Two years ago we created the first timeline that tracked the milestones and newsworthy events surrounding the adoption of the iPhone by healthcare professionals. A little more than a year ago we updated that timeline so it spanned 18 months of health-related iPhone news. Today, our medical iPhone timeline stretches across 30 months of news events — for two and a half years medical professionals have used the device in clinical settings.
It’s clear that in 2011 the amount of health-related iPhone news has surged and what was once newsy in 2008 and 2009 is no longer novel. What is perhaps more clear is that while the iPhone has steadily built its healthcare user base,
The timeline that follows serves as a reminder of some of these notable events. We know this list, while extensive, is not exhaustive. I’m sure we missed a number of important events.
Be sure to let us know what’s missing in the comments section, and we’ll update accordingly.
So, which milestones led to the success of the iPhone and iPad in healthcare? Check out our iPhone as a medical tool timeline below. Each page documents the events that took place during a particular month — or in some cases, over the course of a couple of months if the newscycle was slow:
April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 – July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 – March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011
2009: FDA's Don Witters says possibility of the iPhone becoming designated as a medical device is very real.
November 29, 2008: A medical student successfully lobbies Apple to create a “medical” category for applications in the AppStore that would include mostly applications for physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers. The new category took 82 applications from the still existing Health & Fitness category and marked the first spin-off category Apple has created. More
January 22, 2009: Epocrates Essentials becomes available in Apple’s AppStore for iPhone and iTouch users. More
February 12, 2009: During a question and answer period at a medical records event in Palm Springs, CA, the Food and Drug Administration’s Don Witters says that there may be circumstances where the iPhone should be considered a medical device and regulated as one. More
March 17, 2009: At Apple’s special sneak preview of iPhone OS 3.0, Scott Forstall, SVP of iPhone Software at Apple gushed: “Now here’s a class [of services] that we think will be really interesting: medical devices.” Forstall explained that the new iPhone OS will allow application developers to sync medical devices like BP monitors via both Bluetooth and USB. “So imagine the possibilities,” Forstall continued. “We think this is profound.” Apple then invited a rep from LifeScan, a Johnson & Johnson company onstage to demonstrate how a Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor synchs up to a diabetes management application running on the iPhone. More and More
March 31, 2009: An iPhone developer uses Google Health’s API to create Health Cloud, which allows Google Health users to view their personal health record from their iPhone. Google has yet to take the PHR mobile itself. More
Navigation: ( ←Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | Next→ )