Teleradiology took birth partly due to the imbalance between the demand and availability of diagnostic services. The high demand for radiology services in places such as tire 2 tire 3 cities could not be fulfilled by the number of available in-house healthcare professionals. In the tire 2 tire 3 cities while the number of scans being performed has been increasing, there is a persisting shortage of radiologists. In USA and Singapore, there is a paucity of radiologists for night coverage. In the UK, a radiologist takes 21 days on average to submit an MRI report