Within the framework of continuous further development of surgical treatment methods, new communication technologies are gaining importance in medical technology.

Telemedicine is one of these modern communication standards.

Telemedicine allows live communication to the office of the senior physician or medical expert of another medical discipline, for example. It also allows an exchange of experience between medical colleagues from the same discipline or in technical committees on a national and international level thus facilitating training and further education of tomorrow's doctors.

Simple intuitive control of the overall system is extremely important for routine use of these technologies, particularly during surgical operations.

Video conference equipment is the communication platform for physicians and specialized medical disciplines.

It allows live communication between hospitals, exchange of experience between colleagues of different disciplines and supports the training and further education of tomorrow's surgeons and physicians.

As an element of the teleconference solution it allows intraoperative bidirectional communication between colleagues of different disciplines (e.g. surgeon, histologist) to provide high-quality treatment of patients while ensuring cost-oriented hospital management.

The key factor in this >core< integrated solution developed by Richard Wolf is its straight-forward intuitive guided menu allowing routine use of this technology. Thanks to its operator guidance it can be used successfully in the sequence of operations of the operating room.

The ever-increasing cost pressure on the hospitals calls for new solutions for more efficient plannable procedures in the OR and in the hospital.

A conceivable starting point would be suitable in-hospital or inter-hospital teleconsultation systems which are already in use.

The integration of all relevant image data and patient files is the most important element in reliable high-quality "consulting" in the MIS. The main task of >core< as the integration solution developed by Richard Wolf therefore is the networking of all pre- and intraoperative image data that are relevant for the operation, accompanied by the results of the histological tissue examination, if necessary. Highest quality standards such as uncompromised use of high-resolution video signals (progressive scan), loss-less-compressed DICOM 3.0 image files certified for diagnostic purposes as well as bidirectional image and sound transmission guarantee efficient high-quality patient treatment while ensuring cost-oriented hospital management.