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A medical ID company launched a new TextID bracelet to relay potentially life-saving information via text message, underscoring another way mobile communications are improving emergency care. Hope Paige Medical announced the bracelet this week, which uses a SMS technology-enabled band to retrieve a text message, which conveys critical information to emergency medical technicians and first [...]
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Healthcare App Store Targets Medical Community
October 7th, 2011 
admin The medical community debuted an app store, demonstrating a growing need for tailored apps among healthcare professionals. Happtique, short for “Healthcare App Boutique,” offers medical and healthcare apps and organizes them by user groups, such as “physician,” “nurse” and “pharmacist,” and users can search for apps in a particular focus, such as “cardiovascular.” The store’s [...]
FDA Setting Guidelines for Medical Apps
July 22nd, 2011 admin The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released guidelines for medical apps, which could affect the speed of medical app development and the rate at which apps get into doctors’ hands. The FDA’s new guidelines center on the use of medical apps in practicing medicine, and how to ensure they are effective. Not all medical [...]
Wireless to Dominate Medical Monitoring
June 18th, 2011 admin Wireless companies are moving in fast on the heart and blood-glucose monitor market, but it’s too soon to tell if the portability and simplicity of wireless medical devices will help them rule the market, or if a lack of regulation will hurt their credibility. With iPads replacing charts in doctors’ offices and smartphone apps appearing [...]
FDA Signals Move to Regulate Medical Apps
May 31st, 2011 admin The Federal Drug Administration is making moves to regulate the growing number of mobile medical apps later this year, which could impact a growing market. The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health plans to issue guidelines on mobile medical applications later this year, concerned with issues of efficacy and safety as the development and [...]
FDA Considers Regulating Medical Apps
May 10th, 2011 admin The Food and Drug Administration is considering drafting guidelines to approve mobile health apps, prompting questions from medical experts and app makers how how this decision could impact this fast-growing market. The FDA will draft a preliminary exploration of app regulation within a month, according to FDA officials at a conference in Washington D.C. late [...]
Facebook, Twitter Spread Medical Misinformation
April 30th, 2011 admin Facebook, Twitter and the Internet are spreading medical misinformation that can be wrong, or in some cases, deadly, according to a recent study. In 2008, Paolo Zamboni, an Italian surgeon, argued that multiple sclerosis, or MS, was not an autoimmune disease, but rather a “blockage” that could be alleviated by widening the veins in the [...]
Poisoned Chinese Workers Ask Apple to Help Pay Medical Bills
February 22nd, 2011 admin Chinese factory workers that were poisoned while on an iPhone production line are asking Apple to help address for their medical bills. “My legs are always in pain and swelling,” said Guo Rui-qiang, a worker at a plant. “We are unable to cope with the medical costs of treatment in the future.” Guo is one [...]
Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave
January 17th, 2011 admin Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs has just announced that he is taking a medical leave of absence, according to a memo he released to company employees today. “At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and [...]
