System and method for surgical telementoring and training with virtualized telestration and haptic holograms, including metadata tagging, encapsulation and saving multi-modal streaming medical imagery together with multi-dimensional [4-d] virtual mesh and multi-sensory annotation in standard file formats used for digital imaging and communications in medicine (dicom)

A method for allowing one or more users to capture, retrieve and view both real time and archived medical images for synchronous or asynchronous communication, collaboration and consultation by one or more users using illustrations over the medical images comprising;

• running a computer program, storing the program on each of user's computers, displaying the graphical user interface output of that program on a computer display;
• linking each user's computer to a telenetwork server using a local area network, each user communicating with the telenetwork server, the telemedicine image management system server providing permission to each user wherein linking the user to a digital imaging and communications in medicine modality worklist utility, a medical image archive server, and telestreamers for capturing, retrieving and viewing medical images, user's illustrating over the medical images, telenetwork server managing all illustration file sharing wherein new user's illustrations are appending periodically to the telenetwork server, maintaining the file on the user's computer, the telenetwork server linking to the internet and other users, wherein the images remain on the telenetwork server and the user illustrations are appended to that telenetwork server;
• streaming images into a local area network wherein the telenetwork server having associated database in communication with telestreamers streamers connected directly to medical imaging modalities for acquiring one or more medical images, streaming those medical images to the local area network;