iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

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 ...

Voalte iPhone application improves critical communication at point-of-care

Cutting edge technology is now increasing the efficiency of nurses at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. Nurses and other point of care workers are now able to receive all of their voice, alarm, and text messages on their iPhones, thanks to Voalté’s first-of-its-kind healthcare application. Voalté (nomenclature derived from Voice, Alarm, Text) consolidates all three functions on the versatile iPhone platform. The application enables users to send and receive text messages, make voice ca...

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...

GoodGuide Announces $5.5 Million Series B Funding

Source: physicventures.com Go! / App Store GoodGuide(iPhone Medical App) today announced the first iPhone application that scans barcodes to provide impartial health, environment and social responsibility ratings of products and companies. The newest version of GoodGuide's iPhone application, now available for free from Apple's iTunes App Store, will make it easier and faster for consumers to find healthy and environmentally friendly products from socially responsible companies while standin...

ZOLL’s PocketCPR for iPhone Training App(medical category) Debuts to Over 17,000 Downloads During AHA

ZOLL’s PocketCPR® for iPhone app, which debuted at the ZOLL booth during AHA and was also available from the Apple iTunes App Store(medical apps category), registered more than 17,000 downloads during its first week of availability. PocketCPR is one of the most important tools to emerge on the iPhone so far in the medical category.  It uses the accelerometer in such a fashion that the potential to train millions in the vital skills of CPR is very exciting. Go! / App Store People from ...

Using iPhone to improve patient care

Source: Apple.com Dan Diamond has been a family doctor for more than 20 years. But in a field as vast as medicine, and with so many constant advances in medical knowledge, he can’t possibly know everything. That’s where iPhone comes in. With an application called Epocrates, Diamond can reference volumes of in-depth medical information right at the exam table. He can look up diseases and medications, drug interactions and side effects, drug prices, and even whether a particular medication i...

HIStalk Interviews Paul Meyer

Source: histalk2.com Some interesting highlights: about Voxiva. We’re a mobile technology company that had a crazy idea nine years ago that mobile phones had something to do with health. We’ve spent the last nine years building a platform and building mobile health solutions around the world. Do you think the iPhone got people thinking about the possibility of having a smart phone deliver a fairly rich application? I think iPhones have done an amazing job of opening people’s eyes up...

WebMD HLTH Corporation Q3 2009

Recently was published WebMD's Q3 financial report(direct link) This company has 2 very popular iPhone Medical Apps on App Store: App Store and   App Store Some interesting highlights: - "We’re also investing into markets for the future as we see the market going more mobile and more global. Our WebMD mobile health applications for consumers was launched on the iPhone less than a year ago, and they have already generated over 1 million downloads, consistently ranking at the top of th...

Jitterbug Acquires MobiWatch to Bring Easy-to-Use Personal Safety Services to Consumers Anytime, Anywhere

Jitterbug, the leader in delivering easy-to-use, innovative and life-enhancing wireless services to people who seek simplicity, today announced that the company has acquired MobiWatch, a company focused on developing Mobile Personal Emergency Response Services (M-PERS). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will provide Jitterbug customers with personal safety services that are intuitive, reliable and delivered through the easy-to-use Jitterbug cell phone. These new ser...

Diversinet – free apps and $1.6M Q3 mobile health revenues

Yes, Diversinet's  partner AllOne Mobile Corporation sell apps for free. But Mobile security solutions provider Diversinet recently released its third quarter financial statements and  the company announced more than $1.6 million in revenues. "We are pleased with our progress during the quarter, as we continued to develop our suite of products and protect our intellectual property by adding to our portfolio of patents," said Albert Wahbe, Diversinet's Chairman and CEO. "Our financial posi...