By Kendra Srivastava | Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:13 pm |
A nursing school requires its students to use iPhones in the classroom, lab and hospital, demonstrating smartphones' growing usefulness in the medical field.
"It was really a very functional idea," said Nancy Bittner, assistant dean. "Going to a handheld helped them with their direct access and gave them the most up-to-date information." Regis College's nursing program also loads Skyscape medical software like nTrack on students' phones, so teachers can monitor progress even when they aren't in the room. "We really to this day have no way of tracking them except on paper," Bittner said. Besides Regis, other medical institutions are taking advantage of mobile services to help them train professionals and diagnose patients. Resolution MD Mobile lets doctors diagnose stroke patients on the spot, saving precious time in life-threatening emergencies. The app lets physicians manipulate the images online after sending them to a database in the cloud. Researchers at the Ohashi Clinic in Japan just developed the first mobile EKG-reading system, which lets doctors see results immediately rather than waiting for blurry printed copies. Other apps like "Medscape," "iMeds" and "Pocket Lab Values" help monitor patients' blood pressure, heart rate and glucose levels. Apps can also diagnose malaria and dengue fever in Third world countries. And the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., is training its employees on how to use Facebook and Twitter to keep in touch with patients. At Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida, patients can tweet their doctors whenever they have questions about their health. With all of these mobile and social media apps flooding the market, Regis College has the right idea in equipping its students with smartphones so they can navigate the future of modern medicine.
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