Our experience and impressions after one year of developing mobile applications in medical field for iPhone/iPad
(who are the customers? What are the typical issues? Which are the marketing solutions? Motivation to develop mobile medical applications. General impressions.).

Most perspective segments(our point of view) among medical applications for iPhone/iPad and Android:

1. Publication of medical books for iPad, as well as for announced Android-tablets and their interactivisation (due to large display in iPad, as opposed to iPhone, it’s more comfortable to learn various materials and watch images);
2. Development of training applications based on iPad for medical schools etc.
3. Porting of corporate systems from medical companies to iPad or Android-tablets;
4. Development of mobile medical applications for companies which already have a substantial users base (medical portals, large companies with clients etc);
5. And, obviously, development of medical applications for amateurs in other fields (healthcare, travel etc);

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Apple has an idea of a new biometric recognition approach on your iPhone, to make the process seamlessly “magical”.

The sensor, as Apple describes it, could be completely hidden from view, and the “electrical signals generated by the user can be transmitted from the user’s skin through the electronic device housing to the leads.”

Then, using these signals, the electronic device  as medical solution can “identify or authenticate the user and perform an operation based on the identity of the user. In some embodiments, the electronic device can determine the user’s mood from the cardiac signals and provide data related to the user’s mood.”

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e-Val MD is the first professional, all-purpose, comprehensive medical history and physical examination tool for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Easily turn your H&P into electronic records with e-Val MD’s simple, easy-to-use touch-screen interface. Create, access, manage, and export unlimited numbers of patient records using its fully-functional history and physical examination modules.

e-Val MD was designed using the examination standards taught in academia, medical record information required for insurance and billing, and techniques regularly practiced by physicians in the field. It offers the flexibility to perform as brief or as detailed a history and physical examination as needed, and with ease. Physicians, nurses, physician assistants, EMTs, medical students, insurance billing agents, patients and others stand to benefit from the efficiency, depth, and capability of e-Val MD.

e-Val MD:

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Eric Dishman, Intel’s Fellow of Digital Health Group and Director of Health Innovation and Policy, spoke at TEDMED on what the future holds for at-home healthcare

1. CareConnector by Johnson & Johnson

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Do you spend some or all of your time caring for someone you love? If so, that means that you are one of the more than 50 million Caregivers in this country. Being a Caregiver is one of the greatest gifts you can give, but it can also take a toll on your health and wellbeing. The CareConnector app is designed to reduce your stress by providing quick and easy access to critical information that Caregivers need including contact information for healthcare providers, insurance policy numbers, prescription information, and more.

2. Sleep Tracker TYLENOL® PM by Tylenol(J&J/McNeill)

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Use the free TYLENOL® PM Sleep Tracker App on your iPhone or iPod touch to see how beneficial a good night’s sleep can be.

3.  iChemoDiary by Merck & Co

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The iChemoDiary is a personal oncology diary to record your chemotherapy schedule, treatments, medication and symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. With both quick-entry and expandable options, no details are lost, and multiple reporting options make it easy to share the information with your doctor or nurse. With this portable chemo diary, keeping track of the symptoms you experience from your cancer chemotherapy is relatively easy.

New medical apps last week in App Store(from 6/march – 13/march): ~ 45

We were selected these 5 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only:

1. Calculators

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This application integrates two important tools for everyday clinical practice in radiology: the Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) calculator and the Dose-flux calculator.

2. Distractor Avoidance

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Distractor Avoidance™ for Clinical Medicine is a one-of-a-kind study tool that is guaranteed to improve your test scores. This unique flashcard application implements a new teaching method designed to show you how to pick the right answer every time. The answer choices in board examinations are full of DISTRACTORS — the most commonly chosen wrong answers! Mastering how to avoid these distractors can make all the difference on test day.

3. First Aid Q&A for USMLE Step 2 CK

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Ace the USMLE Step 2 CK with this app from the best-selling First Aid Q&A series, brought to you by Modality, the premier developer of digital learning, assessment, training and reference applications for Apple handheld devices, and McGraw-Hill Medical.

4. Clinician’s Pocket Reference

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Never Leave Home Without The Monkey!
Widely known as the Scut Monkey Handbook, the Clinician’s Pocket Reference 11/ed is a resident’s and medical student’s survival guide for the wards and in the clinic. It is also widely used among practicing physicians and health care providers to access essential information in patient care. This popular PDA reference provides a well-organized and strategically delivered format equipped with an automatic updates feature to ensure the most current medical information available.

5. Check a Box. Save a Life.

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Check a Box. Save a Life. The global student movement to make health care better and safer brings you the first student-produced Patient Safety App!

Checklists save lives, bring this app with you to ensure your patients safer care. Featuring the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, as well as tools for safe handoffs, inpatient medical care, and central lines, this handy tool can help you make sure things are done right each time.

While travelling people often resort to local physicians and medical personnel, who can talk only in local language.

In such cases it becomes very difficult to provide medical personnel with a correct translation of information about organism specificities, chronic illnesses etc (your health and life depend on a correct understanding of data by a local physician; those who encountered such situation must understand its very criticality and importance…the author of this blog had himself witnessed such situation).

Looking through the list of new applications last week (in order to prepare a column on “New And Noteworthy IPhone Medical Apps Released Last Week In App Store”) we came across with a recently issued app  “sos4life” which solves the issue of an authentic medical translation of health-related data, supporting 10 languages.

In other words, once you enter health-related data in a native language, you automatically get its authentic translation into 10 languages; and you can be sure that in the case of a critical situation the local physician will understand all the information without the “killing” distortions.

It’s important to mention additionally that the application design  is very user friendly, compared to most of health-related applications, thus favoring to input data (while it’s a hell on earth to find time to input health-related notes in other applications).

Highly recommended for all who travels a lot!

Sos 4 Life:

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New medical apps last week in App Store(from 27/feb – 5/march): ~ 27

We were selected these 4 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only:

1. AnswersIn Hepatitis C

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The AnswersIn Medicine Hepatitis C module contains 50 minutes of high quality videos on the topic developed by Professor Owen Epstein and presented by Dr Mike Jacobs, a Senior Lecturer and Consultant in infectious diseases at the Royal Free Hospital and University College Medical School, London. The modules have been produced in association with University College London business (UCLB) plc.

2. Pedi meds

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Pediatric dose application. From the creators of IV MEDS
This pediatric dose application has multiple drugs in the database. The list is very long please visit our website to see complete list.

3. Geriatric – iphone medical apps – tools of the trade

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Doctot Geriatric is a suite of the most widely used clinician-administered assessment scales related to geriatric patients. Doctot Geriatric affords the medical practitioner a highly efficient and easy-to-use tool to measure important functions of geriatric patients.

4. Cardiac Stress Testing i-pocketcard

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The Cardiac Stress Testing i-pocketcards provide you with
Pharmacologic stress testing: list of drugs used in stress testing including indications, contraindications, pros and cons, side effects
Explanation of the assessment of myocardial ischemia in nuclear medicine (SPECT)
Specific comments on the diagnostic value of cardiac stress testing in women
Guidelines for the management of patients with positive studies

Smartphones will soon be diagnosing illness as well as advising on cures. Will we all become iPho-chondriacs?

Lena Bryce’s mobile phone got her pregnant. Dan Woolley’s kept him alive for days under a collapsed building. Fran Neri’s saved her from a life-threatening infection. A fast-growing array of downloadable applications for smartphones is turning the mobile phone into a doctor in your pocket, on constant call to diagnose ills and propose cures. Soon mobile apps could even provide lifesaving home treatment for millions. That’s the upside. Experts warn, though, that apps may turn us into a neurotic nation of phone-hugging iPho-chondriacs.

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Sanofi-aventis U.S. announced today that GoMeals™, a new iPhone application (app) designed to help people living with diabetes make healthy food choices, is now available for download at the iTunes App store. GoMeals™ is a food tracking tool which allows users to search thousands of foods and dishes from popular restaurants and grocery stores to easily see the nutritional content of meals and snacks.

GoMeals™ :

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Making healthy food choices is important and can be challenging. And if you have a health condition, such as diabetes, nutritional information can be critical. Now with GoMeals, it’s easy to make smart food decisions, at home or on the go.