SINGAPORE - Doctor consultation may never be the same again here - and the iPhones and iPads in the pockets and bags of many Singaporeans could go some way to why change is in the offing.
Definitely, when patients can do their routine follow-ups from home with the popular gizmos providing visual contact for the doctor peering at his high-definition television in the polyclinic.
Or when doctors, in turn, order their patients' magnetic resonance images to be transmitted in real time from a radiology facility across the island - using Singapore's high-speed, fibre optic broadband network.
These scenarios were painted on Friday by Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Yong Ying-I. And it may take place as soon as 2012 when 95 per cent of home and buildings are covered by the network and, of course, after the next-generation iPad comes equipped with a built-in camera.
There are possible spanner in the works though. MORE
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