Wide area networks for teleradiology

Baxter, Kirkman G.; Wetzel, Louis H.; Murphey, Mark D.; Rosenthal, Stanton J.; Haines, John E.; Batnitzky, Solomon; Caresio, Joseph F.; Templeton, Arch W.; Dwyer, Samuel J.

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“…While the technology is available for transmitting digitized images over telephone lines, the teleradiology equipment required adds an additional cost that may exceed $100,000, and few rural hospitals have been willing to assume this additional expense (Baxter, et al, 1991;Johnson, 1992).…”

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The Mobile Hospital Technology Industry: Focus on the Computerized Tomography Scanner

Hartley¹,

Moscovice²

1996

The Journal of Rural Health

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This study of firms offering mobile hospital technology to rural hospitals in eight northwestern states found that several permanently parked computerized tomography (CT) units were found where mobile routes had atrophied due to the purchase of fixed units by former mobile CT hospital clients. Based on a criterion of 140 scans per month per unit as a threshold of profitable production, units owned by larger firms (those that operate five or more units) were more likely to be profitable than units owned by smaller firms (71% versus 20%, P = 0.03). A substantial number of rural hospitals lose money on mobile CT due to low Medicare reimbursement. In some areas, mobile hospital technology is a highly competitive industry. Evidence was found that several firms compete in some geographic areas and that some firms have lost hospital clients to competing vendors.

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The Mobile Hospital Technology Industry: Focus on the Computerized Tomography Scanner

Hartley¹,

Moscovice²

1996

The Journal of Rural Health

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“…Connected sites include multiple hospitals, clinics, health care consortiums, trauma centers, and subspecialty interpretation centers [1]. Wide area networks for teleradiology systems may be implemented with either dedicated digital communication links or switched digital communication links [2].…”

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<title>Dial-up switched 56,000 bits-per-second teleradiology system</title>

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A dial-up, wide bandwidth, digital teleradiology system was implemented between Irwin Army Community Hospital (Fort Riley, Kansas), Munson Army Community Hospital (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas), and the University ofKansas (KU) Medical Center (Kansas City, Kansas). A laserfilm digitizer and a gray scale display system were used at Irwin and Munson Army Community Hospitals to digitize radiographicfilms and display digital images. A laserfilm printer at KU Medical Center generates a film hardcopy ofthe transmitted digital data and an interactive gray scale display is used to review the digital image data. The communication system consists ofdial-up, switched, multiple 56,000 bits per second digital channels, transmitting digital image data in parallel. Conventional radiographicfilms, multfornwt camerafilms, and laserprintedfilmsfrom inultimodality imaging systems--computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR), ultrasound (US), nuclear medicine (NM), digitalfluorography, and phosphor plate computed radiography (CR)--have been successfully digitized, transmitted, and laser film recorded or gray scale displayed. It is concluded that the implemented dial-up, wide bandwidth, multiple 56,000 bits per second digital teleradiology system provides clinically acceptable image quality reproductions.

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The Irrelevance of Geography and Time in Assuring High Quality Patient Care Resulting from Proliferation of Teleradiology in the Pacific Rim

Gelish¹,

Mun

1993

Computer Assisted Radiology / Computergestützte Radiologie

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Wide area networks for teleradiology

Cited by 20 publications

References 10 publications

The Mobile Hospital Technology Industry: Focus on the Computerized Tomography Scanner

The Mobile Hospital Technology Industry: Focus on the Computerized Tomography Scanner

<title>Dial-up switched 56,000 bits-per-second teleradiology system</title>

The Irrelevance of Geography and Time in Assuring High Quality Patient Care Resulting from Proliferation of Teleradiology in the Pacific Rim

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