“Providing personal mobile computers to medical residents reduces delays in patient care, enhances their access to electronic records and helps them to train, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. ” Says an article in Macworld. for more go here
“A handful of clinicians at Seattle Children’s Hospital gave iPads a test run, using them to tap into the corporate network and run critical apps in a virtual desktop environment. The results weren’t good: iPads came back with a poor bill of health.” Starts an article on the iPad in Healthcare. See it here.
There is an iPad in medicine website. It has resources for apps, as well a forum program so you can share your experiences with the iPad in medicine. The address is: http://machealthcare.org/
Tim Cook started off the session by updating the Mac. 6 Million copies of Lion have been downloaded so far. The Mac Book Pro and iMac are the best selling notebook and desktop computers respectively. Apple has 23% market share of all personal computers.
The iPod line has 78% market share of all portable music players – 45 million iPods were sold between July, 2010 to June, 2011. iTunes has 20 million songs, and 16 billion songs downloaded. iPhone had a 125% year over year growth with over half sold being iPhone 4.
80% of Hospitals are either testing or piloting use of the iPad. Over 250,000,000 iOS devices have been sold, 140,000 apps available in the App store and over $3 billion have been paid out to developers. iPad has a 74% market share in tablet devices.
Next at bat was Scott Forestall. He discussed iOS 5. There will be a new free app called cards where you make your own greeting cards in your iOS device. You could mail the greeting card to anyone in the US for $2.99, anywhere else for $4.99
Twitter integration in apps with iOS 5. Newsstand will let you purchase magazines and newspapers, like the iBook store. Apple also updated the camera app, and will introduce a new Game Center. Safari will be updated and will include tabbed browsing. Wireless app updates will also be available. iOS 5 will be released October 12 for free.
Eddie Cue came up to discuss iCloud. It will store all of your content and wirelessly push it to all your devices. iTunes in the Cloud will also be available. You can also put your photos, calendars in the iCloud service. iCloud will be available on October 12.
Another iCloud feature will be Find My Friends. A location service that uses Find My iPhone to track friends. You can turn it off and on at you leisure. You can also invite friends to share their locations for a limited time.
iTunes Match will can your iTunes Library, add any songs that are missing from it. It will be $24.99/year.
iCloud will be 5GB free and available for Lion and iOS 5 users. An additional 10GB will be $20/year, 20GB will be $40/year and 50GB will be $100/year. could will be available October 12.
Phil Shiller was next to give an update on the iPod. There will be a new iPod Nano. It will feature an easier to navigate interface, an improved fitness experience with the Nike+ shoes. There will be 16 new clock faces available, including a classic “Mickey Mouse Watch”. Pricing will be $129 for the 8GB model and $149 for the 16GB model.
The iPod Touch is the #1 Portable game player. It will run iOS 5, and will support iCloud. There will be a white model coming out. Pricing will be $199 for the 8GB version, $299 for the 32GB version, and $399 for the 64GB version. The 2GB iPod Shuffle will be available for $49. All new iPods will be available on October 12.
On to the iPhone. The new version will be the iPhone 4S It will be all new inside, running an A5 dual-core processor. featuring 7x faster graphics and double the speed. The iPhone 4S will feature fantastic battery life. 8 hours of 3G talk time, 14 hours 2G talk time, 6 hours 3G Browsing time, 40 hours music time and 10 hours video time.
The iPhone 4S will feature faster downloads and higher data speeds. It will also be a “World Phone” featuring both GSM and CDMA.
It will feature an 8 megapixel camera with 60% more pixels and 73% more light, a five element lens. The time to first photo is now down to 1.1 seconds, with a 0.5 second shot to shot delay. The camera will also support 1080P HD video recording, and AirPlay mirroring.
Oh, yes there is one more thing. Siri. Welcome back Scott. For years voice recognition has been a dream of computer sets. With Sire, Apple might have been able to get it right.It will integrate with maps to give directions.
Phil is back. you could do dictation with Siri. and it will work with built-in apps. with dictation anywhere. It’s in beta right now, so it will not be included with iOS 5.
Prices for the iPhone 4S will be $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB, $399 for 54GB, The 8GB iPhone 3GS will be free, and the 8GB iPhone 4 will be $99 with a 2-year contract from either AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint. Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S will Start October 7th and the phone will be available on October 14th.
According to All Things Digital, Apple CEO, Tim Cook will unveil the 5th generation iPhone at a media event on October 4
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“Yale School of Medicine will supply all of its students with an iPad 2.” Says an article in TUAW. for more information, click here
“When TUAW last talked with the folks behind iTriage, it was shortly before World Health Day in 2010, and the app had just updated to version 2.0 with a version for Android.” Starts an article from TUAW on the update on iTriage. Read it here
“Cardiograph, by MacroPinch, is a new health & fitness application that uses the camera on your iPhone or iPad 2 to measure your heart rate.”. From a report in tipb.com. Read it here
“At Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), communication can be a matter of life and death.” says an article in Macworld.com. Read it here
“For diabetics, checking blood glucose levels is literally a pain.” Says an Article from TUAW on using an iPhone as a Blood Glucose Reader. For more information click here
“Nerve Whiz (free, non-universal), an app developed by University of Michigan neurologist Zachary London, M.D., could lead to a better understanding of the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system.”. An article from TUAW – Read it here
Jul 082011
“A group of researchers at MIT have built a surprisingly useful medical addon for the iPhone that apparently can help detect cataracts” Says an article in TUAW. Read it here
“In a little seen nugget published in an article of the Chronicle, the Ivy League medical school, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will be requiring their incoming medical students to use the Inkling e-book app for key medical textbooks in their first year of medical school.”. An Article in iMedicalApps.com, one of the most discussed articles in the past 14 days. read more here
“Apple has promoted the best features of the Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch for students in three new web pages on Apple.com.” A story form MacStories. Read more here
“Withings is a company with an interesting mission — making it possible to send health information directly from measuring devices to the internet, where the data can be shared with personal computer and mobile apps.” from an article on a Blood Pressure app/sleeve device for your iOS machine. Read more here