subject: Iphone Apps Can Help Doctors Save Lives [print this page] iPhone developers can help doctors save patients lives. Their applications are allowing doctors to assist, diagnose, treat and monitor patients. iPhone developers are revealing that these apps can have some seriously important uses other than entertainment and gaming. Physicians are using these tiny applications in different medical procedures. Let us take an example of drug reference mobile software. This type of mobile software can be pretty useful to help doctors easily calculate the appropriate requirement of insulin for a diabetic patient. A drug reference application can help medical professionals to use a resource that has been used and recommended by other medical professionals all over the world.
iPhone programming can also come out with diagnostic applications. There are many iPhone development companies that want to create apps to diagnose diseases. Some of them have even succeeded. Hotchkiss Brain Institute, a Canada based institute has developed an app to diagnose stroke. While diagnosing an acute stroke, the app delivers accuracy between 94% and 100%. It is a big achievement and also the perfect example of how iPhone application development has brought the large-size, high-tech medical technology in our pocket. It is going to be quite useful for rural areas where medical professionals do not or cannot have enough resources. An app based on iPhone platform can even allow doctors to connect patients from thousands of miles away. They can remotely diagnose the diseases.
Let us take another example. There may be a rare disease that some doctors have never encountered before. In this case, a shared mobile based database can help doctors instantly research about the diseases. With this type of application, doctors can discover that what other doctors have done to cure/treat the diseases. But there may be several disadvantages of medical apps. They can deliver inaccurate results as anyone with little knowledge of iPhone programming can create these apps. It is recommended that an iPhone application development for medical needs should take place under the guidance of doctors. They need to ensure that the app is delivering reliable results to help doctors/patients.
Apart from accuracy, another issue is privacy. Can an app safeguard the information? Will patients private medical information remain confidential? Data breaches may occur not only at patient-end but also at doctor-end. For example, what will happen if either doctor or patient loses the device? The app should be able to handle the data correctly and legally, otherwise it can cause disasters for some patients.
