Cover Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
ISSN:
8750-7315
Online Publication Date:
Mar 1999

Use of a computerized digital camera in podiatric medical practice

S Stacpoole-Shea Department of Orthopaedics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284-7776, USA.

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G Shea Department of Orthopaedics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284-7776, USA.

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https://doi.org/10.7547/87507315-89-3-131
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Multimedia technology was once rarely found outside the realm of commercial production studios or in elaborate computer games. However, with the addition of only a few simple accessories, recent advances have made this technology readily available to the podiatric medical practitioner on a desktop office computer. The role that the application of multimedia technology using a computerized digital camera can play in a podiatric medical practice--including in such areas as record keeping, outcome measurement, patient education, interdisciplinary communications, and practice-management tools--is discussed.

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