A medical student, Allen Faulad developed an app for iPhone and iPad which has capability to enhance and adjust sound to discretely improving your hearing experience through earphones provided on your device.  The app is called EarTrumpet and was developed in collaboration with the Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Department at the University of California, Irvine. EarTrumpet (iTunes link) exhibited...

Cell phone technology has been growing by leaps and bounds; smart phones and their apps have made significant impact on consumers.  Smart phones have revolutionized the transfer of data through phone; be it voice, photo or video.  Engineers at University of Washington (UW) have exploited the data transfer capability of cell phones furthermore to develop a system for deaf people that will enable them...

Medial apps for smart phones are advancing at the rate of a heartbeat.  Last week we reported an Android app for measuring heart rate.  A latest app along the same lines, can covert your iPhone into a stethoscope.  The iPhone app developed by a UK professor, Peter Bently is called iStethoscope (iTunes link).  Can you believe that just after its release more than three million doctors have downloaded...

I visited eye doctor for annual eye exam check few weeks ago.  The eye exam includes reading through rows with letters of different size, which is known as Snellen eye chart.  The digital technology has really refined the eye chart with good variations of text, so that you don’t memorize the lines before being asked to test your eye.  An iPhone, iPad app, Eye Chart Pro (iTunes link) adds more...

Smart phone apps for health have become more innovative and user-friendly.  There is no doubt that iPhone has contributed to popularity of the smart phone due to two main reasons; being an Apple product, good looks and easy to usability. Android entered the market much later than iPhone, but its popularity has risen sharply since its launch.  Its market share goes hand in hand with iPhone users. ...

Kaplan Publishing is known to almost every student as they have gold standards books for preparation of various exams including GMAT, Med School, etc.  Kaplan announced that as an initiative of their back to school campaign they are giving free “ebooks” of all their standardized test prep until Aug 30th. Can you go to a store and get your copy?  The answer is yes, but not any stores, you will...

Alt12 Apps is a San Francisco based company and was founded in July 2009.  Moto of Alt12 is to develop “compelling and impactful” mobile apps for women.  The company launched its second iPhone app geared towards women health.  The app is called Pink Pad iPhone app, a central health hub for women.

BP has taken care of the leak, but the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, continue to be a health issue for the affected areas.  Mark Ryan, who is the director of the Louisiana Poison Center is tech savvy and was using his iPhone to report oil spill related poisonings to the Public Health Department.  With the steep surge in cases

Preventive health care is gaining momentum with many companies offering reward programs like rewards for regularly going to fitness center.  Health awareness programs fall under the same category and have shown effectiveness in reducing certain diseases.  Medtronic MiniMed launched educational game for kids and young adults called Carb Counting with Lenny. 

With advent of iPad in the market, there is constant effort to develop new apps for iPad or develop iPad version of existing iPhone apps.  VisualDx Mobile is one of the iPhone applications, which is popular among medical community for its point-of-care information.  The app consists of a database of high quality, meticulously tagged images dermatological conditions.  Another key feature of the app...