Future versions may let doctors take photos with the iPad and upload them to the patient records database, said Korten.

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But Korten might not be all alone in his thesis after all.

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According to Korten, the roadmap includes the ability to tie into Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and Lab results databases built by 3rd parties.

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According to Korten, this provides business opportunities for independent developers and SAP partners: adapters that connect 3rd-party medical server applications and databases to the SAP Mobility middleware, or other mHealth apps that rely on SAP Mobility middleware to tie into multiple back-end data sources.

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