A multimedia medical communications system

  • Authors:
  • A. Karmouch;L. Orozco-Barbosa;N. D. Geoganas;M. Goldberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Ottawa Univ., Ont.;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

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