Wednesday, December 7, 2011

iPhone Medical News

iPhone Medical News


Macaw App Soars onto Smartphones, Aims to Be Ultimate Mobile Health Hub

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:56 AM PST

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We at Medgadget often report about cool new biometric sensors and gadgets that can monitor everything from blood glucose to ZQ (sleep score). Personal health monitoring is an exciting trend, though just like social networking, consumers will likely want a single convenient hub from which they can watch their health data and progress.

At the 2011 mHealth Summit this week, one app promises to make quite a, well, squawk in this arena. Produced by U.S. Preventive Medicine Inc. in a partnership with Qualcomm’s new wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Life (also announced this week; details to come), and designed by Fjord (responsible for the look of Flickr and Foursquare), Macaw is a health and fitness app that aims to be the “ultimate personal heath hub.” It is now available for free download for the iPhone and Android.

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