iPhone Medical Apps: news, reviews, trends

Why your phone is now the doctor in your pocket

Smartphones will soon be diagnosing illness as well as advising on cures. Will we all become iPho-chondriacs? Lena Bryce’s mobile phone got her pregnant. Dan Woolley’s kept him alive for days under a collapsed building. Fran Neri’s saved her from a life-threatening infection. A fast-growing array of downloadable applications for smartphones is turning the mobile phone into a doctor in your pocket, on constant call to diagnose ills and propose cures. Soon mobile apps could even provide lifesav...

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 ...

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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...

Voalte’s view on the present and the future of the iPhone platform for the medical sector

(Special interview for iPhone Medical Apps) Voalté successfully integrated an interesting innovative iPhone-based clinical communications project in Sarasota Memorial Hospital in September 2009(link). After 3 months, when it has become already possible to speak about real results of the project, we decided to address the Vice President of Innovation of Voalté, Trey Lauderdale, and ask him several questions. We believe that the answers on these items are interesting for professionals of t...

Your iPhone Just Called: Your Blood-Sugar Is High

Source: The Wall Street Journal Earlier this year, Mike Dionne signed up for Polka, a smart-phone application that lets him use his iPhone to keep tabs on the health of his elderly father, who lives 80 miles away. It tracks his dad's numerous doctors' appointments, his insulin and medication schedule and other health information. Then in August, a new doctor examining Mr. Dionne's father detected an aneurysm, something the son was able to confirm from afar. Over the phone, Mr. Dionne consult...

Wireless Health: Year End Report 2009

Source: mobihealthnews.com "Wireless Health: Year End Report 2009" from MobiHealthNews.com. FDA may regulate smartphone apps. LifeComm closes. Best Buy stocks connected health devices. Apple invites LifeScan on-stage. The West Wireless Health Institute is founded. CardioNet’s reimbursement rate cut. Consumers want wireless health. Three-quarters of Americans are interested. click here Read more: link

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Advancing health care with iPhone

Source: apple.com Apple recently profiled Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, Texas, which has outfitted some of its 19,500 employees across 11 hospitals with iPhones. Based in Houston, TX, the fourth-largest city in the U.S., Memorial Hermann serves a metro area of more than five million people, providing everything from air ambulance services to a chemical dependency treatment center. “Health care is a very real-time business,” says David Bradshaw, Chief Information, Pl...

How to get FDA to clear a mobile health app

Source: mobihealthnews.com Those are the basic FDA requirements that apply to bringing an app or other piece of software to market in the mhealth field. Undoubtedly, to those not accustomed to the FDA regulated world, those hurdles might seem high. In the next article, we’ll tackle the benefits and burdens of going through those admittedly rigorous FDA requirements from a business standpoint. In particular we’ll focus on the competitive advantages that can be derived from entering the regulate...