Healthcare Apps Assignment: Exploring Personal, Professional, EHR Apps

This assignment analyzes three types of healthcare applications: personal healthcare apps (e.g., HealthVault), professional healthcare apps (e.g., Epocrates), and Electronic Health Record (EHR) apps (e.g., MediTouch). The student identifies the device compatibility, and the source of each app. Each app is summarized with a focus on its functionality and its benefits within the healthcare landscape. The assignment highlights the increasing role of mobile technology in healthcare, with applications designed to improve patient care, support healthcare professionals, and streamline record-keeping. The student also provides references to support the information presented. The assignment fulfills the requirements of exploring and summarizing the selected apps.

Running head: INTRO TO HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
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● Personal Healthcare APP (NOT EHR related)
o Name of APP: HealthVault
o Device(s) where you can use APP: web, windows and iPhone
o Where to get the APP (if possible give DIRECT URL):Appstore
With the application of this particular app, it has become very much easy for all the patients
to record, store as well as share all the personal medical data with any providers of healthcare or
doctors through the internet (Cordova et al. 2015). This particular app helps a patient a lot in
both tracking as well as storing weight, diet, medications, allergies, blood pressure or scans.
● Professional Healthcare APP (NOT EHR related)
o Name of APP: Epocrates
o Device(s) where you can use APP: Cellphones, Tablets
o Where to get the APP (if possible give DIRECT URL): PlayStore
Epocrates is considered as one of the earliest apps related to medicines having a million of
downloads and about 50% of all the doctors in the country are currently utilising this particular
app. This mainly known for being a reliable as well as a tool for saving time which helps in
keeping focused for making the best possible clinical decisions.
● Electronic Health Record APP
o Name of APP: MediTouch
o Device(s) where you can use APP: iPAD
o Where to get the APP (if possible give DIRECT URL):AppleStore

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The iPAD EHR is specially designed from the ground up to the work upon the mobile
devices. Clinicians populate the fields of data with their dictations of the device which mainly
comes as a standard on several iPads except the very first generation and thus allowing them to
chart at the main point of care. Charting as well as prescribing allows much more accurate
documentation of the findings of physical exam.
MTBC PHR
This is mainly a smartphone application which is capable of helping all the patients in
tracking as well as managing personal data records of health involving all the appointments of
physicians as well as reminders (Krebs and Duncan 2015). This particular app serves with both
recording as well as assessing of the reports of lab, X-rays and information of blood pressure.
CapzulePHR
CapZule PHR app is specially an app which is capable for allowing the user in creating
personal set of templates related to the monitoring of health. This app helps the user in recording
several variations in in the condition of health and progress of the goals of health among some
other observations.

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References
Krebs, P. and Duncan, D.T., 2015. Health app use among US mobile phone owners: a national
survey. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 3(4), p.e101.
Cordova, D., Bauermeister, J.A., Fessler, K., Delva, J., Nelson, A., Nurenberg, R., Lua, F.M.,
Alers-Rojas, F., Salas-Wright, C.P. and Council, Y.L., 2015. A community-engaged
approach to developing an mHealth HIV/STI and drug abuse preventive intervention for
primary care: a qualitative study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 3(4), p.e106.