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Is Your Smartphone or Tablet Up to Medical Imaging Standards?

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mobile medical imaging with smartphones and tablets<br />A year ago, the FDA okayed the first mobile medical imaging app for use in diagnostics. Cleveland-based MIM Software had tried for 2 1/2 years to persuade the agency that its Mobile MIM application was up to the task.

But the reaction by radiologists has been mixed and even contradictory. Some thought the images available via a tablet wouldn’t be sharp enough to rely on for accurate diagnoses – they’d rely instead on their workstations. Others thought the personal device images might, in some situations, be better than their workstations.

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Get Motivated by These Top Medical Imaging Facilities

medical imagingThinking of making big changes in your medical imaging system? Here’s some inspiration.

Take a look at the healthcare providers that were named Health Imaging and IT’s Top 25 Connected Healthcare Facilities. The list includes facilities in big cities (New York’s Montefiore Medical Center) and small towns (Minot, N.D.’s Trinity Health) with winners in every region of the country.

Their medical imaging solutions were both technical and procedural, but they all were toward the top of Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) EMR adoption stages. Most were at stage 6 or 7, putting them in the top 4.5 percent of the nation’s medical imaging facilities.

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