Teleteaching and teleguiding using an intranetwork: A feasibility study

Telemedicine (more specific TeleCardiology), including teleteaching and teleguidance, is a rapidly growing area in cardiology. The availability of hand-held network ready ultrasound equipment is one of the accelerators for furthers developments. A pilot project for both teleteaching and -guiding was started in our institution. For teleteaching the requirements were not too strict, e.g. no real-time interaction with the remote site necessary and some loss in image quality was allowed. For teleguidance however, near real-time transmission of images with no loss in diagnostic quality was demanded For both teleprojects solutions were found and/or developed with complete satisfactory to the clinical demands.