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Teleradiology has become an essential part of the practice of radiology, with broad implications for care delivery and the organization of work. The same technology that can transmit a radiograph or a computed tomographic (CT) scan obtained at night at an emergency department in Philadelphia to Bangalore, India, for reading during the day can move any digital radiograph anywhere at any time.¹ Within minutes, images can appear on the desktop of a radiologist at home, in an office several floors away from a central reading room, or at another hospital. Studies can be transmitted to the referring physician, a workstation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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