With the proliferation of mobile devices in healthcare and the growing demand for information delivered to those devices, healthcare interoperability collaborative Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International has produced an implementation guide for providing such access.
The "Mobile Access to Health Documents" guide, published June 5 but not widely publicized until Monday, helps...
Is it me, or is radiology outpacing pretty much every other specialty in the mobile arena?
There has been a lot of news about imaging apps this week, mostly because the Radiological Society of North America is holding its annual meeting right now. The massive event, one of the two biggest healthcare meetings in the world, regularly draws 60,000 people or more to Chicago's McCormick Place the week...
How many to buy iPads? Attendees of a webinar called ”Secure and Manage Enterprise iPads at the Point of Care” were interested in using iPads at the point of care, survey finds: "More than 25 percent of the HIMSS respondents plan to deploy the iPad and other iOS devices immediately and nearly 70 percent plan to deploy the devices within the next year." Release
The iPad can even mitigate...
Asim Choudhri, MD, a physician in the neuroradiology division at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore presented a study that investigated whether iPhone applications can improve upon acute appendicitis diagnoses. Choudhri presented his findings at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
"The goal is to improve the speed and accuracy of medical diagnoses as well as to...
