Apple iPhone 4S Announcements & Healthcare

Apple’s Announcements &HEALTHCARE

Voice Assistance The most landmark of the Apple announcements, Siri voice assistance, holds the promise of a new way to interact with mobile devices and apps. This development isn’t just important for busy doctors trying to keep sterile hands, it’s also a signiﬁcant advancement in assistive technology and a harbinger of things to come.

Voice control and dictation isn’t new oniPhone. iOS already has a primitivesystem built in, and many medical apps -such as Touch Medix Lightning Charts -integrate their own dictation software. But Apple’s new voice assistance, Siri, goes far beyond these. With Siri, doctors can converse with their phones to book appointments, reminders and more. Plus, the apps ties to WolframAlpha, making it particularly useful for doctors.

Paired with iOS 5’s new assistive features,such as custom gestures, SMS tones andcustom vibration, iPhone 4GS couldbecome the choice device forhandicapped users.

Although there isn’t any current indication that it will happen, it’spossible that one day all apps could include voicecommands and artiﬁcial intelligence, similar to what’s currentlybeing integrated with Microsoft Kinect.

Dual Core A5 ChipA5 Chip &Dual Core Apple may have used gaming to showcase their phone’s new processing power during the keynote, but this isn’t the only arena where extra processing power is important. This development brings the same processing power to iPhone that has made iPad 2 a powerhouse in healthcare and means that MRIs and other images can be viewed more clearly.

7 x Faster 2 x As FastGraphics As iPhone 4As the regulatory bodies like theFDA begin to look more closely atdiagnostic apps, and developersare creating more sophisticatedmedical image viewers, this boostin processing power helps establishiPhone, and not just iPad, as a truemedical tool.

Health TrackingGoes Mainstream Nike+ made run tracking easy with its specialized pedometer and mobile integration, but mobile health tracking is about to go even more mainstream as the feature becomes integrated into iPod Nano. This landmark opens the doors to encourage more mobile health tracking, allowing doctors to better understand our daily activity.

iPod Nano represents afun, easy and cheap wayfor users to track theiractivity. With its low costand durability, it’s possibleusers may start viewingNano as a ﬁtness toolrather than a music player. Mobile devices hold the potential to passively record people’s activity and use positive feedback loops to reinforce healthy habit. The integration of these features is a step in the direction of our mobile device being seen as a healthcare tool.

Lack of NFC It’s not just about what iPhone 4S has, it’s about what it DOESN’T have, and NFC is one glaring omission. NFC has the power to allow doctors to securely and easily get information from patients and medical devices. Google launched NFC in Android earlier this year, but Apple’s failure to follow spells difﬁculty for the technology.

Several aspects of NFC,including its security andaffordability, make it an idealway to exchange health databetween doctors andpatients, patients and medicaldevices, and more.Apple holds patents that includeNFC, but their failure to include itcan either been seen as a blowto the technology, or a boon forAndroid. In addition to havingNFC, Android also does notrequire certiﬁcation ofaccessories like Apple does.

Multiple Carriers& Cheap Devices Lots of companies have entered the smartphone markets with a variety of high- and low-end products on a range of carriers. This variety has challenged iPhone. The introduction of a free 3GS and an additional carrier means that a doctor can use a high-power device while his patient can opt for the basics.

Apple is successful in the smartphone space, but globally the company represents only 5% of the mobile phone market. There is a large number of people who will be purchasing smartphones in the next few years and a free 3GS ups the chance those phones will be iPhones. FREEThe introduction of another carrier meansthat there’s no pain for users inswitching phones, also upping iPhoneadoption

iPhone has been proven tobe one of the best devicesfor seniors, and with aplethora of diabetes,medication and otherhealthcare apps, it holdsgreat potential.Until now, iPhone has beenprohibitively expensive forﬁxed incomes, but thediscounted 3GS opens newoptions. Perhaps one day itwill be even covered bymedicare.

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