Doctors find tablets more useful than smartphones for clinical purposes, according to new survey results measuring tablet and smartphone usage among electronic health record (EHR) and non-EHR users.
time spent using the tablet to access the records is significantly (66 percent) higher.
More than half of the smartphones or tablets (55 and 54 percent respectively) which the doctors use to access EHRs are Apple® products.
time spent using the tablet to access the records is significantly (66 percent) higher.
“These two reports provide useful insights into how physicians use technology to interact with patients, physician satisfaction with mobile devices and apps, and the differences of technology use within various user demographics.”
More than half of the smartphones or tablets (55 and 54 percent respectively) which the doctors use to access EHRs are Apple® products.
- Epocrates®
- Medscape®
- MedCalc®
- Skyscape®
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- Epocrates®
- Medscape®
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- MedCalc®
- Skyscape®
“As the adoption of mobile devices increases, so do the expectations of clinical users.The health IT sector and app developers have an opportunity to improve the quality and usefulness of clinical mobile apps.”
- 75 percent of doctors communicate with other doctors as least once a week using their smartphones.
- 70 percent of doctors look up information about medications on their smartphones once a week
- A quarter of doctors without a smartphone reported that they intent to buy one within 6 months.
- A third of EHR users and a quarter of non-EHR users reported using a tablet in their medical practice
- Doctors at smaller practices are more likely to use their tablet for a broader range of activities
- Only a third of EHR users said they were very satisfied with their tablet
- A third use their tablet to look up information about medications every day
- The Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging application for smartphones is an app made to give physicians access to published criteria used to assess the need for a patient to have cardiac radionuclide imaging (RNI).
- A smartphone app has allowed ovarian cancer surgeons in British Columbia in Canada to enter and upload tumor data directly from the operating theatre. Gynaecological surgeon Dr Sarah Finlayson said that “as soon as the case is finished, I can pick up my iPhone and enter all of the vital information from the procedure we just performed.”
- Even the world’s leading independent general medical journal The Lancet has developed an app now available on the App Store. The Lancet App is designed to help healthcare professionals (HCPs) find information they need quickly and efficiently on their iPad.
- Research from the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine shows that doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application with the same accuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation.