What do you do when you see hundreds of patients per week? You spend time listening to the patient, forming a diagnosis, advising investigations if needed, and the needed treatment. You also feel that on the next follow up he needs a vaccine or some other recommended guideline or protocol which will help to improve his clinical outcome. Like an yearly retinal check-up for a diabetic patient for example. Most of the information exchange that happens between a patient and a Doctor is valuable and potentially lifesaving.
They may not all be purely medical, it could be social, political or whatever. But, what happens to this valuable data the moment the patient leaves your consulting room or clinic? If you are not using anything other than your own brain and handwriting, all these valuable professional inputs are usually lost forever. I have good news for you. I am a Physician, and on an…
