Medical image management system

• US 20050251012A1
• Filed: 02/28/2005
• Published: 11/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Heart Imaging Technologies LLC (Intelerad Medical Systems Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Heart Imaging Technologies LLC (Intelerad Medical Systems Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kim, Raymond J., Chen, Enn-Ling, Judd, Robert M.
• Granted Patent: US 7,668,835 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/407
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• 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: Y10S 707/915 Image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/941 Human sciences
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users

Abstract

A method of managing medical information is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving medical information in a format incompatible with the World Wide Web and converting the medical information to a format compatible with the World Wide Web. Further, the medical information is physically stored at a single location.

Claims

1. A method of managing medical information comprising:

receiving medical information in a format incompatible with the World Wide Web; and

converting the medical information to a format compatible with the World Wide Web;

wherein

the medical information is physically stored at a single location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the medical information is located at a plurality of medical institutions.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the medical information can be accessed in an identified form.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the medical information can be accessed in a de-identified form.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein a unique patient identifier is used to associate the identified form of the medical information in order to construct an electronic medical record.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein a unique identifier is used to associate the de-identified form of the medical information in order to construct a research database of associated de-identified medical information.

7. A method of managing medical information comprising:

a database table containing both identified and de-identified medical information; and

logical views of subsets of data stored within the database table which allow private and public logical views to the data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the database table contains a URL which points to raw medical data stored on a plurality of computers.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the form of the URL provides access to the data in an identified format.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the form of the URL provides access to the data in a de-identified format.