CNN.com - 'I use my iPod to store medical images' - Oct 26, 2005

What a joke!! It is not practical at all to carry images around in an iPod. First of all - how do you get the images in it? You need full blown Osirix workstation to be able to send the images to the iPod. Click here to see the original article on CNN.

Well here are the steps a clinician will have to take to get images on an iPod and show it to a patient:
1. Patient is scanned on the scanner
2. Images sent to EMR or PACS
3. Physician has to find a Osirix workstation in the hospital
4. Find someone to login and help them connect the iPod to it
5. Download images to iPod
6. Walk back to the clinic
7. Show images to the patient (which by the he could have been able to show on the EMR or PACS application that is installed on every computer in the hospital and also available on the web).

Steps 1-6 take >2 hours.
Step #7 takes 30 secs.

What a waste of resources.

A couple of clinicians have come to me to help them get images on the iPod. After the first attempt and when they realize how impractical this is - they have never returned. They have access to all 3D, 4D and 5D images, that they can interact with on any PC in the hospital and even from home over the VPN.

A Practical Radiologist