There’s been a lot of speculation that future Apple products will include health-related apps and biometric sensors. Here’s the story of what might have been the first Apple medical app, except for the fact that in 1977 Steve Jobs had absolutely no interest in going in that direction.
George Diamond is now retired after a long and very distinguished career as a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. But in 1977 he was just starting his career at Cedars, where he was working on cutting-edge devices and statistical methods to improve the diagnosis of heart disease (a major problem that even today is far from being solved).
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So I picked up the telephone and called Apple in Cupertino. I told the secretary that I wanted to speak with somebody about a medical application for the Apple II computer. The secretary connected me directly to Steve Jobs. (Of course I didn’t know who he was. I didn’t even recognize the name as being one of the people who had actually invented the thing.)
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George Diamond today
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