I am not sure I entirely have my head around this. I understand apps of course. I certainly use medical apps to calculate certain scores like CHADSVasc2, HASBLED, Wells scoring and the like. But there are now hundreds of new apps.
There is an excellent app from Skinvision, which you can use to photograph moles. The app will then analyse the lesion and give you a melanoma risk. It is only a guide but certainly, anything it is not happy with, needs to be checked by a doctor.
Guys and St Thomas Hospital has done some useful apps for doctors and patients, the ‘my visit’ app provides information and reminders, the patient safety app manual is a fund of information aimed at doctors and nurses.
There are a number of disease specific apps.
Diabetes UK, a great resource for patients,have an app as well as an excellent website. NICE have their guidelines on an app and there are diet and diet friendly recipes apps for diabetics and a glucose monitor companion.
For Asthma suffers there is Asthma master, which takes you through the pathophysiology of asthma, but also deals with more straightforward things like treatment and inhaler use.
My rheumatoid arthritis manager is useful for rheumatoid sufferers.
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is covered by the COPD point of care and My COPD manager apps.
Blood pressure apps include hypertension manager and blood pressure checker.
Rarer conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease has its own app, the originally named, inflammatory bowel disease.
For the many with irritable bowel syndrome, try ibs food tracker and low FODMAP diet apps.
Patient.co.uk is an excellent website and they too have an app. If you are going to google a condition, start with patient.co.uk rather than go to an ill informed forum which might terrify you.
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