BSC, Belgian Society of Cardiology, Tablet App app for iPhone and iPad

Containing 100s of medical illustrations, the BSC patient education app is a unique visual aid that helps health care professionals enhance the quality of conversations with their patients. Each clinical situation is presented in a well-structured manner with simple illustrations, icons and short supporting texts.

With the built-in drawing mode you can make your own drawings on top of the apps illustrations.

The BSC app:
• shortens consultation time
• improves doctor-to-patient discussions
• enhances the patients healthcare experience
• increases adherence to treatment
and has been designed to tackle your biggest every-day problems with patient education.

Simplicity and Structure

To every patient a consult is a very stressful situation in which his/her capability to absorb information is very limited. Thats why our materials excel in presenting each clinical situation as simply as possible, with plenty of high-quality yet simple-to-understand illustrations that adequately support your explanation but leave out any unnecessary complications.

Time

The constant time-pressure you experience in todays health care, with seemingly never-ending lines of patients and overfilled waiting rooms, doesnt mean you need to skip patient education altogether. The clever structure of our materials, with illustrations, icons and short support texts, coupled with the apps extreme ease-of-use makes that you can give your patients the explanations they deserve within a minute or two.

Modesty

We believe that the patient should concentrate to what you have to say, rather than being daunted and distracted by the spectacular technological wizardry of the iPad. Our apps behave as modest as possible, so that you can use the app in the way it is meant: as a welcome tool to support your story and get your message across in as short as possible time.

Currently, the cardiology atlas contains the following topics:
Structure and function of the heart
Cardiac investigations
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Hypertension
Hypertension - Complications
Smoking cessation
Overweight
Hyperlipidemia I - LDL
Hyperlipidemia II – triglycerides
Cardiovascular disease - Risk assessment
Women and cardiovascular disease (CVD)
Atherosclerosis
Atherothrombosis
Coronary heart disease, angina pectoris
Heart attack - risk factors
Heart attack
Life after heart attack
Balloon dilatation, bypass operation
Peripheral vascular disease
Cerebrovascular disease (Carotid stenosis)
Stroke
Cardiac arrhythmias
Ablation
Pacemaker
Defibrillator-Implantation (ICD)
Heart valve replacement
Endocarditis
Myocarditis
Pericarditis
Cardiomyopathy
Heart failure (cardiac insufficiency)
Vein thrombosis