These results suggest a substantial acceptance of smartphones by doctors in the clinical setting.
In terms of preferences for future apps, 48% (48/100) and 56% (56/100) of the doctors in KHUH and QMH, respectively, agreed that more medical applications need to be created in order to support smartphone use in the clinical setting. Of doctors in KHUH and QMH, 78.0% (78/100) and 69.0% (69/100), respectively, either strongly agreed or agreed that smartphones need to be integrated into the clinical setting. According to the overall results of both hospitals, 48% (32/67) of the junior doctors claimed high reliance on smartphones, whereas only 32.3% (41/127) of the senior doctors said the same (P=.03). Doctors from KHUH were likely to spend more time on medical apps than doctors from QMH (P=.002).
The results were then tabulated and analyzed using SPSS Statistics 25 for Mac (IBM Corp Inc, Armonk, NY).Ī total of 200 doctors were surveyed, with a total of 99.0% (99/100) of the doctors owning a smartphone in both KHUH and QMH 58% (57/99) and 55% (54/99) of the doctors from KHUH and QMH, respectively, identified communication as their main use of smartphones in the clinical setting (P=.004). The questions were categorized into the following groups: demographics of the study population, ownership and main use of smartphones, number and names of medical apps currently owned, rating usage of smartphones for medical purposes, time spent on a smartphone related to clinical use, clinical reliance on smartphones, and views on further integration of smartphones. This study aimed to identify the usage of smartphones and medical apps by doctors in the clinical setting in 2 culturally distinct countries: King Hamad University Hospital (KHUH), Bahrain and Queen Mary Hospital (QMH), Hong Kong.Ī cross-sectional, comparative study was conducted where doctors in both hospitals were asked to take part in a 15-item online survey. Despite increased reliance among clinicians however, limited research has been conducted on the uptake and impact of smartphone usage in medical practice, especially outside the Western world. This is a one-time procedure – the installer will run normally via double clicking or opening the installer application.Smartphones and mobile applications have seen a surge in popularity in recent years, a pattern that has also been reflected in the health care system. In the resulting dialog box, click Open and the IBM SPSS Statistics installer will run: To work around Gatekeeper, do the following:ġ.Ĝontext menu click (right mouse click) on the IBM SPSS Statistics installer applicationģ. On an OS X 10.9.5 or later system (including OS X 10.10 Yosemite), with Gatekeeper set to the middle (default) setting “Allow apps downloaded from Mac App Store and identified developers”, the IBM SPSS Statistics installer is blocked due to its V1 signature being rejected by Gatekeeper. IBM SPSS Statistics has been signed with V1 signatures. This change made unsigned applications or applications signed with “V1” signatures to become unidentified to Gatekeeper. When Apple released OS X 10.9.5, they introduced a new version of Gatekeeper that uses “V2” signatures to determine application developer identity.