While I too would love to see this happen I'm wondering what if any hurdles the iPhone itself would have to overcome before it could be used as a medical monitoring device?
I have no doubt in a few years you'll be able to pick up medical iPhone attachments at WalMart for $20 each. I think you're right regarding the problem of adaption lies elsewhere though. Imagine someone with a 12" line tethered EKG silver dollar-sized device that you lay over your chest and run an app for 30 seconds, where the readout gets sent in to monitor central. Sounds good until you consider all the things that can go wrong....user mismanages the feed, the information sent to a monitoring algorithm at a health center misreads and doesn't read atrial or ventricular fibs...who gets sued? No matter how infrequent something like that would be, or how incremental to the advantages for the rest of the users, all concerned parties will want to make sure they're insured in some capacity. It's probably waiting on the politicians and lawyers.
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While I too would love to see this happen I'm wondering what if any hurdles the iPhone itself would have to overcome before it could be used as a medical monitoring device?
I have no doubt in a few years you'll be able to pick up medical iPhone attachments at WalMart for $20 each. I think you're right regarding the problem of adaption lies elsewhere though. Imagine someone with a 12" line tethered EKG silver dollar-sized device that you lay over your chest and run an app for 30 seconds, where the readout gets sent in to monitor central. Sounds good until you consider all the things that can go wrong....user mismanages the feed, the information sent to a monitoring algorithm at a health center misreads and doesn't read atrial or ventricular fibs...who gets sued? No matter how infrequent something like that would be, or how incremental to the advantages for the rest of the users, all concerned parties will want to make sure they're insured in some capacity. It's probably waiting on the politicians and lawyers.
What is a power amplifier?
It doesn't matter what a power amplifier is: there is an app for that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_amplifier
Not only does the iPhone have fart apps, now it will have a fart detector too!
I like it! Way to think in the dutch oven.... hopefully it has some other applications too
ALA startrek
The iphone morphs into a tricoder.
"He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet, I'll get his iPhone"