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The most innovative Medical Apps of 2012

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Editor's note: Make sure to check out our latest new Top 10 free iPad medical apps piece, released on June 19th, 2013!

Introduction:

At iMedicalApps, our goal is to review apps from a Physician standpoint so we can help healthcare providers navigate the growing number of available medical and healthcare apps. There were times this year when an app caused us to pause and think, "Why hasn't anyone ever done this before?", or "This is the future of mobile medicine".

With 2012 coming to an end, we have put together a list of innovative medical and healthcare apps - apps that gave us pause and represent the future of mobile medicine. These apps should also inspire developers and other healthcare providers to think outside the box when developing their own medical apps. Of note, most of the apps mentioned in this compilation are free to download.

Methods:

This review is a culmination of apps that have been reviewed by iMedicalApps and based on favorites by the editors. Some of the apps listed are in the process of being reviewed by iMedicalApps and have not been published yet. We chose apps in different genres (patient education, medical imaging, clinical reference, bedside mobile tools, etc.) and identified apps that were 'game' changers for the field.

This year saw a huge advancement in patient education apps. Meditech developed Wrist Repair to help educate patients on the steps required when undergoing Open Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF) of a distal radius fracture - a common orthopedic surgery.
What was Innovative?
The app utilized a slew of 3D visualizations to hep users understand the procedure being performed during the surgery. Additionally, the app gave unique views of just 3D reconstructions of the wrists, view of the bones only, or via an x-ray view.

The app allowed the user to zoom in and out and allowed clinicians to highlight or annotate in the app areas of demonstration - this is the most innovative part of the app - it allows dynamic interaction for clinicians while they are educating patients.
Why is it important?
Wrist Repair provides a blueprint to developers and health care providers on how mobile multimedia can be used with patients.

Links:

iMedicalApps Review
iTunes: Wrist Repair (Free)
Patient Education App Reviews

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At iMedicalApps, our goal is to review apps from a Physician standpoint so we can help healthcare providers navigate the growing number of available medical and healthcare apps. There were times this year when an app caused us to pause and think, "Why hasn't anyone ever done this before?", or "This is the future of mobile medicine".

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Solve the Outbreak App
This application will allow you to interact with and solve a disease outbreak. You will think like an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). Download from the App store today!

CDC Mobile Application (Main Agency App)
This application is a companion to CDC’s trusted website (www.cdc.gov). It helps you explore a variety of health information including health articles, popular journals, timely updates and access to social media. Download from the App store, GooglePlay orMicrosoft Windows 8 today!

Influenza Application for Clinicians and Health Care Professionals
The CDC Influenza application for clinicians and other health care professionals makes it easier than ever to find CDC’s latest recommendations and influenza activity updates on your iPad. Download from the App store today!

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Application
This application provides access to the complete array of publications in the MMWR series, which includes the MMWR weekly, plus Recommendations and Reports, Surveillance Summaries, Supplements, and the annual Summary of Notifiable Diseases. Download from the App store today!

Preventing Chronic Disease Journal (PCD) Application
Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is now available as a free app on your mobile device, bringing you the latest and most relevant peer-reviewed research on public health efforts to prevent chronic disease. Download from the App store today!

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Guest article: Will the Mobile Medical Apps transform hearing healthcare?

By Tarik Zukic
Editor's Note: From time to time The Hearing Blog presents guest articles for our Readers to consider. Today's article by Tarik Zukic, who is the Managing Director of 2Pi GmbH in Vienna, will bring a fresh perspective on mobile medical apps as applied to the hearing healthcare industry worldwide.
The convergence of hearing aids and personal mobile platforms like smartphones is opening a way for new and innovative applications. The first product offerings from the hearing aid industry are promising: GN ReSound has generated a healthy dose of excitement with its foray into the Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy ("BLE") territory and the anticipated SoundPoint-styled app from Starkey is promising a real innovation by allowing the user to substantially adjust his/her hearing aids. But will the new technology transform hearing healthcare and reach new customers?

Despite of technological possibilities the effectiveness of providing hearing prosthesis has not changed since decades. And while the industry relies on demographic and geographic developments to guarantee the future growth, the conventional hearing aid concept has failed to attract customers outside the traditional set. We can even speculate that if the growth figures are adjusted for demographic and geographic developments (including purchasing power) the penetration of the hearing aid market is actually shrinking.

The hearing aid industry of today is an interdependent ecosystem. Manufacturers and conventional hearing aid retailers are united in understanding that the equilibrium of the ecosystem serves best the interests of all relevant actors. New products are conceptualized and engineered according to the slowly changing demand of traditional purchasers. A substantial innovation, aiming at creation of totally new product class, seems to be inhibited by the risk of co-adoption in the ecosystem of hearing aid. [An enlightening discussion of co-adoption risks is described in the book The Wide Lensby Ron Adner ¹]. Evidently, the future of innovation in the hearing healthcare industry will depend not only on the technology, but on other factors as well, which we will discuss in this article.

The introduction of smartphone-based solutions has the potential to be a game changer: Unlike the internet boom that failed to significantly affect hearing healthcare, smartphone technology is much more suitable. Being an isolated and relatively standardized device, a smartphone can better comply with safety requirements. The touch-screen and the available computing power can provide a seamless audio-visual interface between the user and his/her hearing aid.

Direction of Innovation in the Hearing Aid Industry

The existence of innovation pessimism in any high-tech industry of today may seem unlikely at first, especially that the signs of technological excellence are everywhere. But as soon as distinction is made between the fundamental innovation, the one that provides a basis for a substantial growth wave, and the incremental innovation that maintains profitability but has no purpose of creating new market opportunities, one can confirm a modest innovation pace in many technology driven industries.

Two types of Innovation

In his seminal book The Innovator's Dilemma ¹ Harvard professor Clayton Christensen introduces the concept of disruptive innovation in technology driven products. His model makes a distinction between the incremental and disruptive innovation and is valid for the hearing aid industry of today. Two aspects are particularly interesting:

1. The successful industry players are focused on covering demands of their biggest purchasers. The manufacturers concentrate on incremental innovation in order to satisfy the demands of those customers and they are efficient at it. But this optimization puts the internal innovation under pressure. The very strength of supplying the existing customer creates a disability to spot a new market opportunity and innovate in a disruptive way.

2. The market demands on performance are continuously growing, but the technological advance is often happening at higher rate. As a result one technology solution can surpass the market demands. To innovate only technologically is therefore not enough; the innovation must reference the product concept and value proposition.

In the terms of the hearing aid industry that means the following:

1. Following the digital revolution of the 1990's, incremental innovation was pursued together with strengthening operations-based part of the value chain. A conventional hearing aid product has been since equipped by an impressive variety of new features: Inspired algorithms, waterproofing, colorful styles and rechargeable batteries. By optimizing the performance in serving their traditional customers (individual practitioners in the US, dispensing chains, and European & UK government health services) the leading hearing aid manufacturers essentially overlook large groups of potential customers and markets: Traditional non-adopters, emerging economies, and so forth;

2. The ever increasing technological performance of a state-of-the-art hearing aid and the complexity of related services are outpacing the demands of the mainstream market and might not be necessary for the majority of the users.

The question is: will Made for iPhone hearing aid be utilized as just another incremental innovation or will it be employed for accelerating market growth in line with promises of demographic and geographic developments?

iPhone as a medical device - market demand, technology potential and regulations

Increased availability of smartphones will inevitably lead to a revolution in the app-based diagnostic devices. The computational power as well as the quality of built-in sensors and user interface rapidly surpassed the technology used in many professional diagnostic devices. While the technological advantages of the smartphones are obvious, the regulatory issues related to the technology are catching up slowly.

Despite of a complex procedure for approval of medical products by FDA, TÜV, and similar bodies, there has been an increased introduction of medical apps for mobile phones, and especially iPhone. Examples of such devices are iPhone ECG from AliveCor, iBGStar's glucose monitor and Scanadu's Scout. [Editor's Note: The Remotoscope iPhone-based otoscope and companion app developed at Georgia Tech was previously covered by The Hearing Blog.] All of those devices require additional sensor hardware that has been cleared by the FDA. In terms of regulations, the main dilemma is the fact that the diagnostic device is meant for use by the patient himself - in absence of a supervising professional. The main concern of the FDA is that the supervision of a doctor or nurse has to be fully replaced by the functionality of the app (software) ³. In the case of hearing healthcare, the FDA is especially concerned about internet-based sales of hearing aids.

FDA and mobile medical apps

In 2011, the FDA drafted a guidance protocol for the regulation of Mobile Medical Applications as means of ensuring safety in medical products. Once the regulations are defined they will encourage further development of such products. New entrants will be attracted by an emerging market opportunity. It can indeed happen that the clear FDA regulation of Mobile Medical Applications will eventually lead to deregulation of common practices in the hearing aid market.

Made for iPhone" hype and invasion of PSAP's - in search of the Killer App

The recent hype about "made for iPhone" hearing aids and the market-invasion of PSAP's are not isolated events. They are both an expression of the confidence that the technology can challenge the prevailing market conditions and boost the growth. What can be changed?

Mobile Medical App for increasing hearing aid acceptance

Acceptance of hearing aids is an important issue. According to MarkeTrak, in the US, as many as 13% of fitted devices are not actively used - expensive high-tech products are ending up in a drawer. ⁴

Main reason for the low hearing aid acceptance is the dissatisfaction with the nature and quality of the sound provided by the hearing aid. This again depends on the adjustment of signal processing parameters of the device. For the first-time-users the sudden change in the sensory experience of the environment is a stressful event that sometimes leads to the user abandoning the hearing aid device.

Smartphone connected hearing aids can provide valuable support during the acclimatization phase, where the user can re-adjust the hearing aid frequently and optimize speech intelligibility and listening comfort in real-time. By providing an appropriate human interface to the hearing aid device on a smartphone, the hearing aid device will automatically feel to the user to be more controllable and this will lower the likelihood of rejection.

Mobile Medical App enables Telehealth

Telehealth solutions have a great potential at both outermost ends of the hearing aid market: they can provide unique features for maximizing the benefits of the premium devices but also extend the offering on the lower end of the market by replacing expensive visits to a medical professional.

Mobile Medical App for fitting accuracy and alternative distribution channels

The majority of conventional hearing aids is being sold in bundle with audiology services. This model has been successful in serving traditional customers, but seems to raise an impenetrable barrier for the non-adopters. As a reaction to these market conditions a variety of PSAPs and internet-sold hearing aids have recently been introduced to the market.

The majority of PSAP's and internet-sold hearing aids that target the customers behind the adoption barrier lack appropriate adjustment and none of them provide diagnostic capabilities. This significantly reduces the user benefit that those products can provide.

Integration of hearing aid with smartphone can provide major advances in hearing loss diagnostics and patient-driven fitting. Interactive procedures that involve audio streaming of test sounds from smartphone to the hearing aid can offer high accuracy of hearing loss estimation and provide a satisfactory prescription. Especially for mild to moderate sensorineaural hearing loss this solution has a potential to be equivalent to the conventional fitting procedure.

Substituting professional guidance during the fitting procedure must of course be taken seriously. By implementing sophisticated precautions, an interactive fitting app can support a high level of protection from incorrect diagnosis. Furthermore, interactive procedures that increase the level of involvement by the patient in the process of hearing aid adjustment (such as the SoundPoint feature in Starkey Inspire programming software) have a positive effect on the fitting outcome.

The prospects of user-driven fitting raise concerns about the quality of patient care and about the future of the audiologist profession. However, if the novel solutions are carefully designed for best possible performance and in turn significantly increase the market size, both concerns are unjustified. It is likely that a large portion of the traditional customers would still prefer professional and personal service.

Mobile Medical App for hearing aid availability in emerging markets

Relatively high prices and the low availability of hearing aids are the main reason for low market penetration in emerging economies. For example, there are only 1500 registered audiologists serving India's population of 1240 million. ⁵

The often tedious approach of building upon the conventional audiological infrastructure doesn't need to be the only recipe for growth. Examples from other industries can serve the hearing aid industry well. In India the landline telephone network was never developed to satisfy the needs of the population. Instead, the use of mobile telephones made the need for a better landline network obsolete - a technological leap forward was far easier and significantly more efficient than the slow evolving process of expanding the established technology. Smartphone banking in India and Africa swiftly improved availability of bank accounts among those in the population, who have never had bank accounts and have been excluded from the money transactions. Their first experience with a banking institution was internet banking.

As a result, instead of providing audiology services via an extensive network of brick-and-mortar shops and specially trained audiologists, this service can be replaced by sophisticated smartphone-based fitting solutions. This will increase the availability of hearing aids far beyond the potential of traditional distribution channels. - This can also be an interesting business idea for global hearing aid retailers as well.

Mobile Medical App integrates hearing aid in the network of digital body extensions

Human interaction with technology is increasingly ubiquitous and uninterrupted. Social-networking features and use of technology as human sensory extensions are demands applied to an increasing number of products. The in-the-ear or ear-worn form factor of a hearing aid is perfectly aligned with the trend of technology portability (compare it with Google Glass).

The changes in the society and the workplace with increasingly overlapping natural and virtual living environments will also influence the very definition of human sensory capabilities and therefore also the concept (probably multiple concepts) of hearing impairment.

Providing an interface between the hearing aid, the user and the other personal communication devices, Mobile Medical App app can play a central part. Even if this discussion might resemble a science fiction enthusiasm of the 1960's, the first indication is evident: the border between a hearing aid and a Bluetooth headset is just about to disappear.

Some products with potential

The following list of commercially available products and announced features exemplify the trends that outline future use of smartphone technology in the hearing healthcare.

The remote control features are very conventional and have no disruptive potential. The technology, however, is capable of quickly providing novel disruptive features such as remote device fitting or fine tuning. Stay tuned!

[Editor's note: The USB AirLink programmer is used for this function: Please see Telehealth for Programming Hearing Aids and MAPping CI's] [Editor's note: The Beltone Direct Phone Link 2 and ReSound Phone Clip+ are identical, as are the Beltone Smart Remote and ReSound Control apps.]

Starkey SoundPoint

SoundPoint feature for fine tuning of devices is the avant-garde interactive feature of conventional fitting software where the control of the signal processing in the hearing aid is in the hands of patient. Unlike in the case of audiologist-conducted paired comparison method, the patient doesn't communicate with the professional but only interacts with the iPad-based app. ⁶

[ Editor's Note: Starkey has just extended this concept with a companion iPad app for fine-tuning tinnitus suppression therapy]

Sound ID/Ear Print

This App works in conjunction with a Bluetooth headset, but with a potential for use in connection with hearing aids as a flexible sound quality remote control, or as an intuitive but unguided tool for fine tuning of amplification parameters.

EAR Machine/EARS app

EARs uses similar approach as Sound ID/Ear Print. It is based on patented method of mapping the perceived sound quality to semantic clues. It is available as an App to control the audio output of an iPhone or iPad but with a potential for use in connection with hearing aids as a sophisticated sound quality remote control, or as an intuitive tool for fine tuning.

Two-Pi Selffit

Selffit App implements a procedure for user-driven adjustment of hearing devices that combines screening of hearing loss, first-fit, and interactive fine-tuning. It is based on a patented interactive audiovisual method for presentation of test sounds that are streamed to the hearing aid. Selffit is currently undergoing clinical trials at AMC in Amsterdam. ⁷

References:

1. The Wide Lens - A New Strategy For Innovation: Ron Adner, Portfolio/Penguin, 2012 http://thewidelensbook.com/book.html

2. The innovators dilemma: Clayton M. Christensen, Collins, 1997 [ISBN 1578518520]

3. The dream of the medical tricorder - technology quarterly: The Economist, Dec. 1st, 2012

4. MarkeTrakVIII: Sergei Kochkin, late of Better Hearing Institute: http://www.betterhearing.org/pdfs/M8_Hearing_aid_user_success_audiologists.pdf

5. Article in Times of India: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-31/chennai/36657715_1_audiologists-impairment-shortage

6. A patient assisted fitting: Introducing SoundPoint. Valentine, S. & Dundas, J.A. (2011); Audiology Online. Retrieved from AudiologyOnline.com http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/patient-assisted-fitting-introducing-soundpoint-822

7. Two Pi GmbH Begins Clinical Trials of Mobile Phone Hearing Aid Fitting App June 19, 2013 http://www.hearingreview.com/all-news/21778-two-pi-gmbh-begins-clinical-trials-of-mobile-phone-hearing-aid-fitting-app,

Tarik Zukic is managing director of Two Pi GmbH.

Two-Pi is an innovative technology company developing advanced intellectual property for the hearing healthcare, personal communications and professional communications markets. Two-Pi's algorithm catalog results from a streamlined scientific program carried out with university partners.

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Based on the more rigorous surveys and reports, it's still true that clinicians are generally more eager adopters of both mobile devices and the medical apps that run on them. The persistent challenge for many iPad-toting physicians, however, is where to turn for medical app recommendations. In its efforts to be at least somewhat helpful on that front, Apple has slightly reworked and beefed up its now more visible section of "Apps For Healthcare Professionals", which appears to be consistently featured in the AppStore's medical section now.

We'll be discussing mobile health tools used by clinicians with HCA and AirStrip Technologies this Thursday afternoon -- be sure to register for our free webinar here, if you have not done so already.

In May 2012 Manhattan Research published its latest data on physician smartphone, tablet, and app adoption, which in most ways outpaces the average consumer. In May the research firm found that already 62 percent of US doctors already had some kind of tablet device -- twice as many as in 2011 -- and even many of those with devices planned to buy an additional one within a few months.

The iPad continues to dominate as the physician's tablet of choice. Only the Kindle Fire had made some inroads beyond single percentage points of adoption, which is where all other comers stood.

Manhattan's VP of Research Monique Levy noted in May that while tablet adoption has soared, doctors aren't finding the devices to be replacements for their smartphones. One of the biggest strikes against tablets, according to those physicians surveyed, were that tablets are too big for their lab coat pockets. Levy said that while new coats with larger pockets are available they "don't cut it," according to the thousands of physicians surveyed.

The new iPad mini certainly solves that problem, which may mean smartphone cannibalization is possible in the years ahead after all.

As app users, physicians typically download fewer apps than the average consumer but they use a higher share of those apps that they do download, according to Manhattan. They also use their apps on a more frequent basis than the average consumer. Between patient consultations, physicians are likely to use their tablet or a desktop/laptop if they are looking to read a full journal abstract, watch a video, or fully access an EHR. During patient consultations the range of activities physicians are likely to do on smartphones is a little bit narrower, and often include "simple tasks that have one or two steps," Levy said. About 18 percent of physicians use some aspects of EHRs on their mobile devices - even on their smartphones. The biggest surprise Manhattan Research encountered during its survey was a lack of mobile offerings that help enable the "swivel effect" where the physician flips the screen around to explain something to their patients.

In September 2011, Apple added a new section to its AppStore for healthcare professionals that included about 50 apps designed for iPad and iPhone users. A little more than a year later the section has been slightly reworked: Apple added a new subsection for nurses, changed the name of its "point of care" section to "patient education" and added a few new apps to most of the existing subsections, too. Apple now recommends some 80 apps to healthcare professionals and it makes for an interesting list of top medical apps.

Finding worthwhile medical apps has been a longstanding issue for physicians, nurses, and other clinicians. Wading through the now tens of thousands of health-related apps to find useful ones to use in care settings is a generally cumbersome chore unless you know what you are looking for. Over the years a handful of blogs have sprung up to offer recommendations and reviews from individual medical students or physicians. Happtique has quickly built a following as it develops its own filtered medical app store of sorts that intends to make it easier for healthcare facilities to discover and distribute apps. And Apple appears to be slowly doing its part to highlight apps it deems to be of a certain quality, but its reasons for choosing the 80 apps below -- like many things the company does -- remains unclear.

Given the thousands of tweets and shares our first review of Apple's Apps for Healthcare Professionals received, we have taken another look to update and compile a slideshow of the apps currently featured in the section and broken them into the categories that Apple uses. Read on for a brief description of each and some screenshots:
REFERENCE APPS
Our Definition: Medical reference apps provide information about medications, diseases, conditions, and other medical topics.

Journal of Clinical Oncology

The Merck Manual - Professional Edition
The Merck Manual's iOS app is a digital version of its reference text. Users can browse the app by section and by symptom, and the app automatically logs what sections users have read.

( WebMD for iPad is no longer featured in this section as Apple likely realized its generally used by consumers not healthcare professionals.)

Medscape
WebMD's physician app had the distinction of being the most downloaded free medical app of 2010. It includes a drug interaction checker, procedure reference, and daily medical news updates.

Unbound Medline
Unbound MEDLINE connects you to over 20 million journal citations and abstracts from PubMed via your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Perform searches and link to the publisher's full text articles. Visually explore the literature using Grapherence to find related and relevant articles.

LabGear ~ Medical lab reference guide
Medical lab reference app LabGear is a pocket tool for Medical Laboratory tests and now includes integration with MedCalc.

Journal of Clinical Oncology
Readers can now access Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) articles optimized for viewing on the iPhone and iPad.

Micromedex Drug Information
The app is described as "a free resource for on-the-go access to the industry's most trusted clinical reference information, providing users the peace-of mind of knowing the information is from Micromedex, coupled with the ease of use of iPhone and iPad."

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