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An iPhone Jury-Rigged as a Microscope

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Researchers detected eggs of intestinal worms in stool samples with about 70 percent accuracy using an iPhone with an $8 lens attached. (RT @Epocrates: What can you do w/ an $8 lens, tape & an iPhone?
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Just a great example of  using the smartphone to develop an application cheaply but effective

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Apple Products Dominate

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Apple products aid healthcare, dominate mHealth market
FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)
However, clinicians aren't the only ones leveraging Apple devices for mHealth apps.
eMedToday's insight:

It is not suprise that apple products dominate the health care market. 

 

As stated "A study by Manhattan Research in 2011 found that 75 percent of physicians owned at least one Apple product. Vitera Healthcare's 2012 survey of healthcare professionals backed up this high number. The company's study found that 60 percent of respondents used an iPhone and 45 percent owned an iPad."

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