Explore Issue Areas

  • Aging
  • Agriculture and Food
  • Animal Welfare
  • Arts and Culture
  • Athletics and Sports
  • Children and Youth
  • Civil Society
  • Community and Economic Development
  • Computers and Technology
  • Consumer Protection
  • Crime and Safety
  • Disabilities
  • Education and Literacy
  • Employment and Labor
  • Energy and Environment
  • LGBTQI
  • Government Reform
  • Health
  • Housing and Homelessness
  • Human Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Humanitarian and Disaster Relief
  • Hunger
  • Immigration
  • International Development
  • Journalism and Media
  • Men
  • Nonprofits and Philanthropy
  • Parenting and Families
  • Peace and Conflict
  • Poverty
  • Prison and Judicial Reform
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Substance Abuse and Recovery
  • Transportation
  • Welfare and Public Assistance
  • Women

Explore Collections

Special Collections are curated collections of research that address a specific topic or research question.

  • IssueLab Results is #OpenForGood

  • Democracy Special Collection

  • Gun Violence Special Collection

  • Immigration Strategies Special Collection

  • Affordable Care Act Special Collection

  • Race and Policing Special Collection

View All

Knowledge Centers are a custom service of IssueLab providing organizations with a simple way to manage and share knowledge on their own websites.

  • New York Foundation Knowledge Center

  • European Foundation Centre Knowledge Center

  • TrustAfrica's African Giving Knowledge Center

View All
Get our monthly emails
  • Help
  • Sign in
  • Upload
  • Issue Areas
  • Collections
  • Services
  • About
  • News

Please login first to save in your collection.

LOGIN

SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

My Collection (0)


Visit My Library
GET EMAILS UPLOAD

iPhones for Eye Surgeons

by A. Bastawrous; A. Kumar; R. C. Cheeseman

Mar 1, 2012
  • Computers and Technology
  • Consumer Protection
  • Health

  • DESCRIPTION

In a survey of mobile phone ownership, 99% of health professionals own a mobile phone, with 81% of these being a smartphone.1 The most popular smartphone currently being the Apple iPhone. Mobile phones and the internet have arguably been two of the most important developments in recent decades and the development of smartphones has combined these to allow many handheld capabilities beyond basic voice and text communication including advanced computing, digital photography, and geo-positioning. Such devices are popular because of their high quality graphical user interfaces and intuitive control. The felt necessity by most adults to carry a mobile phone device with them at all times has meant that the increased capabilities of smartphones have come at no extra pocket space and in many cases for medical professionals has replaced the trusted handbook that once sat there. Ophthalmologists are notorious for their interest in technology and gadgetry and so it comes as no surprise that the use of smartphones such as iPhones by ophthalmologists is wide spread. For the purpose of this article we will look at the currently available applications and uses for an iPhone by an ophthalmologist (other platforms exist that provide the same or similar smartphone applications). The potential functions of the ophthalmology related iPhone applications currently available can be divided into the following broad categories: Patient assessment tools Patient education/visual aids Health care profession education and reference Patient records/administrative tools and Multiple functionalities.

More

iPhones for Eye Surgeons

Download Via DOI

Save To Library

Share Via

Suggest an edit

WHAT TO READ NEXT

  • Snapshot: Just Looking: Consumer Use of the Internet to Manage Care
  • Whose Data Is It Anyway?: Expanding Consumer Control Over Personal Health Information
  • Directory Assistance: Maintaining Reliable Provider Directories for Health Plan Shoppers

DOI:

  • doi.org/10.1038/eye.2012.6

Published By

  • The Scientific Journal of The Royal College of Ophthalmologists
  • Macmillan Publishers

Copyright

  • Copyright 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited All rights reserved.

Document Type

  • Report/Whitepaper

Language

  • English

Geography

  • Global
Linked Data show/hide

This web page is marked up with Schema.org microdata and formatted for machine-reading. Here's why that matters. Have a peek at what a machine sees here .

Title: iPhones for Eye Surgeons
Publication date 2012-03-01
Publication Year 2012
Authors A. Bastawrous , A. Kumar , R. C. Cheeseman
Copyright holder(s) The Scientific Journal of The Royal College of Ophthalmologists , Macmillan Publishers
Geographical Focus Global
Document type Report/Whitepaper
Language English
URL: https://www.issuelab.org/resource/iphones-for-eye-surgeons.html
Resource provided by IssueLab

Get free, worthwhile monthly emails from IssueLab!

IssueLab
  • About
  • News
  • Services
Join Us
  • Add to Issuelab
  • Open Knowledge
  • Use Our Data
Support
  • FAQ
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • ToS

Subscribe to our mailing list

There was an error with registration, please try again
Successfully registered!