iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

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...

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

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...

Only sensors will make revolution in profitability of mHealth and Health 2.0

Only sensors will make revolution in profitability of mHealth/ Health 2.0 (sensors for mobile phones, not ordinary Health 2.0  web portals ) As the editor of two medical software blogs for iPhone and Android, I can notice that there are the low share of apps and the low profit in medical and healthcare categories because of poor quality of majority of the apps . Therefore at the present time there is almost nothing innovative there from the user’s or technological points of view, isn’t i...

HealthFusion on a iPhone

Source: themobilehealthcrowd.com HealthFusion has announced the launch of a progressive mobile application that will enable physicians to utilize their BlackBerry or iPhone mobile smartphones to view office schedules and patient insurance eligibility status on-the-go. This is the first in a series of new products called HealthFusion Mobile Apps that are designed to allow physicians to leverage the most current technology in their efforts to improve patient care and increase profitability. ...

Interface for iPhone is needed: Wireless medical device a winner

Source:  twincities.com Most people would not want their doctors chatting on a Bluetooth headset during a checkup. But what if that technology could save patients thousands of dollars? A first-of-its-kind stethoscope developed by Maplewood-based 3M Co. and Connecticut-based Zargis Medical uses Bluetooth technology to wirelessly transfer sound waves from the heart and lungs straight to a computer. After 20 seconds of processing, software helps doctors identify heart murmurs or other ailment...

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...

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...

iPhones are helping a Sarasota hospital connect its nursing staff via text messaging, and soon, VoIP telephony.

Source: InformationWeek.com Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System, a hospital in Florida, plans to deploy iPhones to its nurses, to replace audible alarms and alerts, bringing peace and quiet-- and improved performance--to the healthcare provider. "One of the biggest problems in any complex environment, particularly healthcare, is communication," CIO Denis Baker said. "It's a nightmare to get a hold of someone, even people on the same floor, as they go about their tasks." So Baker's ears perked...

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...