Here are our “Top 5” recommendations for free apps based on functionality and availability for easy download.
1. Jorte: customized calendar to track appointments and meetings
Jorte is a user-friendly calendar app that allows users to customize their viewing options and boasts an easy to use interface. It is easily synced with Google’s calendar making it simple to sync schedules and meetings. Jorte can also be used to set reminders and map out routes to appointments and meetings using Google Maps.
2. Mileage: tracking gas mileage
Mileage is an app that tracks petrol usage, miles per liter, and mileage history which is helpful for organisations engaged in regular field visits. The app prompts reminders of regular vehicle maintenance, and provides other useful statistics such as petrol prices.
3. Evernote: store and share information
The power of Evernote, an app that is used for sharing and organising data, is in the wide array of data that can be added to the notes including text, photos, or audio. This allows practitioners to easily make notes, make use photos for documentation, save dictations, and track symptom progression.
Information is stored in a ‘note’ which is then stored in ‘notebooks’ that function as folders. Both notes and notebooks can be shared or remain private and automatically sync to a cloud for easy access via all mobiles and computers synced to the accounts. Notes can also be shared via email.
4. Instagram: capture, edit and share photos
Instagram can help a health care worker to quickly capture, edit, and share photos with relevant colleagues which can be used for promotional material regarding services provided. Health care workers need to be conscious of privacy settings in Instagram, to ensure they are not available to the public, but that settings are marked as “private” for internal organisational use.
5. Skyscape – tool for self-education
Skyscape Medical Resources is a ‘one-stop’ medical app that provides medication descriptions; a medical calculator; MedAlert, which offers summaries of current medical articles, news and research.
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