http://mobihealthnews.com/896/next-week-iphone-30-details-revealed/ mobihealthnews - the daily mHealth industry monitor. Subscribe for our free weekly e-newsletter! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://mobihealthnews.com/896/next-week-iphone-30-details-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-924 mobihealthnews » Blog Archive » iPhone 3.0 all about mHealth Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:39:43 +0000 http://mobihealthnews.com/?p=896#comment-924 [...] As I predicted last week, Apple’s announced this afternoon about the new features of the iPhone OS 3.0 platform will enable a new host of mobile health applications, devices and services based on the popular smartphone. Today’s event at Apple’s headquarters included speakers from LifeScan, a Johnson&Johnson company, as well as advanced functionality for connecting accessories like medical devices via USB and Bluetooth (Continua, are you reading this?). As I mentioned last week, the expected “push technology” update did, in fact, come to fruition as app developers can now send notifications to iPhone users even when their apps are not running live on the iPhone. This means medication adherence apps or other medical reminders applications are now more effective, because the user no longer has to remember to click on the app to get the reminders. Reminders can now be “pushed” to the phone like a text message now. [...] [...] As I predicted last week, Apple’s announced this afternoon about the new features of the iPhone OS 3.0 platform will enable a new host of mobile health applications, devices and services based on the popular smartphone. Today’s event at Apple’s headquarters included speakers from LifeScan, a Johnson&Johnson company, as well as advanced functionality for connecting accessories like medical devices via USB and Bluetooth (Continua, are you reading this?). As I mentioned last week, the expected “push technology” update did, in fact, come to fruition as app developers can now send notifications to iPhone users even when their apps are not running live on the iPhone. This means medication adherence apps or other medical reminders applications are now more effective, because the user no longer has to remember to click on the app to get the reminders. Reminders can now be “pushed” to the phone like a text message now. [...]

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