14 responses to “This app changed my practice: Pocket A1C”

  1. Such an easy tool for me and for my patients! I believe it will lead to encouraging better compliance with regular testing and consistent dietary moderation!

  2. A very useful app. patients are often confused between the A1C and the glucometer readings as the numbers are often identical. This will help to reduce the confusion.

  3. VERY CLEVER AND EASY.
    HELPED ME ACTUALLY GET A BETTER FEELING FOR HOW OUT OF RANGE MY PATIENT’S BS’S ARE.
    MOST PATIENTS USE APPS NOW AND THIS IS SO EASY FOR THEM TO RELATE TO.

  4. It will provide data for better compliance.

  5. Wondering if Readers have suggestions for a good App re: antibiotic therapy and guide.

  6. “Mark my words – the day is not far off when physicians will be prescribing patients Smartphone apps and wearable sensor devices just as routinely as they prescribe pharmaceuticals, physical therapy and other treatment options today.
    Ambulatory patient monitoring is one example of a clinical diagnostic technology that is on the verge of achieving full mobilization via consumer Smartphone devices and wearable sensors. Traditionally this technology could only be used with a high degree of reliability in a clinical setting. However, Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) technologies are enabling clinicians to remotely monitor patients in real-time and even provide biofeedback to patients based on each individual’s personal physiological data, all via Smartphones.”

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    Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps, 11 August 2011

  7. Was asked recently to nominate my essential apps: this is the list I came up with

    My most used

    Evernote: for little snippets of information. Syncs with desktop application

    Dropbox: for syncing files with desktop dropbox folder

    These two are my must haves.

    I use Mediquations for things like the opioid calculator and others.

    OB patients for tracking my mat pts.

    HanDbase for my billing, obstetric log (unfortunately OB patients won’t log the pt once delivered) and field notes (amongst other things).

    Talking Tom and Talking Carl to try and convince recalcitrant toddlers to let me look in their ears.

    RDP to use my EMR over VPN (how’s that for TLAs?!)

    The BC guidelines app of course

    And the TRes app of course:)

    Still trying to decide between PALS CoreChart and PediStat. Problem is don’t get call to use all that often to really test.

    Dermatomes cause I can never flippin remember them!

  8. The Americans frequently use the HbA1C as a screening tool for diabetes which to me seems quite logical. You do not need to be fasting and it quite conveniently can be included along with other lab requests at the same time. However, as everyone knows up here in BC, MSP technically does not cover this test to be used as a screening tool.

  9. I do not encourage my T2DM to self monitor their blood sugars. The cost to the taxpayer is substantial in comparison to a 3/12 A1C. I do show them the correlation between mmol readings and the A1C percentage if they do have BSM.

  10. Daniel Kraft: Medicine’s future? There’s an app for that http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kraft_medicine_s_future.html

  11. Excellent persuasive tool. I will start using it immediately. Diabetics all seem to have problems understanding the hba1c and how it correlates to there home readings

  12. good argument to get a smartphone!

  13. Useful. Now if we can just get wireless in hospital…

  14. Since I am using an EMR on a Windows computer, I would find it more helpful to have a Windows application that would be the equivalent of the iPhone app – or use a spreadsheet to calculate the conversion

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