iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

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...

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...

Medical software and Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology Award

Source: Imperial.ac.uk Scientists from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBE) received the Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology Award at the 2009 Times Higher Education Awards ceremony. The IBE researchers were recognised for pioneering work that has led to new developments in medical diagnosis equipment, personalised healthcare devices, new regenerative medicine techniques and new medical imaging technologies. The researchers are currently trialling a new digital p...

White House: President Obama’s innovation strategy, mobile technologies and future of Wireless healthcare

Source: MobileFuture.org At this week's Mobile Future forum on President Obama's Innovation Agenda, Tom Kalil of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy spoke. Highlights: -  focusing on  the area of mobile health; - Android Developer challenge; - support wireless health initiatives in USA and  developing markets; Watch it below: Direct link:  link

Wireless Health: Personalized Medicine Comes to the Device Industry

Source: MedicalDevicesToday.com This is the device industry's wireless wake-up call. With all the speed and acceleration of an advancing information technology industry, forces outside of the medical device industry are driving shifts in medical product markets and business models. Those forces include the consumerization. globalization, systematization, and economies of scale created by IT. Wireless medicine enables connectivity between caregivers and patients, continuous monitoring of patie...