Practo Ray started out as Appointment Scheduling software, to solve doctors’ problems. Our drive to empower doctors with great tools that help their practice, remains as strong as ever. In our perpetual quest to improve Ray, we’ve hit a new milestone –Practo Ray 7. Practo Ray 7 is the fastest, simplest and most powerful way …
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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 …
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 …
Making the Most of Technology in the Operation Theatre
The most vital element for an efficient and smooth functioning of an operation theatre is systematic management along with trained staff and world class equipment. Proper utilisation of technology in an operation theatre not only requires good resources and also trained personnel. This needs assessment and careful planning, along with accurate scheduling to give the best patient care experience. With recent …
Using Technology to Manage Medical Inventory
A successful medical practice is very challenging to operate, especially in the growing economies of the world. Regardless of the nature of the medical clinic, the primary administrative challenges in terms of inventory management are almost the same. For example, most common ones include; unclear patient demands, limited physician access to inventory information at all times and drug storage …
How 3D printing is revolutionising the future of medicine
3D printing is the latest in the line of cutting edge technologies that are set to transform the way we make products. 3D printing consists of making a physical object from a 3-dimensional digital mode, coating it with successive thin layers of the desired material. 3D printing is widely used in processes like automotive design, …