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The night before his fourth birthday, Rohan Giare of Rockville rolled off his bed and gashed the bridge of his nose. Rohan’s dad, not knowing whether he should focus on getting the bleeding to stop or go immediately to the emergency room, snapped pictures of the cut with his BlackBerry and sent them to his doctor friend, Neal Sikka.
“I just gave [Sikka] a ring,” Vishal Giare said, “and got initial input on how serious it might be.”
Sikka, an emergency physician at George Washington University, looked at the photos and recommended a trip to the hospital.
Sikka has gotten comfortable using his camera phone to make informal diagnoses for friends and family since he became a doctor in 1999. And as he embraced cellphone culture, Sikka said, he wondered if he could confidently and consistently make diagnoses if regular patients sent him injury snapshots.
In May, Sikka began a six-month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants at GWU Hospital could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images. According to Sikka, it is the largest “mobile health” study looking at acute wound care.
“Mobile health” does not mean a clinic on wheels. It is an emerging field within telemedicine that comprises all aspects of care generated from or available on a portable mobile device such as a cellphone.
Doctors already use traditional forms of telemedicine — teleconferencing and videoconferencing — but Sikka said “mHealth” goes further, eliminating the need for scheduling conference rooms and reserving equipment.
From Software Advice.com :: The Medical Blog…
When we published our list of the best medical iPhone apps for doctors and students, we had so many requests for a follow up post highlighting medical apps for the Android operating system that we had to do it. We’ve reduced the over 1,200 “Health” apps in the Android [...]
Earn CME credit as you find answers online to your clinical questions. Use the iPhone® iPod Touch® application to document your clinical searches as a learning activity using your office or home computer. XtraCredit allows you to document your search activity via text or dictation (iPod Touch users must have a microphone for dictation).
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From the LA Times…
The doctor-patient relationship is moving online. With 68% of American adults now using the Internet to search for healthcare information, it’s no surprise that many also want digital access to their doctor. Whether they have that option will depend heavily on doctors’ ability to get paid for the service.
Online physician consultations, also [...]
From medcitynews.com …
n a previous blog I described the potential of the iPad for healthcare. Here’s another installment of that Cool Technology, an in the trenches experience by one of hospitalists and informaticians, Dr. Henry Feldman.
“I just spent a full week as a res-intern-attend on east and decided to try out my iPad (64gb [...]
