Multi-Modality Case Management System and Method

• US 20140188515A1
• Filed: 12/19/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volcano Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Volcano Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Mansker, Richard E., Clark, Bill, Kerr, Rex, Spencer, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 10,409,951 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• 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 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to managing and storing patient data in a multi-modality medical processing system. The method and systems described herein store all medical data acquired from a patient in a single patient record that is assigned a unique identifier. For example, (i) information identifying a patient, (ii) data acquired during a first diagnostic procedure, and (iii) data acquired during a second, different diagnostic procedure may all be stored in association with the same unique identifier, so as to simplify patient case review and retrieval. As an aspect of this, identifying patient information such as patient name and date of birth need only be inputted into the disclosed system a single time, thereby reducing the chance of clerical error.

Claims

1. A method of multi-modality medical case management in a multi-modality medical processing system, the method comprising:

receiving, at the multi-modality medical processing system, identifying information about a patient;

generating a unique identifier corresponding to the patient;

associating the identifying information with the unique identifier;

receiving, at the multi-modality medical processing system, first medical data acquired from the patient from a first medical instrument, the first medical data being associated with a first medical modality;

storing the first medical data in a data repository, the first medical data being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository;

receiving, at the multi-modality medical processing system, second medical data acquired from the patient from a second medical instrument, the second medical data being associated with a second medical modality different than the first medical modality; and

storing the second medical data in the data repository, the second medical data being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

2. The method of claim 1, further including retrieving the first medical data and the second medical data from the data repository using the unique identifier.

3. The method of claim 1, further including deleting the first medical data and the second medical data from the data repository using the unique identifier.

4. The method of claim 1, further including storing data derived from the first medical data in the data repository, the data derived from the first medical data being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

5. The method of claim 1, further including:

generating measurement data corresponding to one of the first medical data and second medical data; and

storing the measurement data in the data repository, the measurement data being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the measurement data corresponds to the diameter of a vessel in the patient.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first medical data includes images representing portions of the patient.

8. The method of claim 7, further including:

generating annotations to the images; and

storing the annotations in the data repository, the annotations being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the annotations include one or more of vessel name and practitioner notes.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying information includes one or more of patient name, patient gender, patient date of birth, and patient blood type.

11. The method of claim 1, further including:

receiving information about an acquisition procedure that generated the first medical data; and

storing the information about the acquisition procedure in the data repository, the information about the acquisition procedure being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the information about the acquisition procedure includes one or more of a practitioner name, a procedure time, and information about the first medical instrument.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second medical modalities are each one of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging, intravascular photoacoustic (IVPA) imaging, optical coherence tomography (OCT), forward looking IVUS (FL-IVUS), fractional flow reserve (FFR), and coronary flow reserve (CFR).

14. The method of claim 1, wherein storing the first medical data in the data repository and storing the second medical data in the data repository are both performed by the same workflow component executing within the multi-modality medical processing system.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the data repository includes an XML database.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the first medical data and the second medical data were acquired from the patient during a single catheter lab session.

17. A multi-modality medical processing system, comprising:

a data repository; and

a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium that stores a plurality of instructions for execution by at least one computer processor, wherein the instructions are for;

receiving identifying information about a patient;

generating a unique identifier corresponding to the patient;

associating the identifying information with the unique identifier;

receiving first medical data acquired from the patient from a first medical instrument communicatively coupled to the multi-modality medical processing system, the first medical data being associated with a first medical modality;

storing the first medical data in the data repository, the first medical data being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository;

receiving second medical data acquired from the patient from a second medical instrument communicatively coupled to the multi-modality medical processing system, the second medical data being associated with a second medical modality different than the first medical modality; and

storing the second medical data in the data repository, the second medical data being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

18. A multi-modality medical processing system, comprising:

a computing system communicatively coupled to a first medical instrument and a second medical instrument, the computing system including;

a user interface component configured to receive identifying information about a patient;

a first modality workflow component configured to receive first medical data acquired from the patient from the first medical instrument, the first medical data being in a first medical modality;

a second modality workflow component configured to receive second medical data acquired from the patient from the second medical instrument, the second medical data being in a second medical modality different from the first medical modality;

a multi-modality case management (MMCM) workflow component configured to associate a unique identifier with the identifying information, the first medical data, and the second medical data; and

a data repository configured to store the identifying information, the first medical data, and the second medical data in association with the unique identifier.

19. The multi-modality medical processing system of claim 18, wherein the MMCM workflow component is further configured to retrieve and/or delete the first medical data and the second medical data from the data repository using the unique identifier.

20. The multi-modality medical processing system of claim 18, wherein the MMCM workflow component is further configured to store data derived from the first medical data in the data repository, the data derived from the first medical data being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

21. The multi-modality medical processing system of claim 18,

wherein the user interface component is further configured to generate measurement data corresponding to one of the first medical data and second medical data;

and

wherein the MMCM workflow component is further configured to store the measurement data in the data repository, the measurement data being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

22. The multi-modality medical processing system of claim 18, wherein the MMCM workflow component is further configured to receive information about an acquisition procedure that generated the first medical data and store the information about the acquisition procedure in the data repository, the information about the acquisition procedure being associated with the unique identifier in the data repository.

23. The multi-modality medical processing system of claim 18, wherein the first and second medical modalities are each one of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging, intravascular photoacoustic (IVPA) imaging, optical coherence tomography (OCT), forward looking IVUS (FL-IVUS), fractional flow reserve (FFR), and coronary flow reserve (CFR).