Radiologists tracking lesions on tomographical scans often can find it hard to put together a “picture” of their progress by reading a textual narrative of the patient’s scan history. To help make the process more intuitive and help improve how scans are analyzed, researchers at Stanford School of Medicine have developed the ePAD (Electronic Physician Annotation Device), an online tool for visual tracking of changes in radiological scans. While specifically developed for radiologists, the same technology can be applied by other physicians for documenting and keeping records on their patients.
Here’s a demo video of the software in action:
Link: Electronic Physician Annotation Device…
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