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By Erin Tolbert, RN, MSN
MidlevelU.com
While there are plenty of apps out there promising to make my life as a nurse practitioner easier, once downloaded to my phone they go largely unused. Rarely do I calculate pediatric dosages with special programs, rather I go straight for pen and paper. I don't check apps streaming medical news- the last thing I want to do after work is be inundated with more information from the world of medicine. But, this week I stumbled across a true winner in the healthcare app world. PingMD, an app that facilitates patient-provider texting offers real value to NPs.
When I heard about the new PingMD app, I was thrilled that someone had finally come up with a way to bring patient-provider communication into the 21st century. The medical world is notoriously behind technologically and I was excited by the prospect of weaving my favorite form of communication, texting, in with my work. So, I decided to contact the app's creator, neurosurgeon Dr. Gopal Chopra, to get the story behind PingMD. Here's what he had to say about bringing texting to the patient-provider relationship.
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