User-configurable radiological data transformation, integration, routing and archiving engine

• US 10,437,877 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2017
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dicom Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dicom Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Tochilnik, Dmitriy
• Primary Examiner(s): Syed, Farhan M
• Application Number:
  US15/493,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20170287093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/113 Details of archiving lifecycle management in storage systems G06F3/0649; backup systems G06F11/1446
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/116 Details of conversion of file system types or formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references

Abstract

A user-configurable radiological data transformation, routing and archiving engine includes a plurality of sub-engines representing algorithms programmed to be processed by a processor, the sub-engines including a user-configurable transformation sub-engine, a user-configurable routing sub-engine, a user-configurable archiving sub-engine and a user-configurable priors puller sub-engine.

Claims

1. A user-configurable medical data filtering, transformation, integration, routing and archiving engine comprising:

a network interface coupled to a plurality of medical data capturing systems;

a medical data processing device coupled to a memory, the processing device being programmed to perform the steps of;

displaying a user interface, the user interface enabling configuration of a set of medical data filter conditions, a set of medical data transformation rules, a set of workflow integration rules, a set of routing rules, and a set of archiving rules;

wherein the set of workflow integration rules comprises a workflow integration condition, the workflow integration condition comprising a first logical operator and any of a first DICOM workflow field, a first HL7 workflow field, a first XDS-I workflow information field, a DICOMWEB protocol workflow field, and a first FHIR protocol workflow field; and

receiving, through the user interface, the set of medical data filter conditions, the set of medical data transformation rules, the set of workflow integration rules, the set of routing rules, and the set of archiving rules;

obtaining a first medical data set from the plurality of medical data capturing systems by applying the set of medical data filter conditions to the medical data capturing system;

receiving through the user interface a first user-configurable workflow task from the plurality of medical data capturing systems;

applying the set of workflow integration rules to the first user-configurable workflow task;

modifying the first user-configurable workflow task in accordance with the set of workflow integration rules when the workflow integration condition is satisfied;

obtaining a second user-configurable workflow task comprising the modified first user-configurable workflow task;

applying the second user-configurable workflow task to the first medical data set; and

modifying the first medical data set in accordance with the second user-configurable workflow task.

2. The engine of claim 1, wherein the set of medical data filter conditions comprises a first logical operator and any of a first DICOM field, a first HL7 field, a first XDS-I information field, a first DICOMWEB protocol field, a first FHIR protocol filed;

and

the set of medical data transformation rules comprises a transformation filter condition, the transformation filter condition comprising a first logical operator and any of a first DICOM field, a first HL7 field, and a first XDS-I information field, a first DICOMWEB protocol field, a first FHIR protocol filed.

3. The engine of claim 2, further comprising:

modifying the first medical data set in accordance with the set of medical data transformation rules when the transformation filter condition is satisfied; and

obtaining a second medical data set comprising applied a modified first medical data set.

4. The engine of claim 1, wherein the medical data processing device is programmed to receive a user-configurable encryption scheme and a user-configurable compression scheme through the user interface and to modify medical data in accordance with the encryption scheme and the user-configurable compression scheme.

5. The engine of claim 1, wherein set of medical data transformation rules further comprises an operation selected from the group consisting of:

modify field, remove field and run script.

6. The engine of claim 1, wherein the medical data processing device is further programmed to perform the step of:

receiving, through the user interface priors pulling conditions, the priors pulling conditions comprising a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, the first XDS-I information field, and a second XDS-I information field, the first DICOMWEB protocol field, a second DICOMWEB protocol field, the first FHIR protocol field, and a second FHIR protocol field.

7. The engine of claim 1, wherein the workflow integration condition of the set of workflow integration rules further comprises a task selected from the group consisting of HL7 condition, HL7 transformation, route HL7 message, send HL7 message, build HL7 worklist entry, export to CSV file, build HL7 message, return HL7 message, priors request, submit document to the XDS repository service, execute script, build DICOM object and DICOM condition.

8. The engine of claim 1, wherein the workflow integration condition of the set of workflow integration rules further comprises a task selected from the group consisting of FHIR condition, FHIR transformation, route FHIR message, send FHIR message, build a FHIR worklist entry, export to CSV file, build FHIR message, return FHIR message, priors request, submit document to the XDS repository service, execute script, build DICOM object and DICOM condition.

9. The engine of claim 1, wherein:

the set of routing rules comprises a routing condition, the routing condition comprising a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field tags, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, the first XDS-I information filed, and a second XDS-I information field, the first DICOMWEB protocol field, a second DICOMWEB protocol field, the first FHIR protocol field, and a second FHIR protocol field; and

the medical data processing device is further configured to perform the step of routing the medical data in accordance with the set of routing rules if the routing filter condition is satisfied.

10. The engine of claim 1, wherein:

the set of archiving rules comprises an archiving condition, the archiving condition comprising a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, a third HL7 field, the first XDS-I information field, and a second XDS-I information field, the first DICOMWEB protocol field, a second DICOMWEB protocol field, the first FHIR protocol field, and a second FHIR protocol field; and

the medical data processing device is further configured to perform the step of archiving the medical data in accordance with the set of archiving rules if the archiving filter condition is satisfied.

11. A computer-implemented method of filtering, transforming, integrating, routing and archiving radiological data comprising:

providing, from a medical data processing device coupled to a memory, a graphical user interface (GUI) coupled to a plurality of medical data capturing systems, the GUI enabling configuration of a set of medical data filter conditions, a set of medical data transformation rules, a set of routing conditions, a set of routing rules, a set of priors pulling conditions, a set of priors pulling rules, a set of workflow integration rules, a set of archiving conditions, and a set of archiving rules;

wherein the set of workflow integration rules comprises a workflow integration condition, the workflow integration condition comprising a first logical operator and any of a first DICOM workflow field, a first HL7 workflow field, a first XDS-I workflow information field, a first DICOMWEB protocol workflow field, and a first FHIR protocol workflow field; and

receiving, at the medical data processing device, the set of medical data filter conditions, the set of medical data transformation rules, the set of predetermined modification parameters, the set of routing conditions, the set of routing rules, the set of priors pulling conditions, the set of priors pulling rules, the set of workflow integration rules, the set of archiving conditions, and the set of archiving rules;

obtaining a first medical data set from the plurality of medical data capturing systems;

executing, with the medical data processing device, the user-configurable script when the set of medical data filter conditions are satisfied;

receiving through the user interface a first user-configurable workflow task from the plurality of medical data capturing systems;

applying the set of workflow integration rules to the first user-configurable workflow task;

modifying the first user-configurable workflow task in accordance with the set of workflow integration rules when the workflow integration condition is satisfied; and

obtaining a second user-configurable workflow task comprising the modified first user-configurable workflow task;

applying the second user-configurable workflow task to the first medical data set; and

modifying the first medical data set in accordance with the second user-configurable workflow task.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the set of medical data filter conditions comprises a first logical operator and any of a first DICOM field, a first HL7 field, a first XDS-I information field, a first DICOMWEB protocol field, and a first FHIR protocol field;

and

the set of medical data transformation rules comprises a user-configurable script configured to cause the medical data processing device to modify a set of medical data in accordance with a set of predetermined modification parameters.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising

modifying the first medical data set in accordance with the set of medical data transformation rules when the transformation filter condition is satisfied;

and

obtaining a second medical data set comprising a modified first medical data set.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising receiving, at the medical data processing device, a user-configurable encryption scheme and a user-configurable compression scheme.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein, the set of routing rules comprises a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, the first XDS-I information field, and a second XDS-I information field, the first DICOMWEB protocol field, a second DICOMWEB protocol field, the first FHIR protocol field, and a second FHIR protocol field.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the set of priors pulling conditions comprises a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, the first XDS-I information field, and a second XDS-I information field, the first DICOMWEB protocol field, a second DICOMWEB protocol field, the first FHIR protocol field, and a second FHIR protocol field.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the set of archiving rules comprises user-configurable storage duration.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the workflow integration condition of the set of the workflow integration rules comprises a second logical operator and any of a first FHIR protocol request, a second FHIR protocol request, a first DICOMWEB protocol request, and a second DICOMWEB protocol request.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the first DICOMWEB protocol request is integrated with a first DICOM request.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the first FHIR protocol request is integrated with a first HL7 request.