iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

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...

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

New medical apps last week in App Store(from 18/feb – 26/feb): ~ 45 We were selected these 4 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only: 1. Safe Surgery for iPhone Medical Go! / App Store Based on the official WHO Safe Surgery checklist, this app supports three check moments in the operating room to increase surgical safety 2. BGluMon - Medical Blood Glucose Monitor for iPhone Go! / App Store BGluMon – Medical Blood Glucose Monitor for iPhone is advanced and easy-to-use tool to w...

PHILIPS EMERGIN&VOALTE ARE LAUNCHING NEW INTEGRATION TO IPHONE OS

Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, announced today the availability of an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalté communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices. This integration facilitates the orchestration of voice, alert, and text communications by leveraging the flexibility of the Apple platform. After an onsite workflow analysis, Voalté worked with Huntington Hospital and Emergin ...

Thinklabs Digital Stethoscope and Medical Stethoscope App for iPhone

The Thinklabs, a company that specializes in the development of electronic stethoscopes, has announced Stethoscope App for Apple iPhone  and iPod Touch for The ds32a Digital Electronic Stethoscope: The App sets a new standard for medical device user interfaces, using iPhone's outstanding multi-touch interface. Features: - Record and Display waveforms and spectrogram in real time. - Scroll and Zoom In/Out using multi-Touch user interface. - Edit Sounds on-screen. - Save Recorded sounds....

In search of “medical killer app for iPhone” – Part II (Section “Healthcare”)

For the purposes of developing an iPhone medical project we analyzed various parameters of all commercial applications in Top-100 of “Medical” and “Healthcare” sections (200 applications; February 1, 2010). Beginning of the review and analysis of applications from section “Medical” can be found here: link Functionality and sophistication of applications in section “Healthcare” (Top-100) Average price in Top-100 “Healthcare”: $2.21 The average price in Top-10 “Healthcare”: ...

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

New medical apps last week in App Store(from 10/feb – 17/feb): ~ 23 We were selected these 4 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only: 1. Pedi Safe: ICU, OR, ED Medications Go! / App Store Pedi Safe is a rapid reference for nurses, paramedics, physicians and other healthcare professionals who care for pediatric patients in an emergency or critical care environment. An advanced airway management and cardiac resuscitation app. In an emergency, healthcare providers can quickly ident...

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

New medical apps last week in App Store(from 2/feb – 9/feb): ~ 55 We were selected these 2 new and noteworthy iPhone medical apps only: 1. MedCalc 3000 Go!/ App Store MedCalc 3000 is the most popular and comprehensive Medical Calculator system on the web. MedCalc 3000 has been highly acclaimed, reviewed and tested over the last 11 years. As a trusted resource it has been integrated into many prestigious websites for Medical Education, Medical Literature, Pharmacology, Nursing and more. No...