The following text should be added: Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: E.R. Ranschaert: Financial activities related to this article: none to disclose. Financial activities not related to this article: founder and co-owner of Eurad Consult (until 2008); advisory function at Unilabs (until 2010). Other relationships: member of the advisory board of XS2RA (non-remunerated). F. H. Barneveld Bink...

Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC) has implemented a teleradiology service to provide after-hours radiology services to its 11 medical centers from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am each day of the week. Features of the service include a Web application that is used to manage the workflow associated with teleradiology exams and to provide reports of the teleradiologists' findings to referring clinic...

The popularity of teleradiology services has enabled a major advance in the provision of health services to areas with difficult geographical access. However, this potential has also brought with it a number of challenges: the large volume of data, characteristic of imaging tests, and security requirements designed to ensure confidentiality and integrity. Moreover, there is also a number of eth...

Telemedicine is the delivery of health care and the exchange of health-care information across distances. It is not a technology or a separate or new branch of medicine. Telemedicine episodes may be classified on the basis of: (1) the interaction between the client and the expert (i.e. realtime or prerecorded), and (2) the type of information being transmitted (e.g. text, audio, video). Much of...

After the design and development of the teleradiology system, a work practice oriented approach was used to gain a more holistic understanding of the relationship between the emerging work practice and the newly implemented technology, and to provide information for redesigning the system. The approach which utilized ethnographically informed fieldwork and cooperative workshops was introduced. ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There is limited evidence for remote stroke thrombolysis using telephone consultation and teleradiology. Results from a UK network using this treatment model are presented. METHODS Retrospective study of consecutive patients thrombolysed in 5 hospitals, with well organized stroke services, between 2012 and 2013. Remote thrombolysis was compared with thrombolysis deliver...

AIM: PACS and teleradiology systems have led to marked changes in the traditional relationship between referring clinicians and hospital radiology departments. The aim of this study was to assess which factors influence clinicians' satisfaction with modern radiology services. METHOD: An Internet-based survey questionnaire was sent to all referring clinicians within a large hospital network. R...

OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to perform a cost-minimization analysis of a wide-area teleradiology network. DESIGN A prospective analysis of all transmissions over 1 year (data transmitted at the time of the remote consultation, and health outcomes of patients from medical record). INTERVENTION The inter-hospital teleradiology network of the Aquitaine area (RIHRA) is a telemedici...

BACKGROUND Frequently, radiological data is transferred verbally between the Emergency Department (ED) and orthopaedic registrar. Given the different language skills and medical experience of health staff, there is often a limit to the adequacy of the verbal description that could lead to suboptimal patient care. This study proposes that concurrent review of MMS teleradiology with traditional v...