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Daily Update for April 29, 2013

by Steven Sande (Apr 29th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Hospital uses iPads to help moms stay in contact with newborns

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 8th, 2013)

As part of a program called BabyTime, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles recently deployed iPads in its neonatal intensive care unit to enable mothers to see their newborns and interact with hospital staff when they can't do so in person. Infants are typically placed in the NICU when ...

Doctors improve usefulness of iOS devices in the ER with Box.net

by Steven Sande (Feb 27th, 2013)

A group of more than 60 doctors at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., are now sharing procedures, journal articles and conversations through a unique use of Box.net's file-sharing services. A Wired article states that the system has become a valuable tool for ...

Athenahealth to acquire mobile drug reference Epocrates

by Mike Wehner (Jan 7th, 2013)

Athenahealth, known for its electronic health record and management solutions, will purchase Epocrates, the creators of one of the most popular medical reference apps among doctors. As GigaOM reports, Athenahealth will pay US$293 million for the software company, which was originally founded in ...

Zensorium's Tinké iOS accessory monitors cardiorespiratory, stress levels

by Steven Sande (Dec 4th, 2012)

There's a new accessory available for owners of iOS devices who are looking to stay healthy and improve their tolerance to stress. While there are iOS-connected scales and blood pressure cuffs, until now nobody has looked at cardiorespiratory fitness and stress levels. That's where the new ...

iRobot's mobile medical telepresence robot controlled by iPad app

by Steven Sande (Nov 19th, 2012)

Massachusetts-based iRobot is probably best known for introducing robotics into the home in the form of the popular scurrying Roomba vacuuming robots, but the company also has its hands in many other markets as well. The company recently introduced RP-VITA, a telepresence robot that takes the ...

MacPractice Clipboard iPad Apps make patient sign-in a snap

by Steven Sande (Jul 12th, 2012)

A trip to the doctor's office usually means one thing -- filling out one form or another. For patients, it's a necessary evil; for health care practitioners, it's a requirement. Longtime Apple developer MacPractice announced today that it has released new free Clipboard iPad Apps to make ...

Daily Update for April 17, 2012

by Steven Sande (Apr 17th, 2012)

New medical iPad platform reduces patient check-in time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 17th, 2012)

NIIT Healthcare Technologies of Orlando, Florida introduced a mobile platform that'll speed up check-in times, improve communication and help process payments for hospitals, physician offices, clinics and laboratories. Called MASH for manage, analyze, sustain and harness, the product lets ...

Patients using iPad to customize MRI scanning experience

by Steven Sande (Mar 13th, 2012)

As fans of the TV hospital drama House can tell you, many hospital patients aren't exactly fond of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners. They're loud, confining, and generally quite uncomfortable. Now PDC Facilities, a company specializing in products for the medical diagnostics imaging ...

Doctors list why they love Apple products, and miss Steve

by Steven Sande (Dec 9th, 2011)

It's no secret that the iPad is a hit in the healthcare industry, but doctors love more than just the sleek tablet. A study earlier this year showed that a full 75 percent of US physicians owned some sort of Apple device. In a post Wednesday on MedPage Today, blogger Iltifat Husain tabulated the ...

Daily iPhone App: The Eatery

by Steven Sande (Nov 14th, 2011)

Crowdsourcing, the act of getting input from a large number of people quickly using social networking tools, is being used frequently for everything from recommendations on what restaurant are good to choosing cover art for a book. Now a new iPhone app, The Eatery (free) wants you to use the ...

Walgreens employees use iPads to aid customers

by Steven Sande (Nov 3rd, 2011)

The next time you visit your local Walgreens store to get a prescription, find pain relief, choose laxatives or buy "Walker Balls," you may get help from an iPad-toting Walgreens employee called a "health guide." Walgreens, based in Deerfield, IL, is testing a new service in 16 stores in the ...

iTriage 3.0 adds live wait times for acute care facilities, medicine information and more

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Aug 19th, 2011)

When TUAW last talked with the folks behind iTriage, it was shortly before World Health Day in 2010, and the app had just updated to version 2.0 with a version for Android. A little more than 16 months later, iTriage has hit version 3.0 with a plethora of changes and new features such ...

iPhone 4 turned into a microscope via CellScope attachment

by Chris Rawson (Jul 23rd, 2011)

CellScope is a UC Berkeley project designed to enable microscopic image captures from a cell phone's camera. At first it might sound like a pointlessly geeky project to do microscopy on a cell phone, but in fact it has important applications for mobile health services in remote areas. In some ...