(4) OsiriX or eFilm – When the iPhone first came out, the image that most blew me away was the display of radiology imaging on a phone. These are the apps that make it happen and its probably not a surprise to anyone to see them on the list. The ability to access the brain MRI, ordered to rule-out a stroke from my call room at 3am (saving me a trip to a radiology viewing station), sounds great.
To view them on the beautiful high-resolution screen of the iPad will be even better. And the capacitive touch screen means I can manipulate these images and, hopefully soon, even annotate them or send messages to the radiologist asking about a strange incidental finding.
Last year OsiriX was used in a study to accurately diagnose acute appendicitis using the iPhone – showing huge potential for these apps.
Links: OsiriX App Review
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You bet, Satish. Thanks for the endorsement!
At Blausen Medical we, too, are excited for all to see our Blausen Human Atlas iPhone app, running on the iPad. With its larger screen real estate, our 150 3D animations of common medical conditions and treatments will be even more powerful in terms of patient education right at point of care (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… ).
Can’t wait! April 3 can’t come too soon….
Bruce Blausen Founder & CEO Blausen Medical http://www.blausen.com
It will be interesting to see if Orisix plans on coming out with a custom app for the iPad itself. Although looking at it now, you would think their App was really meant for the iPad, not the iPhone
That’s Cool for the iPhone Lovers and the Health care……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone figure out a good system for reading medical journals on the ipad?
Jan-
Check out one of our recent posts about how the iPad can be used for reading medical journals. Although, we are coming out with a review of the Papers app, which on initial impressions looks amazing for organizing PDF files. We’ll have a full review of it though
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Papers runs on Mac and iPad
http://mekentosj.com/papers/
Mostly it is useful for reference material. I go into more detail here: http://www.macadamian.com/insi…
Are there other iPad H&Ps than iPad EMR (the cost is $2000). This is a bit too expensive. All I want is a basic H&P as I primarily work locum and don’t need an extensive EMR H&P.
With all the money spent by government, why isn’t there a basic EMR H&P available FREE to all practitioners? This could be the stimulus to start using/developing a nationwide EMR H&P that has the transferable information to another more complex data base. I guess I just look at wrong. If I have hypertension and I’m poor, broke or unemployed recently, how do I get my blood pressure or diabetes prescription renewed. I guess I need to spend $150 or more on a physician’s office visit for a blood pressure check or blood glucose/A1C check (and another $200 on labs that are likely not to change my prescription) and finally spend $20.00 on inexpensive meds that is the only part I can really afford.
I’ve often thought that every person needs to have a basic H&P to personally realize their personal health status. Why aren’t there free walk-in clinics to do these basic H&Ps and to check your blood pressure and renew your meds as above. Sure, there are liability issues involved, but why is that. Laws can be made to protect practitioners. Let’s start with the basic health care. Let’s start providing free, non-liability health care in the community. No, we are not going to answer all the questions or save all the lives, but it is a start, and more than we have now. The current system of providing “health insurance” to everyone is too expensive and is going to bankrupt our nation. What we need is “health care”, not more expensive health insurance.
I’m off my rant. Back to my question: Anyone know of an inexpensive basic iPad EMR H&P? Have a good day!
Has anyone pinned down how to allow referring physicians using ipads to be able to access images from the PACS system yet? We have several referrign docs that want to access reports and images from our RIS/PACS. I have gotten it too work within our domain, but when outside of it I run into the issues of securing the connection. i beleive thta I had the VPN setup correctly, but still had issues pushing the images to my ipad as a test from the local starbuck (seattle IT guy… i know).
Any ideas?
Hi Ecole – just read your posting about free H&P’s etc. How are you doing finding what you wanted?
hey i never knew about medical apps idea..great man..
thanx for sharing..
There is an app for medical use that allows patients who are unable to speak or write to point to icons of commonly requested items. Bedpan, Lights, etc. It is a free app too. It is called “Picture Board” and runs on the iPad. It can be used by hospice and elderly care facilities as well as the deaf and dumb.