Talking at a GMC Education Conference in London on Tuesday, Professor Martin Marshall, GP and medical director of the Health Foundation, raised the question as to whether medical training produces doctors that are ready to respond to increased public demands.
To educate public health professionals on the importance of health literacy and their role in providing health information and services and promoting public health literacy.
The main focus of the app is physician communication, and for this it incorporates an innovative, secure SMS-like text service. But its real power lies in its deep incorporation of multiple databases of physician and related information
In particular, the makers of the app carefully integrated data from the physician NPI and Medicare databases as well as lists of medical schools, hospitals, imaging centers and pharmacies
What they’ve produced is a surprisingly refined version 1 product that can quickly answer the myriad of small, practice-related questions that pop up all day long during a busy schedule.