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Doctors are finding new applications to provide shortcuts for their busy workdays. Their choices include a new voice-enabled medical search app for the iPhone announced by Nuance Communications.

Screenshot: Apple You can find your Medical ID by opening the Health app on your iPhone, then tapping your profile picture (top right) and Medical ID.

Your iPhone can automatically share important medical information and notify emergency contacts in case of a serious emergency, if you opt in first.

Along with the official launch of the new iOS 8 operating system yesterday, a large number of health and medical app developers intended to launch apps that integrated with Apple's HealthKit platform.

Last month iMedicalApps' Dr. Iltifat Husain penned a great piece of reporting on a paid iPhone app that purported to a sense user's blood pressure using just the phone's camera. Apart from the ...

A 14-year-old from Frisco, Texas, developed a groundbreaking smartphone app to detect early signs of heart disease in just seven seconds.

Updated Aug.15 with more details of the update and how it will work.