Teleradiology Without Borders — Official archive◆ Founded 2007 · Luxembourg · nonprofit · Status: archived
TWBTeleradiology Without Borders
FREN
About

About TWB

Teleradiology Without Borders (TWB) was a Luxembourg-based nonprofit association (a.s.b.l.) active from 2007 to 2014.

Founded in 2007, TWB provided remote second-opinion radiology to support the interpretation of cases in resource-limited medical settings. The organization built a model of North–South radiological tele-cooperation resting on a professional infrastructure and an international network of volunteer radiologists.

From 2007, TWB operated a teleradiology infrastructure hosted in Paris and New York for the transmission, analysis and secure archiving of radiological cases. Documented projects notably involved Cameroon, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Benin.

Until 2011, TWB helped make teleradiology tools freely available across several resource-limited settings. The radiologists taking part in remote readings were based notably in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Venezuela, Portugal and the United States.

TWB · ARCHIVE
REF 2007–2014
2014TWB's final project: a miniaturized system for encryption and secure exchange of images, deployed in Benin for a service run by the Order of Malta.
Demonstration of TWB's teleradiology platform to practitioners at a professional gathering.
TWB · FIELD
DEMONSTRATION
Contribution

A proof of feasibility

TWB demonstrated the operational feasibility of a modern radiological tele-cooperation system serving medical facilities in resource-limited settings.

FeasibilityAn operational North–South radiological tele-cooperation system.
Free accessFree access to teleradiology tools for requesting facilities.
ReachCases documented across six countries, with readers on three continents.
Continue
↳How it workedThe reader & the platformView →↳Timeline2007 – 2014View →↳FoundersNiedercorn & WajnapelView →