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The Practo Partner App – Everything a Doctor needs to build their practice

At Practo, we’re constantly building products to empower doctors with tools to manage and grow their practice. Here’s a brief snapshot of our products for doctors: Practo Ray – Digitise your practice and manage it more professionally Practo Profile – Enable millions of users to discover you online Practo Reach – Stand out & maximize your practice’s visibility Practo Consult – Reach …

The Doctor’s Guide to Buying a Smartphone

You’re a busy doctor, and you carry your smartphone with you all the time to stay connected with your world. So when the time comes to upgrade to a new one, you need to make sure that it meets all of your needs. With new phones hitting the market every other day, we realised getting …

Five Innovative Healthcare Applications of 3D Printing

Contributed by Nisha K. Cooch, PhD The potential applications of 3D printing to medicine have been popularized in recent years. Contributing to the excitement about the power of 3D printing in healthcare was the case of the boy with tracheobronchomalacia, a condition that involves weakened tissue of the airway and consequent airway collapse. After using a …

Buying Laptops: A Guide For Doctors

    Finding the right laptop can be a difficult task with the sheer amount of options available. So we’ve made a helpful infographic that simplifies the process of finding a laptop that suits a doctor’s needs.    

Medical gadget of the month: Kinsa Smart Thermometer

According to the study reported in BMC Research journal (1), more than 68% deaths in children under 5 years of age can be prevented with optimal management of infectious illnesses (such as pneumonia, malaria, viral fever, upper respiratory tract infections and measles. Most of these infections present with high grade fever that may increase the …

Using Your Smartphone to Troubleshoot Common Problems

The world of medicine has always benefited from advancements in technology. The introduction of smartphones has eased the whole process of clinical practice and education. Smartphones are just like portable computers which have changed the way healthcare is dispensed (1). They can help iron out small kinks in everyday practice with just a few taps of …

The effects of EMR on the Doctor-Patient Relationship

The benefits of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) appear to be obvious to doctors and patients alike. Research on the impact of electronic medical records on patient doctor communication during consultation concluded that the use of EMR exerts both positive and negative impacts on physician-patient relationships. The prospect of enhanced medical records legibility, easy accessibility and …

5 Great Medical Knowledge Apps for iPhone

Have you ever wished to have your medical books by your side for a quick glance of something you seem to have forgotten? Have you experienced some patient ask you a question about a medical condition which you are not well aware of? Have you been embarrassed because you were not updated with the latest …

The New Technology Frontier in Healthcare: mHealth

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED MEDICAL CARE Revolutionary changes have been taking place in all sectors like banking and media and the healthcare industry is not far behind, even though healthcare is quite different from other sectors in terms of compliance and faces more sets of challenges. Despite increasing amounts of money being pumped into healthcare, our country …

How to Make a Video for Your Practice and Promote it Online

A unique and innovative way for medical practitioners to display and market their services is by the means of online videos which is the latest trend in online advertising. According to statistics, about four billion YouTube videos are viewed on a daily basis. In fact, right from your cell phone to your favourite website, online …