656 mHealth Multidisciplinary Verticals
accurately display images on mobile devices for interpretation on mobile devices has
improved the communication between healthcare providers and allowed timely manage-
ment of patients.
Commonly used scenarios relate to trauma (head and neck), abdominal pathology, and
investigation of acute coronary syndromes. Abdominal computerized tomography (CT) is
commonly used for the surgical evaluation of patients with suspected appendicitis. Choudhri
et al. showed a 98% concordance in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis when abdominal CT
scans of 25 patients with right-sided abdominal pain were interpreted on a smartphone
(iPhone) using a digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) viewer applica-
tion ...