Category Archives: Medical
May 11, 2012
Like other fast-developing economies in Asia, China skipped much of the land telephone line infrastructure investments that other countries spent decades deploying and moved almost directly to mobile infrastructure.
One might expect a similar “leapfrog” approach for digital content delivery infrastructure. But that’s not what’s happening when it comes to distributing digital medical records. The Chinese government is establishing standards that make optical discs a required distribution option for digital patient records for years to come. Continue reading »
September 19, 2011
Yesterday, the ugly combination of a whiffle ball tournament and my aging body brought me to Urgent Care. That’s my fractured fibula above.
I can show you this because the doctor sent me on my way with more than the usual prescription for pain medicine: he gave me a CD with my x-ray on it. Continue reading »
February 16, 2011
Medical modalities like X-ray machines and MRI systems generate a steady stream of digital images, which find their way into patient medical records. This is a major advance over the days of film, but it’s only half of the digital content story for healthcare. Continue reading »
February 9, 2011
The FDA has approved an app for iPads and iPhones for viewing medical images. The Army is looking closely at similar apps for iOS and Android devices. It’s less about making things easy for doctors and more about speeding up their ability to make diagnoses. And it’s not really a new thing – just one more step in the March of Digitization that medical images have been travelling over the past decade. Continue reading »
