MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20110152663A1
• Filed: 12/21/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: KONUMA, Nobuyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/974,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20110152663A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/407
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/00 Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves imaging of objects using sonar G01S15/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/468 allowing annotation or message recording
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/56 Details of data transmission or power supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/565 involving data transmission via a network
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• 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 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A medical image diagnostic apparatus includes an input unit to input personal information of a subject, a communication unit to communicate with a personal information managing server for storing the personal information, and a judge unit to judge whether the personal information can be transmitted to a personal information managing server. The communication unit transmits the personal information to the personal information managing server and receives personally-identifying information for identifying the personal information in response to the personal information transmitted, when the judge unit judges that the personal information can be transmitted. A memory for examination information stores the personally-identifying information.

Claims

1. A medical image diagnostic apparatus producing image data of an examination subject, comprising:

an input unit to input personal information of the subject;

a judge unit to judge whether the personal information can be transmitted to a personal information managing server that stores the personal information;

a communication unit to transmit the personal information to the personal information managing server and to receive personally-identifying information that identifies the personal information, when the judge unit judges that the personal information can be transmitted to the personal information managing server; and

an examination information memory to store the personally-identifying information.

2. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the judge unit is configured to judge whether the personal information can be transmitted based on position information obtained by a position information obtaining unit.

3. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the judge unit is configured to judge that the personal information can be transmitted when the medical image diagnostic apparatus is in a healthcare center, and is configured to judge that the personal information can not be transmitted when the medical image diagnostic apparatus is outside the healthcare center.

4. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an encrypt unit to encrypt the personal information,

wherein the communication unit is configured to transmit the encrypted personal information encrypted by the encrypt unit to the personal information managing server.

5. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a personal information memory to store the personal information encrypted by the encrypt unit; and

a delete unit configured to delete the personal information,

wherein the personally-identifying information is stored by the examination information memory.

6. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a personally-identifying managing unit to read the examination information related to the personally-identifying information to identify the personal information returned by the personal information managing server, in response to the personal information transmitted to the personal information managing server; and

a display unit to display the examination information.

7. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input unit is configured to input the personally-identifying information stored by the examination information memory,

the medical image diagnostic apparatus further comprising:

a decrypt unit to decrypt the encrypted personal information identified by the personally-identifying information returned from the personal information managing server in response to the personally-identifying information transmitted;

a personally-identifying information managing unit to read the examination information related to the decrypted personal information, and the personally-identifying information for identifying the personal information; and

a display unit to display the examination information read by the personally-identifying information managing unit and the decrypted personal information.

8. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when the personal information of the subject is input by the input unit, the judge unit is configured to judge whether the personal information can be transmitted to the personal information managing server;

and

when the judge unit judges that the personal information input by the input unit can be transmitted to the personal information managing server, the communication unit receives the personally-identifying information to identify the personal information returned by the personal information managing server in response to the personal information transmitted,

wherein the medical image diagnostic apparatus further comprises;

a transferring unit to transfer the examination information related to the personally-identifying information received by the communication unit with the personally-identifying information to the personal information managing server.

9. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein when the personal information of the subject is input by the input unit, the judge unit judges whether the personal information can be transmitted to the personal information managing server;

when the judge unit judges that the personal information can be transmitted, the communication unit transmits the personal information to the personal information managing server and receives the personally-identifying information and the examination information related to the personally-identifying information in response to the transmission; and

the examination information memory stores the personally-identifying information and the examination information.

10. A medical image display device for displaying medical information of an examination subject, comprising:

an input unit to input personal information of the subject;

a judge unit to judge whether the personal information can be transmitted to a personal information managing server that stores the personal information;

a communication unit to transmit the personal information to the personal information managing server and to receive personally-identifying information that identifies the personal information when the judge unit judges that the personal information can be transmitted to the personal information managing server;

an examination information memory to store the personally-identifying information; and

a transferring unit to transfer the examination information related to the personally-identifying information received by the communication unit with the personally-identifying information to the personal information managing server,

wherein when the personal information is input by the input unit, the judge unit judges whether the personal information can be transmitted to the personal information managing server; and

when the judge unit judges when the personal information can be transmitted, the communication unit transmits the personal information to the personal information managing server and receives the personally-identifying information.

11. The medical image display device according to claim 10,

wherein when the personal information of the subject is input by the input unit, the judge unit judges whether the personal information can be transmitted to the personal information managing server;

when the judge unit judges that the personal information input by the input unit can be transmitted to the personal information managing server, the communication unit receives the personally-identifying information to identify the personal information returned by the personal information managing server in response to the personal information transmitted; and

the examination information memory stores the examination information.

12. A personal information protecting system having a medical image diagnostic apparatus producing image data of a subject under examination and a personal information managing server for accessing the medical image diagnostic apparatus through a network and storing the personal information,

the medical image diagnostic apparatus comprising:

a input unit to input personal information of the subject;

a judge unit configured to judge whether the personal information can be transmitted to the personal information managing server that stores the personal information;

a communication unit to transmit the personal information to the personal information managing server and to receive personally-identifying information that identifies the personal information when the judge unit judges that the personal information can be transmitted to the personal information managing server; and

an examination information memory to store the personally-identifying information,

wherein the personal information managing server comprises;

a personally-identifying information producing unit configured to produce the personally-identifying information;

a personal information memory to store the personally-identifying information and the personal information identified by the personally-identifying information; and

a communication unit configured to receive the personal information transmitted by the medical image diagnostic apparatus through the network, and to return the personally-identifying information, produced by the personally-identifying information producing unit in response to reception of the personal information, to the medical image diagnostic apparatus through the network.