iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

mHealth innovator picked by Micahel Cima as one of Seven Most Powerful Innovator

Source: forbes.com / 3gdoctor.wordpress.com Joel Selanikio, the 45 year old COO and Co-Founder of Washington DC based DataDyne has been selected as the “Most Influential Innovation” amongst 7 technology innovators for his “EpiSurveyor disease outbeak software” by the MIT Professor of Materials Science who overseas the Lemelson-MIT Program (the largest cash prize for US innovation in the US). “Joel Selanikio’s EpiSurveyor software helps health care workers in the developing world use mobile...

HIStalk Interviews Paul Meyer

Source: histalk2.com Some interesting highlights: about Voxiva. We’re a mobile technology company that had a crazy idea nine years ago that mobile phones had something to do with health. We’ve spent the last nine years building a platform and building mobile health solutions around the world. Do you think the iPhone got people thinking about the possibility of having a smart phone deliver a fairly rich application? I think iPhones have done an amazing job of opening people’s eyes up...

NASA Ames Scientist Develops iPhone Chemical Sensor

Source: NASA.gov Jing Li, a physical scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., along with other researchers working under the Cell-All program in the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, developed a proof of concept of new technology that would bring compact, low-cost, low-power, high-speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing capabilities to cell phones. The device Li developed is about the size of a postage stamp and is designed to...

Is it possible to earn on medical apps for iPhone?

Several figures for the beginning: - more than 100,000 apps are published in App Store; - the total number of apps in medical category is 1,300 or 1.3 % of the total number of applications in App Store; - the iFart Mobilе program (special example) was bought by 8,000 of visitors on average daily, when it was number one in Entertainment category (the data from http://www.joelcomm.com); - there are about 13,000 of apps or 13 % in Entertainment category; How to estimate profitableness o...

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

New apps last week(from 5/nov  - 12/nov): ~ 43. We were selected these 7 new and noteworthy medical apps only: 1. ACLS Advisor - Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Go! / App Store "run codes like an Expert!" This app is used during codes. This is an expert decision-engine that assesses patient characteristics and administers advanced cardiovascular resuscitation. ACLS advisor follows the American Heart Association guidelines. Inputs are interpreted by the cardiology decision en...

Interview with Developer of Swine Flu Tracker Map for iPhone

Source: pinchmedia.com Today’s App Developer’s Corner features Ronnie Schwartz of IntuApps, makers of popular applications like Swine Flu Tracker Map. The following is what Ronnie shared with us about running an end-to-end development shop. Go! / App Store Give us a quick overview about yourself and company. I’m CoFounder and CTO of IntuApps, our mobile brand that focuses on app design, development, and strategy. We’ve developed more then fifty apps and have seen great success in down...

Future medical apps for iPhone: 10 Wireless health clinical trials

Source: mobihealthnews.com The U.S. National Institutes of Health has an online database called ClinicalTrials.gov that includes a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials underway or completed. The database currently boasts more than 81,000 clinical trials from some 170 countries. As you might expect a couple dozen of those trials are testing wireless health solutions — mostly mobile phone applications — and their efficacy on health outcomes. MobiHealthNews rounded up 10 m...

GSMA and Manchester University announce launch of mHealth Innovation Centre

Source: 3gdoctor.wordpress.com the global Mobile Communications industry Association has announced details of its plans with the University of Manchester to establish an m-Health Innovation Centre to act as a UK focus for m-Health activity. The goal of this “m-Health initiative” is to foster innovative mobile applications and services in healthcare that will focus on promoting healthier lifestyles and early intervention. "The centre in Manchester will encourage innovation by: providing a f...

Cough into your mobile phone for instant diagnosis

Source: telegraph.co.uk Your mobile phone may soon be able to diagnose respiratory illnesses in seconds when you cough into it. Software being developed by American and Australian scientists will hopefully allow patients simply to cough into their phone, and it will tell them whether they have cold, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases. Whether a cough is dry or wet, or “productive” or “non-productive” (referring to the presence of mucus on the lungs), can give a doctor informa...

New and Noteworthy Medical ANDROID Apps released last week on Android App Market

New weekly review by Iphone Medical Apps and News Aggregator: “New and Noteworthy Medical ANDROID Apps released last week on Android  Market”. Why? Because you must know iPhone's competitor - Android! Total new apps last week(from 3/nov - 10/nov): ~ 12(or ONLY 26% of new medical apps for iPhone released last week). But We were selected these 5 new and noteworthy medical apps only: 1. BioRhythms (app.biorhythms) Go! Biorhythms is a powerful, easy-to-use application ideal for ma...