System, method and recording medium for centralized management of medical images
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1. A centralized medical image management system comprising:
- client terminals installed in medical facilities and an image database server, the client terminals enabling transmission and reception of sets of medical image data together with accompanying information regarding the sets of medical image data via a public communications network; and
the image database server having functions of receiving the sets of medical image data and the accompanying information transmitted from the client terminals via the public communications network, storing the sets of medical image data and the accompanying information that have been received, searching for a desired one of the sets of medical image data stored therein by using the accompanying information, and transmitting the set of medical image data, wherein, by an input of a desired search condition using a portion of the accompanying information from any one of the client terminals to the image database server, the image database server searches for the set of medical image data corresponding to the search condition and transmits the set of medical image data to the client terminal.
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Abstract
Storage space for medical image data in medical facilities can be reduced substantially at low cost, and the medical image data can be stored and managed by an easy operation. Medical image data converted from medical images photographed in medical facilities into digital signals are stored in hard discs of client terminals, in addition to accompanying information regarding the image data. Each of the client terminals is connected to an image database server installed in an Internet provider via a telephone line. The image data and the accompanying information stored in the image database server are transmitted, received, and searched for by checking a password.
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16 Claims
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1. A centralized medical image management system comprising:
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client terminals installed in medical facilities and an image database server, the client terminals enabling transmission and reception of sets of medical image data together with accompanying information regarding the sets of medical image data via a public communications network; and
the image database server having functions of receiving the sets of medical image data and the accompanying information transmitted from the client terminals via the public communications network, storing the sets of medical image data and the accompanying information that have been received, searching for a desired one of the sets of medical image data stored therein by using the accompanying information, and transmitting the set of medical image data, wherein, by an input of a desired search condition using a portion of the accompanying information from any one of the client terminals to the image database server, the image database server searches for the set of medical image data corresponding to the search condition and transmits the set of medical image data to the client terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program to cause a computer to execute the procedures of:
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transmitting sets of medical image data together with accompanying information regarding the sets of the medical image data to an image database server via a public communications network;
transmitting a search condition using the accompanying information used for searching for a desired one of the sets of the medical image data stored in the image database server; and
receiving the set of the medical image data corresponding to the search condition.
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16. A centralized medical image management method comprising the steps of:
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installing, in medical facilities, client terminals enabling transmission and reception of sets of medical image data together with accompanying information regarding the sets of the medical image data via a public communications network;
transmitting the sets of medical image data and the accompanying information via the public communications network from the client terminals to an image database server installed separately from the medical facilities;
storing the sets of medical image data and the accompanying information in the image database server;
inputting a desired search condition using a portion of the accompanying information from any one of the client terminals to the image database server; and
searching the image database server for a desired one of the sets of medical image data corresponding to the accompanying information based on the search condition, and transmitting the set of medical image data from the image database server to the client terminal.
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