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Can An iPhone Save Your Life?

There's an iPhone app available that has the potential to make stethoscopes a tool of the past. iStethoscope can be purchased by anyone with a smart phone for the low, low price of $1. The fact that mass-produced items such as smart phones and tablet computers make the devices and their applications more affordable, and attractive, to those medical companies who would typically buy custom medical devices.

There's an iPhone app available that has the potential to make stethoscopes a tool of the past. iStethoscope can be purchased by anyone with a smart phone for the low, low price of $1. The fact that mass-produced items such as smart phones and tablet computers make the devices and their applications more affordable, and attractive, to those medical companies who would typically buy custom medical devices.

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