The Blog

The role of AI in building better medical apps: cost, features, and what changes

AI is not just a feature inside medical apps — it is changing how those apps are built. Here is what that means for cost, product quality, and who can build clinical software.

How being a doctor and a software developer leads to better medical apps

When the person building the product is also the person using it, something changes. Here is why the clinician-developer combination produces medical software that actually fits clinical reality.

How to digitize paper patient records using just your phone

Still managing paper patient records? Learn how doctors in Africa, the Middle East, and beyond are going fully digital in weeks — using only their smartphone.

Can a mobile-first app solve the EMR adoption crisis in developing countries?

Traditional EMRs fail because of hardware costs and complexity. Here is why the smartphone is the bridge that PC-based EMRs never built — and what a mobile-first approach actually looks like.

Should EMR software be country-specific? The case for borderless medical software

EMR software has always been country-specific. Here is why those reasons no longer hold — and what a truly borderless medical office app looks like in practice.

Why most EMR software fails outside the US and Europe

Most EMR systems were built for Western healthcare. Here is why they fail doctors in Africa, the Middle East, and beyond — and what actually works instead.

About this blog

Why the doctoLys blog exists, who writes it, and what we are trying to build — a reference resource for digital health in developing countries.