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Disaster apps are a welcome aid in troubled times

Aug 29, 2011 by
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Diaster Apps are available to download that help with everything from first aid to creating a disaster kit.

The future of medicine hangs on the subtleties of “use”

Jul 27, 2011 by
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[Ed. This is the third of a three part series examining the past & present of FDA regulation of mHealth] The debate over the adoption of electronic health records and health IT systems by physicians has largely focused on the concept of “Meaningful Use”. It was this term chosen by the Dept of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), the sub-agency charged with distributing subsidies awarded in the Obama stimulus to physicians who adopt electronic medical [Read more]

The past, present, and future of medical apps

Mar 01, 2011 by
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[Ed. The article below is simultaneously published today by iMedicalApps.com and the Journal of Surgical Radiology (http://www.SurgRad.com), a widely read, peer reviewed journal] In just a few short years, smartphones with advanced operating systems have sparked a bright new era of mobile medical applications. Although the Blackberry smartphone had been the device of choice for physicians for most of the previous decade, the arrival of Apple’s iPhone in 2007 revolutionized mobile phones. The highly anticipated release of the iPhone software [Read more]

Apple’s new subscription policy could be a threat to medical reference apps

Feb 18, 2011 by
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New App Store rules regarding In-App purchases threaten the bottom line of large medical app developers and could be a warning to EHR developers as well.

Practice Fusion tells iMedicalApps exclusive details of EMR App Store, launching next evolution of dynamic electronic health records

Jan 26, 2011 by
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Practice Fusion is a free, web-based electronic health record that has seen a rapid rate of adoption over the last two years and is currently the largest commercial EHR installation after Kaiser and the Veterans Affairs. In this interview with Matthew Douglass, VP of Product Development, we learn some of the fascinating story of Practice Fusion’s rise, its plans to expand its API (application programming interface) and launch an app store.

Medical section for iPhone is plagued by non-medical apps

Jul 01, 2010 by
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There are well over 3,000 apps in the “medical” section of the App Store for the iPhone. Unfortunately, a growing number of them aren’t medical apps. It’s already difficult enough to parse through the litany of apps available to find quality apps – and then when you add apps that shouldn’t even be in the medical category, it makes the job that much harder. Lets start with the “top 10 downloaded free iphone medical apps” in the App Store. Notice [Read more]

Acne “treatment” apps could be taking advantage of patients

May 19, 2010 by
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Getting a new medication or medical device approved in the United States requires embarking on path so nightmarish it makes Dante’s Inferno look like the yellow brick road. And while most clinicians and bureaucrats would agree that we need to find a better way, its not hard to imagine how we ended up with such a complex regulatory structure. Going back over 2,000 years to the Hippocratic Oath, the practice of medicine has rested largely on two principles – beneficence [Read more]

How to sync the right user with the right medical app for their iPhone, iPod Touch, and the upcoming iPad

Jan 31, 2010 by
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With over 100,000 apps available for the iPhone/iPod Touch and billions of downloads since the App Store opened just under two years ago, the market is clearly hot. And with the release of the iPad, expect a new flood of apps into the market.  However, a recent article in the New York Times suggests that even with the wealth of options, people generally use only five apps despite having downloaded far more. The average iPhone or iPod Touch owner uses [Read more]

What Exactly are the App Store’s Medical Standards?

Sep 04, 2009 by
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Recently, I posted on a controversial healthcare application that claims to treat seasonal depression. In my post, I talked about the ridiculous app and wondered if the App Store approval process needed to be tweaked when it came to medical and healthcare apps. Then I started wondering if there are actual medical standards the App Store has in place. There was a nice write up done by PC World talking about how the lack of overall set standards are hurting [Read more]