Medical Professionals using IPhone for evaluation and collaboration of medical diagnosis and treatment

I came across an article today about how the IPhone can help to revolutionize the ways Tech Savvy Doctors diagnose and treat their patients. The first thing doctors believe this will help by making the old-fashioned clipboard and X-ray light box a thing of the past.

"If you could use the gesture-based way of manipulating images on the IPhone and actually manipulate a stack of X-rays or CT scans, that would be a huge selling point," says Adam Flanders, director of informatics at Thomas Jefferson University and an expert in medical imaging.

While placing mobile computing power at useful tools in the hands of medical professionals could very beneficial to medical treatment and efficiency, there are huge concerns about the security of patient personal data. But some doctors and hospital executive staff believes the benefits far outweigh the concerns.

Then there are the security concerns: As Flanders notes, hospital CIOs are also understandably wary of beaming medical images all over the place via WiFi. But the iPhone's reasonably powerful Samsung ARM processor, 8 GB or 16 GB of flash memory and intuitive, visual interface seem well suited to medical imagery. And the iPhone's new business-friendly security features may ease privacy fears, physicians say, and could even turn the device into an indispensable medical tool if hospitals OK the device.

I don't know about you but its bad enough I have to place my personal information in the hands of people I don't know and hope they do the right thing, but to also expose that data to hackers makes me that much more uneasy. Technology is going to continue to roll forward but I hope these people place security as a high priority!!!!