While our year-end report is a solid snapshot of the state of the industry at the end of 2009, we noticed that a good number of our most popular news posts from the past year did not find their place in the overall narrative.
As expected the iPhone was a dominant theme for our most popular posts of 2009, which were picked based on which ones accumulated the greatest number of views during the past year. (Naturally, some of the posts from earlier in the year benefited from having more time to accumulate views.) Other big brands that made the list include Weight Watchers, Roche and Jitterbug, which managed to make news that proved to be among the most popular this past year. Our interviews with Johnson & Johnson company LifeScan, Scott Eising from the Mayo Clinic, and Natalie Hodge ("the first iPhone doctor") from Personal Pediatrics ranked among our 15 most read posts, too.
MobiHealthNews published more than 700 posts in 2009, here's the list of the 15 that proved most popular:
1. The real top ten iPhone medical apps
In March we put together our first list of the most popular iPhone apps listed in Apple's AppStore "medical" category. The list pulled the top ten apps that were currently the most popular on the site. While a few of those original "top apps" remain, the majority of most popular apps today are not listed here. Read The Original
2. Interview: Lifescan on iPhone 3.0
MobiHealthNews interviewed Johnson & Johnson company LifeScan’s Director of Communications Dave Detmers the day after the company appeared on-stage at an official Apple iPhone launch event. Detmers gave MobiHealthNews the scoop on the company’s demo fleshed out the background story on its Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor that synchs up with the iPhone 3.0 OS. As Detmers noted, no product launch was imminent -- the demo was just a prototype. We still haven't seen a product from LifeScan that synchs to the iPhone, however, the demo proved to be incredibly influential. Suddenly the healthcare industry was buzzing about connected health with wireless (especially the iPhone) as the centerpiece of that conversation. Read The Original
3. Timeline: The iPhone as medical tool
By June the buzz around the iPhone as a medical tool had reached such a fever pitch that we had trouble keeping up with all things iPhone and health, so we assembled a timeline to organize the developments up until that point. Read The Original
