Enabling new & efficient forms of healthcare. Aiding communication not only between doctors, patients, healthcare professionals and families, but also with the providers of healthcare services, treatment facilities and other service providers such as medical insurance companies, the mobile health market encourages these important developments and is an increasingly important market demonstrating strong growth. With smartphones continuing to play an increasingly important role in the mobile health market, medical apps were downloaded some 44 million times in 2012, with this figure set to rise to nearer 142 million in 2016. With the Medisana VitaDock at the forefront of the development of medical sensors, blood glucose, body temperature, body weight, blood pressure and pulse rates can be monitored simply and conveniently on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad using the app VitaDock.