This document discusses various medical apps useful in cardiology practice, categorized into reference, calculators, guidelines, news, education, and monitoring. Key apps mentioned include MIMS Philippines and Epocrates for drug references, ESC Guidelines for cardiovascular guidelines and calculators, Calculate by QxMD for over 150 calculators, iCath for determining appropriateness of procedures, Medscape and Cardiology News for news and updates, and HRS Sketcher, drawMD Cardiology, and Heart Voyager for patient education tools. Blood pressure diary and My Heart apps are highlighted for patient monitoring and tracking statistics over time.

1. “There’s an app for that!”
Medical apps in cardio
practice.
November 23, 2013

2. Survey
Class Rate Example
Drug/lab references
News and reference
Calculators
Medical record
Patient monitors
Patient education

3. MIMS Philippines
Drug reference
• Electronic version of the book
• Multiple content
- Drug Information
- Medical Calculators (HR from RR interval)
- News & CME - Medical Tribune, JPOG, Oncology
Tribune
- MIMS Videos Series

4. Epocrates
Drug reference

5. Epocrates
Drug reference

6. ESC Guidelines
News and reference
• 2011 onwards
• ESC Guidelines/Interactive tools
- 3rd UDMI, VHD, Afib, STEMI, HF, CVD prevention,
dyslipidemia, NSTE-ACS, CVD Pregnancy, PAD
• Calculators
- GRACE score, CHA2Ds2-Vasc, HAS-BLED score, CV
risk, BMI, eGFR (Cockroft-Gault/MDRD), chol unit
converter

7. ESC Guidelines
News and reference

8. Calculate by QxMD
Calculator
• More than 150 Unique calculators and Decision
Support tools
• Cardiovascular risk and lipid guideline
• CHADS2 an CHA2DS2-VASc
• TIMI risk score
• Prognosis for Heart failure
• Classify Angina (CCS), CHF (NYHA)
• Management of DVT and PE

9. iCath
• Designed determine the
appropriateness of:
- diagnostic catheterization
- Revascularization
• www.icathapp.com
- Patel MR, Bailey SR, Bonow RO, Chambers CE, Chan PS, Dehmer GJ, Kirtane AJ, Wann LS, Ward RP. J Am
Coll Cardiol. 2012 May 29;59(22):1995-2027.
- Patel MR, Dehmer GJ, Hirshfeld JW, Smith PK, Spertus JA. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Feb 28;59(9):857-81.
News and reference

10. Biblioclick in Cardiology
News and reference
• The easy way to perform Pubmed searches in Cardiology
• Sponsored by Servier
• Performs general searches per diagnosis
• No keyword searches

11. Biblioclick in Cardiology
News and reference

12. Cardiology at hand
News and reference
• News and updates
• Upcoming events
• Wiley abstracts
• FREE content and unlimited access to Clinical
Cardiology, Congestive Heart Failure and The Journal of
Clinical Hypertension
• Share through email, Twitter, Facebook

13. Cardiology at hand
News and reference

14. Medscape
News and reference

15. Medscape
News and reference

16. Medscape
News and reference

17. Medscape
News and reference

18. Cardiology News
Cardiology Magazine HD
News and reference

19. HRS Sketcher
• Useful in patient education, especially for sudden
cardiac arrest and AF patients
• Includes:
- Graphics and video animation (iPad version)
- Images of normal and irregular heart
functions
Patient education

20. HRS Sketcher
Patient education

21. HRS Sketcher
Patient education

22. drawMD Cariology (iPad)
Patient education

23. drawMD Cariology (iPad)
Patient education

24. Heart Voyager
Patient education

25. CARDIO3® Atlas of Cardiac Electrophysiology
& Arrhythmia
CARDIO3® Comprehensive Atlas of
Echocardiography
CARDIO3® Atlas of Interventional Cardiology
– Lite
CARDIO3® Atlas of Cardiovascular Magnetic
Resonance
News and reference

26. Heart ECG Handbook
News and reference

27. Blood pressure diary
Patient monitoring
• Can record BP values
• Can provide summary statistics
(mean, max)
• Can analyse for different parts of
the day
• Can provide summary of control
over a period (e.g. over one
monthy)

28. Blood pressure (My Heart)
Patient monitoring
• Additional:
• Weight field
• Filters
• Alarms
• Export to CSV or XML