App Association’s AirStrip takes the stage at Apple event

The first company on stage after Tim Cook at Apple’s iPhone event last week was App Association member AirStrip Technologies. The San Antonio-based company creates products that use Department of Defense-level encryption allowing doctors to remotely view live patient data to make urgent care decisions.

On Wednesday, co-founder Cameron Powell, MD demonstrated how AirStrip One and the Sense4Baby system utilize the powerful sensors packed inside the Apple Watch allowing physicians to compare real-time patient waveform data with historical data on a single platform.

The Apple Watch can be used with AirStrip Sense4Baby technology to allow an expectant mother to hear her baby’s heartbeat on the device. The technology can distinguish a fetus’ heartbeat from that of its mother’s, and enables her to send data to physicians remotely.

Care providers can then access that information and other health metrics in near-real time, including ECG data, vital sign summaries, and lab results right from their Watch or other device.

This demonstrates the dramatic possibilities of connected health. Not long ago, this required a medical device the size of a wardrobe. Now, a watch, smartphone, or tablet can display this information live – from anywhere.

See the segment here, AirStrip takes the stage at 06:10.