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.
Apparently, this isn't actually a product, nor does it have any immediate prospect of being a product. It's July now, 3.0 is out, yet no iPhone LifeScan app. A closer googling of the excitement back in March discloses an <a href="http://mobihealthnews.com/973/interview-lifescan-on-iphone-30/" target="_blank">interview with LifeScan</a>:
"... not of a commercially imminent product ..."
"... there’s still some refinement that needs to take place ..."
"... Well, again, it’s still very early for us ..."
" ... That hasn’t been determined yet ..." (how to share results with your doctor)
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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.