Conclusions

Discussion

• The Web provides a very easy method for linking access to the Nuclear Medicine Information System and the PACS.
• This paradigm extends easily to larger departments or to an entire health care enterprise.
• Use of public domain communication protocols and data formats means that viewing stations can be implemented using mass market systems.
• Multimedia reporting can be brought to the referring physicians without altering his desktop.
• Other internet resources can also be integrated into the system.
• The emergence of the java programming language will allow for full function workstation capabilities.

Conclusions

1. The All Digital Department has Moved to the World Wide Web.
2. Implementation was Inexpensive.
3. Provides Multimedia Reporting and Increased Availability of Nuclear Medicine Data.
4. Cable Modems Facilitate Tele-Nuclear Medicine.