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Benefits of Smartphones in Managing Health Care

Rehan Ijaz
Rehan Ijaz
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  • Improved point of care coordination
  • Diagnosis becomes easy
  • Better communication between patient and physician

Managing healthcare at home is one of the biggest problems. There are so many concerns and problems for which we cannot straightaway run to the hospital or a medical center. In order to address these basic health issues, your smartphone can help as your biggest advisor and support. There are so many health care apps available for smartphones which are helpful especially for managing basic healthcare problems at your home. Using smartphones and other gadgets for managing your healthcare is known as mHealth now. If you are using any kind of healthcare app, you are continuously storing and maintaining your everyday health routine in it. It is very important and helpful when you visit your physician for your checkups. He can easily track your routine through these apps and if there is an anomaly the app will highlight it making it easier to track and cure.

Apart from this, many healthcare professionals are using smartphone apps and the latest technological gadgets to connect better with their patients. There are numerous benefits to using smartphones for managing your everyday healthcare. Some of those are;

Improved point of care coordination

Traditionally when a patient is discharged from hospital the nurse usually guides him about the prescription and medicines. But, there’s no way of ensuring that the patient has understood them properly and is following them. This is where smartphone apps come in handy, if you have installed the healthcare apps in your smartphone they will not only remind you about your medicine timings but they will also maintain a complete record of your everyday health conditions. There are many apps which can keep track of your heartbeat, Blood pressure, medication, medical appointments and even day to day eating habits. All this stored information helps your doctors in properly diagnosing your problems and helps them in keeping a track of your health progress.

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Diagnosis becomes easy

By storing all your vital healthcare information on your smartphones you are helping your physicians in understanding you better. Keeping track of patient’s healthcare on papers is a very messy and tiresome job but, thanks to these smartphone healthcare apps this burden has lessened a lot. Now the doctors can easily track their patient’s health history through their healthcare apps and this leads to an accurate and fast diagnosis. Previously, managing prescriptions was a huge burden on both the patients and the medical staff but now because of many healthcare apps, the managing of prescriptions has become so easy. Some apps also keep a track of the pathogens and infections occurred in their users this is really helpful in building a complete and proper medical history of the patients.

Better communication between patient and physician

Without any doubt, the biggest advantage of smartphones in healthcare is the easy communication between the patient and the healthcare provider. Because of these smartphones, your doctors are within your reach and whenever you think you need medical assistance you can easily consult your doctor or their front office.

But, one of the biggest concern is that with all this private medical information stored on your smartphone it becomes very risky to lose it. So, you should install free phone tracker like mSpy on your smartphone in case it gets lost, you can easily track it.

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