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iPhone Telehealth for Health Professionals
Since the beginning of 2009, there has been a swift flurry of uptake of increasingly sophisticated health monitoring, reference and diagnostic tools for health professionals, using the iphone systems as a base platform. These half-phone half-palmtop systems utilise large display touch screens, and are proving to be perfect for wireless networking, data transmission and dynamic display - ideal for practitioners. Acid Plus, an Acid-Base Analysis for iPhone
Doctor Brian Parkin and Doctor Prasanth Gogineni have developed an acid-base calculator using the display capabilities of the iphone. Called Acid Plus, the software swiftly analyses complex acid-base problems, taking the input data. When you have finished using it, tilt the phone sideways, and the display shifts to a graph of possible disorders, with an arrow pointing to the likely one the patient is currently dealing with. Input is via a graphical dial on the touchscreen. Five separate tumblers clearly labelled can be spun with a finger drag across them, freeing the user from having to learn any complex input system. Additionally, it features:
Epocrates Essentials
This new version of the Epocrates Essentials suite was developed exclusively for the iPhone platform. It takes advantage of the touch-screen interface, and introduces new disease content, features and functionality to the platform. When the company introduced the Epocrates Rx free drug and formulary reference to the Apple iTunes store n July 2008, it quickly became one of the most popular medical applications with more than 50,000 downloads by physicians in only four months. This package, released in February 2009, expands it to a full range of diagnosis tools. The premium software solution includes:
OverallThe above applications are just those that have launched at time of writing. More are on the way, that make use of the iPhone's features as a mobile computation platform, and significant data storage capabilities, to increasingly turn the platform into a mobile clinical facility. The iPhone does of course come with a camera, and there are a rapidly increasing number of diagnostic algorithms that can work out the condition a patient is currently suffering from a simple mobile phone picture. As these two abilities collide, we are starting to see the emergence of a tiny, mobile diagnosis and analysis tool, that is changing the landscape for medicine. Further Reading
Following the trends 2008-2009 in developing healthcare applications, diagnosis, analysis and healthcare provision based on mobile phones, their connectivity and computing power. ReferencesEpocrates Essentials Reference Now Available for iPhone OS Staff Comments
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