A multimedia medical communications system
A. Karmouch, Luis Orozco–Barbosa, N.D. Geoganas, Morris Goldberg · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 1990
The problem of communicating the radiologist's findings to the attending physician is introduced, and it is shown why it is essentially a multimedia communication problem. A multimedia communications system that was designed with a focus on database and medical reports organization and architecture is described. A report is presented of some of the key results of an in-house trial linking the Department of Radiological Sciences and the Emergency Department at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, Canada, a 950-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital.>