Extending the Radiological Workplace Across the Borders.

Emerging technologies are transforming the workflows in healthcare enterprises. Today, several vendors offer holistic web-based solutions for radiologists, radiographers and clinicians - a single platform for all users. Besides traditional web, streaming technology is also emerging to the radiological practice in order for improving security and enabling the use of low network bandwidths. The technology does not set limitations any more: today, the digital workplace knows no boundaries; remote reporting, off-hour coverage, virtual radiologists are all ways to offer imaging services in a non-traditional way. The challenge, however, is to provide trust over distance - across organizational or even national boundaries. In the following three different aspects important in building trust in remote reporting are discussed: 1) organizational change issues, 2) continuous feedback and 3) legal implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]