Travel Apps

That Make Your Life Easier

Your smart phone can be your life savior when you are travelling. It can guide you to the hotel best suited for your budget, local eateries that do not figure in your itinerary, the right places to exchange money, get help in a foreign land and do so much more. You can accentuate your travel pleasure by using the wealth of information on your fingertips, thanks to your smart phone. All you need is the right app.

Here’s a list of some of the best travel apps that actually make your life easier while you are travelling.

Airbnb

Airbnb will help you locate the best places for local stay with the world’s largest home stay network. It includes everything, from swanky apartments to chalets to guest houses, all kinds of beautiful accommodations from around the world.

Yelp

Your local travel partner, Yelp helps you locate the nearest of anything and everything you would need during your travel, ATM, eatery, bakery, market, coffee shop, mall, movie theatre and so much more.

TripIt

TripIt helps you create a detailed itinerary of your trip. You can key in the information yourself or just email all booking confirmations, tickets etc. to them, and TripIt will create a detailed itinerary for you.

Postagram

Remember the good old days when you sent postcards of the places you visited to friends and family? Postagram brings the old world charm back with a modern upgrade. You can send your personalized pictures and messages from your phone that your loved ones will receive as actual postcards for just $0.99 a piece.

Google Translate

We all know what Google Translate does. But while travelling this humble app can actually be a life savior. When everything sounds foreign, just take GT’s help to translate it. And in no time you’ll be able to comprehend the local flavor of life.

XE Currency

Convert currency instantly even if you not have WIFI or data access. XE saves the last updated conversion rates and converts currency even offline. There are other great features such as rates for precious metals if you are interested in buying jewelry.

Splittr

If you are travelling with friends, Splittr helps you split costs. Enter expenses as you go with details of who’s paying, even mix currencies without the hassle of converting, and Splittr will take of splitting the costs evenly.

Yapta

This awesome app watches the airfares for you and sends you an alert as the prices drop. It also helps you figure out the rebates you are eligible for resulting in real-time savings on your travel expenses.

Rome2Rio

Trying to figure out the best way to reach from point A to point B? The intelligent app not only helps you figure out different options of reaching to a place (local buses, trains, flights, taxis, anything and everything), but also gives you the estimated time of the journey with the estimated cost.

Apps That Are Transforming Health Care

Apps That Are Transforming Health Care

Mobile apps are changing the way buyers buy and sellers sell. Every industry, be it retail, banking, education or b2b, everything is changing and healthcare is no exception. In fact, thanks to mobile apps, new dimensions are being added to the healthcare industry. From live doctor interaction to fitness apps, there’s so much of buzz in the industry that it has attracted attention of some major players outside the industry including Google, Microsoft and even Apple (if rumors are to be believed).
Telemedicine and remote health care
There are many apps that provide video access to a doctor/specialist who can understand your symptoms, diagnose your problem and even prescribe medicines. If your child has a bad cough and going to your doctor would mean waiting for the appointment, or you have an infection that’s getting worse, the tele consultation comes in as a savior. However, there are some conditions that need clinical examination, so one must be really careful while consulting a physician online. There are government restrictions on telemedicine, and before consulting one should go through the state’s regulations regarding telemedicine.

Popular apps in telemedicine:

• Doctor on Demand
• Heath Tap
• Live Health Online

Medical & Insurance Paper Vault

There are apps that help sort the medical paperwork. Most of these apps sort your medical insurance paperwork by helping you upload your documents online and access them in terms of need.

Popular digital vaults:

• Metlife’s Infinity App
• Microsoft Health Vault

Medical advice, prescription intel

Most of these sites are the app version of WebMD that help you get intel on prescriptions, doses, side-effects etc. but with the virtue of being mobile apps, most of these apps are focused and evidence based recommendations rather than convincing you of a random disease just because the symptoms suggest so.

Popular medical advice apps:

• John Hopkins ABX Guide

Apps that help you find specialists or book appointments

These apps help you find a specialist or get you in touch with a doctor for your condition. You can find the right doctor, book appointment and even get advice as to your insurance coverage.

Popular apps for finding doctors:

• Zopdoc
• Hello MD
• RevUp by MD Revolution

Other than these there are apps, there are apps that help doctors connect, that help people get their prescriptions organized, fitness tracking apps and so much more. Like any other industry, medical and health care industry is also transforming. This is a great time to define your niche and launch into the mobile-digitalization of healthcare services.

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