Next-Generation Medical Technology for Medical Professionals

By Edward Robert Kundahl

Mobile apps are no longer only used for checking email and playing games on smartphones. In fact, multiple studies suggest that mobile apps can help people change behaviors, better stay in compliance with medical routines, and help patients document needed information for medical professionals. Often, patients that require long-term medical treatment can benefit greatly from utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach by working with a team of medical professionals (e.g. general practitioners, specialists, physical therapists, and mental health professionals). Not only can creating a custom mobile app help your patients get better, but patient success is the key to getting more quality referrals.
Mobile app features that can help patients be healthier:
There are a number of features that can help improve treatment outcomes. A few features are as follows:

• Medication reminders.
• Platform for documentation for food journals, sleep journals, recording moods for CBT, etc.
• Nutrition guides.
• Reminders for how to complete physical therapy-related activities at home.
• GPS and timestamp capabilities that can help clinicians better analyze data such as eating patterns, exercise habits, patterns related to help patients who want to stop smoking, etc.

Noncompliance is often unintentional, especially when working with populations that tend to forget things, such as patients who have suffered a traumatic brain injury or have been diagnosed with adult ADHD. In addition, extensive documentation can be challenging for many patients. Few people are apt to pull out a pencil and paper during a lunch meeting to record what they ate. Documentation can be logistically challenging for people to complete with a high degree of accuracy. Furthermore, GPS and timestamp-encoded documentation can be invaluable for medical professionals when trying to change behaviors such as smoking.
Be a progressive medical professional.
Your primary goal as a medical professional is to help people get better. Often, patients cannot readily comply with requests that they find too cumbersome to complete. In addition, patient self-reports can be highly inaccurate. When asked about how a patient has been doing over the past month, he or she might naturally report what has happened over the last two weeks. To get the best data, devise a custom app that can help your patients easily record necessary information so that you can come up with the best treatment plan.
All people who are ill want to get better. Effectively gathering accurate data, devising a treatment plan, and increasing patient compliance are all necessary variables in improving overall health. Have a custom app to help your patients become better and refer new patients instead of essentially letting patients stumble through self-data collection and semi-compliance.

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