On-Demand Teleradiology Using Smartphone Photographs as Proxies for DICOM Images

Abstract

Teleradiology is the transmission of radiographic images from one location to another for interpretation. Teleradiology service providers help to fill the need for sub-specialty expert consultants, vacation leaves, and overflow gaps in the onsite radiology facilities. Teleradiology has become a large and growing industry [1] . The integration standard called the Integrating of Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) [2] have been developed to address communication issues between medical imaging sites. However, the IHE standard allows different vendors to implement the standard in different ways [3] which significantly limits the ability to transmit and receive images between organizations in practice.