Medical Specialty

Kaiser Permanente launches comprehensive patient app My Health Manager app for iOS

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KP recently announced the launch of its iOS health management app, available free of charge in the Apple iTunes store.

Meditoons explains GI pathologies with simple animations, a must have app for physicians

3 days ago by
App Review
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Meditoons, a new app by Pearlswan Communications, features short and simple animations to help explain gastrointestinal diseases such as gallstones, appendicitis, and hemorrhoids

Embedded sensors help parents monitor infants

4 days ago by
mHealth News
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Rogers Communications, a Canadian digital cable, high speed internet, and home/mobile phone service provider, recently announced it is forming an alliance with Exmovere Holdings Inc. This U.S. based company is a biomedical engineering company focused on government and consumer applications for healthcare, security and mobility. The mission of Exmovere Holdings is to develop systems and technologies that make machines more intuitive, help families take care of each other, and give hope to the disabled. Together, these two companies are planning to launch [Read more]

Check out this week’s #mHealth Tweet Chat archive

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This is the archive of the third #mHealth Tweet Chat that took place on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 9pm EST/8pm CST. We discussed how mobile technology has impacted physician communications, patient privacy issues, and physicians on social media.

HouseOfficer app is the future of digital patient management

4 days ago by
App Review Featured
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HouseOfficer offers and exciting insight into the future of medicine and patient management. It simplifies patient management and helps order jobs effectively thus reducing risk of errors and thereby improving patient safety. A great app which is sure to improve with future updates

Why doctors should consider prescribing the iPhone iBGStar Blood Glucose peripheral

5 days ago by
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Disclaimer: I have no relevant conflict of interest relationships to disclosure, and have no affiliation with the makers of iBGStar.  Recently making it’s debut into the online Apple Store is the much hyped and anticipated iBGStar Blood Glucose monitoring system by Sanofi US. Although the peripheral device had gained clearance by European regulators more than a year ago, only at the end of last year did the glucose monitor receive FDA 510(k) clearance. The peripheral device connects to your iPhone [Read more]

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis is a useful differential diagnosis app for Blackberry

5 days ago by
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A review of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis app

ICD 10 disease codes app is informative yet basic and ruined by adverts

6 days ago by
App Review
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ICD 10 Disease codes app is a purely functional app with a basic UI. The chronic use of adverts was extremely off-putting and frustrating. I would not recommend this app to anybody unless they had a desperate need to carry an offline copy of the ICD 10 codes.

10 Second EM app for Android, for Emergency Medicine Physicians

7 days ago by
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10 Second EM takes time to become familiar with, and only then does it live up to its title. It could use small improvements here and there, but as it is, this app is a very helpful tool in the clinical setting. This is a highly recommended, affordable app for medical professionals and students alike, with a wide range of covered topics at the user’s disposal.

New medical training app being developed by game developers for DARPA

9 days ago by
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Video and computer games are something that most children living in the developed world have been exposed to. From the early days of Super Mario on the Nintendo Entertainment System, to the engrossing, cinematic-like titles that are part of today’s game consoles and computers, gaming is something that is familiar to many. Because of this, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to tap into this gaming expertise to apply the interactive techniques found in video games to create an educational app that can be used on mobile devices that will specifically teach medical first responders.

SwipeSense presents their Hygiene 2.0 solution at Healthbox Investor Day 2012

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
10 days ago by
mHealth News

SwipeSense co-founders Yuri Malina (@ymalina) and Mert Iseri (@mhi) present their vision for clinical hygiene 2.0.

Diagnostic clinical decision support tool Isabel is a useful app for iPhone

10 days ago by
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Isabel Diagnosis is a great tool for doctors who are willing to pay for the subscription and have wireless access. The delays loading information can be frustrating however there is a definite need for the app and the service it provides when doctors are presented with a challenging diagnostic mystery.