Patient Monitoring
Turning your iPhone into a Portable ICU Monitor – AirStrip Technologies is Revolutionizing Mobile Health Care
AirStrip Technologies was founded in 2003 by Dr. Cameron Powell, an ObGyn from San Antonio TX, and his partner Trey Moore, who is the software architect behind the products. Their first product, AirStrip OB was launched in 2005 and received FDA clearance in 2006. It allows for a physician to view the real-time fetal heart rate monitor of a woman in labor on an iPhone over a 3G connection. As Donna Morrow, RN, Vice President of Client Services told me, one of the least favorite parts of her job as a labor and delivery nurse was trying to describe a fetal monitor strip to a physician over the phone. When AirStrip OB came to her Houston hospital, she was an instant convert – enough in fact to leave her job of 15 years and join the company.
