Airstrip: Telemetry for your iPhone?

Amidst all the hype and noise around the iPhone 3GS announced yesterday, you might have missed the demonstration from Airstrip Technologies. Well, we were paying attention — and what we saw seemed pretty cool. Airstrip Technologies has been featured before on these pages, but now they’re looking to take their monitoring system beyond OB and into the world of critical care and cardiology. Expected features include the ability to be push-notified of lab values and imaging results, check vitals remotely, zoom in on particular waveforms and tracings of interest, and possibly archive images for particular patients.
Their site is surprisingly short on specifics for the new apps — probably because they’re waiting for FDA clearance (which took about a year from the initial OB app announcement). But when remote critical care monitoring comes to iPhone, expect a similar arrangement to what they’ve done for the OB — the app will be free, but the hospital’s gotta pay big bucks for purchasing and installing the Airstrip system.
More from Airstrip Technologies…
The WWDC Schiller Keynote (AirStrip presentation starts at 01:15:55)
(via Gizmodo)…