iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

Development of medical software for iPhone/iPad – our summary of experience

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 ...

Future iPhones Might Include Heart Rate Monitors and some other medical function

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 u...

e-Val MD – featured iPhone medical app

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 requ...

Eric Dishman: Can The Way You Answer Your iPhone Predict Disease?

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

iPhone medical apps, sponsored by major pharmaceutical companies – part 1

1. CareConnector by Johnson & Johnson App Store 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 f...

New and Noteworthy iPhone Medical Apps(weekly)

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 App Store 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 App Store Distractor Avoidance™ for Clinical Medicine is a one-of-a-kind study tool that is guaranteed to improve your te...

Sos4Life – iPhone medical app for travelers

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 witnes...

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

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 Go! / App Store 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 ...

Why your phone is now the doctor in your pocket

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 lifesav...

sanofi-aventis – GoMeals™ iPhone Medical Application

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™ : Go! / App Store Making healthy food choices is important and can be challengi...