Yet another new use for cameraphones: using them to send instead of couriers to send images of X-rays to doctors.
“Specialists are so used to seeing different fractures that in 98 out of 100 cases they could tell which sort of treatment was needed from looking at the X-ray on a phone.” The X-rays are developed as normal then photographed by the mobile telephone’s built-in camera and sent as a picture message to the consultant’s own telephone. Until now, taxis and couriers have been used to take X-rays to the two orthopaedic consultants when they have been on duty at other hospitals. Mr Davies said that there has been a reduction in the time patients have to wait for treatment or a second opinion.
In about two weeks, stuff like this is going to cease being newsworthy.
