Smart apps for your smart phone

Dr. Aniruddha Malpani

•Which is the app which all doctors use ?

Doctors use smartphones more than they use stethoscopes !

• Everyone uses Whatsapp -- both for patient care; and for socialising

• Can do a lot more with thecomputer in your pocket !

4 groups• Professional Learning• Practise Management• Clinical care• Personal and social

Medical apps - Reference tools act as a peripheral brain

Which app ?

• Use what you already have !• Whatsapp is a great multipurpose

clinical all !• iOS or android ?• Free or paid ?• Specialty ?• Try them out and decide for yourselves !

Single best app for clinical reference use - Omnio

Medical app review siteswww.imedicalapps.com

Stay uptodate with medical news

Game playing in clinical scenarios – Clinical Sense

Surgical simulation – Touch Surgery

Finding a job

Practise management– cloud EMRs

Patient records at your fingertips

Care coordination for everyone in the clinic

Virtual consultations

Patient engagement

Branded app for your clinic

Discuss cases with colleagues

Patient education

• Show patients images and videos• Google

search

Help patients manage their IVF treatment cycle

Apps which use the smartphone as a diagnostic tool

Peek – Smartphone-based Eye-testing kit

Risks

Problems• Too many apps• Small screen size• Poor user interface • Design is not doctor-friendly• Created for the US

Prescribe apps for your patients !

Fetal monitor at home

Smartphone based ECG monitor

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

Docpreneur !

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