Apple introduced new two apps for healthcare professionals last night, at an event in San Francisco. The apps utilise Apple's watch OS2 software and the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.
The first app is Airstrip, an Apple Watch app that allows doctors to remotely monitor patient's vital signs in real-time, and send secure messages to patients and other healthcare providers.
AirStrip's Sense4Baby system allows a doctor to remotely monitor a pregnant woman and her unborn child. It can monitor the foetal heart rate (differentiating it from the mother's) and alert the mother if she needs to come into the hospital in an emergency.
Both the patient and doctor will need to have an Apple Watch.
Also at the Apple event, Irish company 3D4Medical demonstrated an app that allows healthcare professionals to show patients exactly what is wrong with them via a 3D anatomy model - helping to visualise the problem.
The app was demonstrated on the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, using the Apple Pencil (stylus). Using the app, the doctor is able to 'cut' through layers of skin and muscle, right to the bone. Once there, the doctor is able to 'draw' in arthritis inflammation to explain exactly how the patient is being affected by the condition.
On Twitter, Havas Lynx US said: "Impressive demo...Health continues to factor hugely for Apple." Thatcher Robinson tweeted: "My Apple Watch will let me track my patients' vitals and my iPad will let me explore their anatomy! What a time to be a doctor."
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