Cool Technology of the Week

Several very innovative healthcare applications were shown last week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.

One was from a company called Air Touch that offers secure, patient data in real-time to smart phones. Their products were FDA approved in April 2009.

Here's the description from their website:

“The development of the AirStrip Technologies platform was driven by the desire to improve the speed and quality of communication in healthcare.
The AirStrip Technologies platform securely delivers critical patient information, including virtual real-time waveform data, directly from hospital monitoring systems to a doctor or nurse’s smart phone, laptop or desktop. The platform is completely reusable, scalable and data independent, and can be employed throughout the healthcare enterprise. The AirStrip service is provided to physicians by the hospital.

AirStrip Technologies offers mobile, medical software applications that deliver this vital data directly to mobile devices, including smart phones. The applications are powered over wired and wireless networks. Patient information is available anytime, anywhere, on virtually any carrier, with any device on any platform.”

Their iPhone offering includes

Critical Care

OB

Cardiology

Imaging

Lab


The iPhone is quickly turning into a major resource for accessing mobile health applications.

Although I find the iPhone a challenging device for data entry, it's a great device for data viewing. Realtime viewing of waveform, imaging and text data via a handheld mobile device. That's cool!