siliconindia | | May 20194Visiting Doctors in Smart Phones!The healthcare industry has witnessed a total turn around over the last decade and one of the prominent key figures that have played a major role in bringing this change is mobile applications. People no more have to schedule an appointment over phone or walk-in to the doctor's clinic to write the name of the patient on the piece of paper. A survey in the United States came to the result that, overall, a physician sees each patient for 13 to 16 minutes. Anaesthesiologists, neurologists, and radiologists spend more time with each patient, with 25 minutes or more. On the other hand, primary care physicians spend a median of 13 to 16 minutes per patient, whereas dermatologists and ophthalmologists spend the least time, with a median of 9 to 12 minutes per patient. Overall, female physicians spend more time with each patient than do male physicians. This is sourced from the latest corrections made to a Wikipedia page. For the patient, the time spent at the hospital can be substantially longer due to various waiting times, administrative steps or additional care from other health personnel. Regarding wait time, patients that are well informed of the necessary procedures in a clinical encounter, and the time it is expected to take, are generally more satisfied even if there is a longer waiting time. With the busy world, it is difficult to get the appointment as per your desired time. Waiting in a queue can consume a large percentage of the working day. This means patients can be left waiting at the front desk- or at the end of the mobile phone. The advancement in technology has transformed the healthcare industry, as the changes have certainly improved medicine, science, and life. It cannot be denied that the introduction of modern technology into science and medicine has helped improve the quality of medications, treatment and increase the people of surviving from the different diseases. The most crucial aspect is to find the specialised doctor as per the disease of the patient. And there are a number of factors that need to be considered before selecting the doctor including experience, qualification, skills, professionalism, and location of the clinic. And this search for the doctor has become easy with mobile applications.We here, in this edition of SiliconIndia Healthcare are presenting a list of doctor appointment apps that feature rich and at the same time, are resolving some of the most crucial pain points of care delivery.Do let us know what you think.Chitra MishraSpecial Editoreditor@siliconindia.comEditorial siliconindia Vol 07 · Issue 10 - 18 · May, 16 - 2019 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Special Editor Chitra Mishra Editorial Team Ananth .V John Roshan Anto Krupa P. Dave Shefali Mathur Sophia Rohtagi Sujith Vasudevan Srrayvinya OLM Trisha Pragya VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2019 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Vimalraj SuanyaGroup Art DirectorAshok Kumar NoidaGarima Anand Ashu SethiCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Ashwini Naik Felisha Rita Rohit Kumar Shivanshu Shekhar Patel
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