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The Advantage of Gadgets For RadTechs

There is practically no area of our life that is untouched by technology, and to drive home this point time and again, the new and innovative gadgets that hit the market and becoming sleeker and more powerful. The medical fraternity is benefiting enormously from the iPhone and the new applications (apps) that are being developed for it.

You have Epocrates, the huge database that allows you to find any kind of information about any kind of drug, Medical Calculator which makes it easy to compute formulae and equations, Normal Lab Values that lets medical personnel and laymen analyze the results of their blood and other bodily fluid tests, Patient Tracker which allows doctors to track information about their patients, and many others.

If we’re looking specifically for apps that are going to be useful for a radiologic technologist or a radiographer, we could cite MIM, which is totally free, and which allows the user to download non-diagnostic radiologic images for discussion, learning or interpretation purposes. Or if they’re looking for a kind of ready-reckoner for medical terms, they can buy the Medical Terminology and Abbreviation Quick Reference for $1.99. The application is easy enough to use with the terminology being broken into prefixes, stem words and suffixes for a faster searching process.

Besides this, the iPhone allows you to connect to EMR systems (electronic medical record systems) in case you need immediate information on a patient who has come in for an emergency X-ray or scan. This can tell you about relevant allergies and concurrent or prior treatments and medication and help prevent adverse side effects.

There’s no denying that the advent of gadgets has made the life of a medical technician much easier because information is now available at one’s fingertips.