DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL INFORMATION BROKER SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20120143625A1
• Filed: 08/31/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orthoscan, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Orthoscan, Inc.
• Inventors: Eaves, Christopher B., Menzies, Adam
• Application Number:
  US13/223,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20120143625A1
• 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 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

A medical information broker system and method is disclosed, that advantageously allows for brokering medical information directly between a diagnostic imaging modality and a EMR system. The system can include, for example, a communications module configured to receive at least one file containing patient data from a diagnostic imaging modality in a first format, and send the at least one file to a destination modality in a second format; a diagnostic information converter module in electronic communication with the communications module and configured to convert the at least one file from the first format to the second format; and a work list engine in electronic communication with the communications module and configured to create a task list accessible via a user.

Claims

1. A medical information broker system, comprising:

a communications module configured to receive at least one file containing patient data from a diagnostic imaging modality in a first format, and send the at least one file to a destination modality in a second format;

a diagnostic information converter module in electronic communication with the communications module and configured to convert the at least one file from the first format to the second format; and

a work list engine in electronic communication with the communications module and configured to create a task list accessible via a user.

2. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the first format is a DICOM format.

3. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the second format is an EMR format different from the first format.

4. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the second format is selected from the group consisting of:

PDF, TIF, JPG, BMP, DCM, EPS, FAX, GIF, PIX, PNG, RAW, and PSD.

5. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the diagnostic imaging modality comprises an X-ray imaging modality.

6. The medical information broker system of claim 5, wherein the diagnostic imaging modality comprises a C-arm imager.

7. The medical information broker system of claim 6, wherein the diagnostic imaging modality comprises a mini C-arm imager.

8. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the diagnostic imaging modality comprises a computed tomography imaging modality.

9. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the diagnostic imaging modality comprises a magnetic resonance imaging modality.

10. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the diagnostic imaging modality comprises an ultrasonic imaging modality.

11. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the destination modality comprises an electronic medical record (EMR) system.

12. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the at least one file comprises medical image data.

13. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the at least one file comprises medical video data.

14. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the diagnostic information converter module is configured to at least one encrypt or decrypt the file.

15. The medical information broker system of claim 1, wherein the communications module is configured to transmit and receive using HL7 messaging.

16. The medical information broker system of claim 1, further comprising the diagnostic medical imaging modality.

17. The medical information broker system of claim 16, wherein the diagnostic medical imaging modality comprises a mini C-arm.

18. A computer-implemented method of brokering medical information directly between a diagnostic imaging modality and an EMR system, comprising the steps of:

receiving at least one image file from the diagnostic imaging modality in a first format;

converting the at least one image file from a first format to a second format; and

transmitting the at least one image file in the second format to the EMR system.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the image file comprises encrypted diagnostic patient information.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising the step of decrypting the diagnostic patient information received from the diagnostic imaging modality.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the first format is a DICOM file format, and the second format is a EMR file format.

22. The method of claim 18, further comprising the step of naming the converted image file in the second format in a convention to associate the converted image file with a patient'"'"'s electronic medical record.

23. The method of claim 18, further comprising the step of encrypting the converted image file prior to sending the image file to the EMR system.

24. The method of claim 18, wherein the diagnostic imaging modality comprises a mini C-arm.