Dino Pardhanani, clinical lead for Sutton CCG, uses Kinesis about twice a week and says that GPs are also using it to request MRI and CT scans from radiologists, who can authorise the request without the patient having to see a consultant.
Siri, of course, is also involved and you can use it to send money or request money from a friend.
A group calling itself "The Script Kiddies" hacked USA Today's Twitter account this weekend and used it to solicit requests for future targets and even to promote its own Facebook page.
Facebook removed this form after 40,000 people used it to lodge requests to see their data.
On his iPad, this young man – we'll just call him Sylvester Cann IV from now on, because that's his name – fired up Adobe's Ideas app and used it to pen a request for President Obama.
So far he has only used it to automatically send requests for proposals to vendors and rank the returns based on price and other metrics.
The US government acknowledged that Mr Sinnigen had created the page and had used it to send a "friend" request to a wanted fugitive as well as accepting requests from others, but denied it had been made "publicly available" in a wider sense.
After the login, a client saves the identity of the user and uses it to sign the subsequent requests.
And, as anyone who has since tried to use it can attest, requests have often been met with slow, grudging responses that seemed rooted in a determination to disclose as little as possible.
