title: Development of an electronic medical report delivery system to 3G GSM mobile (cellular) phones for a medical imaging department.
abstract: Medical practice is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity in collaborative and cooperative patient care. Fast and effective communication between medical practitioners can improve patient care. In medical imaging, the fast delivery of medical reports to referring medical practitioners is a major component of cooperative patient care. Recently, mobile phones have been actively deployed in telemedicine applications. The mobile phone is an ideal medium to achieve faster delivery of reports to the referring medical practitioners. In this study, we developed an electronic medical report delivery system from a medical imaging department to the mobile phones of the referring doctors. The system extracts a text summary of medical report and a screen capture of diagnostic medical image in JPEG format, which are transmitted to 3G GSM mobile phones.
authors.affiliation: Department of PET and Nuclear Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia.
authors.forename: Eugene Y
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Chiang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Weidong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Dagan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fulham
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009684:Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed