Is this sort of radiology data sent over private lines or the public internet? What are the bandwidth demands?
Not a good reason for extensive local peering, but a very interesting application. - Dan On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > Thus spake "David Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I agree with everything said Stephen except the part about the > > medical industry. There are a couple of very large companies doing > > views over an IP backbone down here. Radiology is very big on > > networking. They send your films or videos over the network to where > > the Radiologist is. For example one hospital owns about 6 others > > down here, and during off hours like weekends etc, the 5 hospitals > > transmit their films to where the 1 radiologist on duty is. > > I meant my reply to be directed only at "telemedecine", where the patient is at > home and consults their general practitioner or primary care physician via > broadband for things like the flu or a broken arm. While there's lots of talk > about this in sci-fi books, there's no sign of this making any significant > inroads today, nor does it qualify as a "killer app" for home broadband. > > I do work with several medical companies who push radiology etc. around on the > back end for resource-sharing and other purposes. This is quite real today, and > is driving massive bandwidth upgrades for healthcare providers. However, I > don't think it qualifies under most people's idea of telemedecine. > > S > >