The Age of Teleradiology

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Teleradiology has become an essential part of the practice of radiology, with broad implications for care delivery and the organization of work. The same technology that can transmit a radiograph or a computed tomographic (CT) scan obtained at night at an emergency department in Philadelphia to Bangalore, India, for reading during the day can move any digital radiograph anywhere at any time.1 Within minutes, images can appear on the desktop of a radiologist at home, in an office several floors away from a central reading room, or at another hospital. Studies can be transmitted to the referring physician, a workstation . . .

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