MoreĪpril 17, 2009: A pediatrician in New York is the first to access Allscripts' popular electronic medical record using the company's new iPhone application. MoreĪpril 15, 2009: Manhattan Research finds that twice as many doctors are using iPhones in 2009 than were in 2008. MoreĪpril 9, 2009: By many accounts, Sarasota-based start-up Voalte steals the show at the HIMSS event in Chicago with its iPhone-based voice, alarm, text service for physicians, nurses and other hospital workers. AirStrip has been planning its iPhone launch since July of 2008.
The app pulls the data from the hospitals' labor and delivery units. The data set includes heart tracings, contraction patterns, nursing notes and exam status.
AirStrip OB enables obstetricians to use their iPhones to remotely access real-time and historical waveform data for both the mother and the baby. MoreĪpril 8, 2009: AirStrip Technologies announced that the FDA had granted the company's iPhone application, AirStrip OB, clearance to market the app to physicians via Apple's App Store. Google has yet to take the PHR mobile itself. March 31, 2009: An iPhone developer uses Google Health's API to create Health Cloud, which allows Google Health users to view their personal health record from their iPhone. "We think this is profound." Apple then invited a rep from LifeScan, a Johnson & Johnson company onstage to demonstrate how a Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor synchs up to a diabetes management application running on the iPhone. "So imagine the possibilities," Forstall continued.
#Iphone timeline software#
March 17, 2009: At Apple's special sneak preview of iPhone OS 3.0, Scott Forstall, SVP of iPhone Software at Apple gushed: "Now here's a class that we think will be really interesting: medical devices." Forstall explained that the new iPhone OS will allow application developers to sync medical devices like BP monitors via both Bluetooth and USB. Moreįebruary 12, 2009: During a question and answer period at a medical records event in Palm Springs, CA, the Food and Drug Administration's Don Witters says that there may be circumstances where the iPhone should be considered a medical device and regulated as one. January 22, 2009: Epocrates Essentials becomes available in Apple's AppStore for iPhone and iTouch users.
The new category took 82 applications from the still existing Health & Fitness category and marked the first spin-off category Apple has created. November 29, 2008: A medical student successfully lobbies Apple to create a "medical" category for applications in the AppStore that would include mostly applications for physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers. While extensive this list is far from exhaustive: It now spans 18 months of health-related iPhone news.īe sure to let us know what we missed in the comments.
#Iphone timeline update#
The timeline included a number of the major milestones and interesting developments that related to the medical community and the iPhone.Įven though Apple announced this month the latest version of its operating system, iPhone 4.0, with no mention of medical or health apps, a few readers' requests to update this Apple iPhone timeline. At the time the launch of the iPhone 3.0 operating system, was the talk of the mHealth town square, especially since Johnson & Johnson company LifeScan was featured onstage. Ever since Apple's AppStore created a dedicated category for medical applications for the iPhone and iTouch, it seems that "the medical community is flocking to the iPhone," as an Apple executive put it last summer.īack then we cobbled together the first half of the timeline featured below.