After an onsite workflow analysis, Voalté worked with Huntington Hospital and Emergin to design an implementation plan to facilitate more effective communication among nurses and other caregivers. The initial implementation phase focused on replacing the pager with the iPod Touch which was then integrated to Philips monitoring through an Emergin Patient Monitoring Gateway.

The Emergin/Voalté solution then enabled “quick messaging” on the iPod Touch to facilitate real-time communication between caregivers. “The text messaging feature enables me to better prioritize my tasks and communicate more efficiently with my coworkers,” added Lee.

The results from implementation of the Emergin/Voalté solution at Huntington Hospital show a dramatic reduction in the number of phone calls made per shift and improved Press Ganey scores for the unit in the two categories, “noise in and around the room” and “response time to call bell.”

The Emergin, Inc The Voalte, Inc

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 calls, and receive critical care alarms on the iPhone, providing faster response to patient needs.

“Our nurses were carrying hospital provided pagers, wireless phones, separate pagers designed to alert them of critical patient alarms….there were too many bells and beeps requiring attention, not to mention their pockets were literally overflowing with electronic devices,” said Ron Rutherford RN, Huntington’s director of informatics.

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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 threats and ways of protection against them.

App Store

The RidRX LLC(USA, Philadelphia) – creation of innovative antibacterial covers and accessories for mobile phones.

The VIactivity LLC – private investments in wireless start-ups, custom software development and Medical SEO.

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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 standing in the aisle of a store. GoodGuide licensed Occipital’s state-of-the-art RedLaser barcode scanning technology for its new application.

GoodGuide’s new iPhone application can help consumers in the store with many common purchase decisions. For example, the application enables consumers to choose the healthier of two moisturizers, determine what’s in various all-purpose cleaners and learn whether organic product manufacturers have good social practices to go along with their healthy manufacturing processes. Consumers can scan a barcode in the supermarket aisle and immediately see detailed and independently researched ratings for health, environment and social responsibility for over 50,000 products and companies right on the phone.

In addition, by using the new version of GoodGuide’s iPhone application, consumers will be able to participate in picking the products to be rated next. GoodGuide will aggregate information about which products are scanned most frequently and use that information to prioritize the products that are rated by GoodGuide. This will ensure that the thousands of products rated every month are those that the GoodGuide community cares about the most.

Dara O’Rourke, founder and CEO of GoodGuide, emphasized that the new iPhone application is another step in the initial stages of the company’s vision to make information about consumer products more transparent. “The iPhone application illustrates how we can provide consumers with critical product information when they need it the most – in the store,” he said. “The service will only get stronger over time as we add more and more product information based on our community’s input.”

The launch of GoodGuide’s new iPhone application follows GoodGuide’s closing in June of this year of $5.5 million in Series B financing. GoodGuide’s Series B financing was led by new investor Physic Ventures with the additional participation of New Island Capital and existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. In connection with GoodGuide’s Series B Financing, William Rosenzweig, Managing Director of Physic Ventures, has joined GoodGuide’s Board of Directors.

“This new round of financing will allow GoodGuide to further our mission of providing more transparency in the marketplace, helping us expand into new product categories and to rate tens of thousands of additional products, all with the goal of empowering consumers with the impartial information they need on the products they care most about. ” said O’Rourke.

In the last year, GoodGuide has won numerous awards including being named the “Startup Most Likely to Make The World a Better Place” at the 2008 Crunchies, Top 100 Web Sites of 2009 by PC Magazine, and CNET’s Editor’s Choice for “Best Newcomer” in CNET 2009 Webware 100.

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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.

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People from 57 countries downloaded the CPR Training app to their iPhone or iPod Touch during the dates of the conference.  The app provides an easy-to-use CPR training program and a tool to practice life saving
skills. PocketCPR uses Real CPR Help technology identical to the featured in ZOLL
defibrillator and AEDS. The app is available now at an introductory price of only $2.99
for a limited time following the AHA conference.

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 is covered by the patient’s insurance.

“If somebody comes in and says they’re having problems with nausea, and I want to know whether that’s a side effect for any of the medications they’re on, it’s easy for me to look up the medications right there,” Diamond says. “And being able to do that in the exam room is a very good thing. It improves patient care.”

Epocrates also gives Diamond access to information about lab tests. “Last week a patient had a lab result that was abnormally high,” he says. “So I got out my iPhone and looked up alkaline phosphatase. It gave me a list of all of the likely issues that might be associated with a high result.” Another patient had a question about whether her husband’s life-threatening condition was genetic (and therefore might be inherited by her son), and Diamond was able to look that up, too.

Sometimes, after Dr. Diamond reviews a patient’s chart, he’ll do a quick check on Epocrates before entering the exam room. “Maybe they have hereditary spherocytosis (a blood disorder), a disease I haven’t seen for a while. And I need a little refresher: What’s the background? What labs should I be following for this patient? It takes about 30 seconds to look it up on my iPhone. And when I enter the room, I can bring it up.”

Anatomy lessons
In the exam room, Dr. Diamond also consults an application called Anatomy, which gives him access to hundreds of anatomical images drawn by Frank Netter, a famous medical illustrator. “That’s helpful if I have a patient with an injured knee, and I’m trying to explain what the meniscus is,” he explains. “I can really quickly bring up the pictures and say, ‘Here’s what the meniscus is. Here’s where your problem is. And here’s our game plan.’” Speed and ease of access are particularly important to Diamond, who sees 25-30 patients a day.

iPhone has helped Dr. Diamond communicate with some of his younger patients, too. “Kids want to know how stuff works, so showing anatomy pictures is helpful,” he says.

With teens, he uses YouTube to illustrate a very important message: seat belt safety. “For adolescents who don’t want to wear seat belts, I have a YouTube video bookmarked on my iPhone. It shows a guy who wasn’t wearing a seat belt falling asleep at the wheel, crashing, and being thrown through the back window of the car. It takes me 30 seconds to show the video, and it changes the teen’s behavior for the rest of his life.”

Diamond also uses iPhone to educate himself. With an app called Instapaper, which saves websites and articles for later reading, he catches up on medical journals and other interesting content. “That’s really cool, because I might see something and find it interesting, but I won’t have time right then. With Instapaper, I can just read it later, on my iPhone.”

iPhone at home
Dr. Diamond uses iPhone throughout the day, from the moment he wakes up until well past the time he finishes with patients. And he takes it with him on weekends, too. “I wake up to the alarm going off, and then I check the weather for the day,” he says. “At breakfast, I read AP Mobile News, and I look at the tide tables to see if it’ll be a decent day to go out and row.” On the water, iPhone helps Diamond track his workouts. “I even have an app called SpeedCoach, that allows me to get in my rowing shell and tracks my speed and my stroke count—without any external equipment, just using the technology that’s built into the iPhone.”

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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 to the possibility. People ask me a lot why the U.S. is thought of as so far behind the rest of the world in terms of mobile health. There are a couple reasons.

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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 the app store for health applications.

Medscape Mobile which is our first Mobile application for physicians continues to rank at the top of the app store for medical applications with now over 200,000 downloads since launching on the iPhones only this past July.”;

- “Further development is already underway to launch new products enhancements on Medscape Mobile including delivering on new platforms such as the Blackberry later this year”;

- “WebMD revenue for the quarter was $111.6 million, compared to $96.8 million last year, an increase of 15%. To break down of revenue increase for you, our public portal advertising and sponsorship revenue which represents 80% of total revenue increased 20% to $89.4 million. Private portal services revenue which represents 20% of total revenue was flat at $22.2 million. WebMD’s adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $33.1 million, compared to $25.5 million last year, an increase of 30%. Adjusted EBITDA per diluted share was $0.56 compared to $0.43 last year. “;

- “Adjusted EBITDA margin of 29.7% for the quarter was approximately 335 basis points higher than last year.”;

- “This quarter, WebMD’s advertising revenues grew by 20% fueled by increasing demand from our bio and pharmaceutical customers as well as consumer product companies “;

- “Traffic to the WebMD HLTH network averaged 59.2 million unique users per month, that’s an increase of 19% versus the same period a year ago, and page use through our network during the quarter grew by 27% to 1.4 billion pages. Our page use per user is important measure of the high quality of engagement of the typical WebMD customer.”;

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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 services will further differentiate Jitterbug as the complete service experience and will continue to enhance the lives of American consumers by providing safety, security and the ability to stay connected with family and friends while on the go.

“MobiWatch is a great fit for the Jitterbug brand and our proven ability to take the benefits of innovation and technology and deliver the best customer experience,” said David Inns, GreatCall CEO. “As we continue to offer our customers more life-enhancing services, we are also providing them the freedom to choose what they want, when they want. It’s their choice.”

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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 position remains strong, with over $12 million in cash and no debt on our balance sheet.”

Q3 2009 Financial Highlights

Revenues for the third quarter increased 9% to $1,949,000, from $1,784,000 in the same period a year ago. Revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 were $5,904,000, up 119% from $2,690,000 in the same period in 2008. The Q3 2009 revenues include $1,625,000 from the license and revenue share agreement with AllOne Mobile Corporation (”AllOne”) signed in Q3 2008.

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