Posts Under ‘Neurosurgery’ Category

CE-marked NeuroMind 2.5 for Android available

NeuroMind 2.5 for Android is now available: the #1 app for neurosurgery is now also the 1st CE-marked app for neurosurgery! The Android update is usually first to appear due to the iOS review process which can take up some time. Besides the CE-mark, the other big thing is that the content is now fully…Continue Reading…

NeuroMind 2.5 on its way

The upcoming CE-marked version of NeuroMind is on its way. For the release I completed the decision support items that I want to include directly. Other ones I can easily add later because the content is now loaded from the web. One thing that I still had to do was to implement a manual refresh…Continue Reading…

Decision support: PHASES score

I just created a new decision support item for NeuroMind, the first using the new webbased technology that I described before.  It is based on a recent article in The Lancet Neurology by Greving et al. on the 5-year rupture risk of cerebral aneurysms. It uses the PHASES score for risk estimation, which is an…Continue Reading…

NeuroMind 2.5 – loading online content

In my previous post I described some changes I am implementing in NeuroMind to be compliant with FDA and EU (MEDDEV) directives and to get CE marked. The most important issue that needs to be solved is the ability to update the app quickly in case of an error, and for that reason I decided…Continue Reading…

NeuroMind 2.5 – what is happening?

I have started to work on NeuroMind 2.5, which will replace the current (2.2) version. Why 2.5? Because it will be an intermediate step in something very important: CE marking. US people may be familiar with the FDA guideline on mobile medical applications, and in Europe we have the CE mark. According to the official…Continue Reading…

NeuroMind in MedCity’s Top Apps for Healthcare Professionals

Last week NeuroMind has been mentioned as one of six “Need to Know Apps for Healthcare professionals in 2013” by MedCity News. That’s a nice way to finish this year! :-)

Editor’s pick award Best Windows 8 Apps

Both NeuroMind and OrthoRef have received an Editor’s Pick Award from BestWindows8Apps.net. NeuroMind has been rewarded with a score 9/10 and OrthoRef even with a score 10/10! That’s a nice December gift! :-)

NOAC: a web app on new oral anticoagulants

As a sequel to this blog post I have been experimenting with jQuery Mobile, which is a framework for building web apps that run on a wide variery of devices (because they are actually just websites optimized for a small screen layout). The content comes from this article on new oral anticoagulants by Oudeman et al…Continue Reading…

NeuroMind #1 app in CNS Quarterly Fall 2013

In the latest edition of the CNS Quarterly Magazine (Fall 2013) by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, NeuroMind has been rated as the #1 iPhone application for neurosurgery. The authors state that “it is the overall most rated and highest rated application out of all applications reviewed” and that it is “one of the most…Continue Reading…

NeuroMind 2.2 for iOS 7 submitted to App Store

Today I submitted the NeuroMind 2.2 update for iPhone and iPad to the App Store. After testing it successfully on my iPhone 5 and iPad 3 I thought it was ready for all of you… Now the waiting process begins, as usual. Will keep you posted here – although you should receive an update notification…Continue Reading…