Medical Imaging Could Be Revolutionized by iPad - July 5, 2010
Orlando Florida
Experts in the medical community are excited about how Apple’s iPad could be used in a medical capacity to streamline the medical imaging process. In June, Japanese doctors pioneered the use of iPad as an imaging assistant during surgery, but practical uses could go even deeper.
“iPads can theoretically contain the entire electronic record of the patient’s imaging experience, and can be handed along the workflow as needed,” said Paul Merrild, senior VP of marketing and business development at imaging IT vendor Merge Healthcare. “At the end, the iPad has potential to provide a nice teaching and communication tool between the radiologist, referring physician and the patient.”
For doctors, the iPad could make a big difference in the process of reviewing images, going over reports and medical records, and helping to explain to patients the extent of their illness with a helpful visual guide. The long battery life, the always-on nature of the device, and the high-quality screen are what endear the iPad to doctors over similar devices in the product category.
While the iPad excels in certain everyday uses for radiologists, the hardware isn’t developed enough for them to use it to replace the displays they currently use to make diagnoses. The brightness of the iPad display is still a fraction of what radiologists’ primary interpretation displays can handle, and the screen still isn’t up to the resolution standards radiologists would need to replace their current hardware.
More importantly, the iPad does not provide enough security to comply with HIPAA regulations regarding patient privacy. Hospital IT departments are reportedly already hard at work devising ways that patients’ medical information could be stored on a remote web server and streamed to an iPad as needed.
“So, the iPad will need some software changes to find a niche in healthcare, because it will need to be a locked-down, tightly controlled IT asset accessible safely by multiple users — in that regard, it’s not there yet,” said Robert Taylor, president and CEO of TeraRecon, an advanced visualization vendor.
The benefits of using the iPad in this capacity are clear, making it just a matter of ironing out the kinks. Don’t be surprised then if you walk into a hospital in a few years and find it full of iPad-toting doctors.
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