Phone Oximeter: a pulse ox on your smartphone

Soon, we're going to have access to every basic type of medical device by plugging peripherals into our smartphones. Here's a press release about Phone Oximeter: a pulse ox on your smartphone:

Critical Health Information at Your Fingertips: Low-Cost Technology Turns Smartphones and Mobile Devices into Medical Monitors

Affordable, Accessible, Real-Time Measurement of Blood Oxygen Levels, Blood Pressure and Temperature Through Mobile Devices

Vancouver, B.C. - October 17, 2012 – Lionsgate Technologies Inc. (LGTmedical), a leading provider of mobile health (mHealth) technology, will launch a revolutionary universal interface that transforms smartphones, tablets and laptops into mobile medical diagnostic tools capable of real-time vital signs monitoring.

Using standard medical sensors connected directly through the universal audio port of virtually any mobile device, the proprietary interface, called the Vital Signs DSP™ (Digital Signal Processor), provides precise monitoring of blood oxygen levels, blood pressure and body temperature which are displayed on the mobile device's monitor.

The availability of an accurate, affordable mobile medical diagnostic tool has sweeping applications in the medical/clinical and consumer markets as well as in the developing world where 64 per cent of mobile phone users are found.

Twitter from your Mobile Device

Do you Twitter? You probably know that you can use your mobile phone to update your tweets. If you carry your phone everywhere you go, then it becomes easy to use it to send updates. More and more medical students and healthcare professionals are using smartphones in their daily practice. They are becoming ubiquitous and essential to the regular work flow and more clinicians are using them for social networking. Smartphones such as the iPhone and BlackBerry are playing a huge role in the world of Web 2.0.