{"id":337,"date":"2026-06-30T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/smartphone-applications-palliative-home-care\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:12:33","slug":"smartphone-applications-palliative-home-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/smartphone-applications-palliative-home-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone Applications in Palliative Home Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"heading\" class=\"heading\">\n<div id=\"full-view-heading\" class=\"full-view\">\n<div class=\"inline-authors\">\n<div class=\"authors\">\n<div class=\"authors-list\"><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Dhiliwal+SR&amp;cauthor_id=25709195\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Sunil R Dhiliwal\">Sunil R Dhiliwal<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Department of Palliative Medicine, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25709195\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"authors-list-item \"><a class=\"full-name\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Salins+N&amp;cauthor_id=25709195\" data-ga-category=\"search\" data-ga-action=\"author_link\" data-ga-label=\"Naveen Salins\">Naveen Salins<\/a><sup class=\"affiliation-links\"><span class=\"author-sup-separator\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"affiliation-link\" title=\"Department of Palliative Medicine, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25709195\/#full-view-affiliation-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"abstract\" class=\"abstract\">\n<h2 class=\"title\">Abstract<\/h2>\n<div id=\"eng-abstract\" class=\"abstract-content selected\">\n<p>Smartphone applications in healthcare delivery are a novel concept and is rapidly gaining ground in all fields of medicine. The modes of e-communications such as e-mail, short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS) and WhatsApp in palliative care provides a means for quick tele-consultation, information sharing, cuts the waiting time and facilitates initiation of the treatment at the earliest. It also forms a means of communication with local general practitioner and local health care provider such that continuity of the care is maintained. It also minimizes needless transport of the patient to hospital, prevents needless hospitalization and investigations and minimizes cost and logistics involved in the care process. The two case studies provided highlights the use of smartphone application like WhatsApp in palliative care practice and demonstrates its utility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"sub-title\">Keywords:\u00a0<\/strong>Continuity of care; Palliative homecare; Smartphone applications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smartphone in your pocket can be a powerful ally in home-based palliative care &mdash; supporting symptom tracking, communication and better-coordinated care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palliative-care","category-technology-in-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carenza.co.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}