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Mobile medical app reviews & commentary by medical professionals

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Iltifat Husain, MD

Epocrates app for iPhone gets major facelift, akin to Facebook app

Oct 26, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

News

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The Epocrates app for iPhone gets a significant upgrade to it’s user interface, bringing back memories of an older version of the Facebook app.

Forget about peripheral mhealth devices, researchers use smartphone video camera to monitor useful vital signs

Oct 12, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

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WPI researchers were able to convert a smartphone into a medical monitor using an app that measures vital signs using the built in video camera.

Apple tries to help doctors categorize medical apps, but falls short

Oct 10, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

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Apple has made a bold attempt at categorizing medical apps in the iOS store for physicians, but unfortunately fails.

Three reasons why doctors mourn the passing of Steve Jobs

Oct 06, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

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With the death of Steve Jobs, a reflection of three aspects of Steve’s vision that physicians admired the most.

Over 80 percent of hospitals in the US are now testing or piloting iPad

Oct 04, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

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Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, has announced that over 80 percent of hospitals in the US are now testing or piloting iPad

Performing Eye exams with the iPhone

Sep 15, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

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The iExaminer is a simple iPhone 4 attachment for the Welch Allyn PanOptic ophthalmoscope that lets you do fundus exams and share videos and images.

Protocol for making a medical device for the Apple App Store

Sep 14, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

Commentary News

What are the steps required to create a medical device that can be paired with a medical app on an iPhone or iPad? Technology review tackles this scenario in a recent article, publishing a rough outline of the various items that are required for this to work. They compiled this list by interviewing various developers and companies who have medical devices and medical apps in the App Store. By no means is this an in-depth analysis — but it’s a [Read more]

Medical app allows patients to message their physician securely

Sep 13, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

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The new Group Health iphone app offers its members access to their personal health and medical team. These features include mobile access to medical records which means that a member can check their test results, check immunization histories, view summaries of past visits, get routine care reminders and view their allergies and other health conditions.

FTC removes fraudulent medical apps, regulating mHealth, iMedicalApps reported erroneous apps last year

Sep 08, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

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Breaking News: The FTC has finally stepped in for the first time and started cracking down on questionable healthcare and medical apps — shutting down two medical apps that claimed to treat acne by light therapy (The apps were in the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace). This is absolutely huge and monumental news in the mobile medical ecosystem, and the FTC’s first time action is hugely welcome to medical professionals — especially those of us at iMedicalApps. We were [Read more]

Detecting ovarian cancer using a medical app on a smart phone

Sep 07, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, MD

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A paper recently published in Lab on a Chip (a RSC Publication) by researchers from Harvard Medical School describes a new technique to read ELISA results with a cell phone camera.