The increasing integration between technology, apps for doctors, and health care has become one of the most noteworthy trends in technology today. Indeed, this is an exciting new area of software development, as it gives app developers and health care companies a chance to work together to protect the health of countless Americans.
This area has become wildly popular, and there are thousands of Apps for doctors and patients can use in order to work closer together. There are a variety of apps that have been developed that give users and insurance companies access to an insurance management system. These apps can help someone access their insurance benefits and better determine what health care options they have at their service.
Here is a look at nine of the best of those Apps.
3D4 Medical
3D4 Medical is a fascinating app, one that works best for clinicians but also has applications for patients as well. In short, the app allows for complete anatomical views of the human body. It has astonishingly accurate levels of detail and allows for viewing of numerous bodily systems, including muscular-skeletal, vascular, and more. This app can help doctors examine the human body. However, it is also highly customizable. This means that doctors and clinicians can easily use the app to explain to patients what is wrong with them and what their plans are for treatment. The app is available on numerous types of devices, thus ensuring that doctors can help patients, regardless of what type of phone they use.
Muscle Trigger Point Anatomy
All of us have pain. What many of us don’t understand is just where that pain comes from and what we can do about it. Muscle Trigger Point Anatomy provides an anatomical look at where our pain may be coming from. It helps identify what muscles are causing pain where. From there, patients or doctors can apply trigger point therapy in order to alleviate those aches and pains. Doctors can also use it to potentially rule out other sources of pain, and in this way, the app holds the potential for doctors and patients to be used as a guide for diagnosis.
Visual DX
This app is particularly fascinating for doctors and patients who want to have the most recent and up to date information on a potential medical condition right at their fingertips, especially for dermatological conditions or skin manifestations of systemic disease. It contains a wide array of information on a variety of diseases, even rare ones. As such, it presents a huge chunk of information on what someone may be suffering from and leaves that information accessible in a variety of easy-to-read forms.
Along the same lines as Muscle Trigger Point Anatomy, Visual DX offers a massive medical library of images – more than 90,000. The images are all peer-reviewed, ensuring their accuracy and the ability of users to display them with confidence. The apps can be sorted by a wide array of factors, including overall health, disease, age, and other personal factors.
In this way, doctors and other health care practitioners can use the app to explain to a patient what is happening to them, what an organ or muscle should look like, and what it will look like when their treatment is complete. The app is a great aid for helping talk to patients.
Epocrates
Epocrates is a wildly popular app, having been downloaded by more than one million healthcare providers. A quick look reveals why this app is so widely used. It offers a variety of tools that are perfect for doctors and their patients, including diagnosis support, tables, and symptom checks. It is also constantly updated, and currently has a huge amount of information available on COVID-19. The app is free, but premium versions offer even more support on a variety of infectious diseases, alternative medicines, and more.
PEPID
This Apps for doctors and patients who are looking for ideas about what someone might be suffering from. Consider this app to be the equivalent of a more advanced WebMD symptom checker: Patients or doctors can input their symptoms and get a better idea about possible diagnoses. For doctors, this app can serve as a great guide for what may be wrong with a patient. For patients, this app is perfect for figuring out what could be wrong with them and making suggestions to their doctors. Of course, this app may allow for too many patients to “play” doctor, and they should use it with caution!
Appointik
This app is fantastic for patient management and scheduling. It allows medical offices to easily schedule a patient while simultaneously accessing all of their medical history, prior diagnoses, current prescriptions, and more. As such, Appointik allows for fantastic integration between scheduling and patient history. Further expansions will almost certainly make this app easier to access for patients, giving them greater access to their own medical records and more control over potential scheduling options.
Sony’s mSafety Mobile Health
This is a particularly fascinating app that connects with smartwatches in order to track a wide variety of medical data. The data can then be recorded and exported into a variety of formats, calculating your steps, heart rate, pulse, and more. This information can then be sent to medical professionals who can examine the data to better make a more accurate diagnosis. Indeed, this app is remarkable, in that it represents a true partnership between technology, a doctor, and their patient.
Dr. Pad
Dr. Pad is a medical practice management app. It can be used on multiple devices and is ideal for a variety of purposes, including tracking a patient’s medical history, scheduling appointments, and storing records. It comes with the ability to easily integrate with other electronic medical records, so the app can thus be formatted to fit the needs of an individual practice or the hospital network in which they participate.
Like many apps of this nature, it comes with a variety of free features. However, if someone chooses, they can expand into the paid features. These include customized templates for sending appointment or medication reminders, the ability to attach documents when communicating with the app, and the potential ability to collaborate with other clinicians. In this sense, the app makes one-stop communications across multiple platforms a breeze.
Medici
Wouldn’t it be great, for both Apps for doctors and patients, if there were an easy and secure way to communicate via text? Yes, you could theoretically always text, but those texts may be accessible by anyone and are not HIPPA protected. Thankfully, Medici is available. This app allows doctors to securely and privately communicate with patients about whatever is ailing them, thus potentially saving time and enhancing both communication and convenience for both parties.
Unlike other apps that allow you to text doctors, this app allows you to communicate directly with your own doctor. It requires buy-in from both doctors and their patients, of course, and doctors will have to set appropriate limits to ensure that they aren’t being bothered randomly by patients who don’t truly need to access them 24-7. However, if used properly, this app can serve a variety of purposes and be exceptionally useful for diagnoses, treatment, and preventative care.
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