More coverage of the
SDSC's smartphone based medical records project...
Laura Gater has written an article for Radiology Today about the work done by the Mobile Data Visualization Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
"If you spend any time in public, you’ll see people walking around hooked up to their iPods.
Apple’s portable MP3 players with hard disk storage are wildly popular among people of all ages for listening to music. The most powerful iPods have 60-gigabyte hard drives that enable users to download and store thousands of songs. This storage capability excites leisure users, but iPods are carving out a niche in radiology. Physicians use them to transport, display, and manipulate images. And the iChat capability on iPods can be used to instantly communicate with others about the images. But it is the portable storage capacity that makes iPods so appealing to radiologists.
“Up to a few years ago, storage was very expensive for mobile devices,” says Gregory Quinn, PhD, leader of the Mobile Data Visualization Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, who is researching the potential of mobile device visualization, along with C. Michael Wright, MD, FACC, LifeScore Clinic, La Jolla, Calif. “The hardware coming down the pipeline which contains graphics accelerators is very impressive. Mobile devices are coming to market with micro-drives, primarily intended for MP3 storage, but potentially providing a repository for storing large amounts of data.”
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