Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Education and training, Health policy and practice, Education, Computer Applications-Teleradiology, Teleradiology, PACS, eHealth, Computer applications
Authors:
L. A. Messina1, A. Monteiro2, A. A. S. M. D. Santos3, E. Rogacheski4, G. D'Ipollito5, B. Hochhegger6; 1Vitória - Espirito Santo/BR, 2Rio de Janeiro/BR, 3Niterói - Rio de Janeiro, RJ/BR, 4Curitiba , Pa/BR, 5São Paulo/BR, 6Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul/BR
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2013/C-2338
Imaging findings OR Procedure details
- Telemedicine University Network RUTE establishment of the organizational and technological infrastructure: national coordination,
advisory committee made up of telemedicine experts of the country’s best teaching and research institutions and interest groups on specific health areas (SIGs).
- Until now,
Brazilian Teleradiology SIGs include: Pediatric Radiology,
Neuroradiology,
Thoracic Radiology,
Abdominal Radiology and Medical Residency/Specialization in Radiology (Figures 5-9).
- Monthly virtual meetings including discussion on difficult cases for second opinion, classes to update and to refresh and seminars.
The access is free with previous invitation through a specific mailing.
- Every meeting is recorded in order to be reused by the groups.
INFRASTRUCTURE METHODOLOGY:
- The connection for SIG’s among the university hospitals is made through video conference demanding high speeds as well as specific equipment while web conference,
connecting the universities with remote municipalities,
uses just a computer with internet.
- To associate the two technologies the Telehealth Center of UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro) included an endpoint linked to a work station with a web server that transmits the videoconference’s audio and video to remote points.
- The management’s web software used was Adobe Connect Pro (Burlington,
New Jersey USA),
installed in a Dell server,
Windows Server 2008,
Intel Xeon Processor E5450,
3GHz,
and RAM memory of 4GB.
- The combination of both technologies was made through the capture of the audio using a sound board,
and also of the video using a capture card,
after what they are sent to a work station and distributed to the points connected to the web conference.
- The remote access to the web conference was made through a browser Web,
that will demand only a browser and a add in whose installation is going to be required at the first access to a virtual room of the web conference.
- In SIGs,
videoconferences linking university hospitals in several Brazilian states (Rio de Janeiro,
Sao Paulo,
Parana and others),
and also private institutions that are residents in Medical Radiology,
are held monthly at no extra costs to the participating institutions.
- SIGs in Teleradiology are now creating international networks of collaboration and integration for interactive &–education and facilitating multicenter research (Fig 10).
- This program is approved by the Brazilian College of Radiology and accredited by the Universities and by the Brazilian Medical Association.