Exactly. It's a good business opportunity. For teleradiology (Teleradiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) bandwidth has always mattered. That means for a doctor based in India, he needs to be board certified from US (if he's interested in working with US based hospitals) and be covered by their regulatory bodies (it holds true for most of the other hospitals elsewhere). They have their Health Information Privacy laws (Health Information Privacy) but then in your case only the bandwidth equation comes. For me, my job is to work only on the images and evaluate the plans based on the images (which takes up huge amounts of data); it should not attract these "laws" so as to say. The field is virgin and I don't know of anyone doing this. May be perhaps soon, I would want something on this count and it is a easily workable solution to work from home.
The big question would come if and when you want to locally cache the images (or data) to improve the response times or move some of the storage to your data center. It would be a tricky issue then because there is nothing, to my knowledge, to regulate. Although, since I am speaking from a layman's perspective at present, I need to work on this aspect later. Maybe a publication on this count can be worked out
Oh by the way, HIPAA compliance is a real pain in the ass or so that I heard. No one wants to be sued for hundreds of millions of dollars because the "privacy" has been breached.But tele-radiology (like outbound calls from US to India for "call centres) provides for a real "cost cutting measure".
The big question would come if and when you want to locally cache the images (or data) to improve the response times or move some of the storage to your data center. It would be a tricky issue then because there is nothing, to my knowledge, to regulate. Although, since I am speaking from a layman's perspective at present, I need to work on this aspect later. Maybe a publication on this count can be worked out
Oh by the way, HIPAA compliance is a real pain in the ass or so that I heard. No one wants to be sued for hundreds of millions of dollars because the "privacy" has been breached.But tele-radiology (like outbound calls from US to India for "call centres) provides for a real "cost cutting measure".
