MID-Based Instant Transmission of Radiological Images for Emergency Teleconsultation

Abstract

Since the medical environment becomes more complicated nowadays, an efficient teleconsultation plays an important role for surgical emergency and medical decision making. The advances in the information communication technique during the past decade have already made the remote consulting feasible. The remote consulting must provide rapid response time, high quality radiological images and flexible cooperation platform. Based on the mobile internet device (MID) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) platform, we propose an effective teleconsultation system to improve the medical quality of service. The internet virtual community concept is also adopted to provide a convenient and rapid connection manner. The results demonstrate that it fulfills the requirements of remote consultation system.