http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/ Engadget Comments for Healthcare-friendly Bluetooth revision is four times faster, still seems slow http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/Nov 3rd 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/Nov 3rd 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/Nov 3rd 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/
It sounds like these students are shoehorning bluetooth connectivity into a PACS server. Neat, now a doctor can pull up your xrays on his blackberry or iphone and charge you extra for that. This is hardly newsworthy.]]>Nov 3rd 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/Nov 3rd 2009 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/
I used to work on medical software that pulled MRI DICOMs out of a PAC server and represented them as volumetric 3D data on consumer-level PCs. It took advantage of 3D hardware with texture compression and my own optimizations to visualize 1024x1024x1024 3D textures at decent frame rates on graphics cards with only 256mb RAM at the time (those were the top of the line then).

Eventually the company went under, but I kept the prototype source that I wrote as a contractor, but I since left medical to work in the simulation/gaming industry.

That said, polling over a thousand 1024x1024 slices out of a PACS server over a Bluetooth connection would be ungodly SLOOOOWWWW... best to leave that to X-rays and single MRI/CT slices.]]>Nov 3rd 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/
PACS is a generic name for a Hospital image data base and not a product name as suggested.



However agreed, 120 for an single image is not much use, especially if you consider the average CAT scan is about 1GB of data.]]>Nov 3rd 2009 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/
Work to get an 802.11 standard ratified in the hospitals. Some hospitals already have this technology in use.]]>Nov 3rd 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communication_system . Also, the article after the read link says this is for telemedicine, an important model in India for rural care. This seems to be for working in the absence of a reliable mobile network or internet access.
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CT set with 4000 images is about 2GB.... ]]>Nov 3rd 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/Nov 3rd 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/Nov 3rd 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/healthcare-friendly-bluetooth-revision-is-four-times-faster-sti/Nov 3rd 2009 12:56PM