On-line Diagnostic Markets

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October 8th, 2009 Brian Mossop
http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/

The most impressive tool for clinical decision-making presented at the Health 2.0 conference was a program that allowed docs to share medical images over the Internet, developed by MyPACS.net. Any DICOM image (e.g. CT scan, MRI, etc) can be uploaded and shared through their website.

Say, for example, that a patient comes to the hospital with abdominal pains. After undergoing a CT scan, the radiologist determines that there is a mass located in the abdominal cavity, but is not quite sure what it is. Traditionally, the radiologist would either compare the patient’s CT to scans in the hospital archive, or spend hours searching through the limited information in medical journals. With MyPACS.net, doctors can upload and share hundreds or thousands of images, instantaneously. It’s like Facebook photos or Flickr for physicians.

Not only would this system help a small-town hospital that has limited DICOM image archives, but it also eliminates the 6-10 month lag in publication of images in medical journals.
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X-fims used to be scanned and send to India for a cheaper price and the next day the patint comes in and picks up his/her diagnosis made in India.

Now that there are new programs for that purpose beyond e-mail. Not only your X-ray films but also your MR images can be analysed and compared to each other.

My MR image look like that person shall I socialize with him/her on internet ?

What happens when everybody sees my glioma till the last detail online ?

These are the questions to be asked before using these soft-wares extensively.