Poll of the Week – Do You Recommend Apps to Patients?

Mar 20, 2012

As patient engagement efforts intensify, mobile health apps present opportunities. Are you taking advantage?

Today more physicians and practices are using mobile apps to look up diagnostic codes and medication information, writes Practice Notes blogger Marisa Torrieri.

But more and more physicians are also using mobile health apps to get their patients more engaged in their own healthcare, she says. One app for instance, allows patients of participating physicians practices to make appointments via their Android- or Apple-based wireless device.

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