Dear RIS Insider,
The personal digital assistant (PDA) is about as common as scrubs in the medical workplace. And lately just as useful. Medical reference-based applications and databases have long been available for PDAs, but only recent advances in technology have made RIS/PACS for PDAs a possibility.
Better displays, speedier processors, and beefier storage capabilities for PDAs are leading to the development of RIS- and PACS-based software products that may literally put radiology IT in a user's pocket. Wireless connectivity and telephony features, along with digital dictation applications, provide the possibility to conduct and distribute diagnostic radiology on the fly.
A pair of studies from the 2005 European Congress of Radiology in Vienna showed that PDAs are on track to become the next piece of RIS/PACS hardware. A radiology research team from Galway, Ireland, reviewed the latest advances in PDA technology for radiology, while a radiologist from Aalborg, Denmark, presented data based on his group's experiences using a PDA to conduct diagnostic reads of orthopedic images from four different modalities.
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