Smartphone Apps: A Patient’s New Best Friend?

Desai, Tejas; Yee, Jerry; Soman, Sandeep

doi:10.2215/cjn.03650316

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“…29 An accompanying editorial commended the application for allowing patients a more active role in their care with implications for improving patient safety, but also expressed concerns for the ability of lower income patients to have access to the smart phone application. 30 …”

Section: Promise and Limitations Of Telemedicine In Ckdmentioning

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Telemedicine to Promote Patient Safety: Use of Phone-Based Interactive Voice-Response System to Reduce Adverse Safety Events in Pre-dialysis CKD

Weiner

Fink

2017

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients have several features conferring upon them a high risk of adverse safety events, which are defined as incidents with unintended harm related to processes of care or medications. These characteristics include impaired renal function, polypharmacy, and frequent health system encounters. The consequences of such events in CKD can include new or prolonged hospitalization, accelerated renal function loss, acute kidney injury, end-stage renal disease and death. Health information technology administered via telemedicine presents opportunities for CKD patients to remotely communicate safety-related findings to providers for the purpose of improving their care. However, many CKD patients have limitations which hinder their use of telemedicine and access to the broad capabilities of health information technology. In this review we summarize previous assessments of the pre-dialysis CKD populations’ proficiency in using telemedicine modalities and describe the use of interactive voice-response system (IVRS) to gauge the safety phenotype of the CKD patient. We discuss the potential for expanded IVRS use in CKD to address the safety threats inherent to this population.

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Section: Promise and Limitations Of Telemedicine In Ckdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Telemedicine to Promote Patient Safety: Use of Phone-Based Interactive Voice-Response System to Reduce Adverse Safety Events in Pre-dialysis CKD

Weiner

Fink

2017

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

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“…3 More than 165,000 health-related applications (apps) have been designed and 62% of smartphone holders use their phone to obtain health advice. 4 , 5…”

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Use of smartphone-based instant messaging services in medical practice: a cross-sectional study

et al. 2020

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Use of telemedicine has become more frequent and more convenient for addressing medical issues. 1 It is perfectly suited for use in the modern world because of its cost-efficiency, its availability in remote and rural areas, the improved access to care that it provides and its shorter response time. It can also improve the consistency and quality of healthcare. 2 In 2018, data from the International Telecommunications Union showed that there were more than 3.9 billion active mobile phone (cellphone) subscriptions worldwide. 3 More than 165,000 health-related applications (apps) have been designed and 62% of smartphone holders use their phone to obtain health advice. 4,5 Social media and smartphone-based instant messaging services (IMS) have exploded in popularity over recent years. Instant messaging services, such as WhatsApp and iMessage, have become a very common way to communicate, for personal and professional purposes. 6 The use of these services has become progressively more popular within the field of medicine, and they serve to connect doctors to patients, to other doctors and to other healthcare professionals. 7 This paradigm shift in medicine, created through popular communication applications, is of relevance both to developed and developing countries because of the economic, political and social issues that arise through use of these means of communication. Within the context of telemedicine programs, it is important to consider the legal perspective relating to contact between healthcare professionals and their patients or between these professionals and their colleagues. There is a need to avoid problems relating to privacy issues and medical malpractice, as well as to avoid fraud and abuse.

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“…This recent explosion of access to information due to Internet and mobile device usage has sparked heated debate whether this converse urge to seek medical and health advice online is within the benefit of patients (Desai, Yee, & Soman, 2016). According to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, information and knowledge do not equal wisdom, and it is too easy for non-experts to take at face value statements made confidently by voices of authority.…”

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Relationship between perceived self-reported trust in health information sources and ocular fixation in a sample of young adults: a secondary data analysis

Livia

Ovidiu²,

Ștefan

et al. 2019

The ORBIT Journal

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Individuals use Internet for health-related issues to gather information and to share experiences and emotional support with other people who have similar medical problems. The easy access to information has sparked heated debate whether this converse urge to seek medical and health advice online is within the benefit of patients. In this research we set out to explore the relationship between self-perceived trust and visual interaction with medical websites, using eye tracking (ET) methods. The individual ocular reaction at 30-second exposure intervals to 20 health-related webpages was studied in 28 gender-balanced young adults by a Pro T60XL monitor device. The results showed a borderline strong statistically significant positive correlation (r=0.68, p=0.001) between logo fixations (LAOI) and self-reported trust rank. Websites that were ranked higher in terms of trust appear to be more likely to have a higher number of fixations on the logo. A moderate statistically significant positive correlation (r=0.526, p=0.017) was observed between fixations before the logo (FBL) and self-reported trust rank. Logos are a main point of ocular focus and are associated with higher trust. ET proves to be a useful assessment tool of behavioral patterns in searching online information.

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Smartphone Apps: A Patient’s New Best Friend?

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Telemedicine to Promote Patient Safety: Use of Phone-Based Interactive Voice-Response System to Reduce Adverse Safety Events in Pre-dialysis CKD

Telemedicine to Promote Patient Safety: Use of Phone-Based Interactive Voice-Response System to Reduce Adverse Safety Events in Pre-dialysis CKD

Use of smartphone-based instant messaging services in medical practice: a cross-sectional study

Relationship between perceived self-reported trust in health information sources and ocular fixation in a sample of young adults: a secondary data analysis

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