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.

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