Recently, Lab Tests Online-UK launched a free mobile application (app) version of its website. The app is written by practising NHS laboratory doctors and scientists to help patients, carers and healthcare professionals understand the many clinical laboratory tests that are used in diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease.
The app provides off-line, up-to-date, accurate information on over 250 different laboratory tests. It summarises common conditions such as anaemia, diabetes and autoimmune disease that require laboratory medicine for diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment. It also answers key questions: “When should this test be requested? What does this test result mean?
Dr Danielle Freedman, chair of the Lab Tests Online-UK Board, said: “By June 2015, in the UK, all patients will have access to their healthcare records, including test results, and no doubt will be looking up test information on the internet or asking their doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to explain them. This app is an excellent resource to help support this change.”
www.labtestsonline.org.uk