Hello,
A great accessible app for travelers to Paris or France, or for
English speakers wanting medical information and spoken translation
phrases for any French-speaking country, or for anyone wanting
information about English and French drug equivalencies or English-to-
French and French-to-English medical terminology, is free at the app
store for a limited time: mPassport Paris. This is the first in a
series of travelers' medical assistance apps by HTH Worldwide, who
have also started a website for mobile app support of English-speaking
travelers abroad:
http://www.mpassport.com/
The second app in the series, mPassport London, also became free for a
limited time today (price drop from $6.99).
These apps address the question of how travelers can locate
information when they have medical needs while abroad -- it gives
locations and contact information for doctors, dentists, hospitals,
and pharmacies. The app uses the built-in GPS or location services of
the iPhone (or iPod Touch) to direct you to nearby services. The
information is completely built into the app, so you do not need an
internet connection to use it. Information such as a drug equivalency
guide, medical phrase translations (with audio phrases spoken in
French for the mPassport Paris app), and simple information such as
the locations and hours of pharmacies can be very helpful. You can
also search by location (both within Paris, by arrondissement or
landmarks, and nearby towns), or by using an iPhone's GPS. The medical
translations option at the bottom of the Paris menu is very nice,
because you can change the translation direction from either English
to French or French to English, and find phrases or medical terms by
category. The easy access to a "tran" button that you can flick to
for the French audio pronunciation supplies an easy way to quickly
access the French terms. (If you speak French, this also makes for a
more wince-free experience, since you don't have to listen to the
complete text-to-speech of French phrases with mangled VoiceOver
pronunciation with an English voice.) You can also save any of these
items (from the list of doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, drug
equivalencies, and translation items) to your own "Saved" list for
easy access. Don't overlook the "More…" menu items such as "Tips"
that describe general information about the country's policy about
access in medical emergencies, etc. Further details about the
criteria used for listing doctors are given on the HTH website. You
can use the app to request appointments.
The main mPassport page is a simple list view with entries for
"Request Appointment", "Doctors", "Dentists", "Drug Equivalency
Guide", Emergency Services", "Hospitals", "Pharmacies" and, in the
case of the Paris guide, "Medical Translations". You can also switch
to one of the other buttons at the bottom of the page. In addition to
"mPassport" for the main page, these are (from left to right)
"Location" (to set your location via GPS or reference categories),
"Recent" (to view the history of all recently accessed pages/entries,
"Saved" (to see items you have "saved"), and "More". In each case the
screen is a simple list view.
A few comments about behavior specific to this app may be helpful:
for this app, in all instances where there is a listed entry with a
"more info" button, double tapping the list entry will give you the
same information as double tapping its "more info" button. In some
cases, such as the list entries under the "More" button, double
tapping the "more info" button does not bring up new information,
while double tapping the list entry does (e.g., this is true for every
list entry on the "More" page -- the "more info" button does not
change the screen; on other pages where the "more info" button changes
the screen, you get exactly the same information as you'd get from
double-tapping the list entry itself. So while it can be useful to
bypass the summary address information to reach the detailed profile
for a doctor by flicking right to the "more info" button and double
tapping, you can equally well cut VoiceOver short by double tapping
the list entry itself to go to the profile page and find out
additional information about the doctor and his training (or what
languages he speaks).
Some sections, such as the drug equivalency guides, should also be
useful to travelers visiting the U.S. who want to know the counterpart
names of generic prescription drugs. Other information, such as
pharmacy listings and their hours, can also be quite helpful to use
without a medical emergency. Both mPassport apps are available in
English-speaking iTunes stores (U.S.A, Canada, U.K., Australia, New
Zealand, etc.) but not in the French iTunes store, for example.
Here are the app store URLs:
• mPassport Paris by HTH Worldwide (free for a short time)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mpassport-paris/id336345594?mt=8
• mPassport London by HTH Worldwide (free for a short time)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mpassport-london/id351693412?mt=8
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
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