Anyone tried the iPhone Radiology application?

[Zweihander]

Seems interesting, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to work. Like, how would you get your patients' files onto your phone? If you were logging in through the web, wouldn't the hospital's site already have a PACS system for viewing, obviating the need for this application? Anyway, it seems pretty cool regardless -- I just don't get what you're supposed to do with it.


http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/tag/mri/

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[Dimoak]

Some hospitals have a way for you to log in to PACS remotely and view studies from there; it may just be that the iPhone couldn't read those scripts, or it required a remote viewer that could not previously be installed on the iPhone. The iPhone technology isn't particularly new, because there have been ways to log in to PACS or other management systems remotely via BlackBerries to view studies. But a lot of people are getting or switching to iPhones now, so they probably figured an app would be in order. However, patient confidentiality may be a bit of an issue with mobile access, so I suspect this particular apps function is more to allow users to save the studies they did on their iPhone during a certain timeframe. Then, if someone asks them about study #36 out of 50 read the last few days, they can quickly reference it on their iPhone instead of having to wait until a computer with internet is close by. I don't have an iPhone, but it does seem like a cool app for someone who does.