November, 2009Archive for

HealthFusion on a iPhone

Source: themobilehealthcrowd.com HealthFusion has announced the launch of a progressive mobile application that will enable physicians to utilize their BlackBerry or iPhone mobile smartphones to view office schedules and patient insurance eligibility status on-the-go. This is the first in a series of new products called HealthFusion Mobile Apps that are designed to allow physicians to leverage the most current technology in their efforts to improve patient care and increase profitability. ...

Dell Mobile Clinical Computing solution provides clinicians with single sign-on and roaming capabilities.

Source: informationweek.com Dell (Dell) has introduced a mobile, virtual computing offering for healthcare providers, allowing clinicians single sign-on and session roaming capabilities on any device for applications they're authorized to use within a facility. The Dell Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC) solution allows secure role-based access to applications and data from any computing device within a hospital. The offering is configured around the digital profile of a user, based on the us...

New and Noteworthy Medical iPhone Apps released last week in App Store

New apps last week in App Store(from 12/nov - 19/nov): ~ 74. We were selected these 7 new and noteworthy medical apps only: 1. Certified Nursing Assistant Go! / App Store Learn what it takes to be a certified nursing assistant! Certified Nursing Assistant is a fully-featured flash card app that helps you learn what it takes to become a certified nursing assistant. Included in this app are: + Main Deck + Faves Deck + Ignore Feature + Shuffle Ability + Choice of Primary Side +...

Smartscope for Normalized Dermatology Picture Taking

Source: medgadget.com The Smartscope is a cordless, hand-held digital imaging device that measures and documents skin lesions for use in diagnosing and monitoring skin diseases. A more accurate and user-friendly alternative to standard digital cameras, the Smartscope uses LED illumination to produce consistent, reliable images, which along with measurements and annotations, can be easily transferred to and stored in software that is compatible with electronic medical records. High-resolut...

iStetho Adapter and iStethoscope Pro Make a Great Combo for iPhone

Source: MedGadget.com Dr. Blaine Warkentine MD, a partner at a startup firm RidRx, is telling us that the firm is now selling directly to consumers its patent pending iStetho Adapter that can convert an iPhone/iPod touch and an old stethoscope into an electronic one. Also, the adapter is designed to work in tandem with the powerful iStethoscope Pro software that does many tricks with auscultation sounds, such as displaying sound spectrograms, replaying and emailing recordings, etc. Mor...

New medical devices lead trend in wireless health

Source: sdnn.com An iPhone display, projected on the big screen behind him, showed the electronic signature of a heartbeat, blood pressure, temperature, and oximetry (oxygen saturation of the blood). “What if on your phone you had every minute of your sleep recorded?” Topol asked. “What about counting every calorie?” By combining advances in sensors, wireless communications, and information technologies, Topol said it is becoming easier t develop ways of diagnosing ailments while patients...

Interface for iPhone is needed: Wireless medical device a winner

Source:  twincities.com Most people would not want their doctors chatting on a Bluetooth headset during a checkup. But what if that technology could save patients thousands of dollars? A first-of-its-kind stethoscope developed by Maplewood-based 3M Co. and Connecticut-based Zargis Medical uses Bluetooth technology to wirelessly transfer sound waves from the heart and lungs straight to a computer. After 20 seconds of processing, software helps doctors identify heart murmurs or other ailment...

Smartphone Apps: What The Doctor Ordered

Source: informationweek.com Download report: link The latest equipment for improving healthcare isn’t a multimillion-dollar computer system. It’s an inexpensive gadget that many of us have in our pockets: smartphones. Applications that run on iPhones and other smartphones give healthcare providers and patients information and capabilities they need where and when they need them. The phones and apps are inexpensive and becoming ubiquitous. They provide doctors information and data, and giv...

Android medical apps

The VIactivity Ltd has recently launched Android Medical Apps and News Aggregator: http://androidmedicalapps.com Hope,  this  new project will be useful for all  mHealth-professionals! BRG, Vit Goncharuk