Computer Vision News - January 2018

Computer Vision News 11 MobileODT to secure online storage. On the image portal, MobileODT has a primitive electronic medical reference system. The nurses can also record the decision they made at the point of care for later analysis. It provides simplified electronic medical records in low- resource settings lacking patient files or image portals to store information. David explains that their main challenge in developing the software was meeting HIPAA compliance , the US privacy law which requires saving information from the clinician-to- patient session in a specific way so personal health information remains private. They needed to find a solution so that nurses could keep a record of the images and labels. To solve this problem, they save pieces of information in different places on a secure online backup. Personal health information goes in one place while the image itself is stored on a second place. Meanwhile, the information on the provider is stored in a third place. This solves the problem of privacy . Although MobileODT doesn’t have access to the personal health information, the clinician can still see and review the patient data. Since the FDA does not want to regulate smartphones, MobileODT met challenges in obtaining FDA clearance . Application