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Technology: Patient Care Apps; Increased Practice Efficiency.

Apps are everywhere, and have the potential to play an important role in patient care. Downloading apps will soon be an American tradition, similar to back in the day when fathers chased their kids around with power tools. I told my boss I was turning thirty and getting my first smartphone, he smiled and said he had socks older than me. So, I did what any new associate would do. I bought him new socks. He chased me around the office with an alger brush.

Turns out your smartphone and sock drawer have more in common than you think. When I was a youngster, not a whole lot went into the sock drawer. It wasnt hard to reach in and grab a matching pair. The older I get though, the more socks go into the drawer and its much harder to find two that go together. In fact, I have a lot of lonesome socks. Studies have shown, if the missing sock does not reappear within the first 24 hours, your chances of finding that sock decrease by 75%. Sounds like my practice consultant on uncollected Co-pays. The same applies to my phone, the longer I have it the more junk it collects. I have a bunch of old apps cluttering my wallpaper in hopes one day Ill actually use that Ab workout app I downloaded months ago.

Therefore, if you havent updated your smart phone or tablet devices this year, youre likely in the floppy disk age of apps. So if youre like me its time to ditch those lonely socks, stop living life in the cheap seats and get yourself some sexier apps!

1. Parks 3-step (Cost: $0.99)

Have a patient with double vision?? Theres an app for that, seriously. There can be many reasons patients have diplopia. Its possible they need prism, vision therapy, or need to lay off the eyeball martinis. Or they may have a paretic extraocular muscle and you need to diagnose it. If youve forgotten everything about the parks 3 step except it involves hypers, obliques and head tilts you need the Parks 3-step app. It utilizes your devices built-in gyroscope and accelerometer to predict the paretic EOM in two swift movements. Enjoy!

Pros: Simple, quick, accurate way of performing the Parks 3-step without diagrams.

Cons: Needs option to input data manually in addition to turning phone and some updated animations.

2. Medical Lab Tests (Cost: $2.99)

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All About Eyes | "Your Sight is My Vision"

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