Can an iPad help me?Practical pointers and tools of the trade

Sharon Domb, MD, CCFP, FCFPChris Tsoi, MD, CCFP

Objectives

• Meetings

• Presentations

• Journal articles and guidelines

• Point of care information

Getting Started

• Over 275,000 apps on the App Store

• Difficult to know which ones are useful

• Many sources of information and opinions available

• For medical apps, check reviews on imedicalapps.com

• No free trial period available

3GLTE

The “Cloud”

Meetings

Meetings

• Bring agendas and background material electronically

• Take notes during meeting

• Keep materials and notes in an organized way so they are easily retrievable

• Distribute notes

• Back up files

Meetings: Key Productivity Apps

• GoodReader

• Evernote

• Pages

• Keynote

• SoundNote

• Office to PDF

Meetings: GoodReader

• Store and organize documents in files and folders

• Can bring in documents from email and internet by using “Open in...” function

• File types: Office, iWork, PDF, audio, video, images

• Connection to cloud servers (two way): either individual files or entire folders

• Can open documents stored in GoodReader in other apps (i.e. iBooks, QuickOffice, etc.)

• Can back up as separate folder on computer through syncing, or through Dropbox

• Annotate and highlight PDFs

Meetings: Evernote

• Store everything: notes, pictures, checklists, PDF files, Office documents, audio recordings

• Searchable

• Can sync through iCloud to numerous devices including iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Windows computers

Meetings: Pages

• Apple word processing

• Can import Pages or Word documents

• Can export (through email) as Pages (.pages), Word (.doc) or PDF (.pdf) document

Meetings: SoundNote

• Take notes/minutes in meetings by hand (with a stylus) or typing

• Option to record audio simultaneously

• Audio synchronized with notes – if you miss something, during playback tap the area of the missing note, and audio plays exactly what was said at the time the note was written

• Can share text/drawings/audio via email

Meetings: Office to PDF

• Convert Word, Excel or Powerpoint files to PDF

• Can then annotate files in GoodReader

• Export via email, Dropbox, or send to another app

• Requires internet connection as conversion occurs on a secure server (file transfer is encrypted and files are only machine read, and then deleted)

• First 50 conversions are free

Presentations

Presentations

• Create presentations with ease: including multimedia, hyperlinks, animation, etc.

• Update presentations on the go

• Export presentations

• Display presentations on screen

Presentations: Keynote

• Apple presentation software

• Can import Keynote or PowerPoint files

• Can export (via email) in Keynote, PowerPoint or PDF formats

• Can be displayed with projector, or via Apple TV

Presentations: Creating

• Can be created in Keynote (Mac) or Powerpoint (Windows)

• Mac OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion) enables automatic synchronization of Keynote files between computer and iPad (running OS 6)

• Sharing can be accomplished via Dropbox, so people can work on a presentation together

• Keynote files can be saved in Keynote or Powerpoint

• Consider creating presentation on a desktop or laptop, and then saving on iPad

Presentations: Display

• iPad presentation mode, within Keynote is very user-friendly

• Option to see current slide and next slide simultaneously

• Option to see current slide and notes simultaneously

• Timer at the top

• iPad 2 and 3 have ability to mirror screen

• Display options:

• LCD projector via standard VGA or HDMI cable

• HDTV wirelessly via AppleTV or wired via HDMI cable

Slide #Time

Timer

Slide previews

Journal Articles and Guidelines

Journal Articles and Guidelines

• Not only can you use GoodReader for managing meeting materials, but also journal articles and guidelines

• Virtually all journals and guidelines are now widely available in electronic format, as PDF files

• As earlier discussed:

• Annotating

• Sharing

• Saves on paper and weight

Journal Articles and Guidelines

• Advantages of reading on the iPad over hard copies:

• A great screen for reading

• Discovering

• Organization

A great screen for reading

• Almost as sharp as print:

• Paper journals are printed at 300 dots per inch (dpi)

• The iPad display is 264 dpi

• Easy to zoom in on small text

Journal Articles and Guidelines: Discovering

• Many journals and guideline organizations have their own iPad apps

• In many cases a subscription is required

CMAJ

Demo

Organization: Papers

• Papers is a great app for keeping a collection of journal articles in PDF form because it can store “metadata” about each article

• e.g. Title, Author, Journal, Abstract, etc.

• Journal repositories can be searched directly from Papers

• e.g. PubMed, Google Scholar, etc.

Point of Care Information

Point of Care Information

• Drug references (Lexicomp)

• Medical calculators (MedCalc Pro)

• UpToDate

• LU Codes

Point of Care Information: Lexicomp

• Features:

• Drug monographs: dosing, indication, price, etc.

• Interaction checker

• Requires a paid subscription

• Other options: Epocrates, Micromedex, Medscape

Point of Care Information: MedCalc Pro

• Examples: CHADS2 score, Framingham CV risk, etc.

• Features:

• Tap the buttons to easily enter risk factors

• Easy to access background information about the development of the formula

• Other options: Mediquations

Point of Care Information: UpToDate

• Requires a subscription

• Can download articles offline, including graphics

• The exact same functionality as the website:

• Links between articles

• Quick table of contents

• Bookmarks and history

• Lexicomp drug reference

Point of Care Information: LU Codes

• The app is called: Codes On

• “Pocket reference” for LU codes:

• Code number

• Indications

• Authorization period

Thank You!

Download our slide deck as a PDF:http://tinyurl.com/fmfipad