Remote virtual medical diagnostic imaging viewer

• US 20030229520A1
• Filed: 06/10/2002
• Published: 12/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tailstream Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Bionetmedia Development, LLC
• Inventors: Shaebanyan, Meredith, Wise, Kelley
• Granted Patent: US 7,181,617 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/606 by securing the transmission between two devices or processes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/032 Protect output to user by software means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• 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 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0079 Medical imaging device

Abstract

A medical image and data application service provider system provides a way of remotely viewing and manipulating medical images and data for diagnostic and visualization purposes by users unconstrained by geography. Medical images and data are stored on one or more servers running application service provider software along with meta-data such as access control information, origin of information and references to related data. A set of medical data consisting related information is sent as an encrypted stream to a viewing station running client software in a secure execution environment that is logically independent of the viewing station'"'"'s operating system.

Claims

1. An interactive method of sending encrypted secure streams of medical image data over a wide area network to a secure remote virtual execution environment for the purpose of remote medical diagnostic viewing of said medical image data, comprised of the following steps:

sending streams of encrypted medical image data to a secure execution evrionment of a remote virtual medical diagnostic viewing machine that is separate from the viewer'"'"'s native computer operating system;

using a secure executing environment for a remote medical imaging viewer that decrypts the stream and recreates the medical diagnostic image in a buffer inside the viewing computer'"'"'s memory;

using a matrix transformation, interactively applied to said medical image data, for the purpose of remote medical image viewing, analysis, and manipulation.