The Compania Dominicana de Teléfonos (CODETEL) has announced the start of its Telemedicina video telephone communications system for doctors in the D.R. who wish to exchange ideas and techniques with doctors at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in cooperation with the Video Conferencing System Company. During a press conference to introduce the new service, the president of CODETEL, Ernest Burri, said that video conferencing will facilitate operations such as teleradiology, X-rays and scanners whose results can be transmitted simultaneously via video telephone.