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 physicians to triangulate the findings and to verify the realism and results of the experiment. The web-based survey was delivered to 150 physicians from a range of specialties. The survey was completed by 72% of physicians. Data showed a correlation between rich interactivity, satisfaction, and effectiveness. The results of our experiments suggest that real-time multimedia teleradiology systems are valued by referring physicians and may have the potential for enhancing their practice and improving patient care and highlight the critical role of multimedia technologies to provide real-time multimode interactivity in current medical care.

The ability to search for content on the Internet has proven to be essential for many. However, available search engines supporting Arabic language are typically limited to keyword searches and do not take in consideration the underlying semantics of the content. Semantic search engines provide searching and retrieving resources conceptually related to the user informational need. However, the presented technologies support mostly languages using Latin scripts. Arabic is still not well supported. The few works on Arabic Semantic Web applications are derived from the rule governing the traditional Arabic language and not the content available on the Web. In this research, we propose a model for representing Arabic knowledge in the Computer Technology domain using Ontologies. The model starts by elicitation users' informational needs. Ontologies w ill play a major role in supporting information search and retrieval processes of Arabic blogs on the Web.

Considering the importance of the patient's medical information for the caregivers to ensure that patients receive appropriate and safe treatment, especially the emergency room (ER) patients, thus, sharing distributed medical information among healthcare institutions is essential. On the other hand, these institutions suffer from communication gap and the heterogeneity of their medical records. Therefore, a fast and accurate way for sharing medical information is required. This paper proposes MREx, an ontology mapping system in the Medical informatics, which enables healthcare institutions, with electronic medical records, to share real-time medical information on demand, in time, at the point of care and without replacing the existing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems. MREx function with no data centralization, in a complete distributed heterogeneous environment, and without having to replace existing EMRs. The system shall allow caregivers to serve all ER patients, provide staff with real-time information to make critical decisions and serve researches to collect data among all healthcare institutions. Third 2008 International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology 978-0-7695-3407-7/08 $25.00

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