Scanning on the go

The leaps forward in mobile healthcare continue apace with recent news that technology is on the horizon to scan kidneys, liver, bladder, eyes, prostrate and uterus via Smartphone.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2011/02/ultrasound-on-smartphone-technology.html

This technology for local handheld scanning devices has been in place since 2009 – although at $30k per device came with quite a price tag.  The new Smartphone technology is priced at a much more achievable $8k.  The biggest advantage of course is that images taken via a Smartphone could be instantly sent to a computer for analysis and diagnosis, whilst the ethos as a whole continues to place the patient at the centre of healthcare process, giving immediate and immense benefits to some of the most vulnerable patients in some of the most remote areas around the world.


This, as regular readers of my blog will realise, is something I am very passionate about and falls in line with iSOFT’s ongoing patient centric strategy.  The convergence of mobile devices with imaging and EMR access is already happening at the enterprise level – and it is fantastic that every step we take further in this direction continues to remove the remaining hurdles for truly patient centric healthcare delivery.