How iPhone and iPad can change the medical world
filed in Ecosystem iOS, Mobile Productivity on Feb.13, 2010
Every day in blog world we see so much blogging about new phones coming out and new device, i am struggling to find a site that talks about how mobile OS and hardware can change business process and workflow.
Here is a good example of how a good mobile platform like the iPhone and iPod touch can really change the way different profession do things:
this is a video on a doctor by training talking about how his iPhone and mobile devices help doctors and medical practitioners around the world.
What i find interesting is that iPhone is a really powerful platform and companies are willing to develop applications for a particular industry.
On the App store you can see a category called “Medical” showing how much of a take-up the industry is giving to the iPhone ecosystem.
Watch this video:
Ivor Kovic, an emergency physician from Croatia, has developed a device which turns the iPhone into a physical tool.
The device, which is only in the prototype stage now, allows for an iPhone or iPod touch to be inserted into a plastic cradle that assists an individual in performing Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR (also known as ‘basic life support’ in most of the world). The user would open the PocketCPR app (free) [iTunes link] and place the iPhone into the cradle. The cradle allows for greater leverage during CPR, thus reducing administrator fatigue, while also allowing unobstructed views of the the CPR app which is giving audio and visual commands to the user.
Dr. Kovic says that his device isn’t necessarily intended for non-medical professionals who might only have to perform CPR once in their lives. He sees its primary advantage in hospital settings where doctors perform CPR on a daily basis. Also, the device could be useful in schools and businesses as an inexpensive way to help people perform CPR correctly.
You can find out more about the cradle at Dr. Kovic’s blog.
Death from sudden cardiac arrest is not inevitable. If more people knew CPR, more lives could be saved. To find a class in your area, in the US contact the American Heart Association. In the UK contact Bart’s City Life Savers.
