Important research
- In 2012, 250 million mobile phone users downloaded health apps & is expected to increases at a rate of 33.5% between 2015 & 2020.
- 80% of physicians use smartphones and medical apps.
- 60% of daily notes taken by health care professionals are shown to have some form of error or mismatch.
- By 2018 30% of all interactions between humans and machines will happen through conversation.
- 72% of physicians access drug information from smartphones.
- 63% of physicians access medical research from tablets.
- 44% of physicians communicate with nurses and other staff through smartphones.
- There is a rising interest in Virtual Assistants (VA’s) in hospitals.