“A diagnostic laboratory, complete with an image reader and microscope, can fit into your back pocket. Smartphones — rapidly being adopted by physicians for transferring medical information — are turning into clinical tools.
Soon, if clinical application developers are successful, physicians will be able to run diagnostic blood tests and view and send radiology scans directly from their mobile phones. The potential market is huge: More than 60% of physicians use smartphones, and that number is expected to grow to more than 80% by 2012, according to Manhattan Research’s 2009 Taking the Pulse survey, which provides an overview of the latest trends in physicians’ use of technology.”
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews, 21 December 2009
