14 DAY TRIAL // Emerging Healthcare Solutions Inc. has issued an official report claiming to be ecstatic about the new multitasking support in Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0, a major software update headed to Apple portables this summer. EHSI believes its MedAnywhere medical app (currently in development) will greatly benefit from this update, particularly thanks to the newly added support for running other apps and processes simultaneously, without having to quit the app - multitasking.
“Specifically, [the] new multitasking ability can be applied so that a physician can initiate patient monitoring subroutines without having to exit the MedAnywhere live communications portal,” the company explains, adding that it expects iPhone OS 4.0 “to bolster the MedAnywhere application’s advanced flexibility in the remote and mobile medical treatment arenas.”
The company not only hopes iPhone OS 4.0 is everything Apple says it will be, but also that the Mac maker has a new iPhone model on the launching pad, citing “widespread speculation that new iPhone hardware also will be introduced around the time Apple makes the new iPhone software available.” EHSI suggests it is confident that newer Apple hardware will most certainly make an asset for integration by the MedAnywhere application development team. It also believes that its MedAnywhere application could revolutionize the way patients interact with doctors and hospitals across America and around the world. One key benefit would be drastically lowering medical costs for the app subscriber, it claims.
iPhone OS 4.0, introduced by Apple last week, delivers 100 new features on top of those brought by OS 3.0 last year. Seven key additions, “tentpoles” as Steve Jobs called them during the event, can be distinguished in the new OS. Those are Multitasking, Application Folders, Improved Mail, iBooks, Enterprise, Game Center, and the iAd platform. Set to launch publicly this summer, the OS is only fully supported on new-generation devices (iPhone 3GS, and third generation iPod touches), which includes the iPad. The latter is on track to receive a version of the 4.0 update with all its new features in Fall, 2010.