Benefits

Current, specific and trustworthy medical information is required by all Health Care Professionals to make informed decisions. However, due to the sheer quantity of data that's available to modern-day physicians, a massive information burden is being placed upon them.

As a result, tools that condense Evidence Based Information into an easily and quickly understood form have become something of a necessity. This is what Doctot, a World Leader in the development of Clinical Rating Scales and Guidelines on the Apple App Store, provide through their medically validated App range.

Enabling HCPs to adhere to Best Practice will in turn:

Time is undoubtedly of extreme importance when it comes to the optimal treatment of health conditions.

For example, following a stroke, there is effectively a three-hour window in which it is possible to deliver clot busting treatment. However, in practical terms, there is often little more than 30 treatment minutes remaining by the time a patient is admitted.

Doctot's Stroke App, which promotes Evidence-Based Practice (as well as helping to provide greater treatment strategies) can be performed by medical professionals in 4 minutes. This is approximately 16 minutes of brain-saving time faster than the traditional, paper-format stroke evaluation test, which can take up to 20 minutes to administer.

A 2016 Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors, making it the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer (Note: The Journal of Patient Safety claim the true number is actually over 400,000 p.a). To help reduce the likelihood of such errors occurring in not only the U.S but around the world, accurate reference information at the point of care (such as risk stratification tools) is required.

Due to their artificial intelligence, Doctot's Apps can remove human error in relation to scale-related calculations (which helps to prevent liability from occurring). Overall test accuracy is also improved, as is the reliability of the test score results.

According to a past study by the Annals of Family Medicine, primary care physicians spend nearly half of their work day upon constraints such as follow-ups and documentation preparation, which is keeping them out of the examination room. In addition, an American Hospital Association commissioned report states paperwork adds a minimum of 30 minutes to every hour of provided patient care.

These activities obviously limit the amount of time that physicians have to diagnose and treat their patients, which is quite an issue considering 1 billion visits were made to physician offices in the U.S in 2014 alone.

So to increase productivity inside the examination room, fast-acting work tools are a necessity (as time-poor HCP's are struggling to stay up to date with the latest developments in evidence-based medicine, never mind memorise such content).

Because of such, Doctot's Apps, which are renowned for their efficiency, clarity, reliability and precision, are ideal for improving a physician's daily clinical workflow.

As already alluded to, the established paper-format scales that help in the diagnosis and prognostication of ailments are, in real terms, overly cumbersome and time-consuming to utilise in a clinical setting.

Thanks to their Medical Calculators (which contain unified, automatic and easy-to-use scale systems, as well as Patient Management functionality), Doctot can provide a genuine solution to this problem.

The innovative gesture-driven controls that are at the heart of Doctot's range of Apps provide a much greater level of speed, usability and decipherability than pre-existing paper-format diagnostic tools could ever do.

Thanks to this, a greater number of patients can potentially be seen by HCPs, as critical time is saved. This also facilitates further personal interaction between HCPs and their patients to be had.

These two factors are undoubtedly of ever increasing importance in today's fast-moving world. People prefer everything to be no further away than their fingertips, and as illustrated in the below quote, Healthcare Practitioners are no exception:

"According to a British Medical Journal study, 98.9% of Doctors own a Smartphone while 89.6% use Medical Apps on their Smartphone as part of their Clinical Practice."

Doctot's Apps, which are available on tremendously popular Mobile devices, facilitate such actions like no other communication medium.