This document discusses smartphones for doctors and contains 7 steps for clinicians to consider when selecting a smartphone. It provides an overview of smartphone capabilities and applications that can benefit physicians. Usage statistics show that 36% of US physicians currently use smartphones, with the iPhone and Blackberry being most popular. The document analyzes top smartphone models and operating systems. It emphasizes how smartphones can provide doctors access to medical references and patient information at the point-of-care.

1. MS Health Informatics
(Medical Informatics track)
UP Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
Smartphones for Doctors
Iris Thiele Isip Tan, MD
To Get or Not to Get a Clinic EMR
Cesar Perez, MD
Free EMR for Your Clinic
Alvin B. Marcelo, MD

2. Smartphones
for Doctors
Iris Thiele Isip Tan MD, FPCP, FPSEM
MS Health Informatics (cand.)
Clinical Associate Professor, UP College of Medicine
Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Department of Medicine, Philippine General Hospital

3. Cell phone: basic functions
Short message
service (SMS)
Multimedia message
service (MMS)
Voice calls
Phonebook capability

4. Smartphone
No industry standard definition
More than basic cell phone capabilities

5. Smartphone
Combination of traditional PDA and cell phone
More cell phone than PDA

6. Smartphone
Allows 3rd-party applications
Email and internet capabilities

7. “Mobile technology
has the potential to
revolutionize how
physicians practice
medicine.”
Burdette et al Clin Inf Dis 2008;47:117-22

8. http://www.mobih.org
mHealth, enabled by mobile phones and other wireless
computing devices (mDevices), is the revolutionary
adoption of new communication patterns in healthcare that
is stimulating the introduction of Participatory Health.

9. Which cell phone should a clinician select?
7 steps from mHealth Observatory
http://www.mobih.org

10. “We need to get it
out of our minds,
‘I’ve only had it for a
year or 18 months!’”
C. Peter Waegemann
VP for Development, mHealth Initiative

11. Smartphone use by MDs
36%
36% 27% iPhone
64%
37% Blackberry
US physicians
using a smartphone
2009 Manhattan Research Survey
“Taking the Pulse”

12. The Android platform is also seeing significant growth in share of mobile ads served. In the US, the platform slowly gained 10 percent share t
percent in the last four months. Worldwide growth hasn't been as significant, with the pace remaining fairly steady, though it now has 11 perce
recently launched Motorola Droid is responsible for a quarter of Android's share in the US. Planned international introductions of Android de
worldwide share in the next few months.
Symbian OS has had almost no US presence in the smartphone market, and predictably its share of mobile ads has dropped to barely detectab
plummeted from 59 percent last October to just 25 percent this past month. Nokia has finally gotten the ball rolling on open-sourcing Symbian
for a comeback.

13. Step 1
Do you want to use
your mobile phone as
an expanded
communication device
or as a simple cell
phone?

14. Step 2
System Integration with the hospital or
other providers

15. Step 3
Local
connectivity:
Which carrier is
best in your
area?

16. Step 4
Existing contracts with carriers

17. Step 5
Do you use already a mobile device as
drug database, for EMR input or for
reference programs?

20. Step 6
Which apps might you use?

21. Estimated clinical and consumer
health applications on mDevices
RIM MS Windows 6.1 Apple Symbian Palm Total
BB BB HTC Sony
HTC Samsung
Phones Curve Storm Touch iPhone Ericsson
Pro Code
8330 9500 HD 350
Estimated
clinical 400 375 335 370 150 1,600 150 ? ~ 3,725
applications
Estimated
consumer
? ? ? ? ? 970 ? ? ~ 1,000
health
applications
mHealth Initiative
http://www.mobih.org

22. Medical apps
Drug databases Practice tools
Medical calculators Communication
managers
Reference programs
Financial tools
Decision support
Documentation tools
Learning

34. Today’s experienced
physician needs close
to 2 million pieces of
information to
practice medicine.
Denekamp Y. IMAJ 2007;9:771-6

35. 2 unanswered clinical
questions for every 3 patients
seen by MD
40% fact
44% medical opinion
MDs pursue only ~30%
of their questions
Denekamp Y. IMAJ 2007;9:771-6

36. http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/
PubMed can be accessed
using cellphone or PDA
with wireless
Information at the
point-of-care

37. Step 7
Considering a
new life style?

40. CNET Review: 5 Best Smartphones
updated 5 February 2010
Apple iPhone 3GS
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-smartphones/

41. CNET Review: 5 Best Smartphones
updated 5 February 2010
Motorola Droid
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-smartphones/

42. CNET Review: 5 Best Smartphones
updated 5 February 2010
HTC Nexus One
by Google
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-smartphones/

43. CNET Review: 5 Best Smartphones
updated 5 February 2010
RIM Blackberry
Bold 9700
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-smartphones/

44. CNET Review: 5 Best Smartphones
updated 5 February 2010
Palm Pre Plus
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-smartphones/

45. You are all invited to the annual convention of the
Philippine Society for the Study of the Aging Male
Hail the Aging Male! MABUHAY ANG hARI!
4 March 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Kalayaan Hall, Club Filipino, Greenhills
Thank You