Cooperative efforts between tertiary-care centers and outlying hospitals boost imaging services and transfer technologies.
Information maintained in the medical record is becoming computerized and is thus accessible to real-time retrieval and correlation. The potential for digital images lies not only in greater diagnostic power, but in the ability to telecommunicate and share the images with all physicians managing the patient, regardless of geographic location.
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Cardiology Group of Middle Tennesse, Nashville, USA.
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