[53553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Mon Nov 18 12:42:03 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:42:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Daniel Golding <dgold@FDFNet.Net>
To: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: Jere Retzer <retzerj@ohsu.edu>, <nanog@merit.edu>,
David Diaz <techlist@smoton.net>
In-Reply-To: <031201c28f29$07f5de20$a8876540@amer.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Is this sort of radiology data sent over private lines or the public
internet? What are the bandwidth demands?
Not a good reason for extensive local peering, but a very interesting
application.
- Dan
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>
> Thus spake "David Diaz" <techlist@smoton.net>
> > I agree with everything said Stephen except the part about the
> > medical industry. There are a couple of very large companies doing
> > views over an IP backbone down here. Radiology is very big on
> > networking. They send your films or videos over the network to where
> > the Radiologist is. For example one hospital owns about 6 others
> > down here, and during off hours like weekends etc, the 5 hospitals
> > transmit their films to where the 1 radiologist on duty is.
>
> I meant my reply to be directed only at "telemedecine", where the patient is at
> home and consults their general practitioner or primary care physician via
> broadband for things like the flu or a broken arm. While there's lots of talk
> about this in sci-fi books, there's no sign of this making any significant
> inroads today, nor does it qualify as a "killer app" for home broadband.
>
> I do work with several medical companies who push radiology etc. around on the
> back end for resource-sharing and other purposes. This is quite real today, and
> is driving massive bandwidth upgrades for healthcare providers. However, I
> don't think it qualifies under most people's idea of telemedecine.
>
> S
>
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