Telemedicine Role In Radiology

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Telemedicine plays a significant role in radiology and dermatology. Radiology was the first department in most hospitals to go electronic with the implementation of dictation through speech recognition, picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and radiology information system (RIS) (Sevinc, Khandheria, & Kolodner, 2013). Radiologists today typically spend the majority of their day interpreting images on a PACS workstation computer using RIS to obtain a patient list and dictate digital images using speech recognition software. The radiologist’s location is irrelevant; the images just need to be transmitted to his or her workstation so the official radiologic report can be transmitted to the patient’s healthcare providers. Image sharing via telemedicine also supports why radiology is an obvious specialty to adopt and promote …show more content…

Implementing an image share network allow radiologists and hospital personnel to share medical images with patients and between institutions. Dermatology is also a speciality that greatly benefits from telemedicine. Telemedicine allows dermatologists to video or audio chat with patients that permit real-time conversation, receive and interpret pictures (typically of patients’ skin conditions), and provide medical advice to their patients. These interactive sessions have the ability to provide immediate clarification regarding a patient’s health history, in addition to allowing a specialist to instantly capture more digital images, if needed. Studies have found that patient care was more times than not enhanced by specialty consultations via telemedicine, especially in cases for those who don’t have easy or convenient access to a dermatologist (University of California-Davis Health