Abstract
Mobile communication has revolutionized the way of business and the practice of medicine alike. The smartphone has become an indispensable tool for healthcare providers by offering resources and tools helping to improve medical care, diagnostics, patient education, and personal productivity. In this chapter, we (1) summarize the history of smartphones and their impact on the field of tele-medicine; (2) showcase some of the software applications (apps) available on the smartphone for ophthalmologists, vision researchers, and patients; and (3) present the emerging use of the smartphone as research and diagnostic tools. We conclude that smartphones can significantly increase productivity in the clinical and laboratory setting and have great potential to become portable research and diagnostic tools.
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Generous support by the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Research Center is gratefully acknowledged. SK would like to thank the BlackBerry® Academic Program for supporting his research program on smartphone applications in ophthalmology.
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VS: Dr. Shah is cofounder of Cloud 9 Development, LLC, and the co-developer of the Eye Handbook app.
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Naumchuk, Y., Shah, V.A., Kaja, S. (2015). Mobile Technology in Tele-education. In: Michelson, G. (eds) Teleophthalmology in Preventive Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44975-2_10
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