The Apple’s application in the field of medicine has been a success in the iPhone and iTouch as is now consider the World Wide Developers. As we see from this timeline there has been a major advance in technology in regard to this application in a short amount of time, from November 2008 which was when it was first created this category from a student until June 2009 we have seen an increase in medical advances from the iPhone, performing many different tasks.
For example, it started with the creation of few applications for physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers. Then in March 2009, it was argued that the iPhone Health Apps should be consider a medical device, referring as it could be used as an apparatus to diagnosis, cure, treatment, and prevention of disease or effects. In May 2009, the Apple said they will release an application for the iPhone to track Swine Flu.
These important applications has attracted many people to select the iPhone as a number one choice, these new applications technologies is what keeps the iPhone growing in popularity.
Do you believe that this new application would actually have a benefit on patients, or is it just a marketing mechanism to supposedly be useful as a health tool?
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It seems pretty cool that Apple is trying to take advantage of one of their top selling products, but I wonder if the Iphone users will actually take advantage of the application. How will I know that if i take my blood pressure using my Iphone or Itouch will it give me accurate data? Another question is privacy, privacy is everywhere, is it safe to send my information to my doctor without having to feel that someone else is looking at my personal information?
ReplyDeletethe application seems to be very interestng and can be useful for patients like people with diabetes. As I watched the video, instead of having painful stings, you can measure it without any pain. However like Daniel mentions above, the accuracy o the data and provacy is the problem. Also about the "meal builder", I dont think that is really accurate data, because even just "pizza" like in video, it varies with the size of it, what it is added, the ingredients included etc...
ReplyDeleteWell, after all, even though te data might not be accurate, this can be very useful for measuring blood pressure.
This is a very useful application and tool for any diabetes. However, as mention by Murphy, it has two issues that arise: data accuracy and privacy. I rarely use any 'advanced' technology else I will be having a 'technology brain' and can't understand what I am trying to work out. If I were to use this application, I don't think I could get the right blood pressure from/on me.
ReplyDeleteI am amazed at how the iPhone has been successful in developing applications that affect almost any fields of area. I liked the idea of how the iPhone now can be connected with various medical devices and display the output through the iPhone. And currently, when many people own an iPhone, then the benefits are infinite. In response to the question, I think that the developers made it because they realized how popular the iPhone was, so in order to ease people's access to medical equipments, they developed this application. But I can't completely say that it is not used as a marketing tool, because to me when people develop applications for devices such as iPhone, it means that they are trying to earn some money.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Chong, because yes its cool that Apple is trying to facilitate public access to medical devices through a phone. But yet again the question of how reliable can it be is still there. I believe that Apple has taking the iPhone popularity to promote these apps, im not saying its only just a marketing tool but, in my opinion, thats a greater part of it.
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