iPhone assisting physicians

We've written about the iPod's popularity in the medical field, including Dr. Michael Barrett, who gave recordings of heart sounds to med students, and the digital stethoscope recording system for the iPod nano.

While those things were cool, they're nothing compared to what's being done with the iPhone. A group called Heart Imaging Technologies ( or "HeartIT"*) has built a system that will allow a doctor to send or view a video of a patient's beating heart to an iPhone. Now that's cool.

I'm not a physician, so these videos are nothing more that pulsing globs of grey to me, but they're pretty cool to watch.

*Thank goodness they didn't choose "iHeart."

[Via MacNN]