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Stethoscope to be replaced by iPhone
Tuesday 31st August, 2010
The iPhone is set to replace the stethoscope across, with physicians starting to favour smartphones to monitor patients’ heartbeats.
An application for the iPhone, which costs around a dollar, turns the device into stethoscope.
There is also a free version of the application, which is being downloaded by more than 500 users a day.
The inventor of the software, Peter Bentley, a researcher from University College London, has said he is excited about the adoption of his mobile phone invention into the medical workplace.
While he said he had originally invented it as a fun toy, experts in the medical field have said the software is a major advance in medical technology which has saved lives and enabled doctors in remote areas to access specialist expertise.
Other smartphone medical applications which are now available to doctor’s around the world include an app that allows patients to cough into their phone to tell whether they have a cold, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases; software that lets doctors look at x-rays, ultrasounds, CT and MRI images on handheld devices; an instant ECG that determines heart disease; and an application that gives obstetricians real-time remote access to foetal heart tracings, contraction patterns and vital signs.
Tuesday 31st August, 2010
The iPhone is set to replace the stethoscope across, with physicians starting to favour smartphones to monitor patients’ heartbeats.
An application for the iPhone, which costs around a dollar, turns the device into stethoscope.
There is also a free version of the application, which is being downloaded by more than 500 users a day.
The inventor of the software, Peter Bentley, a researcher from University College London, has said he is excited about the adoption of his mobile phone invention into the medical workplace.
While he said he had originally invented it as a fun toy, experts in the medical field have said the software is a major advance in medical technology which has saved lives and enabled doctors in remote areas to access specialist expertise.
Other smartphone medical applications which are now available to doctor’s around the world include an app that allows patients to cough into their phone to tell whether they have a cold, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases; software that lets doctors look at x-rays, ultrasounds, CT and MRI images on handheld devices; an instant ECG that determines heart disease; and an application that gives obstetricians real-time remote access to foetal heart tracings, contraction patterns and vital signs.
