Hospitals everywhere are taking advantage of the flexibility and speed
of wireless computing to improve the quality and reduce the cost of
healthcare. Caregivers equipped with portable computers now have
levels of interaction at the bedside not possible with paper charts
and can leverage accurate real-time patient information at the point
of care to diagnose and treat patients with greater speed and
efficiency. We present a mobile medical application that integrates
heterogenous medical media (e.g. textual patient case descriptions,
relevant medical imagery, physician dictations and endoscopies) into
encapsulated patient profiles. This paper provides an overview and
initial evaluation of the MEDIC mobile healthcare recommender system
that facilitates decision support for expert diagnosis.