Healthcare Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Stats of the Union brings American demographic data to the iPad

by Michael Grothaus (May 29th, 2011)

If you have an interest in American demographics and statistics, you need to check out the Stats of the Union iPad app. Statistics are only useful when you have a clear way of organizing and viewing the data. Without being able to do that, you can't glean any useful information from the ...

1,800 iPads on the way to Ottawa Hospital

by Steven Sande (Apr 21st, 2011)

The Canadian Broadcasting Company is reporting that the Ottawa Hospital, which already has about 500 Apple tablets being used by health-care providers, has recently ordered another 1,800 iPads to replace paper medical charts. Doctors at the facility currently use iPads to examine X-rays, ...

Apple joining effort to build $2 billion hospital

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2011)

Apple has joined up with other computer firms, including eBay, HP and Intel, in an effort to build a brand new hospital in Stanford, near Palo Alto, CA. The hospital is expected to cost over US$2 billion, and $550 million of that will be donated and raised by the corporate partners program, which ...

iPhonECG turns your iPhone 4 into an affordable cardiac event monitor

by Michael Terretta (Jan 3rd, 2011)

Quick -- you're watching House, M.D. with a friend and he suddenly complains of lightheadedness and heart palpitations, then passes out on your couch. Is it a common atrial fibrillation, or is it a third-degree atrioventricular block needing emergency atropine and an electrical pacer? Soon, ...

iPads headed into operating rooms along with surgeons

by David Quilty (Dec 6th, 2010)

While some hospitals are eying the iPad as a way of going paperless with patient records, Georgetown University is already putting them directly in the operating room and into the hands of its surgeons. Offering real-time access to records and images of patients while inside the operating room, ...

Australia election campaign promises iPads in every hospital

by David Quilty (Nov 15th, 2010)

In what I can comfortably say is a previously unimagined application, the iPad is now being used as an election promise to entice voters in Australia. ZDNet notes that the promise was made last week by Victorian Premier John Brumby as part of a proposed new state health policy, which would see iPads ...

iPad app helps you understand US health care reform

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 16th, 2010)

In the US, Election Day is just over two weeks away. While there are many issues people will be turning up to vote their conscience on, one of the biggest issues will be health care reform. While the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was signed into law back in March of this year, ...

iPhone-connected blood glucose meter now closer to reality

by Steven Sande (Sep 21st, 2010)

TUAW received a tip this morning about something that could be immensely useful to the over 17.9 million people in the U.S., as well as millions in other countries, who have diabetes. Pharmaceutical company Sanofi Aventis has announced the iBGStar Blood Glucose Meter that connects directly to the ...

New app helps the uninsured find free healthcare

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2010)

Though The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that President Obama signed into law last month was a huge step in advancing universal health care for Americans, most of the dramatic benefits won't go into affect until 2014 (and even then, it's still not technically "universal"). But until we ...

Voalté One iPhone and iPad apps streamline healthcare communications

by Steven Sande (Mar 3rd, 2010)

We've posted about the use of both the iPhone and iPad in the healthcare industry before, and there are a number of apps that have been developed to take advantage of the iPhone in hospitals and clinics. One of our readers pointed out that Voalté, a company that specializes in hospital paging ...

Hospitals eye the iPad for low-cost paperless records

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Unless you have absolutely no imagination, you've probably noticed the resemblance of the iPad to one of those cheap little clipboards that your friendly neighborhood doctor carries around on rounds. Apple is rumored to be making its own rounds of hospitals marketing the new über-iPod touch, ...