BACKGROUND Today there is much debate about why telemedicine has stalled. Teleradiology is the only widespread telemedicine application. Other telemedicine applications appear to be promising candidates for widespread use, but they remain in the early adoption stage. The objective of this debate paper is to achieve a better understanding of the adoption of telemedicine, to assist those trying t...

BACKGROUND Japan has the most CT and MRI scanners per unit population in the world, and as these technologies spread, their geographic distribution is becoming equalized. In contrast, the number of radiologists per unit population in Japan is the lowest among OECD countries and their geographic distribution is unknown. Likewise, little is known about the use of teleradiology, which can compensa...

This study describes the design of a real-time interactive multimedia teleradiology system and assesses how the system is used by referring physicians in point-of-care situations and supports or hinders aspects of physician-radiologist interaction. We developed a real-time multimedia teleradiology management system that automates the transfer of images and radiologists' reports and surveyed phy...

This paper examines the collaborative activities of radiology practitioners, designers and fieldworker/researchers in a work practice oriented multiparty design intervention organised in connection to an experimental teleradiology project. Through an example of image comparison in radiologists' image interpretation the participants can be seen to co-construct shared understandings of radiology ...

Teleradiology, which enables distribution and sharing of digital medical images for collaborative diagnosis, has enjoyed rapid success due to the advances in telecommunication and multimedia technologies. However, the interactive collaboration mechanisms that control the editing among multiple users on the same object is often limited to simple ‘locking’ concept, where only one user edits an ob...

Telepathology as a demanding branch of telemedicine poses a real challenge to experts. The introduction of telepathology in underprivileged countries with poor infrastructure and low health-care budget is a difficult task. On the other hand these countries would mostly benefit by introducing telemedicine/telepathology. In our experience it is possible to build an efficient telepathology/telerad...