ACC Going Mobile

With the increase in use of technologies such as Smartphones, tablets and e-readers, mobile devices are now a part of our everyday lives. These technologies have become increasingly popular over the past few years and have the ability to be truly transformative in our work flow as well as the way we communicate with one another other globally. To that end, the ACC has developed several mobile resources for you and your patients that hopefully you will find helpful. The CardioSmart Explorer App is the first medical app by the ACC, was previously available exclusively to members of the ACC for free, but is now also available to the general public for a nominal fee (to download the App click here). The app is available for the iPad 2 and is designed to help you explain medical conditions and procedures to patients and thus enhance the clinician/patient relationship at the point of care. (Watch the demo video below or click here). Physicians and health care professionals can review and discuss common heart problems and treatment options by utilizing the app’s high-resolution cardiac graphics and animation, as well as walk step-by-step through the structure of an animated 3-D beating heart by swiping up or down through seven basic layers of normal cardiac anatomy. In the works is the AnticoagEvaluator App, an ACC risk assessment tool that will launch at ACC.13. This tool is an easy and fast way for clinicians to assess stroke and bleeding risk and the benefits and risk...
Source: ACC in Touch Blog - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: ACC Scientific Session Professionalism Source Type: blogs