Medical Applications and Smartphones

I am sure, many of us are almost obsessed with new entertainment applications for our smartphones and tablets. Now, we have medical applications easily available for downloading on our smartphones and tablets. The question is : are these medical apps the future of our medicine ? Most of us are using many applications on our smartphones for entertainment, but are you aware of something ?? Medical applications are going to serve us a very serious purpose. It is being strongly recommended that medical care providers should use Medical Apps forthwith and meet professional objectives of " No Maleficence and only Beneficence." These applications are like book stores and you can download them easily from many sources and interestingly it is mostly free of cost or at a very affordable cost. The development of these medical applications can effectively change the medical world. With these applications, even the patients can easily get the exact information about their disease and of course, health. The biggest question is how are they going to be regulated ? There is now an application available for almost every subject, disease, calculation of dose for any medication and also how to make a diagnosis in seconds. Amazing, ain't it ? These medical applications can prove to be dangerous when they don't operate correctly. I strongly feel, nothing can replace simple clinical medicine. It is better we don't become slaves of these medical applications !!
Dr Pendyala Pradeep, Anaesthesiologist.