iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

What in Healthcare Goes Mobile?

Source: informationweek.com After getting a referral, a clinician typically heads to the hospital to interview medical personnel and possibly the patient or the patient's family. The clinician enters information about the patient into the iPhone app, and then submits it to the medical director, who makes final approvals, often using his or her own iPhone. RehabCare is thinking about how it can now streamline that process even more--for instance, by working with hospitals to structure referral i...

Your iPhone Just Called: Your Blood-Sugar Is High

Source: The Wall Street Journal Earlier this year, Mike Dionne signed up for Polka, a smart-phone application that lets him use his iPhone to keep tabs on the health of his elderly father, who lives 80 miles away. It tracks his dad's numerous doctors' appointments, his insulin and medication schedule and other health information. Then in August, a new doctor examining Mr. Dionne's father detected an aneurysm, something the son was able to confirm from afar. Over the phone, Mr. Dionne consult...

Overview of non-invasive mhealth solutions + trends

Source: Zorgbeheer.blogspot.com Non Invasive Health Monitoring with mHealth

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

New medical apps last week in App Store(from 11/dec – 18/dec): ~ 62. We were selected these 5 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only: 1. USMLE Consult: Step 1 - Block 1 Go! / App Store The USMLE is a competitive, challenging examination that requires extensive preparation. Commence your studies with the new USMLE Consult application series by Modality, the premier mobile learning architect for iPhone and iPod touch. USMLE Consult introduces you to the caliber of questions that ...

Personal hygiene of your iPhone: medical educational game with accelerometer(!!) and tests

The VIactivity LLC(owner of this blog) has successfully finished the development of medical educational game with accelerometer(!!) and tests on personal hygiene for RidRX LLC (USA, Philadelphia - creation of innovative antibacterial covers and accessories for mobile phones). The given program("Germaphone") is one of the marketing steps of RidRX LLC on the use Apple App Store with the goal of products popularization and to more thorough informing the users about different bacteriological t...

Wireless Health: Year End Report 2009

Source: mobihealthnews.com "Wireless Health: Year End Report 2009" from MobiHealthNews.com. FDA may regulate smartphone apps. LifeComm closes. Best Buy stocks connected health devices. Apple invites LifeScan on-stage. The West Wireless Health Institute is founded. CardioNet’s reimbursement rate cut. Consumers want wireless health. Three-quarters of Americans are interested. click here Read more: link

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Apple investigates space-age fitness tracking technology

Source: appleinsider.com New patent applications revealed this week show that Apple has investigated technology with advanced physiological sensors for measuring workout activity from inside the user's ear canal. Apple currently has a number of fitness-oriented features available in its iPod line, but the Cupertino, Calif., company's latest patent describes an extremely advanced system using unique technology. Among a number of described methods for measuring exertion during physical exerc...

COMMENTS OF CTIA – THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION®

Source: ctia.org Some Highlights: The current U.S. market for wireless, home-based health care applications is $304 million, according to one estimate. With regard to mobile device applications used by physicians, a survey conducted by MDsearch found that 53 percent of responding physicians owned a smartphone and that 63 percent of those with smartphones used mobile medical applications over the device. The explosion of medical applications available over mobile phones also is demo...

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

New medical apps last week in App Store(from 5/dec – 11/dec): ~ 64. We were selected these 7 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only: 1. Case History: MEDICAL History taking Guide. Ask the Right Questions! Go! /App Store Medical History taking is an Art. History is the first thing you learn in clinical medicine and Case History is the first of its kind application on the App Store Case History Offers you a clear structured and systematic approach to history taking. As a medica...