• DocumentCode
    1531591
  • Title

    A multimedia medical communications system

  • Author

    Karmouch, Ahmed ; Orozco-Barbosa, Luis ; Geoganas, N.D. ; Goldberg, Morris

  • Author_Institution
    Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1990
  • fDate
    4/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    325
  • Lastpage
    339
  • 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
  • Keywords
    medical computing; telecommunication systems; telecommunications computing; Canada; Department of Radiological Sciences; Emergency Department; Ottawa Civic Hospital; database; medical reports; multimedia medical communications system; teaching hospital; Biomedical imaging; Computer architecture; Displays; Hospitals; Joining processes; Multimedia communication; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Radiology; User interfaces;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0733-8716
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/49.53009
  • Filename
    53009