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In my discussions with hospital leadership, clinicians and company representatives who make medical software and systems, I make it a point to ask when the opportunity arises: "What's your view on smartphones and healthcare?" I've received 3 kinds of responses to-date: 1. After a moment of awkward silence (which is understandable - this question tends to come out of the blue) the person I'm talking to might say: "well, we use smartphones today, don't we?" 2. The second response is typically "I see it increasing" 3. Some put the question on its head: What do we need smartphones for? If you follow me at all you know that I talk a lot about EMRs, so that won't be the core of this post; a rethink of what it means to approach and utilize patient data however is necessary. A new device or family of device is needed: While consumer smart devices come with plenty of features and specs, their potential remains untapped. A smartphone might be used to glance at the dashboard of a medical device, but this is at best convenient, not particularly meaningful. And even so, editing what's on that dashboard is impractical and showing that data to a colleague is best done informally if at all. In Finland we, as I'm sure many countries have in the past, are currently or will in the future, are shuttering community hospitals. This is done to save money and hopefully reap the benefits of a more centralized model, where specialized teams are forced to generalize, and patient volumes increase. This will necessitate a complete rethink of what it means to care for people - computers have done their part, but now is the time to adopt, adapt and develop completely new kinds of technical tools to improve the practical work of clinicians everywhere. I believe that a new generation of smartphones and tablets will be necessary with the healthcare vertical in mind. Its benefits are hard to predict, but it stands to reason that the kinds of things you might do with a smartphone are different from the kinds of things you would do on an office computer. These new things have the potential to radically improve the clinical workflow, giving physical manifestation to technical features such as sharing information to a physician who is at home or making quick observations during rounds to be entered into the medical record later.

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It seems like there are so many positive possibilities that the Apple Vision Pro can provide. The education, collaboration, and simulation possibilities excite me the most. Anytime we can improve health outcomes by even a small percentage it can mean all the difference for individual patients and families. #healthcare #healthcaretechnology #betterpatientcare #applevisionpro

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Hard to believe it's been 4 years since I wrote this article -- one that struck a nerve and sparked a lot of conversation. The article still holds up well. I'll even pat myself on the back for suggesting at the time that Apple consider purchasing One Medical -- Amazon beat them to it. (Apple's internal efforts to build their own healthcare clinics reportedly fizzled out under controversy as reported by the WSJ in 2021). Where does Apple stand in healthcare today? The company released a curious 70-page manifesto a year ago outlining the past, present, and future of Apple Health. In the wake of Amazon's purchase of One Medical, the document read as oddly reactionary. Not surprisingly, the Apple Watch has become the centerpiece, slowly iterating new features that walk a fine line between consumer wellness and full-fledged medical device. More recent rumors include the development of an AI health coach (project Quartz) that could leverage data collected by the Watch to provide more personalized and actionable insights. Apple is also expanding the Health App to iPads, FWIW. There's still HealthKit, ResearchKit, and Health Records on the iPhone. The Vision Pro could be a healthcare play but so far comes across as an expensive solution looking for its use case. All of this is nice, but not exactly the bold moves I suggested in the article. Two additional thoughts since the article was written: - Apple's walled garden approach is both great and terrible for healthcare. On the one hand, controlling the entire process solves many of the problems that plague traditional healthcare -- fragmentation, poor patient experience, lack of interoperability, terrible EHR interfaces, etc. On the other hand, it's extremely difficult to exist in a walled garden in healthcare. Doing so successfully would mean having an insurance product, physical and virtual clinics, employing clinicians, etc. Apple could try to partner with incumbents, but that approach hasn't worked well with the Apple Card + Golman Sachs. - As others have pointed out, a big tech company getting deep into healthcare is bad for business. Board members would probably hate it, investors would probably hate it, and the bottom line and stock price would suffer. It would take years and lots of burned cash (of which Apple has plenty). Probability of failure is high. But the opportunity still exists. There's still time to live up to Tim Cook's bold proclomation. After all, Meta burned through $36 billion building a metaverse nobody wants. #medicine #healthcare #bigtech #healthtech #innovation #healthcareinnovation #health

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Mobile Technology Hi, I am Arunkumar R pursuing B.tech IT in SNS College of Engineering.In this article I am going to explain that Mobile Technology. It is the double-edged sword of the modern era: the mobile technology available to healthcare providers today can help them to swiftly slash through many of their daily tasks, from documentation to direct patient care. For that reason, smartphones now go hand in hand with stethoscopes. However, Bryan Vartabedian, M.D., wields that double-edged sword like a medical swashbuckler. As the director of community medicine for the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition for Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston – America’s largest children’s hospital – Dr. Vartabedian finds technology so critical to successful medicine that he writes a blog about healthcare and digital culture. Mobile technology Most physicians use at least some form of technology – albeit sometimes reluctantly. Despite their mandatory introduction in the United States in 2014, a Physicians Practice technology survey found that only 59 percent of doctors say that electronic medical records (EMR) have been fully rolled out in their offices, and 20 percent cited the EMR as their greatest technology challenge. Dr. Vartabedian said the EMR that his hospital uses, called Epic, has been transformational. Paired with another smartphone app, called Canto, Dr. Vartabedian has almost full access to all his patient records, scheduling, and more. He can even take a photo of a rash or other clinical condition with his smartphone, “and it goes straight into the EMR,” he said. “For simple things like signing off on patient records, I can do that with a device in my right hand. I can see an order sent by my nurse and sign it.” “The ability to connect independent of my clinical space is revolutionary,” he added, noting that such conveniences did not exist even 3 or 4 years ago. That may be why only around 45 percent of the physicians in the survey said that they use their smartphones in the performance of their job. The technology simply has not reached them yet. #snsinstitutions #snsdesignthinkers #designthinking

Mobile devices are essential for immediate access to critical information in the medical field. Copious amounts of data are utilized daily for patient care and staffing information. The mobility of these devices helps to alleviate back office and on-the-go data retrieval in and out of medical environments; however, consumer-grade phones are not suited for healthcare. The hardware itself is a breeding ground for bacteria and personal use poses security risks that can expose client records. As such, healthcare-specific mobile devices need to be safe, secure, and have extra battery life. Most hospitals still use desktop computers for back office/hospital-wide/large amounts/general data input and retrieval. Accessing and printing patient information from desktop computers still takes time due to the sheer amount of data and labor shortages. A large part of each medical professional’s day is spent doing data entry and pulling records. Patient reports are instantaneous with mobile devices and a system to support their use. Every medical environment integrates cutting edge technology into their IT systems at a blistering pace. Currently, the medical industry is sprinting towards a new dawn- from CRISPR and mRNA vaccines to 3D printing organs and testing therapeutic VR. What new technology is your hospital integrating?   #healthcare #mobilehealth #mobiledevices #tabletcomputers