iPhone Browses Diagnostic Heart Images and Videos
Has it been a month since the iPhone was released? I cannot believe
the number of products and services that are being made available.
Maybe it will be the iPod of the cell phone world! SV
Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) announced today that medical
images can be viewed on Apple's new iPhone. (See examples at
http://www.heartit.com.) Physicians can simply click on a web link
sent via email by one of their colleagues, enter their password, and,
for example, instantly view movies of a patient's beating heart
halfway around the world. They can even put their colleagues on
speakerphone and carry on a medical consultation while simultaneously
browsing through the imaging results.
Viewing medical images traditionally requires dedicated workstations
costing tens of thousands of dollars, which in turn are connected to
proprietary picture archiving communications and storage (PACS)
systems costing millions of dollars more. In order to view medical
images, physicians must literally drive or walk to one of these
workstations. Recent advances in World Wide Web browser technologies
and the web sites that utilize their rich features, collectively
referred to as Web 2.0, are challenging these expensive and cumbersome
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