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Jul 02, 09 - 12:35 pm Comment from: aka Christian

I loved the surprised tone when they said, "It EVEN runs on Windows Mobile devices." If that's what you doctor is using, get a second opinion.

Jul 02, 09 - 12:53 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Good! Because after my girlfriend finds out that I bought another iPhone.....

Jul 02, 09 - 01:10 pm Comment from: mike_in_helsinki

They will soon have an app that allows real time monitoring of how that complete asshat Obama is running the country into debt through his reckless spending. Go ahead, name the app iAsshat

Jul 02, 09 - 01:19 pm Comment from: theloniousMac

@mike_in_helsinki,

that app is there at:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=295478092&mt=8

Jul 02, 09 - 01:20 pm Comment from: Demon

When the device start rolling out that allow monitoring of patients with devices through the iPhone by the hospital from a central location and remotely with doctors monitoring remote patients with an iPhone with so patients do not need to be confined to the hospital but can go home, work or anywhere the patient wants or needs will be the big turning point in medical device portability.
A Patient with a Pacemaker that interfaces via Bluetooth to the iPhone monitors the patients heart rhythm and keeps it in time. If the Pacemaker needed to simulate the patients heart too much or too often it could notify the Hospital and Doctor sending them EKG traces of the event. Or if the Pacemaker malfunctioned or something the Device could make a notification with diagnostic information and the Doctor could send the device new or adjusted operating parameters or have the patient notified that the device needed replacing and have them report to the hospital for replacement surgery.
The options and possibilities are vast. All the way to sensors to monitor a convicted Drug offenders blood for illegal drugs and then notify their court officer of violations. The same could be done for DUI repeat offenders, sensors implanted in the offender monitors the Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) levels if the levels are above the legal limits then the iPhone via bluetooth would not authorize the car to start if the driver's BAC was above the legal limit the court could also be notified that the convict tried to operate their Motor Vehicle while under the influence of Alcohol or even illegal drugs.
Kind of Orwellian I know but, how cares they're convicts.

Just think, an entire generation will now be born and grow up with the iPhone. Soon we'll hear kids with the annoying line: "How did you guys do THAT before the iPhone?"...

@Demon

Exactly, I would like some sort of implant for my daughter.

Then I can get "Virgin Alert" messages if her blood pressure rises too much.

Jul 02, 09 - 02:13 pm Comment from: LateRegistrant

I plan to dial up my own readings just to feel more connected with myself.

Jul 02, 09 - 02:22 pm Comment from: qka

Isn't the same Jim Goldman that everyone was excoriating several days ago for his temerity to say something less than laudatory about Apple?

Just wondering.

Jul 02, 09 - 02:23 pm Comment from: jtc

@Demon

if the patient doesn't need to come into the office.. how will they collect from doctor visits? heck if you can buy an ipod touch and its connected to your wifi and it does updates through a device to the doctor.. you could save a ton of money with no copays.

@Judy
if she's over 13 dont count on her being a virgin still... kids keep startin younger and younger.. its like they learn to walk then have sex..

Jul 02, 09 - 02:24 pm Comment from: jtc

@Judy

just a thought if you meant Virgin Alert would go blasting on her iphone if blood pressure went up too high.. then that could possibly help a little... till she shuts it off or smashes the phone

if she's over 13 dont count on her being a virgin still... kids keep startin younger and younger.. its like they learn to walk then have sex..

If something can be done to reverse the trauma of premature sex (first time pain, aids, stds, pregnancy etc.) until they are taught how the "system" works and mentally mature to handle it (adults), preventative measures and safe sex, them I'm all for it.

Usually it's all the young male just looking to get his rocks off in a hurry and forces himself on her.

Female pleasure is complicated and takes longer anyway and a lot more risk involved /skill by a caring male willing to wait until she had hers a few times first before he gets his as it's very fast.

A mistake like a pregnancy can cause a lot of problems for a premature girl. The abortion question etc and the trauma that causes knowing she killed her own baby.



just a thought if you meant Virgin Alert would go blasting on her iphone if blood pressure went up too high.. then that could possibly help a little... till she shuts it off or smashes the phone

Sure she could do that, but she has to come home eventually knowing I know she was fooling around.

A little preventative interdiction can advert a ton of pain or a child having a child.

Sex is for adults. It's not for children.

It will come naturally when one is a adult and a bit more learning and maturity have occurred.

Peer pressure only works while a child is in school, when your a adult nobody really wants to know your sex history.

@mike_in_helsink

you might want to look at what has happened with the national debt. When Reagan took office it skyrocketed, Clinton gets elected and it is on a downward trend. Bush gets into office and it skyrockets again. Obama inherited quite a mess of an economy. At this point he has to try something. All this shows is that if you have the reputation of being fiscally conservative, you can spend money like a drunken sailor (Reagan, Bush). But please President Obama, how about supporting an American based company. Get an iPhone and give that Canadian company the heave ho!

Jul 03, 09 - 12:04 am Comment from: LeftCoastDude

Ignoring the off-topic rants of deranged individuals, I think there are some things that trouble me about iPhone medical apps (save for the airstrip app, which overcomes many of my concerns).

1. Until the patient data is absolutely secure, meaning that if you lose your iPhone there are no conceivable conditions where someone can pull the data out of your iPhone, there are numerous Federal regulations that can be violated.

2. According to FDA regulations, any product that diagnoses or treats a human or animal patient is subject to approval by the FDA. Airstrip is approved by the FDA, but most of the stuff on the app store hasn't. I am engaged in development of medical apps, and in the developer agreement for the SDK, it is clear that Apple will pull any app that does not meet Federal regulations. Anyways, unless you can show, in clinical trials that most risks are mitigated in using the iPhone for diagnosis or treatment, it's not going to be approved.

As for a patient being diagnosed by iPhone. Oh that's rich. The iPhone is going to draw blood? It's going to analyze blood? It's going to check your weight? BP? A diagnosis for CVD is more than a bluetooth connection to your pacemaker. Glad you idiots all attended medical school.

Oh, yeah, I did. And to the sad Republican nutjobs...I think nationalized healthcare is necessary thanks to nutjob Republican policies.

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