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IPhone Could Serve as a Medical Tool for Doctors
Doctors are quite optimistic about the new version of the mobile phone as it could serve as an electronic alternative for the old-fashioned clipboard and X-ray light box.
According to Adam Flanders, director of informatics at Thomas Jefferson University and an expert in medical imaging, "If you could use the gesture-based way of manipulating images on the iPhone and actually manipulate a stack of X-rays or CT scans, that would be a huge selling point."
To date, such a feature has remained an impossible dream due to most smart phones' inability to handle the sophisticated compression techniques used on large medical images. Also, most phones lack the requisite memory and image-processing capabilities.
But the iPhone's reasonably powerful Samsung ARM processor, 8 GB or 16 GB of flash memory and intuitive, visual interface seem well suited to medical imagery.
Hospitals are also wary of beaming medical images all over the place via WiFi because of security concerns.
But, the iPhone's new business-friendly security features may ease privacy fears, according to physicians, and could even turn the device into an indispensable medical tool if hospitals approve the device.
Earlier this month, Apple released a software development kit (SDK) for programmers to create native iPhone applications.
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