System of Picture Archiving and Communication System With Message Broadcasting Mechanism

• US 20080275736A1
• Filed: 08/13/2007
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Lei, Weng I.
• Application Number:
  US11/837,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20080275736A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• 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 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A method for medical scan archiving and notifying medical professionals of a need for evaluation of the medical scan, having the steps of enrolling a medical professional in a computer system, the enrolling of the medical professional including a medical professional type, gathering medical data from the patient, entering the medical data gathered from the patient, an urgency type for the patient, and a medical data type for the patient into a data archival system, evaluating the urgency type for the patient related to the medical data, and conducing a broadcast message to a medical professional with a medical professional type corresponding to the medical data type when the urgency type corresponds to a need for immediate reading of the medical data for the patient.

Claims

1. A method for notifying medical professionals of a need for evaluation of the medical scan, comprising:

enrolling a medical professional in a computer system, the enrolling of the medical professional including a medical professional type;

gathering medical data from a patient;

entering the medical data gathered from the patient, an urgency type for the patient, and a medical data type for the patient into a data archival system;

evaluating the urgency type for the patient related to the medical data; and

conducting a broadcast message to the medical professional with the medical professional type corresponding to the medical data type when the urgency type corresponds to a need for immediate reading of the medical data for the patient.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the urgency type for the patient is one of a modality categorization, an exam priority categorization, a study data categorization and a time categorization.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

verifying the urgency type for the patient after the step of evaluating the urgency type for the patient related to the medical data and before the step of conducting the broadcast message to the medical professional.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

reading the medical data by a medical professional.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

changing the urgency type in the data archival system after the reading of the medical data by the medical professional.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the medical data type is a magnetic resonance image.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the medical data type is a computed tomography image.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

creating a notification list of medical professionals of a same medical professional type;

wherein the conducting of the broadcast message to the medical professional with the medical professional type corresponding to the medical data type when the urgency type corresponds to a need for immediate reading of the medical data for the patient is done through contacting medical professionals on the notification list.

9. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for medical scan archiving and notifying medical professionals of a need for evaluation of the medical scan, comprising:

enrolling a medical professional in a computer system, the enrolling of the medical professional including a medical professional type;

gathering medical data from a patient;

entering the medical data gathered from the patient, an urgency type for the patient, and a medical data type for the patient into a data archival system;

evaluating the urgency type for the patient related to the medical data; and

conducting a broadcast message to the medical professional with the medical professional type corresponding to the medical data type when the urgency type corresponds to a need for immediate reading of the medical data for the patient.

10. The program storage device according to claim 9, wherein the urgency type for the patient is one of a modality categorization, an exam priority categorization, a study data categorization and a time categorization.

11. The program storage device according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

verifying the urgency type for the patient after the step of evaluating the urgency type for the patient related to the medical data and before the step of conducting the broadcast message to the medical professional.

12. The program storage device according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises reading the medical data by a medical professional.

13. The program storage device according to claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

changing the urgency type in the data archival system after the reading of the medical data by the medical professional.

14. The program storage device according to claim 9, wherein the medical data type is a magnetic resonance image.

15. The program storage device according to claim 9, wherein the medical data type is a computed tomography image.

16. The program storage device according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

creating a notification list of medical professionals of a same medical professional type;

wherein the conducting of the broadcast message to the medical professional with the medical professional type corresponding to the medical data type when the urgency type corresponds to a need for immediate reading of the medical data for the patient is done through contacting medical professionals on the notification list.

17. An apparatus for medical data retention and medical professional notification, comprising:

a computer workstation configured to enter and display patient information medical data scans;

a broadcast module; and

a computer server connected to the computer workstation, the computer server configured to store the medical data scans patient information, the computer server also having a messaging module connected to the broadcast module, wherein the messaging module is configured to activate the broadcast module to send a message to a medical professional at a location remote from the computer workstation and the computer server based upon a predefined status of the patient information.