Apps

Asthma New Zealand has teamed up with VADR to launch the Breathe Easy asthma management app for iPhone and make it easy for patients to manage their symptoms.

In a market expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2020, this startup helps users tackle mild ailments and provides extra income for doctors.

An emergency room doctor in Toronto working on a mobile app that can detect whether a patient is faking the hand tremors to get a prescription for sedatives.

Developed by University of Washington engineers and physicians, BiliCam would be cheaper and more accessible option than existing reliable screening methods.

The announcement comes only days before the new iPhones are announced, and it's a huge win for consumers, according to health data privacy advocates.

Relying on the built-in M7 motion coprocessor, the application is free all-day activity tracker that records the number of steps an individual takes.

With the simple touch of a button, users can speak directly to trained professionals at the call center that powers the company's leading medical alert service.

Stress-Phone will be used for stress management, Nutri-Phone for nutritional awareness, and Hema-Phone for monitoring viral loading in HIV positive patients.

When someone publicly posts "My kids have the flu" on Facebook or Twitter, Sickweather's technology qualifies that report and plots it on a map.

MyFitnessPal has over 4 million foods in the database, making it easy to add just about anything you eat, and merge that information with Shine fitness data.