Installé dans un hôpital de Munich par la société allemande BrainLAB, le "Digital Lightbox radiology system" est une intéressante application médicale de la technologie multi-touch qui équipe les téléphones portables dernière génération. Le principe ? Il s’agit d’un écran tactile géant qui permet au personnel soignant de naviguer dans les radios des patients ou encore de zoomer pour les agrandir. Reste à voir dans quelle mesure les budgets de la santé pourront supporter ce type de mises à niveau technologiques …

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Digital Lightbox replaces the conventional light box used to observe analog x-ray images. Connected to the hospital PACS, the new digital platform can be installed both in meeting rooms and in operating rooms, where clinicians can then access, manipulate, and utilize data for surgery planning. By displaying the human body in 3D, Digital Lightbox helps clinicians to more clearly demonstrate to patients what effects a disease can have and which procedures may be necessary. Digital Lightbox enables clinicians to select the most valuable images from large amounts of existing medical data. Ergonomic touchscreen technology with zoom functionality makes working with data easy and effective. Clinicians can intuitively navigate within pictures and between settings. Image scrolling can be performed with one finger; zooming in and out of images with two. Images from different sources can also be fused easily. A measure functionality enables clinicians to set size and other dimensions.

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