how smart doctors use smartphones !

How to use your smart phone smartly !

Dr. Aniruddha Malpani

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

Keep upto date• Specialty-specific clinical content • Online medical journals• www.medscape.com• PubMed – National Library of

Medicine• CME articles from pharma companies

Medical apps - Reference tools act as a peripheral brain

The next generation !

Heartbuds – using the smartphone as a stethoscope

Peek – Smartphone-based Eye-testing kit

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

Medical apps• Lots of them • Do lots of clever stuff

Finding a job

Medical news

Cloud based EMRs – patient records at your fingertips

Game playing in clinical scenarios – Clinical Sense

Surgical simulation – Touch Surgery

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 !

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

Risks• Breach of patient confidentiality• What happens if the patient

photo goes to a wrong number?

Risks

What do patients use smartphones for ?

Fetal monitor at home

Smartphone based ECG monitor

Patient education

• Show patients images and videos• Prescribe apps !

DocExplain

Family doctor in an app

Help patients manage their IVF treatment cycle

Apps to improve the doctor’s personal life

• Time management apps• Your personal fitness and

health–Exercise–Sleep–Diet

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

The future – SMAC

• Social• Mobility• Analytics• Computing

Docpreneur !

• Business opportunity – help to develop software that helps doctors to become more productive