{"id":4755,"date":"2012-08-05T18:26:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2012-08-05T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:26:56","slug":"smartphone-apps-now-playing-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4755","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone apps now playing doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/story\/2012-08-05\/smartphones-health\/56764686\/1\">Laura Ruane<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Health app developers initially focused on consumer diet and exercise, said Brian Dolan, editor of Boston-based MobiHealthNews.com, which tracks advances in mobile health and medical technology. &#8220;Now we&#8217;re seeing them look into more serious health conditions where there&#8217;s a real need for innovation.&#8221;<br \/>\nGlen Stream, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, sees an &#8220;explosion&#8221; of mobile medical apps, and gives the trend a qualified endorsement. He&#8217;s an &#8220;iPhone guy&#8221; who uses about 20 medical or health-oriented apps.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Ruane: Health app developers initially focused on consumer diet and exercise, said Brian Dolan, editor of Boston-based MobiHealthNews.com, which tracks advances in mobile health and medical technology. &#8220;Now we&#8217;re seeing them look into more serious health conditions where there&#8217;s a real need for innovation.&#8221; Glen Stream, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}