During last few days, more i-Phone medical attachments have surfaced. On the same day, two companies have released a blood pressure cuff that attaches to the bottom pin connectors of the i-Phone and comes with a custom app that reads and monitors the results.
1. Withings is a Paris-based company that develops health-related connected devices. You might have heard of their first product, the first WiFi Body scale that transmits results to your i-phone and creates graphs of your progress. Now, they've created a Blood Pressure Monitor. It is a pretty slick looking blood pressure cuff. You attach it to your i-phone and using their app, you can record your BP measurements. The app will upload results to your Google Health book or to an online, secured, personal site. It also supports social media functions such as tweeting your BP to twitter. The device will cost $130 dollars and expects to ship this month.
2. I-Health is a startup company based in Mountain View, California. They've also released a blood pressure monitoring device. What's different from Withings is that their blood pressure cuff attaches to an i-Phone Dock. Their i-Phone App also has graphing capabilities and sharing via email. iHealth is less expensive then Witherings, costing $99.95.
Both products will be showcasing at the Consumer Electronics show.
This is posing to be a great trend in medical smartphone technology. First, there was the iPhone glucometer, then an iPhone EKG, now an iPhone BP cuff. What's next?
My best guess would be an i-Phone pulse oximeter. That's the only thing missing in your initial Vital Signs assessment. Maybe we will start seeing an i-Phone version of the i-Stat where you can put a drop of blood and receive instantaneous chemistry panels, blood count panels, INR's, etc. The future for medical smartphone technology is looking very bright.
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