Videos
The video section is where this application truly shines. Videos can be accessed not only through the glossary’s search results, but also through a separate video toolbar available when the Human Atlas is opened. WiFi, 3G, or EDGE is required to view the videos. The below picture shows a few of the video categories. The different categories are cancer, circulatory, digestive, ear, endocrine, eye, immune, muscular, nervous, pediatric, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, skin, and urinary. All the main specialties are covered.
Within each category are a number of related videos that last approximately one to three minutes and include an audio explanation that is in sync with the video. In the circulatory section, video topics range from explaining heart bypass surgery to how the valves in your heart work. This type of diversity of topics is found in every video section. You can get a better idea of how the videos look in the following link provided by the company. Once your selected video ends, the application shows your related videos, definitions, and slides. You can see this in the below picture after viewing a video on appendicitis.
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August 13th, 2009 at 5:24 am
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August 13th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Thank you for your positive review of our recently released Blausen Human Atlas 2.0 iPhone app.
As founder and CEO of Blausen Group, I have set our mission as alleviating the fears and concerns of patients world-wide. We have achieved success with our web-based Human Atlas 3D animations, and now with the new iPhone app. The goal is to find the best solution for both the patient and the caregiver.
Your comments are accurate and I want to address them with the intent of alerting you and your readers of our efforts to deliver the best user experience possible.
The app does require a high speed internet connection, either dedicated or wi-fi. Near term, caching will remain, but we are reviewing the possibility of downloading them and saving them directly to the phone. Simple storage problem.
The difference in resolution when zooming in on areas of the Human Body Figure versus comparable individual still images is due to the rotation of the figure. If the resolution was too high the figure would not rotate smoothly. We thought your idea of going first to the individual glossary term and related individual image, and then putting it in perspective within the body figure was a good one.
In the next couple months, the app will be available in 12 different languages. Spanish is scheduled to be the first.
The option to buy more detailed individual atlases will be activated and functional within the next several weeks.
Bookmarking or playlist functionality is under consideration and may be available in a subsequent version.
Again, thank you for your very positive review. We will continue to listen to our reviewers in order to create the best possible patient education tool.
Please follow us on Twitter @blausengroup and Facebook for updates on coming Human Atlas 2.0 additions and enhancements.
Bruce Blausen
Founder & CEO
Blausen Group
August 13th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Mr. Blausen, thanks for commenting on our review. We really enjoyed using your application. Our colleagues and patients continue to be impressed with the videos and images and their application towards patient education. I was also wondering if your group is thinking about applying your 3D animation capabilities towards medical instruction or education?
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 am
Mr. Blausen,
Is there any way to make the searchable glossary more searchable? For example, I searched for “otitis media” the other day trying to explain it to a parent in clinic, and got the “no related videos found” result, however later discovered if I just searched “otitis”, then a video titled “otitis media” shows up in the results. If I hadn’t sifted through the videos earlier and known it was there, I wouldn’t have been able to show it to these parents (which was really helpful by the way). Similar results occur for other searches as well. Is there something I’m doing wrong, or is there a fix to this coming soon?
September 14th, 2009 at 8:57 am
I’m a consumer who just purchased this app and found it very helpful to show my family images of the eye for which I have a condition recently diagnosed – however, I was disappointed to see that none of these images are stored on the device – they must be downloaded each time.
Given the spotty nature of AT&T 3G network – which is worse inside most any building (such as a clinic or hospital) I don’t understand how a physician could even use this application in those settings as they most likely would not even have a cellular signal in those settings.
The developer really needs to update their application to store all these images on the device locally – as all of the recently released navigation app currently do – I use the Navigon GPS app – it stores all of the USA and Canada maps on my phone – there is plenty of space – it uses 1.3 GB!!
Please update your app to include this – as well as the option to display labeling of the body parts – that would be very helpful.