Abstract
Telemedicine is the delivery of medicine at a distance using communications and information technologies. Teleradiology is the most established and mature field in Telemedicine, focusing on digital storage and transmission of medical images. In ultrasound, teleradiology application entails the transmission of still images and video sequences across an organizational Local Area Network (LAN) to a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). This subsequently is distributed to remote locations via a private inter-organizational Wide Area Network (WAN) or a public network, such as the Internet.
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