Instagram, the app that lets you share your photographic experiences with the world, started as a trendy little iOS app that has quickly blown up on Android devices and on the web. About 150 million users log in every month and there are now around 75 million users. Obviously, the ease at which one can view images via mobile devices is helping to change peoples’ image-sharing habits. Can mobile phone apps be of any assistance in the healthcare community?
It seems that technological advances in the medical industry occur daily. Recently, an iPhone
image transmission app was created to help EMTs in the field better transmit ECG data to doctors. The app was specifically designed to serve possible heart attack victims. Treating a heart attack early can significantly improve the patients’ chances of survival, so the faster the EMT can get vital information back to the hospital, the better. The ECG capture app allows the EMT to take a photo of the ECG and send it, just like they would on Instagram, to the doctors back at the hospital. However, would this type of app work well in the medical imaging space?
If radiologists and providers were to follow the Instagram model, all they’d have to do is use a login name and password from their mobile device to view as many medical images as they would need to see for any given patient. They could do this from anywhere on any device, as long as it had access to the Internet. However, image transmission provided through a mobile app might not offer the security and reliability that healthcare providers would need.
Some radiology experts might suggest that if you were to rely solely on an app built for a mobile device, you might be quite underpowered. Instead, your radiology team and the doctors you serve will be better equipped with a solution offered here at OffSite Image Management. Using a DICOM exchange that utilizes the Honeycomb to exchange data across any given number of vendor platforms, we have created a storing and sharing method that quickly and easily allows the appropriate providers access to the medical imaging they need to treat their patients.
OffSite, was founded by an expert in the radiology field and offers Virtual CD to its clients who were once tied down with their antiquated CD burning technology. If you’ve been looking for a more efficient system than what you have with your CD burning and mailing method, OffSite’s Virtual CD is the answer.
When you are lined up with OffSite’s image transmission solution, you’ll have the freedom to ditch your massive proprietary CD burning equipment and all the hassles that were commonplace with it. Your technologists no longer have to waste valuable time burning CDs and you no long have to worry about malfunctioning CDs or lost CDs. You’ll also free up a lot of space in your office because you’ll no longer need to archive physical copies of the CDs – it’s all in the cloud. Call us today to see for yourself.