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Can we count on health related apps and devices?

AIMAN INAM

SAN FRANCISCO: With the passage of time, more and more technological discoveries are coming up on daily basis.

These days, there is a soaring trend of using health related apps and devices.

Such techs claim to make you aware apropos your current health status, high blood pressure and sugar levels.

Not to mention that makers of innumerable devices also claim that those gadgets inform you about mounting heart attack ahead of the time.

Keeping this in view, Dr Michael Blum from the University of California along with his colleagues set out to analyze whether such devices really tell about your current health status.

In a panel discussion titled Technology, Patients and the Art of Medicine, 69 percent of the 100 doctors claimed that augmented confidence on vitae and Electronic Health Records (EHR) merely part the patients from the doctors.

Also, they ascertained that some apps claim to do things (such as gauge the blood pressure perfectly) but they do not really do it in actuality.

While it was thought that EHR could potentially shrink medical errors, inefficiencies and inappropriate care. But today doctors consider EHR as the biggest setback and hurdle as they still come across 12 million diagnosis faults per annum.

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.