Reviewing the top medical iPhone apps – what’s the diagnosis? (Science Alert)

Can an app really improve your health? the experts give their verdicts. Image: izusek/iStockphoto Want to quit smoking, lose weight, manage your diabetes or get a good night’s sleep? No worries. There’s an app for all of that.But it’s not always clear which medical apps are based on solid evidence and which aren’t.We asked ...

First heart rate monitor to utilize new bluetooth technology and iPhone sync hits the market

The start of January has some exciting new technologies on the horizon. recently, Wahoo Fitness announced their new product, BlueHR — a fitness heart rate monitor — can sync to your iPhone 4s via bluetooth and without the need for addition adaptors.All users have to do with the BlueHR device  is to strap it around their ...

50 new tech toolsTech Guru Store

(CNN) — You may have dozens of apps on your phone and scores of websites bookmarked on your laptop, but that doesn’t mean you have all the latest tech tools at your fingertips.New mobile apps, services, social networks and other digital tools pop up so frequently that keeping up with them is a nearly impossible ...

Nike announces Nike+ Fuelband to measure everything

I dug a bit deeper and found out why they feel they can re-label wrist acceleration as “oxygen kinetics.” Apparently they put FuelBands on a (small) group of people in an exercise physiology lab at Arizona State. They monitored their oxygen consumption while participants performed a variety of typical “sporting” activities (in fact I think ...

Mobile Medical Applications – Patient and Physician Experiences

DEVELOPERS ARE INCREASINGLY WRITING mobile apps that operate on and across multiple platforms. Mobile apps for doctors, which are available on a variety of devices including Android phones, the iPhone, iPad and Blackberry, reflect that trend. We’ve explored the practical benefits of certain mobile medical apps as observed by physicians working in the trenches.The Heart ...

Use of iPhone can improve acetabular cup orientation in total hip replacement

mHealth Research Daily with Tim BredrupIn a recent study, a novel system is described that uses both the camera and the accelerometer functions of the iPhone to improve the process of acetabular cup placement in total hip arthroplasty.  The accelerometer function senses changes in movement has used in a number of other iPhone apps.).  To ...

Echo Therapeutics announces positive clinical trial results of its Symphony® Transdermal CGM system

mHealth Research Daily, with Tim BredrupIn efforts to improve the tracking and trending of glucose in patients with diabetes, Echo Therapeutics is developing the Symphony tCGM system; a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring (tCGM) system and the Prelude® SkinPrep system for transdermal drug delivery. a feasibility study was designed to evaluate the performance of ...