iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

mHealth innovator picked by Micahel Cima as one of Seven Most Powerful Innovator

Source: forbes.com / 3gdoctor.wordpress.com Joel Selanikio, the 45 year old COO and Co-Founder of Washington DC based DataDyne has been selected as the “Most Influential Innovation” amongst 7 technology innovators for his “EpiSurveyor disease outbeak software” by the MIT Professor of Materials Science who overseas the Lemelson-MIT Program (the largest cash prize for US innovation in the US). “Joel Selanikio’s EpiSurveyor software helps health care workers in the developing world use mobile...

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...

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...

GSMA and Manchester University announce launch of mHealth Innovation Centre

Source: 3gdoctor.wordpress.com the global Mobile Communications industry Association has announced details of its plans with the University of Manchester to establish an m-Health Innovation Centre to act as a UK focus for m-Health activity. The goal of this “m-Health initiative” is to foster innovative mobile applications and services in healthcare that will focus on promoting healthier lifestyles and early intervention. "The centre in Manchester will encourage innovation by: providing a f...

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...

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Far From a Lab? Turn a iPhone Into a Microscope

Source: NYTimes.com MICROSCOPES are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes. “We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases,” said Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and member of the...

Medical Platform: Android or iPhone ?

Source: GooMedic.com First of all Why iPhone is the best phone of doctor so far ?! My points of view is different as i am a developer , a doctor , a linux and open source user as well as a current Windows mobile User on my HTC phone ! First of all Why iPhone is the best phone of doctor so far ?! My points of view is different as i am a developer , a doctor , a linux and open source user as well as a current Windows mobile User on my HTC phone ! My points of view as i explained...

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...