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How Mobile Apps Connect Patients to Doctors?

Medical Apps  Many times, especially in odd hours, doctors and medical facilities may not be readily available to you or you can not consult them with a physical visit, what would you do in those situations? A medical app in your Smartphone can resolve such problems.   Mobile is no longer a device just to make calls and send messages. It has revolutionized every business and industry, including Healthcare. There are numbers of medical apps available which are useful for Physicians and patients equally. They provide valuable information on doctors, hospitals and diseases. Patients can access and update their Electronic Health Records and Doctors can view them after obtaining approval from the patient.   These apps are a great help for Doctors in medical decision-making and training & education. With health apps, patients can consult doctors, book appointment; view their treatment history, medical records, and much more. It saves time, increases efficiency and reduces

Airtel Launches Super-fast 4G Network

Airtel a reputed global telecommunication brand has delighted the internet users with the launch of superfast 4G network.  Airtel has released the fastest ever 4G internet network in 296 towns in India and challenges "if your network is faster we will pay your mobile bills for life". Airtel has started a Twitter campaign with #Airtel4GSpeedTest to create awareness and demonstrate the true speed of Airtel4G . It is first ever direct response twitter campaign in which users can find out how much time it takes to download a specific app on various Airtel internet networks (4G, 3G, 2G). It  gives them an opportunity to compare the speed of 4G against 3G and 2G networks. What all one has to do is tweet in the following format @AirtelIndia #Airtel4GSpeedTest <name of the app> and Airtel will respond instantly with downloading time in 4G, 3G, and 2G.  I am quite happy with the speed of Airtel3G but the faster is better so I decided to test Airtel4G speed. I h

How Net Neutrality Can Affect Healthcare?

Net Neutrality advocates equal treatment for all data on the internet regardless of a website, content, application or platform and its supporters demand that Government and internet service providers should charge an equal price for all internet data without discrimination on any basis. There is a great uproar on the issue. People are strongly protesting against the concept of biased internet and TRAI has already received over 8 lakhs petition in favor of Net Neutrality. But some companies like Airtel, Facebook, etc are looking for some flexibility in this matter. Healthcare industry is moving towards digitalization to various online services such as Telemedicine, Cloud-based systems, Medical apps, Electronic medical Records, etc in such situation any move on Net Neutrality will certainly affect Healthcare services.  The Healthcare sector is divided into two groups on the issue of Net Neutrality while many healthcare organizations did not take any clear stand on it. The first