Remove tag x-ray
article thumbnail

Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The ER doctor sends an email note via telehealth to the parents' home and later does a Zoom session to show huge X-ray files. Region Tag: Global Edition. Consider a soccer-playing kid who injures a foot and goes to the emergency room. Likely the email gets delivered immediately. and 10 p.m.,

Doctors 186
article thumbnail

Leveraging the AI Opportunity for Healthcare Unstructured Data

HIT Consultant

Common examples of unstructured data in healthcare include: X-rays, MRIs and CT scan images. Text files are typically small, but files such as X-ray and CT images can consume as much as 30 megabytes each. Text documents containing medical notes or patient evaluations. Lab reports.

article thumbnail

Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

If you’re in an appointment with a patient and realize it may not be the appropriate appointment setting, you then have to quickly think through how to best take care of the patient – either in the office today, or wait until tomorrow, or send him to get a blood test or an X-ray.