December 1, 2010: The US Army conducts pilot tests to determine whether electronic medical records (EMR) applications running on Apple iOS and Android devices can be used in the field. The Army’s Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) tests the apps on the iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, and Android powered devices like HTC’s EVO and Samsung’s Epic, according to a report in Federal Telemedicine News. More
December 14, 2010: UCLA’S Los Angeles School of Nursing equipped its third year undergraduate students and first-year master’s entry clinical nursing students with iPod touch devices. Some 118 of the students received the devices during a robing ceremony where each student is given a white coat to “signify their journey from classroom to the clinical setting,” Courtney Lyder the dean of the school stated. The devices came preloaded with three medical apps: Nursing Central, Medical Spanish, & NCLEX Review. More
December 30, 2010: Dr. David Albert uploads a video demo of an iPhone case that he invented, which he calls the iPhoneECG, since it transmits a “clinical grade ECG” to an iPhone app. Albert’s video goes viral eventually accumulating hundreds of thousands of views. The iPhoneECG becomes one of the smash hits of CES 2011 where Albert and his device make it onto national television programs that covered the big consumer tech event. More
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