Electronic Documentation in Endoscopy: Present Status and Future Perspectives from a Company Standpoint

Introduction

The commercial introduction of video endoscopes provided the opening for technological progress. One issue which strongly links endoscopy to other areas in medicine is the documentation of findings and images. In 1989 image filing in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy was a technological challenge. Image filing systems were developed by many small companies having a core competence in acquiring, compressing and storing images [1]. The images had a size of about 150 kbyte each. A normal hospital could easily generate more than 2 Mbyte of data each day, resulting in more than 400 Mbyte a year. This was beyond the storage capacity of computer systems available at reasonable prices.

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