How smart doctors use smartphones !
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1) Smartphones allow doctors to connect with colleagues, access online medical information and journals, and use medical reference apps. 2) Apps are being developed that turn smartphones into tools like stethoscopes and eye exam kits. 3) While smartphones provide benefits, they also pose risks like privacy breaches and expectations that doctors are always on call.
How smart doctors use smartphones !
- 2. How to use your smart phone smartly ! Dr. Aniruddha Malpani
- 3. Doctors use smartphones more than they use stethoscopes ! • Connect with medical colleagues using Whatsapp - both for patient care; and for socialising • Access the Internet to remain up todate • Medical apps
- 4. Keep upto date • Specialty-specific clinical content • Online medical journals • www.medscape.com • PubMed – National Library of Medicine • CME articles from pharma
- 5. Medical apps - Reference tools act as a peripheral brain
- 6. The next generation !
- 7. Heartbuds – using the smartphone as a stethoscope
- 9. Fundoscopy is now as easy as taking a photo ! Peek Retina slips over smartphone’s camera. Hold the phone close to someone’s eye and the Peek app will auto-focus to show you the retina on screen. www.peekvision.org
- 10. Medical apps • Lots of them • Do lots of clever stuff
- 11. Finding a job
- 12. Medical news
- 13. Cloud based EMRs – patient records at your fingertips
- 14. Game playing in clinical scenarios – Clinical Sense
- 15. Surgical simulation – Touch Surgery
- 16. Connecting doctors to improve healthcare • Curofy is a platform which connects over 40,000 doctors across India • GP stumped with a diagnostic googly. Patient with high WBC but no fever. Posted the case • Hematologist’s second opinion – Rule out leukaemia. • Allows doctors to tap into the wisdom of the crowd !
- 17. Risks • Patients may call at all times for trivial problems. Expect you to be on call 24/7 • Have a clinic mobile which is used for patients only
- 18. Risks • Breach of patient confidentiality • What happens if the patient photo goes to a wrong number?
- 19. Risks
- 20. What do patients use smartphones for ?
- 21. Fetal monitor at home
- 23. Patient education • Show patients images and videos • Prescribe apps !
- 24. DocExplain
- 25. Family doctor in an app
- 26. Help patients manage their IVF treatment cycle
- 27. Apps to improve the doctor’s personal life • Time management apps • Your personal fitness and health –Exercise –Sleep –Diet
- 28. App fatigue • Doctors want a platform which provides everything they need in one place – at their fingertips • Appointments, calendar, to do lists, networking, medical reference, medical news and updates, patient medical records
- 29. The future – SMAC • Social • Mobility • Analytics • Computing
- 30. Docpreneur ! • Business opportunity – help to develop software that helps doctors to become more productive