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To: Peter Shenderov who wrote (1200)	9/11/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 5102

>>> That's why, I believe, for INPR to be the sole secure ORB provider (if it's so) is BIG. Thanks, Peter, for the info.. If it's big, they won't be alone for long, but that is good news. Can you give me your evaluation of the value of remote viewing of documents (lets say via Java applets or a conversion CGI and secure link, something easy), versus transferring files with all of the support information and links. In other words, diagnostic collaboration, perhaps, on a simple basis, versus record transfer, backup, and maintenance. I know that some folks at a few centers are using TV, but I would think remote radiology or cardiology consulting or specialist opinions would be easier and cheaper to implement using net technologies. Having worked in emergency xray a bit myself back in the film days, I am familiar with the procedure of waiting for some doc, sometimes for quite a while, who was an expert in one thing or another, to scan the films for a second, more specialized opinion than the radiologist could provide. Plus waiting for the patient's doc to also check the films and talk to them. A few laptops and the net could take care of all that, even email plus cell phones could do it. What is standard practice now? It seems to me that if patients are waiting in hallways for treatment as I saw many times of old, because medical beaurocrats are paranoid that an email might be intercepted, and everyone is waiting for fiber and CORBA, indirect malpractice is taking place. Your opinion? Chaz