title: Ultrasound? Fetal monitoring? Spectrometer? There's an app for that!: biomedical smart phone apps are taking healthcare by storm.
abstract: If you think your doctor is a mobile phone junkie now, you haven't seen anything yet. A profusion of new software applications, or apps, are either already here or coming soon to convert smart phones into biomedical devices that will play a larger role in healthcare. Engineers, computer programmers, medical professionals, and other researchers are jumping on the bandwagon to create apps and add-on devices, or peripherals, that turn a smart phone into a microscope, an ultrasound machine, or a heart-rate monitor, just to name a few.
authors.affiliation: LMERTZ@nasw.org
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mertz
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008853:Microscopy; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D014463:Ultrasonography; D018910:Video Games; D055986:Vital Signs