Salinas, CA Pulmonary Specialist Calls For Doctors To Have Access To Patients Health Apps
by Richard Kuehn on 03/29/15
Some physicians are asking their patients to allow them to have access to data from health apps which track everything from what you eat to how much exercise that you get. They believe that allowing this data to be incorporated into electronic patient records might help them spot signs of an ailment sooner rather than later. This would also allow them to suggest behavioral changes or new medication which could help keep you out of the hospital. If you do end up in the hospital, they believe that these devices will give the doctors better insight into how you are healing from surgery and whether you are following the suggested regimine. “Right now, we only see our patients for about a 15-minute visit in the office, and it’s a very constricted view,” Dr. Lauren Koniaris, a specialist in pulmonary critical care, told The Wall Street Journal. I agree, doctor visits have become too short and there just isn’t enough time for physicians to get to the root of important problems.
