October 22, 2009

GE debuted their VScan portable ultrasound - check out the video here. Nice unit. But frankly, I saw better ones out there during my summer in the Silicon Valley.

I don’t think a dedicated device is the best route to take. I don’t see why an Android or iPhone cannot run the same software they have, on a larger screen, with more connectivity (near real-time updates to an EMR  platform?) and more frequent software updates.

Both WiFi-Direct and BlueTooth 2.0EDR can handle this. BlueTooth EDR may need some on-wand compression but that’s still not out of striking range for GE.

This really is going to be an essential tool in an MDs armor during the next decade and I would only expect that it embraces the connected reality we are in today.

Not quite “Heathy Imagination” without that sort of thinking is it? Here’s a beta release of our CiviTriage application from my new start-up, CiviGuard Technologies:

CiviGuard - CiviTriage - Field Medical Reports from Zubin Wadia on Vimeo.

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