DICOM Medical Image Standard Chooses JPEG XL as a Payload Codec [pdf] (dicomstandard.org)

DICOM 2024d version published today uses JPEG XL for coding images. It supports JPEG XL completely: lossless, JPEG1 recompression and lossy, including multichannel. This can reduce archiving costs, speed up operation, improve image quality and telemedicine latencies substantially.

Excellent news for practitioners of telemedicine.