December 1, 2009: Bradley Merrill Thompson explains how to get the FDA to clear a mobile health app. More
December 11, 2009: Apple announced the top selling apps, songs, games and podcasts from 2009 in an iTunes feature it called iTunes Rewind 2009. Perhaps surprisingly, one medical iPhone app made the list of the top 30 selling iPhone applications in 2009: Proloquo2Go. The app, which costs $189.999, appears among apps that generated the most revenue in 2009, which seems to be how Apple created a list of the Top Selling apps for the year. “Proloquo2Go is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking.” More
December 14, 2009: While Apple supports the Nike+ activity monitor and has demonstrated a connected blood glucometer made by Lifescan at its iPhone 3G unveiling, its movement toward championing peripheral health devices for the iPhone has been decidedly limited to date. However, a recent patent application points to the a lot of activity on the connected health front inside the company’s research and development teams: An Apple patent describes a couple of methods for using a wireless earbud to track a user’s blood oxygen level, body temperature, heat flux and heart rate. The patent application notes that the earbud could use infrared photodetectors to monitor the user’s biometrics. More
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