Today’s real top ten iPhone medical apps A list of the most popular “medical” app downloads for the iPhone. The roster doesn’t instill confidence in the iPhone platform as a serious medical device, what with apps such as Dream Meanings, Relax Ocean Waves and (where to find legal marijuana app) Legal Maps are certainly not primarily intended for the medical community.

FCC outlines key barriers to its health investment Dr. Mohit Kaushal, healthcare director for the National Broadband Taskforce, outlines the key obstacles facing the Federal Communication Commission’s investment in healthcare IT.

Broadcom to connect phones, medical devices Broadcom, a $4.4 billion chipset company, has added to its portfolio a Bluetooth Low Energy chip, specifically for “very low power health and fitness sensors enabled by Bluetooth” to connect to consumers’ mobile phones.

Cardiologist: Leave telemedicine equipment in Haiti A consortium of remote monitoring companies, including MedApps, AWS, Nonin, Digicel and A&D Medical, agreed to jointly donate equipment and infrastructure. The group’s “telehealth ecosystem” planned to launch after rescue and recovery efforts came to an end and long-term relief efforts could begin. Now Dr. S. Ward Casscells, a Houston cardiologist who was assistant secretary of defense for health affairs under President George W. Bush, is urging the military to leave telemedicine equipment behind when the disaster eases.

Brian Dolan is editor of MobiHealthNews, the emerging wireless health industry’s daily monitor.