Describes how doctors can learn to use smartphones cleverly

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

8. Peek – Smartphone-based
Eye-testing kit

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

22. Smartphone based ECG
monitor

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