Perioperative Smartphone Apps and Devices for Patient-Centered Care.
Smartphones have grown in ubiquity and computing power, and they play an ever-increasing role in patient-centered health care. The "medicalized smartphone" not only enables web-based access to patient health resources, but also can run patient-oriented software applications and be connected to health-related peripheral devices. A variety of patient-oriented smartphone apps and devices are available for use to facilitate patient-centered care throughout the continuum of perioperative care. Ongoing advances in smartphone technology and health care apps and devices should expand their utility for enhancing patient-centered care in the future.
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd., Suite 9329, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4399, USA, simpaoa@email.chop.edu.
Allan F
AF
Simpao
Arul M
AM
Lingappan
Luis M
LM
Ahumada
Mohamed A
MA
Rehman
Jorge A
JA
Gálvez
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