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Journal of Global Medical Education and Research

Volume  6, Issue 1, January-June 2023, Pages 9-11
 

Original Article

Role of Smart Phones in Patient Follow up-Our Experience

Nishad. K, Neljo Thomas, Ravi Kumar Chittoria, Barath Kumar Singh, Jacob Antony Chakioth

Senior Resident, Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry 605006, India.

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Abstract

The smartphone is a method of communication that is widely used, popular and almost all the doctors and most of the patients or the attenders usea smartphone now a days. The increasing internet penetration into the population is making the smartphones more of a necessity than a luxury. Medical science is a dynamic field that gets influenced by the advancements of technology. There is always an unrelenting try to make patient care easy, fast safe, cost effective, and reproducible. So the smartphones are emerging as a team member of health care system. We have conducted a study by using the smart phone based on android and IOS in following up the patients who under went treatment in the Department of Plastic surgery in a tertiary care center in South India. From March 2020 to April 2021. In this article, we share our experience of using the smart phones for patient follow up as well as how to utilize a smart phone to make patient follow-up,safe, effective, easy, reproducible.


Keywords : Smartphone; Android; IOS; Patient Follow Up; Plastic surgery; Telemedicine
Corresponding Author : Ravi Kumar Chittoria