QxMD’s Pedi-STAT highlighted at MoMo Amsterdam: Mobile Health

Ivor Kovic (LinkedIn, twitter, blog), ER physician and founder of the Open ECG Project presented at MoMo Amsterdam: Mobile Health on January 25, 2010.  In his talk, he highlighted outstanding mobile medical applications.   QxMD was humbled by having Pedi-STAT included in this list – having a look at the YouTube video (jump to 11:15 to hear about Pedi-STAT).

Medical iPhone App “Recommended Reading” for Georgetown University Medical School

The adoption of the iPhone in the medical community has steadily been increasing.    Point in fact, the Georgetown School of Medicine now requires that medical students obtain and use an iPhone as part of their studies.  In an iPhone first, the Georgetown Medical School now recommends that medical students going through their cardiovascular rotation use the iPhone app “The ECG Guide”, an educational tool to help learn and review electrocardiogram interpretation.  The ECG Guide has been ranked as a “Core Medical App” by the Georgetown School of Medicine.

At QxMD, we are pleased and honored to have had our software reviewed and selected for use in a formal medical school curriculum.   We endeavor to provide the highest quality paid and free mobile medical apps.  Since its release in December 2008, ‘The ECG Guide” has consistently ranked as a top paid medical application.

Learn more about The ECG Guide or download it from the iTunes App Store.

AF Guide – The Atrial Fibrillation Reference

Atrial Fibrillation is commonly encountered by nurses, paramedics, students, residents, and physicians (both primary care and specialist). ‘The AF Guide’, compiled and written by Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, amalgamates the complex recommendations surrounding the management of patients with this common arrhythmia and distils them into an easy to use app.

Written by the author of ‘The ECG guide’ and ‘Cardio Calc’, ‘The AF Guide‘ covers the following topics:

✦ Management of acute atrial fibrillation (as encountered in the ER, ICU or hospital ward)
✦ Management of chronic atrial fibrillation with subsections dealing specifically with the strategies of rate control and rhythm control
✦ Using evidence-based strategies to decide when to use anticoagulation vs antiplatelet agents
✦ Balancing risk of stroke vs risk of bleeding in language that is easy to comprehend for health care professionals and patients alike

Key features include:

✔ Estimate stroke and bleeding risk with a concise, evidence-based recommendation as to whether treatment is most appropriate with antiplatelet agents or anticoagulation.

✔ Explain competing risks of stroke vs bleeding in terms patients and health care professionals can understand. ✔ Warfarin dose calculator – Once the decision is made to start chronic anticoagulation, this tool provides simple dosing recommendations based on INR and current warfarin dose.

✔ E-mail results to your patient

✦ Send your recommendations and rationale for treatment directly to your patient
✦ Send warfarin dosing directly to your patient.

✔ Quick access to drugs and dosing needed when managing patient in the acute setting

Pedi-STAT launches on App Store

QxMD announces the launch of Pedi-STAT, designed as a rapid reference for pediatric patients being cared for by healthcare professionals in the emergent or critical care environment.

Pedi-STAT features include:

• Rapid results for airway interventions including endotracheal tube sizes, depth, intubation medication dosages, ventilator settings, and sedation Cardiac resuscitation data including weight specific dosages for resuscitation medications, cardioversion, and defibrillation
• Access to age and weight specific pediatric equipment including foley catheters, airway management, chest and NG tubes, peripheral and central line sizes, and more
• Seizure medication dosages
• Management of hypoglycemia including age specific dextrose concentrations
• Reference of age specific normal vital signs
• Procedural sedation dosages including single dose meds and infusions, as well as reversal agents
• Calculated pain management medications
• Medical management of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis

Users can quickly access critical information accurately, without having to rely on memory or cumbersome textbooks. With just a few taps, users have access to all the necessary data to care for a pediatric patient in the emergent setting, including weight-based and age specific medication dosages and equipment sizes.

Since many of the patients present with minimal known information, all the results can be calculated rapidly with only a known age, date-of-birth, weight, length, or height.  Simply enter the known variable and the data is instantly calculated.

Developed by an Emergency Physician, this app minimizes the risk of medical errors allowing the provider to spend more time caring for the patient, and less time looking up and calculating doses. It is a critical companion for any physician, nurse, paramedic, or medical trainee involved in the care of critically ill pediatric patients.

Learn more at QxMD
Press release

Medscape overtakes Epocrates as number 1 free medical iPhone App

The newly released iPhone App from Medscape has overtaken Epocrates’ number 1 position in the free medical Apps category on the iPhone App Store.

The Medscape App offers a drug database, as well as information on herbals, supplements and antidotes.  It also includes a drug interaction checker, clinical reference tools, medical news and CME content.

Learn more about the Medscape App here

Medscape iPhone App

Airstrip Technologies highlighted at WWDC

Airstrip Technologies, who provides mobile healthcare solutions, was mentioned in the keynote address at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference  – watch the keynote address here

From their website:
“The AirStrip Technologies platform delivers critical patient information, including virtual real-time waveform data, directly from hospital monitoring systems to a doctor or nurse’s smart phone, laptop or desktop. The platform is completely reusable, scalable and data independent, and can be employed throughout the healthcare enterprise.”

Learn more about Airstrip Technologies

H1N1 (Swine Flu) Apps Approved by Apple

After some delay, Apps related to the H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak have been approved by Apple.

H1N1 (Swine Flu) Update for Health Care Professionals is a simple app that contains an extensive collection of authoritative feeds as well as links to online content.  Feeds sources include WHO, CDC, New England Journal of Medicine, Eurosurveillance and the Public Health Agency of Canada.  There is an extensive collection of online resources including outstanding content from UpToDate, beautifully formatted as a web app for the iPhone.

Swine Flu Tracker is another much anticipated App. The key feature offered is a map that tracks cases in relation to the user via a “locate me” button.  The data comes from a Google Maps RSS feed.  The app also includes an RSS feed which consolidates multiple sources of content (WHO, CDC and HealthMap Twitter accounts) using Yahoo Pipes.

There are a collection of other H1N1 (Swine Flu) Apps – search on the App store to view the entire list.

The ECG Guide for iPhone

Succinct yet authoritative, this ECG reference for the iPhone and BlackBery is a critical companion for practicing physicians, medical trainees, nurses and paramedics.

Read ECGs like a cardiologist!

Clear descriptions of both common and complex EKG findings

Sample ECGs for easy reference and visual learning

Flip your iPhone on its side for optimal ECG visualization

Review etiology and differential diagnoses of EKG findings

Author: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC.

Press release

Blog Review

Review from ‘The iPhone App Review’

MedSpeak Cantonese – Communicating with Non-English Speaking Patients

Communication in medicine is critically important.  But when patients don’t speak English as a first language, their quality of care and confidence in the care they are receiving can be diminished considerably.

MedSpeak is an iPhone medical application (App) that provides written text and audio recordings of common questions and commands to help communicate with patients who do not speak English as a first language.

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