Teleradiology is a branch of telemedicine. It helps to transfer radiological images of patients electronically from one location to other. This helps radiologists who are at distant locations to read and interpret the images for the patients and give them an appropriate report of their health condition.
Teleradiology today is vastly used by organizations to get in touch with specialists who are remotely located. This technology helps teleradiologists to diagnose reports for patients without being in the same roomas the patient. But by law some countries do require the teleradiologist to be within the same country as the patient.
More and more organizations are open to such technically advanced services these days. Health care is very expensive so teleradiology services are on great demand and organizations are more open to teleradiology services which are very economical.
Teleradiology uses standard network technologies like the internet, telephone line, wide area network or local area network. Special software is used to transmit images over the network for the Radiologist to analyze. The biggest advantage of using teleradiology is that images can be sent to any part of the world and so even if the patient cannot travel all around he can still have an opinion from Radiologists all over the world, if he wishes to do so.
Teleradiology offers the opportunity to simultaneously improve medical care delivery and improve the quality of work life for radiologists. Teleradiology may have been launched originally because of a perceived shortage of radiologists to cover the increasing number of radiology procedures for emergencies and diagnostics, but it also offers an opportunity to improve the lifestyle of doctors.
Therefore we can conclude teleradiology can make life easier not only for patients as well as Radiologists. It helps them save time as well as money. Accepting such new technologies can help make living better in today's world.