Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Ooty, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India
Research Article
Smartphone Applications for Healthcare Professionals: A
Systematic Review in Three Platforms
Author(s): Raja D, Elmutaz Belah Mohammed, Mohamed Elfatih Ali, Manju Rosy Jose, Bijin Kurian, Solomon Reji, Aseem Veeves Singh and Anand Vijaya Kumar*
In the last few years there has been increased utilization of smartphone technology by general public as well as healthcare professionals. One of
the key features for increasing usage of smartphones is the ability to use applications, commonly termed as Apps. The present study aims to find
out the available healthcare apps in three platforms (Android, Windows, iOS) and classify them. In addition, we examine the availability of app for
drug and poison information centre to provide drug and poison information services. We performed a broad search for healthcare apps in three
main platforms (Android, Windows, iOS), during 29/June/2016 to 31/December/2016 considering predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The
available healthcare apps were categorized, based on their fundamental function into six categories; Drug information, Disease information and
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DOI:
10.37421/2157-7420.2021.12.387
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