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Medical documentation is one of the primary methods by which physicians share clinical information and impressions over time with one another. As the adage says, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and physicians have started leveraging consumer mobile technology to share images with one another. However, image sharing often uses short message service texting and similar methods, which can be noncompliant with privacy regulations and can also limit the ability to communicate information longitudinally and across specialties. Sharing of such information is increasingly important, however, as smaller practices are joining to create large geographically spread out health care networks. To this end, we developed an application to acquire and store images via smartphone and seamlessly transfer into the patient’s electronic medical record (EMR) to enable digital consults and longitudinal evaluation in a private and compliant method.
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Mechanic, O.J., Kurtzman, N.D., Chiu, D.T. et al. Point of Care Image Capture with a Custom Smartphone Application: Experience with an Encounter-Based Workflow. J Digit Imaging 33, 83–87 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-019-00231-1
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