An App a Day
From: Popular Science - 04/2013 - page 20
By: Rebecca Boyle

In the privacy of their own bathrooms, people can find out whether they’re
pregnant or have HIV. They can even swab for DNA to unravel their ancestry.
Yet it’s difficult to answer simpler questions, like “Do I have the flu?”
That’s because the most advanced diagnostic device in most medicine cabinets
is a thermometer. Regularly measuring and understanding anything more complex
than body temperature, such as respiratory rates and heart rhythms, is a
physician’s job. So patients often go to the doctor when they don’t need to
or don’t go when they should. By providing doctors with better data and
patients with better decision-making tools, personal health monitors and
diagnostics could break that cycle. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/app-day

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AliveCor Heart Monitor
http://www.alivecor.com/

iBGStar Diabetes Manager
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Tinké Fitness and Wellness Monitor
http://www.zensorium.com/tinke/

Scanadu Scout "Medical TriCorder" (with video 1:38)
http://www.scanadu.com/

Scanadu Scout scans your vital signs
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