Slideshow: Swine Flu apps for iPhone round-up

Tuesday - May 5th, 2009 - 03:59pm EST by Brian Dolan | | |  |

Swine FluEarlier this week we wrote about IntuApps’ forthcoming Swine Flu Tracker application, which has gotten a huge amount of press as one way the iPhone is helping public health officials disseminate information about the H1N1 (Swine Flu) virus. Of course, IntuApps’ application isn’t available yet — Apple is still reviewing it, the company said.

You may not realize it, but there are actually two Swine Flu apps already in the AppStore. We also heard about one more that’s in the works to help physicians and other medical workers keep up-to-date on all things Swine Flu. 

Check out our slideshow round-up of the Swine Flu apps for iPhone — both up-and-coming and already here.

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  1. Timeline: The iPhone as medical tool | mobihealthnews Says:
    June 8th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    [...] May 5, 2009: At the height of the “swine flu” or H1N1 media frenzy, a number of quick coding developers created apps that helped people track swine flu cases’ locations, determine if their symptoms were signs of swine flu and more. The rush to create swine flu apps demonstrated the platform’s ability to offer timely applications to the market when needed, which could come in handy for future public health events. More [...]

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