This is a classic two person collaboration setup. Both computers are connected via standard phone lines and modems. The users are also connected on a standard audio telephone call.
Business Situation: Diagnosis At A Distance
Quality health care depends on fast full communication between primary health care providers and specialists particularly in diagnosis. In serious cases, time is of the essence, ruling out sending medical images by mail or courier, and facsimile service does not offer the high resolution required to make life-saving diagnoses.
Customer Need: Collaborative Image Sharing
An imaging technology that allows radiologists and physicians to simultaneously synchronize, view and discuss medical images including X-Rays and MRI or CAT scans.
Solution: The Virtual Meeting Telemedicine Edition
The Virtual Meeting allows 2 or more physicians to consult and collaborate on electronic medical images. While talking on a telephone call the collaborators can synchronize the medical images so both are viewing the same image. They can also point at any spot in the image using an electronically synchronized pointer. Notes or annotations can be added on top of the image if desired. No special high speed or data phone lines are required so physicians can consult from home or office.
Remote diagnostics and telemedicine using The Virtual Meeting maximizes expert resources, by facilitating easy consultations with specialists.
The Virtual Meeting Telemedicine Edition is available for Macintosh and Windows 3.1 and consists of the following software components for each physician
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