Telematics in Medicine: A Network Infrastructure to Optimize Processes in Cardiology and Heart Surgery

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1 Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a comprehensive set of standards for handling, storing, printing and transmitting information in medical imaging.

2 HL7 = Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Most SDOs produce standards for a particular healthcare domain.

3 DSL is a technology that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network, which provides high bandwith by low costs.

4 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a network protocol which encodes data traffic into small fixed-sized (53 byte; 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) cells instead of variable sized frames as in packet-switched networks (such as the Internet Protocol or Ethernet). It is a connection-oriented technology in which a connection is established between the two endpoints before the actual data exchange begins.

5 VPN = A virtual private network (VPN) is a private communications network used within one or by several companies to communicate over a public network (e. g. the internet) via standard (often insecure) protocols.

6 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communications on the Internet for such things as e-mail, internet faxing, data transfer to/from online poker clients, and so forth.