PROCESSING A PATIENT STUDY
First Claim
1. A method of storing a patient study of a patient onto a computer-readable medium, comprising:
- obtaining a diagnostic image of the patient, wherein said diagnostic image includes a header;
extracting said header from said diagnostic image;
converting said diagnostic image to a non-diagnostic image;
building a patient record using said header;
obtaining a patient identifier using said header; and
storing the patient study to the computer-readable medium, wherein the patient study includes said patient identifier, said patient record, and said non-diagnostic image.
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Abstract
Processing a patient study of a patient is provided. In one embodiment, a method of storing a patient study of a patient onto a computer-readable medium comprises obtaining a diagnostic image of the patient (480), wherein the diagnostic image includes a header; extracting the header from the diagnostic image (482); converting the diagnostic image to a non-diagnostic image (484); building a patient record using the header (486); obtaining a patient identifier using the header (488); storing the patient study to the computer-readable medium (490), wherein the patient study includes the patient identifier, the patient record, and the non-diagnostic image.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of storing a patient study of a patient onto a computer-readable medium, comprising:
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obtaining a diagnostic image of the patient, wherein said diagnostic image includes a header; extracting said header from said diagnostic image; converting said diagnostic image to a non-diagnostic image; building a patient record using said header; obtaining a patient identifier using said header; and storing the patient study to the computer-readable medium, wherein the patient study includes said patient identifier, said patient record, and said non-diagnostic image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method of storing a patient study of a patient onto another computer-readable medium, comprising:
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obtaining a diagnostic image of the patient, wherein said diagnostic image includes a header; extracting said header from said diagnostic image; converting said diagnostic image to a non-diagnostic image; building a patient record of the patient using said header; obtaining a patient identifier of the patient using said header; storing the patient study to the computer-readable medium, wherein the patient study includes said patient identifier, said patient record, and said non-diagnostic image; and providing access to a viewing program via the computer-readable medium, wherein said viewing program allows for viewing said non-diagnostic image.
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20. An article of manufacture comprising a computer data signal embodied in a transmission signal for enabling a computer to perform the method of storing a patient study of a patient onto a computer-readable medium, comprising:
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a first code segment to obtain a diagnostic image of the patient, wherein said diagnostic image includes a header; a second code segment to extract said header from said diagnostic image; a fourth code segment to convert said diagnostic image to a non-diagnostic image; a fifth code segment to build a patient record of the patient using said header; a sixth code segment to obtain a patient identifier of the patient using said header; a seventh code segment to store the patient study to the computer-readable medium, wherein the patient study includes said patient identifier, said patient record, and said non-diagnostic image; and an eighth code segment to provide access to a viewing program via the computer-readable medium, wherein said viewing program allows for viewing said non-diagnostic image.
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