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Role of Smart Phones in Patient Follow up-Our Experience

Senior Resident, Neljo Thomas, Ravi Kumar Chittoria, Barath Kumar Singh, Jacob Antony Chakioth

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Journal of Global Medical Education and Research 2(2):p 55-57, July-December 2025. | DOI: N/A

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Nishad. K, Neljo Thomas, Ravi Kumar Chittoria, et.al./Role of Smart Phones in Patient Follow up-Our Experience/Journal of Global Medical Education and Research/2025;2(2):55-57

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Received : September 02, 2025         Accepted : November 16, 2025          Published : December 30, 2025

Abstract

The smartphone is a method of communication that is widely used, popular and almost all the doctors and most of the patients or the attenders usea smartphone now a days. The increasing internet penetration into the population is making the smartphones more of a necessity than a luxury. Medical science is a dynamic field that gets influenced by the advancements of technology. There is always an unrelenting try to make patient care easy, fast safe, cost effective, and reproducible. So the smartphones are emerging as a team member of health care system. We have conducted a study by using the smart phone based on android and IOS in following up the patients who under went treatment in the Department of Plastic surgery in a tertiary care center in South India. From March 2020 to April 2021. In this article, we share our experience of using the smart phones for patient follow up as well as how to utilize a smart phone to make patient follow-up,safe, effective, easy

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All authors contributed significantly to the work and approve its publication.

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This article does not involve any human or animal subjects, and therefore does not require ethics approval.

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We would like to express our gratitude to the patients, their families, and all those who have contributed to this study.

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The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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Nishad. K, Neljo Thomas, Ravi Kumar Chittoria, et.al./Role of Smart Phones in Patient Follow up-Our Experience/Journal of Global Medical Education and Research/2025;2(2):55-57

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September 02, 2025 November 16, 2025 December 30, 2025
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SmartphoneAndroidIOSPatient Follow UpPlastic surgeryTelemedicine

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Received September 02, 2025
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