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Feeling Sick? There's an App for That
6/25/2012 9:34:26 AM
Three tries. More than two years. And roughly $150,000. That's what it took for MIM Software to get the Food and Drug Administration's clearance for a smartphone application that physicians can use to view MRIs and other medical images. "It was 2008 when we first tried," said Mark Cain, the Ohio firm's chief technology officer. "They didn't know what questions to ask and neither did we. . . . But at some point, they had to be thinking, 'How many more people will be lined up behind these guys?' " His was, in fact, among the first apps cleared by the FDA. And since then, medical applications have flooded onto millions of smartphones, offering consumers the chance to check their heart rate, identify a pill in their medicine cabinet or even scan moles for skin cancer. Soon, if a firm called AliveCor gets its way, they may even be able to get an EKG by pressing iPhone to chest.
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