Summary

A doctor's life now is busier than ever and no matter, how many people you have around to help you at your clinic or at the hospital, some things are best understood by you alone. Your priorities, for example, or your attempt at striking a work-life balance; don’t you wish you had access to tools or means to get it all in order?

Here are 7 phone applications you should consider using to help organize your schedules, be on time for appointments and family gatherings, and ensure good health for self.

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To make your work easier

ezz.health Rx

A clinic management app, ezz.health Rx lets you prioritise your clinic-related tasks and patient appointments, track your schedule, and efficiently manage your routine. This app is especially useful if you operate at multiple clinics, as it helps you get an overview of your schedule with a single tap on your smartphone.

• Once you have registered and logged in, the app allows you to do the following:
• Access your calendar to view the scheduled appointments
• Enter new patient details and create an appointment
• Create and manage a list of your patients by giving them a unique patient ID
• Look up details of each patient, the treatment given and the bills generated
• Upload the patient’s medical records once you have them in a digital format
• Generate paperless prescriptions (should be used for OTC drugs only)

Compatibility: Android, iOS

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Smart Recorder

Attending a conference? Why write down notes or wait for copies to be circulated when you can record all that is relevant to you? The Smart Recorder app records audio in high quality and for long durations, so that you can pay attention to the speaker, not miss out on any important points, and write down whatever you need at a later stage.

The app has more impressive features that make it a must-have app on your smartphone.

• Simple interface makes it easy to use
• Skips parts with silence, so you don’t have to edit the audio
• Records and produces high-quality sound output
• Enables recording for a long duration
• Includes note sharing option

Compatibility: Android

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AutoSender

Imagine not having to sit down every day and compose and send messages for scheduled appointments! Because AutoSender can do that for you. It allows you to keep a message ready and schedule it to be sent at a later date to the recipients you have selected at at that time.

The app runs on ‘app credits’. Once you have kept a message ready, it uses your credits to send them out. However, when you do not have enough credits, it runs on a reminder feature. The feature notifies you when it is time for you to send that message as per schedule, so you open the app and press ‘send’.

It can also send such messages when your phone is switched off, which means you can enjoy your holiday without having to worry about sending confirmations or requests for change in date or time. Now imagine how it can simplify your personal and professional life!

Want to know more? Here are a few other features of AutoSender:

• Highly accurate message delivery service
• Permanent cloud storage for saving and later referring to sent messages
• Provides bonus credits every month
• Lifetime validity for credits

Compatibility: iOS

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To help you achieve work-life balance:

Google Keep

Like to jot down everything; your appointments, college reunion date, things to buy, and notes at conferences? Google Keep allows you to capture, record, note, organise, edit, share and also collaborate on your content. It certainly is a great way to create, save, and manage all the important information that you will ever need.

Its most-loved features are:

• Allows colour-coding and labelling notes for organization
• Helps you set time- or location-based reminders
• Lets you record a voice note and automatically transcribes it
• Enables you to take a text grab from an image for ease of searching notes
• Allows you to collaborate with your associates or family members
• Syncs across all your compatible devices for ease of use

Compatibility: iOS

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Cozi

This is an app that keeps you in sync with your family’s plans, so you can plan your day better and try being a part of it as frequently as you can. Cozi helps the entire family be on the same page, literally, with common to-do lists, schedules and more. Everyone in the family can view the shared calendars, memos, and events and the content gets synced across devices, keeping everyone up-to-date.

It is especially useful to working parents as it lets them be in the know of the important events in their child’s life or busy individuals, so they can know about family events beforehand and make time for them.

Other impressive features of this app include:

• Enables every member to create a schedule
• Organizes every member's schedule and tasks with colour codes
• Offers everyone access to it from any device
• Helps you coordinate with any member with ease
• Allows collaboration on to-do or chore lists for being a helping hand
• Reminders ensure you never miss an appointment or an important family event
• Provides access to shopping lists
• Enables creating a shareable photo journal to keep you closer to everyone

Compatibility: iOS, Android and Windows

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To help you maintain good health

Water Reminder

As a doctor, you know the importance of staying hydrated. But doesn’t it always happen that you forget to drink water while at work? This app will help you prevent those situations and remind you to have water at frequent intervals. Not only that, it also helps you record your water intake, so you can review it for yourself!

Know what else can this app do for you:

• Lets you decide your ideal water intake
• Informs you of how much water do you need to take in
• Reminds you of the status - the amount of water yet to be had
• Determines water intake as per the cup of water you choose
• Lets you change the cup size
• Allows rewriting water intake records

Compatibility: Android

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Google Fit

An app based on the recommendations of WHO (World Health Organization), Google Fit can be the best fitness motivator you can have on your smartphone. With a job that demands long hours of standing or sitting, it can get difficult to perform any exercise, let alone tracking it.

Google Fit records Move Minutes, which means it can encourage you to move around more and inspire you to make little changes to your lifestyle. If you are already into exercising, it collects Heart Points for any activity that gets your heart pumping to healthy limits.

There’s a lot more you can do with Google Fit:

• Use its actionable tips to follow an achievable fitness goal
• Monitor your activities on a compatible smartwatch or phone
• Track a variety of activities, so you can take up an exercise type that suits your pace

Compatibility: iOS and Android

Disclaimer- The suggestions provided in the article do not imply endorsement, recommendations, or favouring of any product or services. Readers are advised to use their own discretion. Any assumptions made in the analysis are those of the author and are not reflective of the position or policy of M3 India. Views are subject to revision and rethinking at any time.