Top 5 Cardiology Apps For Physicians, Medical Students, And Other Health Professionals

Prognosis : Cardiology

Learn on the go

'Prognosis : Cardiology', the app by Medical Joyworks is your own personal version of Grand Rounds in the palm of your hand. It has a rich collection of 37 typical cardiology cases which are presented using a simple and interactive interface. The app guides you through the different steps of diagnosis, starting from history taking, and moving on to clinical examination, investigations and treatment and finally gives a brief but informative comment on the case.

In a busy schedule, this app is the ideal way to fit in a quick revision, especially for physicians embarking on a specialty training in cardiology and for medical students. It has rave reviews on both Google Play and AppStore, with health professionals going out of the way to say how the app has helped them with its user friendly interface and memory aiding format. Try it out today, not just because its free, but because it really is quite fun. While you're at it you may also take a look at the other Prognosis apps in different specialties.

DrawMD

A picture is worth a thousand words

People are curious beings. They need to know why they are having certain symptoms. They need to understand how your scalpel can help. Its easier to address these questions if you can help them visualize the whole thing. You cannot expect patients to have any background in anatomy, so colourful but simple templates of organ systems can help, especially if you can draw on them to explain pathological changes and surgical interventions. Draw MD provides just that, making doctor-patient communication a lot easier.

Admittedly the iOS app is much faster than the android app because it has different apps for each specialty, but in the latest update Visual Health claims to have sorted out this glitch. Going by user reviews, the iPhone app is much more successful than the android one.

They offer templates across 17 medical specialties, along with stamps which are smaller pictures that can be applied to the template to explain a set of common pathologies and procedures. Beyond that you can always improvise with the pencil tool. Access is free, but if you want to save and share a professional subscription is required. The interface is absolutely no-nonsense and hardly requires any additional attention when you're using it to aid a conversation. Why not give it a go, and see if it brings something extra to your everyday pre-op consultation?

Cardiology Rounds

A place to hang out

That coffee you share with your colleagues at the end of a long day at the hospital, discussing cases, sharing new updates? Guess what, you can now have that all the time, and with more people to add to the fun. The Cardiology Rounds app by Daily Rounds lets you connect with colleagues from all over the world, share cases, toss challenges, quiz each other, and also keep yourself up to date with the latest evidence.

The interface has two components — the rounds and the library. The first is dynamic and gets continually updated. It is trendy and totally random, meaning that you may miss out on some posts if you are not online for long spans. The journal watch gives abstracts from a whole range of research articles. Different cardiology related guidelines are provided for ready consultation. The app is popular among junior doctors, specially cardiology residents, and is available for free on AppStore and Google play.

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HeartEvidence Pro

Adding Confidence To Decision Making

HeartEvidence Pro by JungHeum Park is an app to watch out for. The interface is neat and professional. Information related to clinical trials sorted by disease and management is presented in a highly organized and uniform format. Each trial is given in several subheadings — date, format, treatment group, control group, inclusion and exclusion criteria and of course, the conclusion. Having all this information handy is a massive help in clinical decision making, adding confidence by providing up to date evidence anywhere, any time.

The app is available in the AppStore for iOS 7.1 and above. It is free (so don't get confused by the 'pro'). If the reviews are to be believed, users are in raptures.  While there are other apps providing data on trials, a definite bonus about this one is that it covers a major spectrum of cardiology topics instead of sticking to just a specific one.

ECG Books

Training the eye to see

The ECG Books app by Yu Yang houses a set of 44 ‘books’, each describing a specific heart condition. Each book contains ECG recordings for 12 cases of that condition accompanied by a concise description of the pathology, diagnosis and management. The app is available free on iOS devices with in-app devices which open up more live ECG recordings. It is great for quick consultation, practice and review.  The developers seem committed to expanding the database with each update. 

This concludes our ten app long list on cardiology or heart related health. While you're busy looking up these apps we'll be putting  together other lists like this one to follow shortly. Stay tuned.