity to expand our product lines to include digital, mobile versions of our best sellers, we jumped at the chance.”
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7/10/2008 by Press Room, Modality
Modality Partners with Leading Publishers to Bring Trusted Learning and Consumer Reference Tools to iPhone and iPod Touch Users
Durham, N.C.- July 10, 2008—Modality, Inc., the leader in providing innovative learning and consumer reference content for iPods, announced that its new line of applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch will be available on Apple's App Store today. These products are designed to provide a new and unique mobile learning and reference experience for people on the go.
“Modality takes full advantage of the iPhone’s revolutionary feature set to create multimedia applications that are easy to use and provide effective, interactive learning experiences. And because our applications aren’t dependent upon wireless access, we offer true anytime, anywhere access,” said S. Mark Williams, Ph.D., CEO of Modality. “We bring consumers the content they know and trust on the devices they really want to carry.