avoMD vs CURRENT Practice Guidelines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
avoMD
This app offers interactive guidance for clinicians evaluating adult patients for noncardiac surgery. It incorporates co-morbidities, medications, and medical calculators based on established guidelines and literature reviews. Enhance your learning with evidence-based references and detailed explanations.
- Interactive patient evaluation
- Preoperative risk assessment
- Medical calculators (RCRI, MICA, etc.)
- Evidence-based references
- Literature review integration
- Co-morbidity and medication tracking
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avoMD: Preoperative Eval provides quick, interactive, and educational guidance to help clinicians evaluate and prepare adult patients for noncardiac surgery. The app is based primarily on the 2014 ACC/AHA Perioperative Guidelines but also includes additional comments from reviews of the literature up to September 2020. It was developed in conjunction with Dr. Steven Cohn, a leading expert in Perioperative Medicine. The app incorporates co-morbidities, patient medications, interactive medical calculators (like RCRI, MICA, ACS-SRC, DASI), and other information and tools to help clinicians assess the risk of surgery. avoMD provides links to the evidence-based references and best practices, as well as more detailed explanations on the recommendations, so that clinicians can enhance their learning experience. Dr. Steven Cohn is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, having served as the Medical Director of the UHealth Preoperative Assessment Center (UPAC) and the Medical Consultation Services at the University of Miami Hospital and Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was the former Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate and the Director of the Preoperative Medical Consultation Clinic and Medical Consultation Service at Kings County Hospital Center. avoMD transforms clinical guidelines and content into interactive, next-gen apps. The team is led by physicians and informaticians from Columbia, Yale, and Harvard, while current partners include leading academic medical centers, urgent care providers and a growing number of residency programs and medical schools across the US. The company won the 2020 pitch competitions at Columbia Engineering and Penn Medicine and recently joined StartUp Health and 500 Startups. Interested in customizing avoMD for your department/institution? Contact info@avomd.io for more information.
CURRENT Practice Guidelines
Access up-to-date medical guidelines for common outpatient conditions. This app distills complex information into a practical, easy-to-navigate format for busy clinicians. It offers evidence-based recommendations from trusted authorities, updated annually.
- Evidence-based guidelines
- Concise and clinically relevant
- Outline and tabular format
- Updated annually
- Guideline Discordance tables
- Content from trusted authorities
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"Try before you buy" - Download the FREE App, which includes sample content. In-App purchase required to unlock all content. A Doody's Core Title. Guidelines and recommendations for the most common outpatient conditions from sources you can trust! Clear, concise and clinically relevant. The authoritative guidelines primary care clinicians need to diagnose and treat the most common outpatient conditions—compiled, distilled, and updated for easy referencing Striking the perfect balance between brevity and clinical necessity, this acclaimed annual resource presents all the latest evidence-based guidelines clinicians need to treat the most common outpatient conditions. The most thorough print compendium of guidelines for primary care practice, the book features content drawn from government agencies, expert panels, medical specialty organizations, and other professional and scientific authorities. CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2024 converts lengthy and cumbersome text into a practical, relevant collection of available options for busy clinicians. This go-to guide converts the tremendous amount of information on the web into a practical, relevant collection of usable data for busy clinicians. Each topic is carefully selected for relevance to the office practice of ambulatory medicine and the text is presented in a convenient, easy-to-navigate outline and tabular format. • Content is drawn from a wide array of recommendations from government agencies, expert panels, medical specialty organizations, and other professional and scientific authorities • NEW: Updates reflecting the review of more than 150 guidelines • NEW: Updates to guidelines for screening/prevention of ASCVD; anxiety disorders in children, pediatric obesity, chronic pain, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia; and osteoarthritis • NEW: Numerous topics have been added, including screening and prevention of eating disorders, COVID vaccination in pregnancy, prevention of pelvic floor dysfunction, management of chest pain, left ventricular thrombus, delirium • Guideline Discordance tables highlight when major guidelines do not mirror each other • Topics are carefully selected for relevance to the office practice of ambulatory medicine, and the text is enhanced by a convenient outline and tabular format • Screening and prevention of conditions have been combined to enhance clinician use Content licensed from printed edition ISBN 10: 1265690162 Content licensed from printed edition ISBN 13: 9781265690168 SUBSCRIPTION : Please purchase a yearly auto-renewing subscription to receive content access and available updates. Yearly auto-renewing payments- $39.99 Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal can be disabled at any time by going to your device “Settings” and tapping “iTunes & App Store”. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable." If you have any questions or comments, email us any time: customersupport@skyscape.com or call 508-299-3000 Privacy Policy - https://www.skyscape.com/terms-of-service/privacypolicy.aspx Terms and Conditions - https://www.skyscape.com/terms-of-service/licenseagreement.aspx Author: Jacob A. David Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: avoMD at 100% against CURRENT Practice Guidelines's 0%. avoMD also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 months). CURRENT Practice Guidelines's advantage is chart position (#192 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. avoMD sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and CURRENT Practice Guidelines sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
avoMD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of avoMD's written reviews are positive against 0% of CURRENT Practice Guidelines's.
avoMD ships an update every 9 days, CURRENT Practice Guidelines every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | avoMD | CURRENT Practice Guidelines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better | 4.8 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #192 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 147 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | AvoMD, Inc. | Skyscape Medpresso Inc |
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In-app purchases
avoMD
- 1 Year Assitance 1 month trial1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- 1 year assistance 3 month free3 Months trial$9.991 Year
- Institutional Plan$14.991 Year
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- 1 year assistance 6 month free6 Months trial$19.991 Year
CURRENT Practice Guidelines
- 25% Off - Limited Period Offer$29.991 Year
- Curr Practice Guid 1Y Suboffer$31.991 Year
- 20% Off - Limited Period Offer$31.991 Year
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- 15% Off - Limited Period Offer$33.991 Year
- Curr Practice Guideline 1Y Sub7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- CURR Prac Guide Primary Care20$39.99
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