New Ultrasound Telediagnostic System for Low-Resource Areas: Pilot Results From Peru

Thomas J. Marini; Daniel C. Oppenheimer; Timothy M. Baran; Deborah J. Rubens; Marika Toscano; Kathryn Drennan; Brian Garra; Frank R. Miele; Gail Garra; Sylvia Jacobo Noone; Lorena Tamayo; Claudia Carlotto; Leslie Trujillo; Erin Waks; Katie Garra; Miguel S. Egoavil; Joel Berrospi; Benjamin Castaneda

doi:10.1002/jum.15420

New Ultrasound Telediagnostic System for Low-Resource Areas: Pilot Results From Peru

Thomas J. Marini, Daniel C. Oppenheimer, Timothy M. Baran, Deborah J. Rubens, Marika Toscano, Kathryn Drennan, Brian Garra, Frank R. Miele, Gail Garra, Sylvia Jacobo Noone, Lorena Tamayo, Claudia Carlotto, Leslie Trujillo, Erin Waks, Katie Garra, Miguel S. Egoavil, Joel Berrospi, Benjamin Castaneda

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Abstract

Billions of people around the world lack access to diagnostic imaging. To address this issue, we piloted a comprehensive ultrasound telediagnostic system, which uses ultrasound volume sweep imaging (VSI) acquisitions capable of being performed by operators without prior traditional ultrasound training and new telemedicine software capable of sending imaging acquisitions asynchronously over low Internet bandwidth for remote interpretation. The telediagnostic system was tested with obstetric, right upper quadrant abdominal, and thyroid volume sweep imaging protocols in Peru. Scans obtained by operators without prior ultrasound experience were sent for remote interpretation by specialists using the telemedicine platform. Scans obtained allowed visualization of the target region in 96% of cases with diagnostic imaging quality. This telediagnostic system shows promise in improving health care disparities in the developing world.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	583-595
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
Volume	40
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jum.15420
State	Published - Mar 2021

Keywords

global health
obstetric
telemedicine
ultrasound

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Marini, T. J., Oppenheimer, D. C., Baran, T. M., Rubens, D. J., Toscano, M., Drennan, K., Garra, B., Miele, F. R., Garra, G., Noone, S. J., Tamayo, L., Carlotto, C., Trujillo, L., Waks, E., Garra, K., Egoavil, M. S., Berrospi, J., & Castaneda, B. (2021). New Ultrasound Telediagnostic System for Low-Resource Areas: Pilot Results From Peru. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 40(3), 583-595. https://doi.org/10.1002/jum.15420

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