By Chris Fitzpatrick
In November 2007, Google released Android as an operating system (OS), targeted primarily at smart phones. Since then, we have witnessed its phenomenal success. It is now the most popular OS for smart phones in the world.
While most industries have leveraged Android in various ways, the healthcare industry has lagged behind. This is not entirely surprising because, generally speaking, the healthcare industry is slow in adopting new technologies such as this. A reason is the highly regulated nature of the industry, which leads to a tendency to wait for a technology to mature before adopting it. But in the past few years, interest and adoption of Android as the operating system (OS) for medical devices development has grown dramatically.
