Feature Channels: Apps

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Expert can speak on the latest round of funding of SideCar, a disruptive ride-sharing app, including Richard Branson’s participation as investor. Rich Levandov, a partner in Avalon Ventures, one of the venture capital firms behind the new $15M round of funding of SideCar, has decades of experience in funding promising early-stage companies and can describe what features make a startup worth investing in, especially in the areas of IT and biotech.

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Aaron G. Benson, MD, an otolaryngologist and neurotologist with ProMedica Physicians Ear, Nose and Throat, recently developed two noise-based mobile applications, both inspired by real patients’ needs and concerns: NoiseMonitor and NoiseLock.

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New iPod smart phone app developed by University of Toronto measures frequency of tremors in alcoholics.

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A free mobile app called TX Invasives is now available from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin for identifying harmful non-native plant, insect and other invasive species statewide.

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University of Washington engineers and physicians have developed a smartphone application that checks for jaundice in newborns and can deliver results to parents and pediatricians within minutes.

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A UW study found that StopInfo, a new hub for bus stop information in the OneBusAway app, is helpful for blind riders and can promote spontaneous and unfamiliar travel. A UW research team launched the program recently in collaboration with King County Metro.

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“Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Act of 1964” is now available as an iPad app and on the Web. The game-based interactive learning module from the IU Center on Congress explores the relationship between the civil rights movement and Congress’ passage of civil rights legislation.

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University of Washington researchers have developed visual tools to help self-trackers understand their daily activity patterns over a longer period and in more detail. They found people had an easier time meeting personal fitness and activity goals when they could see their data presented in a broader, more visual way.

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A new “Patient Itinerary” app now gives patients at The Mount Sinai Hospital a detailed schedule of upcoming treatments, procedures and tests. Conceived by the Mount Sinai Inpatient Care Model Redesign Team and developed by Mount Sinai Information Technology, the IPad app is housed on tablets provided by the New York City-based tech company PadInMotion. Staff recently expanded a pilot program for the app, which features access to secure, HIPAA-compliant patient information, making it available for up to 100 patients without cost.

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The thyroid calculator for rapid calculation of: Calcitonin and Carcinoembryonic Antigen Doubling Time; Thyroid Nodule Volume change; Thyroid Cancer Staging. Calculation results are not preserved within the app, thus maintaining patient privacy and security.

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OpenAnesthesia (OA), one of the most popular websites for education in anesthesia, announces the release of V 3.0 of the hugely popular self-study app for anesthesiology residents, CRNAs, SRNAs, and physicians. The app, specifically designed to improve knowledge within the field of anesthesiology, is free to download on iTunes and the Google Store.

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Researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, have developed new smartphone technology to help screen patients for a number of adrenal gland diseases, including Cushing’s syndrome. The new tool also helps to identify adrenal insufficiency, monitor cortisol replacement and assess physiologic changes in adrenal function.

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Researchers have developed a device that uses any smartphone to measure the cortisol concentration in saliva. The device was presented Tuesday, June 24, at ICE/ENDO 2014, the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and the Endocrine Society in Chicago.

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Columbia Engineering researchers have discovered a crucial security problem in Google Play, the official Android app store. The study is the first to make a large-scale measurement of the huge marketplace, using PlayDrone, a tool they developed to circumvent Google security to successfully download Google Play apps and recover their sources.

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NCCN has launched its Reimbursement Resource App, which offers patients, providers, case managers, and payers access to payment assistance and reimbursement programs for multiple cancer types; the app is available free of charge for Apple and Android mobile devices.

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Students at the University of Oklahoma’s College of Engineering created an app that teaches kids about weather patterns by putting them in the pilot seat to navigate a plane during weather events.

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My Cancer Genome (MCG), an online precision cancer medicine tool developed by researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has unveiled a free, second-generation mobile app that provides even more information about genetic alterations in various types of cancer and the therapies available to treat those alterations. The new MCG mobile app is searchable and features regularly updated information from the My Cancer Genome website (www.mycancergenome.org), an international resource for genetically informed cancer medicine.

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Exposure to traumatic events can result in sleep disorders, depression, hyper-vigilance, increased irritability, anger and other changes in those who have experienced the trauma. Now, researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM) are conducting a study using smart phone applications to help address these issues and build resilience in military service members and their families.

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Using computer vision and machine learning techniques, Columbia Engineering researchers have developed Birdsnap, a free new iPhone app that's an electronic field guide featuring 500 of the most common North American bird species. The app enables users to identify bird species through uploaded photos, + accompanies a comprehensive website.

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MBA@Syracuse is Whitman’s top-tier MBA program delivered online. The newly renamed program further advances Syracuse’s current highly ranked online MBA degree. Blending live, online classes and real-world residency experiences, MBA@Syracuse features the same curriculum content as the on-campus program, and classes are taught by Whitman’s renowned professors. MBA@Syracuse offers students around the world the chance to earn a Whitman MBA without relocating or sacrificing their commitments.

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A smartphone app that monitors subtle qualities of a person’s voice during everyday phone conversations shows promise for detecting early signs of mood changes in people with bipolar disorder. While the app still needs much testing before widespread use, early results from a small group of patients show its potential to monitor moods while protecting privacy.

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A young business a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad student started, which links drivers with empty seats to people needing a ride between cities, is ready to launch a mobile app.

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According to the American Cancer Society, 50 percent of cancer is completely preventable and about 90 percent is curable if detected early. To help people adopt healthier habits that can reduce their risk of developing cancer, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) launched a new mobile app and website, SCCA DoOne Thing.org. The campaign encourages people to start by picking one healthy change and doing it every day until it becomes a habit. The Do One Thing website includes information about diet, exercise, and prevention as well as expert advice from doctors at SCCA and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Once a person has decided what they’d like to change, they can use the Do One Thing app to set daily reminders, track their progress, and more. The app has been downloaded by more than 16,000 people.

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Mobile medicine is helping chronic pain patients cope with and manage their condition thanks to new smartphone apps, which can track patients from a distance and monitor pain, mood, physical activity, drug side effects, and treatment compliance.

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A group of students from the University of Utah School of Computing has launched a new application designed to help consumers become more aware about alternatives to driving. The app is an effort to improve behavior that contributes to Utah’s air pollution problem.

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Fecal color and consistency are well-known markers of digestive health in both children and adults, but paying attention to a newborn’s shade of poop can be a decided lifesaver in babies born with the rare, liver-ravaging disorder biliary atresia, commonly heralded by white or clay-colored stool.

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Emilio Ferrara, a post-doctoral researcher at Indiana University’s Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, is using network science and a connected society to fight crime. Ferrara and collaborators from the University of Messina, Italy, have already assisted police in Italy with investigations into murder, bribery, robbery, drug trafficking and prostitution by using social network modeling to conduct criminal network analysis using phone call data obtained by police.

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A different kind of jet-lag mobile app released today by University of Michigan mathematicians reveals previously unknown shortcuts that can help travelers snap their internal clocks to new time zones as efficiently as possible.

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Smartphones and tablets may hold the key to getting more clinicians to screen patients for tobacco use and advise smokers on how to quit. Even though tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S., clinicians often don’t ask about smoking during patient exams.

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Pedigrees are diagrams showing how inherited diseases may occur in a particular family. A new app now lets healthcare providers create pedigrees digitally with few finger taps during a face-to-face patient encounter.

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Two new smart phone applications may help people detect epileptic seizures and get better stroke treatment, according to two studies released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014.

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A team of University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty and students have created a free, downloadable smartphone application to help health care providers and cancer patients identify more than 500 valuable community resources for people in North Central Alabama battling cancer.

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A new Penn Medicine study shows that remote consultations from dermatologists using a secure smart phone app are reliable at prioritizing care for hospitalized patients with skin conditions.

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A technological breakthrough on the horizon: a new kind of smart phone that sends scents.

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Penn Medicine today announced a collaboration with software and analytics company Teqqa, LLC that could revolutionize the way antibiotics are tracked and prescribed in clinical settings.

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The Indiana University scientists who gave us Kinsey Reporter, the mobile app for collecting, reporting and viewing anonymous data on sexual behavior, are turning Valentine’s Day into a laboratory via a timely new holiday survey, and they are looking for answers to those and other questions.

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The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) announces that its educational initiative OpenAnesthesia (OA) has released version 2.0 of its self-study app for anesthesiology residents, CRNAs, SRNAs and physicians. A new set of 150 review questions has been added, for in-app purchase, for a total of 351 questions. The app is free to download on iTunes here.

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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has released a free iPhone app to help people identify 285 birds in North America

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Funneling a steady stream of diversions straight to your pocket, smartphones are often cast as the ultimate distractors. But a University of Michigan engineering professor sees potential for them to be something quite the opposite.

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Technological innovation drives the development of research, state-of-the art learning laboratories, “Green” buildings. Now breaking new ground in virtual communications, Arizona State University has launched its first interactive, multimedia magazine app.

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With a new smartphone device, you can now take an accurate iPhone camera selfie that could save your life – it reads your cholesterol level in about a minute. Forget those clumsy, complicated, home cholesterol-testing devices. Cornell engineers have created the Smartphone Cholesterol Application for Rapid Diagnostics, or “smartCARD,” which employs your smartphone’s camera to read your cholesterol level.

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“Quingo,” a game launched in September by local startup Game It Forward for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, today, just in time for the holidays, released a new “Winter Wonderland” question pack. For $3.99, players can receive 50 holiday and winter-themed questions.Six Seattle-based charities receive funds from the game, which combines the fun of bingo with the challenge of trivia questions.

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Leading cardiologists at The Mount Sinai Hospital have contributed to the development of a new classification system called MOGE(S) for cardiomyopathies, the diseases of the heart muscle which can lead to heart enlargement and heart failure.

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ID verification expert, Nelson Ludlow, can speak about a new smartphone app, barZapp™, that scans the barcode on a driver’s license or other ID and can instantly verify authenticity—a tool that could be used in New York City in an effort to enforce the new ban on tobacco sales to those under the age of 21.

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An estimated 11 million smokers in the United States own a smartphone and increasingly they’re turning to apps in an attempt to quit. But many of the most popular anti-smoking apps for iPhones or Androids lack some basic strategies that are known to help smokers quit, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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Most popular smartphone apps do not include evidence-based practices known to help smokers quit, finds a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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“Quingo,” a game created by local startup Game It Forward that was first released in September for the iPad, will be available for the iPhone starting Oct. 31. Six charities, including five based in Seattle, receive funds from the game, which combines the fun of bingo with the challenge of trivia questions.

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The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory hosted a competition this summer where graduate students designed two mobile apps to fight the threats of food-related illnesses and the flu.

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A smartphone virtual coach application for colonoscopy preparation is shown to be easy to use and engaging, even among people who have previously undergone colonoscopy. Results of a usability study were presented at the American College of Gastroenterology’s 78th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego, CA.