Transferring medical images on the world wide web for emergency clinical management: a case report

Although the ability to transmit radiographs over the telephone has been feasible since 1929,1 more advanced systems have been slow in introduction. We describe a simple system for transmitting medical images across a system based on personal computers and the internet's world wide web. A system for transfer of medical images was set up in our orthopaedic department (fig 1). Clinical photographs were taken with an Apple Quicktake 150 digital camera, and radiographs were scanned on an Epson GT9000 flat bed scanner. The resulting digital images were converted to Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format at maximum quality using Adobe Photoshop on an Apple Power Macintosh computer. The files were saved onto a password protected area of the departmental website, which is maintained …