iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

URGENT MUST HAVE – H1N1(SWINE FLU) APPS FOR iPHONE

1. H1N1 Swine Defender This app Prevents, Diagnoses, and Treats H1N1 Influenza This is an expert decision-engine that evaluates symptoms and assesses H1N1 influenza infection. The interactive evaluation generates a specific prevention strategy based on individual charac- teristics. Unique inputs are interpolated by the AI knowledge-centered processor, which produces a diagnosis/prevention/treatment report. App Store 2. Swine Flu Map Displays the current spread of the influenza...

Medical iPhone apps – High Loyalty, Healthcare iPhone apps – Low Loyalty

Source: http://blog.flurry.com The data in this report is computed from a sample size of over 2,00 live applications and over 200 million user sessions tracked each month across Apple (iPhone and iPod Touch), Google Android, Blackberry, JavaME platforms. With more than 75,000 applications in the App Store, consumers have a vast choice of alternatives to the applications they have already downloaded. And while discovery of new applications is a challenge for consumers, retaining users can be ...

iPhone Medical+Health Apps sales – ONLY 3% of all App Store sales

Source: http://blog.flurry.com (old data - july 2009, but still actual!) Health = 3% More: http://blog.flurry.com/bid/24163/Rise-of-the-New-Middle-Class-Indie-iPhone-App-Developers-Part-I

Medical Applications for Android Phones

Unbound Medicine has announced the availability of medical references for smartphones running the Android™ platform. The initial applications available are: 5-Minute Clinical Consult for Mobile + Web Nursing Central Davis's Drug Guide Mobile & Web Edition Harrison's Manual of Medicine for Mobile +Web The Merck Manual for Mobile and Web The Merk Manual with Patient Symptoms Guide The Merck Manual Suite + Davis's Drug Guide Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis Unbound Medicine has pre...

“Health care, at any level, cannot be equated in dollars and cents.”

Source: http://healthcare-economist.com Dr. Bruce Douglas’s perspective on taking money out of health care: “Health care is a ’service,’ provided by health care practitioners, that does not belong in the competitive, so-called free enterprise marketplace. Of course, doctors have to be paid, but the payment should not come directly from the patient. Reception areas in doctors’ offices should be places where patients register for care, provide their insurance information, fill out a history ...

CTIA interviews: AirStrip; BlackBerry; MedApps

Source: http://mobihealthnews.com AirStrip Technologies AirStrip OB is FDA cleared on a whole host of mobile devices as is our platform, which has enabled the company to have deployments across the country with some very large hospitals. The company said it is in the process of “very rapidly” rolling out a broader remote patient monitoring platform that includes modules for critical care, cardiology, real time alerts and notifications and all those solutions are being built off the AirSt...

Google Health inks deals with two insurers

“We’re also working with companies that offer unique “convenience” services, such as secure email and video consultations with doctors. One example is a company called MDLiveCare, a telehealth provider now available in the Google Health online services directory. MDLiveCare is helping to empower patients by sending the complete doctor’s clinical note to Google Health from any consultation a patient has with their network of oncall board certified doctors and licensed mental health therapists. He...

FDA approval process too slow for wireless health

“With the FDA recently saying too many [medical] devices are getting approved too easily and some other things they are articulating, it’s frustrating,” Montage Systems CEO Eric Collins said during a panel session at the CTIA Wireless IT & E event last week. Montage is still awaiting FDA approval of its Wireless Healthphone, which is meant to send patient data wirelessly to doctors and other caregivers. Healthphone includes blood glucose monitoring functionality but also has a planned abili...

Wireless, smartphones to make telemedicine a $3.6B market

Source: http://mobihealthnews.com/ According to a recent report from Pike & Fischer, the market for telemedicine devices and services will climb to $3.6 billion in annual revenue over the next five years largely thanks for a push from wireless technologies, data compression and smartphones. Telemedicine will be dominated by wireless technologies during that time period: More than 70 percent of telemedicine will be wireless healthcare, according to the report. The research firm predicts...

Apple, Epic team up for mobile EHR pilot

Source: http://mobihealthnews.com “The hottest company in the electronic medical records industry is a secretive Wisconsin outfit called Epic Systems,” a recent Forbes article explained. “It does little marketing or advertising, shuns acquisitions, never issues press releases and tries to stay out of the headlines.” An EMR company with a penchant for the secretive? No wonder Apple has teamed up with Epic Systems to increase its foray into the healthcare IT space. Here’s another reason: “Yet wi...