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Five must-have healthcare apps for doctors

THE ASIAN AGE
Published : Jan 9, 2020, 4:14 pm IST
Updated : Jan 9, 2020, 4:14 pm IST

The health service like consultation, treatment and medical drugs all of these things are available online.

All of us including the doctors and pharmacists are living in the era of smartphones.
 All of us including the doctors and pharmacists are living in the era of smartphones.

The Indian healthcare sector has seen a rapid transformation, mainly on the backdrop of technological advancements of the recent past. While the quality of healthcare services may have gone up, the cost and complexity have seen a significant hike. In this landscape, there have been many online healthcare platforms (OHP) that have emerged to 'democratize' the healthcare system.

All of us including the doctors and pharmacists are living in the era of smartphones. There is nothing left that you can’t do on your phone. The health service like a consultation, treatment and medical drugs all of these things are available online. There are various apps that are worth trying and a must-have.

Here is the list of five must-have healthcare apps for Doctors:

Navia Life Care: Navia Life Care is a health tech company which has a voice-based virtual assistant for providers. It helps in building patient engagement platforms for medical providers, focusing on aspects of compliance, monitoring and communication.  It is built on a standardized template, with options to customize using plug-and-play feature sets, ensuring scalability, fast delivery times and replicability of medical records across the value chain. 

Navia’s key products are Navi, a voice-powered smart EMR with an AI-based recommendation engine for doctors, Navi Trace, a simple pen and pad device which converts a handwritten prescription into digital format and NaviaQM – a low cost, automated OPD efficiency tool optimized to reduce patient wait times and improve patient experience within healthcare providers.

Portea: Portea medical delivers quality care with compassion. Provides medical care into patients’ home and aim to make primary healthcare not only more accessible but also more affordable and accountable to fulfil patients’ needs. They provide doctors, nurses, and physiotherapists for home visits.

Practo: Practo aims to assess health issues, find the right doctor, book diagnostic tests, obtaining medicines, store health records or learn new ways to live healthier. Practo helps to build the presence, grow establishments and engage patients more deeply than ever.

Lybrate: Lybrate ensures that doctors save time and enhance practice effortlessly. Through this doctors’ grow their outreach to patients across the country, by interacting with them. This increases their popularity in the online community and in the medical fraternity. Also, it helps to make informed decisions about health and one can ask queries for free or get into one-on-one interaction with doctors on payment of fees online.

Curofy: Curofy, India’s largest community of verified doctors. It offers doctors a spam-free and secure environment to communicate with each other. Doctors can provide referrals, share cases, call other doctors without saving numbers and have access to most recent, speciality-wise developments taking place in their field. 

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