Expats and the new iPhone medical apps

The iPhone will be able to perform certain medical tasks that were reserved for very expensive medical machines.  The iPhone is being converted to a small little portable medical lab that is being used in more hospitals everyday.  The latest medical application is called Arrhythmia.  This application allows you to check the patients heart for an irregular beat that can potentially save a patients life if detected early.  This is one of the first practical medical uses for the iPhone.  Most of the top ten medical applications for the iPhone are for health and fitness applications.  There are many other medical uses for the iPhone in development.  I know you are thinking that this is a stretch for a blog on Nicaragua.  Not really, and here is why. Most people would move out of the United States if they could have all the creature comforts of home to bring with them.  If I could I would bring my medical doctor, dentist, and accountant.  Its getting closer by the day and in the not so distant future this will all be a reality.  Your doctor could be just and app button away from you.  It is very possible to imagine the doctor seeing you via Face Time.  You would schedule your appointment and at that time the doctor would examine you over the phone.  Why not, we all have used heart monitors in the gym.  If the iPhone had a pulse sensor on the side it could read vitals that could show the doctor  how we are doing in real time without having to be in his office.  If this technology were to come to market in the near future the United States would see a mass exodus to cheaper tax havens.  Americans greatest fear is losing some part of their health care benefits.  If we were able to move to a place with great medical doctors and cheap health care that we trusted we would.  The latest iPhone applications help us take one step closer to this reality.