I am happy and proud to announce that the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) has decided to support NeuroMind, and feature it prominently on its homepage. This is the third organization supporting NeuroMind: Surgical Neurology International and Neurosurgic.com are the other two.

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I am gladly welcoming new users on iPhone, iPad and Android to benefit from NeuroMind’s features, in particular the newly added interactive decision support.

Do not hesitate to send me your suggestions!

I updated OrthoRef (formerly known as OrthoMind) to version 2.0 in the App Store and Google Play. The iOS version (for iPhone and iPad) is currently awaiting review, and you’ll be able to update the existing installation on your device. If you already purchased the first version, the update is completely free. The Android version is already available for download.

This new version now also contains a few interactive clinical decision support items, as you know from NeuroMind 2. Enjoy!

Further I added a free version called “OrthoRef Lite”. The Android version is available for download, the iOS version is also awaiting review in the App Store. This Lite version contains 60 out of the 100 scores that are available in the full version. Besides, it contains all the decision support items. You can use it as long as you like, you only need to pay if you want to unlock the other 40 scores in the app.

Items that are available only in the full version appear in gray, but will be searchable from the menu so you know they are there. Surprises are for Xmas, you should know what you buy. At least, I think so… sounds fair to me.

By the way, the reason why I changed the name from “OrthoMind” to “OrthoRef” is because I did not check if “OrthoMind” was already in use. My fault… it appeared that OrthoMind.com is an existing service – which looks very good, by the way (check for yourself). The name change avoids confusion.

So, some interactive features for you guys and girls, and a free version besides the paid one. Enjoy your weekend (oh no, wait… it’s only Thursday).

Screenshots OrthoRef on iPhone

Screenshots OrthoRef on Android

Screenshots OrthoRef on iPad

OrthoRef is now available for the iPhone and iPad (you only pay once), and for Android.

The app offers you 100 clinical scores and classification systems for orthopedic surgeons, residents, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists and other (para)medics. Based on the neurosurgical “Top App” NeuroMind, this app offers you more than 50 completely new scores that focus on the hip, leg, shoulder, elbow, hand and more.

As they say: “It is all in the wrist”! :-)

Note: the Android version has only been tested on a smartphone, but is also running well on the tablet emulator up to Android 4.0.3

Screenshots are available from the galleries below.

iPhone

Android smartphone

iPad

Android tablet (emulator)

Enjoy, and let me know what you think of it!

After all positive reactions on NeuroMind, I decided to create a sibling of this app for orthopedics: OrthoRef. It contains a total of 100 scores for your orthopedic practice, including more than 50 scores that are not present in NeuroMind!

Now, the app is working fine on iPhone and iPad, and has been submitted to the App Store. Unfortunately Apple refused to publish it, as they said the user interface should be more interactive and not “just a table”. Although I commented that a useful app should be demand-driven (and solve an issue) instead of technology-driven, I am currently considering what to change or add to have it approved. Likely this will be a Decision Support section as you can find in the latest version of NeuroMind.

Here are some more screenshots on iPhone:

And on iPad:

Hope to be back with positive news soon!

Just installed XCode 4.3 (which is now placed in the /Applications folder instead of a subfolder in /Developer) and Titanium Studio 2. Now Titanium Studio needs to “see” Xcode 4.3 in order to compile the apps…

Here is the trick:

1. Open a Terminal window and execute the command “sudo xcode-select -switch <xcode_folder_path>”. The <xcode_folder_path> is typically /Developer or /Developer-x.x for Xcode 4.2 and lower, and /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer for Xcode 4.3
2. In Titanium Studio, open the Titanium preferences and navigate to Titanium Studio->Titanium
3. In the iOS section, click the Refresh button
4. The newly specified Xcode folder path should be displayed.

Worked fine for me!

In case you run into the same issue, I hope this works for you as well…

This issue might causing more people troubles than just me, so I thought to post it on my blog. For a scientific articles I needed to create some graphs, both from SPSS (a Kaplan-Meier curve) and Excel (the other graphs).

As a default setting, my computer uses the comma as the decimal separator. For these figures I needed to change it into  a dot as the decimal separator. The approach is different for Excel and SPSS.

Using dot as decimal separator in Excel (version 2011 for Mac)

Go to “System Preferences” > “International” (called “Taal en tekst” in Dutch).

Then go to the “Formats” tab (called “Notatie” in Dutch), and customize the number settings. Here you can change the decimal separator to “dot” (and the thousand separator to “comma”, as these two cannot have the same value).

Now restart Excel, and you’re done!

Using dot as decimal separator in SPSS (version 18 for Mac)

This works a little different, as SPSS (or “PASW”, as this first is called officially does not take its notation from the system preferences. But fortunately the solution is very easy.

Click “File” > “New” > “Syntax”. In the newly opened syntax editor, type

SET LOCALE = “en_US”

and click the green “Selection” arrow (or press Cmd + R on your keyboard).

This will change the decimal separator to a dot in SPSS.

Note: according to this website it should be possible to use the syntax “SET LOCALE = DOT” in SPSS version 20.0 (by IBM). At least in version 18.x this did not work.

Hope this saves you some time searching!

And that is three! “NeuroMind for iPad” version 2.0 is now available in the App Store, completing the triad after the recent iPhone and Android upgrades. This free upgrade also includes the previously mentioned interactive decision support, and many more scores.

You can upgrade your existing installation, or download the latest version from the App Store.

Enjoy the app! Screenshots are available below…

NeuroMind 2 for iPhone is now available in the App Store as a free upgrade! It contains a brand new category with interactive decision support like explained in my TEDx talk, and almost 100 scores that are relevant for neurosurgery!

You can upgrade the installed version on your device or download the latest version from the App Store.

More images are available below…

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NeuroMind 2.0 for Android is now available for download from Google Play (formerly known as the Android Market)! It is a free update with many improvements!

A major improvement for version 2.0 is the addition of interactive clinical decision support, starting with 23 items. The system can easily be expanded to facilitate guideline implementation in a fast and individualized manner. Furthermore, NeuroMind 2.0 now contains almost 100 scores that are relevant for your neurosurgical practice.

More information is available here. You can click the Play-logo below to download:

See the gallery below for more screenshots! Enjoy the app!!

The current version of NeuroMind (1.7) is from June 2011. Now, 10 months later, the new -major- upgrade for NeuroMind has been uploaded to the App Store!

What’s New in this Version?

• NEW MAIN CATEGORY “Decision support” with 23 items!
• EXPANDED CATEGORY “Scores” with 95 items now!
• EXANDED CATEGORY “Other” with TEDx talk and Testimonials
• Added some bug corrections and a disclaimer.

Here are screenshots for iPhone:

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And here are screenshots for iPad:

I expect that both versions (no universal binary – both are free upgrades to the previous version) will be available for download next week.

Consider it as my Easter present! (without Easter egg… ;-) )