The iTunes apps store broke the 10,000 apps
mark last December (http://www.ismashphone.
com/2008/12/ten-thousand-iphone-apps-lets-makea-
mosaic.html) which is a clear indicator of
passing the tipping point of a market dominating
platform. Radiology-related applications are already
available in the iTunes apps store including popular
ones by MIMvista and Osirix. A list is provided in
Table 1. An open-source web-based viewer called
Oviyam (http://oviyam.raster.in) is already available
which plugs into the open-source PACS called
DCM4CHEE and has both a normal web interface
and an iPhone-optimized web interface. Inevitably,
radiology-related iPhone apps will include many
other functions besides viewing DICOMimages and
will likely include physician-to-physician interactions
and physician-to-patient interactions. Other
medical, non-radiology-related iPhone apps are also
available, which are at this point mostly educational
in nature. One good website that tracks iPhone apps
is http://www.appshopper.com.