how smart doctors use smartphones !
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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