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MacPractice introduces an iPad app to go with its healthcare software

by Mike Schramm (Jan 28th, 2012)

We've mentioned MacPractice a couple of times before -- professional software for the Mac designed to be used by doctors and dentists to do things like track patients' appointments, keep and share health information, and do all the things a small-to-mid-sized health clinic needs to do. We were ...

Sign legal documents with your finger, your iPad and Softsign

by Erica Sadun (Nov 8th, 2011)

Did you ever think of your finger as a legal signing tool? Softsign for iPad (free for a limited time) offers a PDF annotation tool for iOS that allows you to sign legal documents via a touch screen. Developer Tom Hodgson points out that a variety of laws implemented more than a decade ago made ...

Daily Mac App: Muscle System Pro II

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 8th, 2011)

Back in March I raved about 3D 4 Medical's Muscle System Pro II iPad app. It's a photo-realistic 3D atlas of the human body that allows the user to navigate through layers of muscles with the touch of their finger. The app is so good it's found a foothold among must-have apps at medical school ...

FDA drafts Mobile Medical Applications document

by Kelly Guimont (Oct 18th, 2011)

There are all manner of medically-based uses for iOS devices (the iPad in particular) if you are a medical professional, so it was just a question of time before patients themselves got in on the act (brace yourself, we get all bureaucratic up ahead). According to the Juvenile Diabetes Research ...

Daily iPad App: Netter's Anatomy Atlas

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 26th, 2011)

Any medical student or professional will instantly recognize the name "Netter." Frank H. Netter was a physician and artist who drew over 500 plates, or individual medical illustrations, covering virtually every aspect of human anatomy. Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, the book, is a classic in ...

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 ...

Use your iPhone to detect cataracts

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

A group of researchers at MIT have built a surprisingly useful medical addon for the iPhone that apparently can help detect cataracts. The CATRA system is a device that snaps on to the front of the iPhone (or any computer screen, from the look of it), and then uses screen output to monitor and ...

iPhone and iPad are preferred by physicians says survey

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 16th, 2011)

Next time you visit your doctor and poke around his or her office, chances are you'll see an iPhone or an iPad lying around. A survey of 3,700 physicians by QuantiaMD reveals the iPad and the iPhone are the preferred mobile devices among those in the medical profession. According to the ...

A pulse oximeter that works with your iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 20th, 2011)

Together the Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine (ECEM) research group and the Pediatric Anesthesia Research Team (PART) at the University of British Columbia have developed a pulse oximeter that works with the iPhone and other mobile devices. The instrument is meant to be used at ...

Big pharmaceutical companies stockpiling iPads for future sales apps

by Chris Ward (May 17th, 2011)

Big pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of time, money and effort trying to attract the attention of doctors in order to get them to use their expensive new products. Doctors, it turns out, are busy people who give the sales reps about 30 seconds of their valuable time -- most of which is ...

The legal implications of mobile health apps and devices

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 5th, 2011)

I'm neither a doctor nor a lawyer, but you don't have to have an MD to realize that medical apps are becoming an ever-more-important tool in managing our healthcare choices, costs and overall wellness. In a similar vein, medical accessories to our iDevices could make home medical care cheaper and ...

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, ...

Mumbai surgeons perform knee surgery replacements using an iPod touch

by David Winograd (Apr 21st, 2011)

The newest winner in the "there's an app for that" sweepstakes has to go to the DASH app and its supporting system. It's putting the iPod touch at the heart of a system that allows surgeons to make it easier to do hip and knee replacement surgery. This medical system, developed by Smith & ...

iPads are becoming as important to doctors as their stethoscopes

by David Winograd (Mar 30th, 2011)

For many doctors, iPads are becoming "...as important to patient care as their stethoscope," according to a segment on CNBC. Last year about 22 percent of doctors started integrating iPads into their practice. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, iPads became a mainstay in patient care from ...