A busy doctor can miss a guideline update that changes how they treat patients. AIDular helps by automatically searching for new guidelines and emailing a clean, sourced summary on a set schedule.
Meet Dr. Priya
Dr. Priya is a cardiologist at a mid-sized hospital. She sees 20 or more patients a day. By the time she gets home, reading through the American College of Cardiology website, PubMed, and ESC (European Society of Cardiology) updates is the last thing she has energy for.
But guidelines change. Cholesterol targets shift. Blood pressure thresholds get revised. New trial results flip old advice on its head. Missing one of those updates does not just affect her knowledge. It can affect a patient.
"I kept telling myself I'd catch up on the weekend," she says. "I never did."
The Problem With Manual Checking
Priya tried setting up browser bookmarks for five different cardiology sources. She tried RSS feeds (a way to get updates from websites in one place). She even tried a journal alert service that sent her so many emails she stopped opening them.
The issue was not that the information did not exist. The issue was that nothing filtered it for her. She needed someone, or something, to watch those sources and only surface what actually mattered.
How She Set Up AIDular
Priya went to aidular.com and typed her tracking request in plain English. No coding. No complicated setup.
Here is almost exactly what she typed:
"Search for new or updated clinical guidelines in cardiology, including updates from ACC, AHA, ESC, and NICE. Also include any major trial results that could affect how cardiologists treat heart failure or atrial fibrillation. Weekly summary, every Monday morning."
That is it. AIDular took that instruction, scheduled a weekly web search, and now every Monday at 7am she gets a single email with the relevant updates, each one with a source link she can click through to read the full document.
What the Email Looks Like
The report is not a wall of text. It is broken into short sections. Something like:
- ACC/AHA update: New guidance on anticoagulation in AFib patients with CKD. Includes link to the full document.
- ESC: Revised heart failure management pathway published. Key change: SGLT2 inhibitors now recommended earlier in treatment.
- Trial result: TRANSFORM-HF follow-up data published in NEJM. Summary of main findings included.
Each item is two or three sentences. Enough to know if it is worth reading in full. Priya says she spends about ten minutes on the email and then knows exactly what she needs to look at more closely.
Why This Matters for Patient Care
Staying current is not just about passing a continuing medical education exam. It is about giving patients the most up-to-date care. When a guideline changes, it often means there is now better evidence for a specific drug, dose, or procedure.
Priya recently caught an ESC update on beta-blocker dosing in heart failure patients before her hospital's internal newsletter even mentioned it. She brought it to her team's next meeting. That happened because she was not missing her Monday email.
You Do Not Have to Be a Cardiologist
Any doctor, in any specialty, can set this up. Oncology guidelines, diabetes management updates, surgical protocols, mental health treatment pathways. You describe what you want to track in plain English, and AIDular does the searching.
The Lite plan is free. You do not need a credit card to start.
If you are a clinician who wants to stop worrying about missing something important, set up your first schedule at aidular.com. It takes about two minutes.