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It's latency vs. bandwidth.

Reduced patient wait time (lower latency) was prioritized over how many X-Rays were processed per hour.

E.g. it wouldn't matter how fast the X-Ray specialist was working if the results were getting back to the patients in big batches, sent once an hour, because the patients might not live long enough to get them.



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