{"id":34703,"date":"2017-02-19T01:03:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T09:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/smartphones-are-revolutionizing-medicine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:28","slug":"smartphones-are-revolutionizing-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/smartphones-are-revolutionizing-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones are revolutionizing medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smartphones-are-revolutionizing-medicine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smartphones are revolutionizing the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, thanks to add-ons and apps that make their ubiquitous small screens into medical devices, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the camera, the flash, the microphone\u2026 they all are getting better and better,\u201d said Shwetak Patel, engineering professor at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact the capabilities on those phones are as great as some of the specialized devices,\u201d he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting this week.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-02-smartphones-revolutionizing-medicine.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;02-smartphones-revolutionizing-medicine.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones are revolutionizing the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, thanks to add-ons and apps that make their ubiquitous small screens into medical devices, researchers say. \u201cIf you look at the camera, the flash, the microphone\u2026 they all are getting better and better,\u201d said Shwetak Patel, engineering professor at the University of Washington. \u201cIn fact the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58670,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34703\/revisions\/58670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}