Multimedia communication with ISDN-technologies-applications in radiology and cardiology departments

The Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a public network standard that provides worldwide end-to-end digital communication for voice and all types of digital data. It provides the users with a large number of services and the flexibility to easily modify the services they receive as their communication needs grow and change. The advantages of the ISDN technology for medical users by supporting them with integrated image/voice/data information are discussed. A network model for in-house and remote ISDN communication of integrated multimedia information is described, the performance issues associated with an experimental distributed multimedia manipulation system are examined, and its applicability in a number of possible operating scenarios is addressed