[Which useful Apps are installed on my smartphone as a clinical pharmacist?]

F Mille; J-E Fontan; P Bedouch

doi:10.1016/j.pharma.2017.02.002

[Which useful Apps are installed on my smartphone as a clinical pharmacist?]

Ann Pharm Fr. 2017 Jul;75(4):309-317. doi: 10.1016/j.pharma.2017.02.002. Epub 2017 Apr 8.

[Article in French]

Authors

F Mille¹, J-E Fontan², P Bedouch³

Affiliations

¹ Service de pharmacie, hôpital Saint-Antoine, hôpitaux universitaires de l'Est Parisien, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 184, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, 75571 Paris cedex 12, France; Centre national hospitalier d'information sur le médicament, 75/77, rue du Père-Corentin, CS 91425, 75993 Paris cedex 14, France. Electronic address: frederic.mille@aphp.fr.
² Centre national hospitalier d'information sur le médicament, 75/77, rue du Père-Corentin, CS 91425, 75993 Paris cedex 14, France; Service de pharmacie, hôpital Jean-Verdier, hôpitaux universitaires Paris Seine-Saint-Denis, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, avenue du 14-Juillet, 93143 Bondy cedex, France.
³ Centre national hospitalier d'information sur le médicament, 75/77, rue du Père-Corentin, CS 91425, 75993 Paris cedex 14, France; CNRS/TIMC-IMAG UMR5525/Themas, université Grenoble Alpes, 38041 Grenoble, France; Pôle Pharmacie, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

PMID: 28395874
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharma.2017.02.002

Abstract

Since the advent of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), smartphones and Apps have been widely adopted by medical professionals. This craze has increased since 2007 and the first generation iPhone. In this context, 3 questions emerged for the pharmacist that we studied in this review: (1) What Apps are available for practice and how to find them? (2) What is useful for practice? (3) What precautions should be taken?

Keywords: App; E-health; E-santé; M-health; Santé mobile; Smartphone.

MeSH terms

Cell Phone
Computers, Handheld
Humans
Mobile Applications*
Pharmacists*
Smartphone