Summer movies

Well, here we are in the midst of summer movie season. Who would have thought that the worlds of Hollywood and mobile health would collide to bring us these blockbusters? There’s something for everyone, so grab the family and head to the local cineplex to catch these soon-to-be classics.

Airport 2012
It’s the maiden flight of the world’s newest and biggest passenger airliner – and the jet has disappeared from Air Traffic Control’s radar. Is it the storm it was flying through? Has the plane been seized by terrorists? Or has the navigation system been compromised by the little old lady in coach trying to upload her glucose levels?

Dr. T-Mobile and the Women
A Dallas gynecologist with a wealthy clientele accidentally selects the wrong patient on the small screen of his smartphone, sending her erroneously positive pregnancy test results via e-mail. The resulting confusion and comical mayhem in this tour de farce is kicked up a notch when we learn that the agent from the Office of Civil Rights investigating the HIPAA violation turns out to be the secret lover of the doctor’s sister.

The Angry Birds
In this update to the Hitchcock classic, a young woman out for a jog uses the mobile fitness app on her smartphone to track her progress. At mile two, her smartphone suddenly stops functioning – except for the eponymous game. Soon, every mobile device that she comes near stops functioning, permitting only Angry Birds to be played. And no one can win against the avian horde.

iPaddington Bear
A stuffed bear comes to life for two British children – a brother and sister – and teaches them healthy eating habits through the tablet device embedded in his tummy. Special appearance by Skinny the Pooh.

Try Hard
NYPD Detective John McClane is back and this time he’s up against … his doctor. In an effort to manage risk in his patient pool, this mad physician has outfitted the now-hyperlipidemic McClane with an explosives-laden, GPS-equipped and Wi-Fi-enabled activity monitor. McClane has six hours to make his way on a prescribed route around New York City and burn at least 6,000 calories in the process – or else!

Airstrip America
Renegade covert CIA operatives bring mobile health technology to the jungles of Laos, in exchange for sticky rice and kickboxing lessons.

Finding Neuro
A young man ventures to Australia and starts experiencing odd symptoms, including dizziness and confusion. It’s a race against the clock as he uses his mobile app to find a neurologist who's not only taking new patients but has an open appointment before his father – who has gone Down Under to search for his son – finds him and insists that he come home to see the family doctor.

The Man Who GNU Too Much
While attending a medical conference in Paris to showcase the wellness apps built on his open-source mobile operating system, a software developer takes a side trip to Morocco – where a knife plunged into his smartphone leaves him without any way to tell the authorities of the text he received about an impending assassination attempt.

Medmento
A man with short-term memory loss tries to reconstruct his health status by searching the medication reminder app on his mobile device.

M*A*S*H*U*P
Two Army surgeons develop a collection of mobile apps designed to guide soldiers through first aid procedures and how to stay healthy in the field. While on leave to demonstrate their product suite at the annual HIMSS conference, they come to realize that perhaps their future is in the boardroom, not the operating room.

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