iPhone OS 3.0 & Medical Devices
Yesterday Apple presented the blueprint for iPhone OS 3.0, the next version of their advanced mobile platform. They showed some really cool new features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but particularly interesting to me was their enthusiasm about medicine and medical devices.
The new iPhone operating system, which will be available later this year, will among other things enable manufacturers of iPhone accessories better integration with the phone itself. They will, for example, be able to control their devices through the graphical user interface on the iPhone. Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone Software at Apple, in his presentation dares us to imagine a blood pressure measuring device which communicates and stores data on the iPhone. Later on he is joined on the stage by Anita Mathew from Lifescan, the Johnson&Johnson company which has unveiled an iPhone application that lets users upload glucose readings from their connected blood glucose monitors to their iPhone. Learn more by watching the following video segments from the presentation.
This is on a path of something I hypothesized several months ago here, when I was contemplating an idea to have a pulse oximeter on the iPhone. I also talked more about such possibilities with Dr. R.A. Brest van Kempen, CEO of RS TechMedic.
If you are interested in this topic you can always watch the latest Apple event it is entirety.
Ivor Kovic
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Thanks for the post and the news about Apple’s enthusiam for medicine and medical
devices! And very fascinating particularly in regards to the recent
discussions surround other health IT initiatives. Seems like such advancements can certainly set
a new and productive agenda but wondering if these very practices (and technologies) only represent a minority
of how health care is delivered or at least only represented by those who have access to such
initiatives. And of course, what do you think this all means for any sort of responsible and
cooperative healthcare agenda?
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It is great to know that Apple is showing such enthusiasm for medical devices. In fact there should be more and more initiatives taken by IT into health care sector.