Video images that have been processed to reduce the amount of bandwidth needed to capture the necessary information so that the information can be sent over a telephone network. A compilation in electronic form of individual patient information that resides in a system designed to provide access to complete and accurate patient data, alerts, reminders, clinical decision support systems, links to medical knowledge, and other aids. Processing data to reduce storage and bandwidth requirements. Some compression methods result in the loss of some information, which may or may not be clinically important. Discrete signals such as those represented by bits as opposed to continuously variable analog signals.
Digital technology allows communications signals to be compressed for more efficient transmission .
A standard for communications among medical imaging devices. A satellite designed with sufficient power so that inexpensive earth stations, or downlinks, can be used for direct residential reception. The path from a satellite to the Earth stations that receive its signals. The general term for a digital carrier available for high-value voice, data, or compressed video traffic. A carrier of 45 Mbps bandwidth.