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The Uses of the Smartphone for Doctors: An Empirical Study from Samsung Medical Center
OBJECTIVES: In healthcare, mobile computing made possible by smartphones is becoming an important tool among healthcare professionals. However, currently there is very little research into the effectiveness of such applications of technology. This study aims to present a framework for a smartphone a...
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Korean Society of Medical Informatics
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21886874 http://dx.doi.org/10.4258/hir.2011.17.2.131 |
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author | Choi, Jong Soo Yi, Byoungkee Park, Jong Hwan Choi, Kyesook Jung, Jaegon Park, Seung Woo Rhee, Poong-Lyul |
author_facet | Choi, Jong Soo Yi, Byoungkee Park, Jong Hwan Choi, Kyesook Jung, Jaegon Park, Seung Woo Rhee, Poong-Lyul |
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description | OBJECTIVES: In healthcare, mobile computing made possible by smartphones is becoming an important tool among healthcare professionals. However, currently there is very little research into the effectiveness of such applications of technology. This study aims to present a framework for a smartphone application to give doctors mobile access to patient information, then review the consequences of its use and discuss its future direction. METHODS: Since 2003 when Samsung Medical Center introduced its first mobile application, a need to develop a new application targeting the latest smartphone technology was identified. To that end, an application named Dr. SMART S was officially launched on December 22nd, 2010. RESULTS: We analyzed the usage data of the application for a month until April 25th, 2011. On average, 170 doctors (13% of the entire body of doctors) logged on 2.4 times per day and that number keeps growing. The number was uniformly distributed across all working hours, with exceptions of heavy accesses around 6-8 AM and 4-6 PM when doctors do their regular rounds to see the patients. The most commonly accessed content was inpatient information, this constituted 78.6% of all accesses, within this 50% was to accesses lab results. CONCLUSIONS: Looking at the usage data, we can see the use of Dr. SMART S by doctors is growing in sync with the popularity of smartphones. Since u-Health seem an inevitable future trend, a more rigorous study needs to be conducted on how such mobile applications as Dr. SMART S affect the quality of care and patient safety to derive directions for further improvements. |
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spelling | pubmed-31551702011-08-31 The Uses of the Smartphone for Doctors: An Empirical Study from Samsung Medical Center Choi, Jong Soo Yi, Byoungkee Park, Jong Hwan Choi, Kyesook Jung, Jaegon Park, Seung Woo Rhee, Poong-Lyul Healthc Inform Res Application OBJECTIVES: In healthcare, mobile computing made possible by smartphones is becoming an important tool among healthcare professionals. However, currently there is very little research into the effectiveness of such applications of technology. This study aims to present a framework for a smartphone application to give doctors mobile access to patient information, then review the consequences of its use and discuss its future direction. METHODS: Since 2003 when Samsung Medical Center introduced its first mobile application, a need to develop a new application targeting the latest smartphone technology was identified. To that end, an application named Dr. SMART S was officially launched on December 22nd, 2010. RESULTS: We analyzed the usage data of the application for a month until April 25th, 2011. On average, 170 doctors (13% of the entire body of doctors) logged on 2.4 times per day and that number keeps growing. The number was uniformly distributed across all working hours, with exceptions of heavy accesses around 6-8 AM and 4-6 PM when doctors do their regular rounds to see the patients. The most commonly accessed content was inpatient information, this constituted 78.6% of all accesses, within this 50% was to accesses lab results. CONCLUSIONS: Looking at the usage data, we can see the use of Dr. SMART S by doctors is growing in sync with the popularity of smartphones. Since u-Health seem an inevitable future trend, a more rigorous study needs to be conducted on how such mobile applications as Dr. SMART S affect the quality of care and patient safety to derive directions for further improvements. Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2011-06 2011-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3155170/ /pubmed/21886874 http://dx.doi.org/10.4258/hir.2011.17.2.131 Text en © 2011 The Korean Society of Medical Informatics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Application Choi, Jong Soo Yi, Byoungkee Park, Jong Hwan Choi, Kyesook Jung, Jaegon Park, Seung Woo Rhee, Poong-Lyul The Uses of the Smartphone for Doctors: An Empirical Study from Samsung Medical Center |
title | The Uses of the Smartphone for Doctors: An Empirical Study from Samsung Medical Center |
title_full | The Uses of the Smartphone for Doctors: An Empirical Study from Samsung Medical Center |
title_fullStr | The Uses of the Smartphone for Doctors: An Empirical Study from Samsung Medical Center |
title_full_unstemmed | The Uses of the Smartphone for Doctors: An Empirical Study from Samsung Medical Center |
title_short | The Uses of the Smartphone for Doctors: An Empirical Study from Samsung Medical Center |
title_sort | uses of the smartphone for doctors: an empirical study from samsung medical center |
topic | Application |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21886874 http://dx.doi.org/10.4258/hir.2011.17.2.131 |
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