Applied Evidence

How apps are changing family medicine

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Other suggestions for safe use of apps:

  • Peruse iMedicalApps (imedicalapps.com), the self-described leading physician publication on mobile medicine. Its physician editors and team of clinicians research and review medical apps.
  • Consider the source. An app that has been developed by a medical society, federal agency, or prestigious medical school, for example, is more trustworthy than one from an unknown source (a point you would be wise to pass on to your patients).
  • Try the app yourself before you recommend it to a patient.

Finally, keep the privacy provision in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in mind. Before using any app through which private patient health information can be transmitted or stored, ensure that the data will be encrypted and that your mobile device is password-protected, advises mHIMSS, the mobile branch of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.21

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