Surveying Physician Uptake of Mobile Devices and Apps

Introduction

Introduction

The latest medical application software is increasing physicians’ use of mobile technology on a global scale. But how are doctors actually using these devices to support their clinical activities? Which apps, smartphones and tablet devices do they value the most? And how do they expect their use of this technology to change in the next five years?

Scope

Report Overview

Now FirstWord provides you with the latest answers to these questions in its exclusive report: Surveying Physician Uptake of Mobile Devices and Apps. This presents the results of an extensive survey, conducted with 1040 physicians in the US, China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.

The detailed report explores physician attitudes towards mobile technologies, and provides you with vital insight into their attitudes and use of this technology in their professional lives.

Highlights

Key Report Features

Puchase Reasons

Key Benefits

Who Would Benefit From This Report?

This report will be of value to directors and managers in both pharma and also in software and mobile device companies with responsibilities in the following areas:

Key Questions Answered

The Deliverables

This FirstWord report contains practical, detailed deliverables in two formats:

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Table of Contents
for Surveying Physician Uptake of Mobile Devices and Apps

• 1. Executive summary

  2. Introduction

  3. Methodology

  3.1.Demographics

  4.Mobile device penetration

  4.1. Do you own or use a mobile phone which can access the internet?

  4.2.Please select the manufacturer of your internet-capable mobile phone or phones

  4.3. Please select the model of mobile phones you own or use

  4.4. Do you own or use an iPad or iPad-like tablet device?

  4.5. Please select the iPad or iPad-like tablet device/ devices you own or use

  4.6. What do you use each of these tools for?

  4.7. Will you use your mobile device more frequently, as often, or less frequently?

  5. App use by physicians

  5.1. Do you use any mobile or tablet device 'Apps' in your professional practice?

  5.2. Do you have any apps written in English on your mobile devices that you use for professional purposes?

  5.3.Do you have any non-English apps on your mobile devices that you use for professional purposes?

  5.4. Roughly how many Apps do you have installed on your devices for the following professional functions?

  5.5. In what percentage of these occasions if any, have you used a mobile App to arrive at a diagnosis?

  5.6. In what percentage of these occasions if any, have you used a mobile App to select a therapy (or therapies) for a patient?

  5.7. What are the top 3 Apps you have found to be MOST useful in your professional practice?

  5.8. Do you recommend health-related mobile apps to your patients?

  5.9. Which specific types of Apps do you recommend to your patients?

  5.10. If you were asked to design an app which one area would it focus on?

  6.Technology use in clinical practice

  6.1. Which mobile information/communication technologies, if any, are you using as a regular part of your clinical practice today?

  6.2. Mobile devices

  6.3. Mobile phones

  6.4. Tablet devices

  6.5. Laptop computers

  6.6. Web-based resources

  6.7. Which one mobile device do you find most useful in your professional practice?

  6.8. Which piece of technology do you think will have the most impact on your clinical practice over the next five years?

  6.9. What makes you select the piece of technology that you believe will have the greatest impact on your clinical practice in the next five years?

  Key Findings

Additional Details

Publisher

FirstWord Pharma

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Reference

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Number of Pages

53

Report Format

PDF

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