This presentation covers advances in mobile computing and shows how this can be used in medical practice to improve patient care. The latter part of the presentation covers the apps I use professionally to enhance my medical practice
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Mobile computing in medicine
1. Mobile technology
in medicine
Drew Provan
Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry
Queen Mary University of London
drewprovan@mac.comUK/OTH/0913/0024
DOP September 2013
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2. I have no shares in Apple
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26. Mobile health advantages
BYOD — reduced cost for employer
Not tied to desktop
Update notes, review results etc anywhere
Share results at bedside
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27. mHealth
5000 fitness/healthcare apps
Remote monitoring BP, glucose, chronic
disease etc
Reduce hospital readmission rate
Revenues from remote patient monitoring
$1.9 bn by 2014
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33. Why are iPad and
iPhone so useful?
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34. Simplicity
Instant on & fast
Great screen (pics/movies)
e-reader, PDFs, Word files, x-rays
Cheap to deploy
Secure (CESG*)
CESG is the Information Assurance arm of GCHQ
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37. >900,000 total iOS apps
375,000 for iPad
20,000+ medical apps
Medicine, nursing, dentistry
Number growing
>50 billion apps downloaded
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43. Yes
More (quality) time with patient
Better education of patients
FaceTime/Skype calls — docs, patients
Remote monitoring (symptoms, results)
No barrier — not“computers”
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48. Apple (iOS) devices
Canada
Ottawa
Mount Sinai, Toronto
USA
Cedars Sinai, USA
Memorial Hermann, USA
St Louis Children’s Hospital, USA
Japan
Jikei University Hospital, Japan
Teikyo University Chiba Med Center, Japan
Australia
Southern Health (speech)
Casey Hospital, Victoria
Melbourne, others
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49. Pilots in UK (Apple)
Leeds General Practice
Oxford Radcliffe
Pharmacy
Electronic Patient records
London Guys
Electronic Patient Records
Results, x-rays etc
London Newham Electronic Patient Records
Manchester iPod Touch for nurses
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54. The trend
Desktops/laptops used less
Mobile technology will dominate
Hospitals, schools, universities, business, etc
Less use of books and paper records
Communication improvements
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96. Word docs ➡ Pages, Documents to Go
PowerPoint ➡ Keynote, Documents to Go
Excel ➡ Numbers, Documents to Go
PDF files ➡ iBooks, Good Reader
File storage ➡ Dropbox
Academic paper storage ➡ Papers
Notes, photos, etc ➡ Evernote
Business networking ➡ LinkedIn
Notepad ➡ Penultimate
To-do lists ➡ Things
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97. Install limited number of productivity apps
Learn to use them
Integrate with desktop/laptop
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100. NO
Capacity
Editing, slide design, illustration
Some apps similar but not the same
File management awkward (no folders)
Typing
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101. Summary
Mobile technology has changed everything
Unstoppable — not going away
Need to integrate into practice, teaching
Mobile devices can aid productivity
We are willing to use them
IT departments need to get on board
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