Innovations for 2012: Medical Apps for Mobile Devices

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-- time now for somebody house call today we're taking a closer look.

At some of the medical -- needs and hopes for the new year 2012 and joining us as always this morning.

Doctor Mark Siegel is associate professor of medicine at NYU's -- known medical center.

And he's the author of the book the inner pulse unlocking the secret code of sickness and health.

And doctor David some mighty vice chairman of the department of urology chief of robotics at mount Sinai.

Medical center both of whom abided by my idea admonition.

To go home early after last night -- looked rested refreshed and ready.

Thank god I'm so happy happy you're at those parties know I'm so glad because we need good information to a lot of people right now going like that.

Got a got a bit -- morning.

It's -- some great -- news to start with access to a doctor with the click of a finger while there are actually medical applications.

For your mobile device is becoming more popular in the actually allow doctors.

To answer patient questions much faster just with a map.

So doctor Siegel on means this -- don't have to come visit you -- what happens.

We have an -- -- and I come visit -- a high.

But I want to tell you this is really exploding we're talking about 500 million Smartphone users by 2015 are going to be using these apps the medical apps and I have a plus sign in my on the minus side.

-- -- -- you can't figure doctor in this you can't figure doctor inside this phone.

So another words if you have the information at your fingertips are.

And you know your heart rate -- you know your blood pressure and you know your blood sugar the key is is that information being transmitted back to me.

Now from my point of view that's a great advantage here cause I can now check -- ultrasound on my Smartphone -- can check an MRI.

I can check any KG I can check blood sugar I can -- and asthmatics breathing and the accuracy is now phenomenal.

So we've arrived with this but -- who I don't want people diagnosing themselves Leo could be a danger -- -- I think medical -- is really the way -- future -- that marriage off this Smartphones in the technology and the formation and that combination actually opens a door.

Not just to deductible and also to the patients because of of telemedicine.

Where you're able to really see all the images as mark mentioned author says that you -- right in your phone.

Communicate with the pharmacy to be able to prescribe medications.

-- imagine Jamie of the patients will -- into an apple in my office without even me knowing.

Finding some slots there that's open for an appointment put their information and they show us great -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2000 feet there what we were getting their bios through the telemedicine and we were able to see who is doing what what are the Hartford's.

That's an amazing technology technology that's convenient it's advance its precise.

And I think it's going to open a lot of those to doctors at 6102012.

Last year that.

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