The Apple iPhone has a place close to our hearts. In fact, with Heart Imaging Technologies’ (HeartIT) latest announcement, the iPhone has a place for our hearts – medical images of our hearts, that is. Until now, “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.”
HeartIT is out to change all that. With the advent of the more powerful and efficient Web 2.0, quality images and video can be viewed straight on the Apple iPhone – via password protected email link. With the Apple iPhone’s small size (compared to TabletPCs) and powerful browser (compared to the PDA), it’s set to provide physicians with a whole new way to interact with patient data.
[Via: MacNN]