With the increase in the number of medical applications available for download on the iPhone, the researchers wanted to explore how the technology was progressing, according to presenter Dr. Krishna Juluru, an assistant professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College.
They will discuss their systematic review of all iPhone applications in the medical section of the iTunes App Store, along with their ratings for each application on its utility in radiology based on its description. The group also categorized each application in terms of its various uses, and recorded its cost and release date.
The review demonstrates the breadth of utility of iPhone apps, Juluru said.
"We showed that iPhone applications can be used to provide decision support, increase operational efficiency, promote safety, and, ultimately, improve physician productivity," he told AuntMinnie.com. "We feel that these applications are going in a direction that will see increased integration with Internet and hospital-based systems to better enhance information exchange and communication between physicians and other physicians, and between physicians and their patients."
