METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL IMAGES VIA NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION

• US 20140329464A1
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Published: 11/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Medison Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Medison Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yoon, Seung-Il
• Application Number:
  US14/358,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20140329464A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/08 Sensors provided with means for identification, e.g. barcodes or memory chips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A method of providing a medical image about a patient, performed by a medical image providing apparatus. The method includes receiving patient identification (ID) information from a patient terminal via near-field communication (NFC), searching for information about an object to be diagnosed, based on the patient ID information, and obtaining a medical image about the object, based on the searched for information.

Claims

1. A medical image providing method of providing a medical image containing a result of examining a patient, performed by a medical image providing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving patient identification (ID) information from a patient terminal via near-field communication (NFC);

searching for information about an object to be diagnosed, based on the patient ID information; and

obtaining a medical image about the object, based on the searched for information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the searching for the information about the object comprises searching for the information about the object in a server, based on the patient ID information.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the medical image to a server or the patient terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting device information of the medical image providing apparatus to a service engineer terminal via the NFC; and

receiving a result of performing a service related to the medical image providing apparatus from the service engineer terminal via the NFC.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the device information comprises at least one from among ID information and service history information of the medical image providing apparatus.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting ID information of the medical image providing apparatus to a user terminal, via the NFC;

receiving a control command from the user terminal via the NFC; and

performing the control command.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the transmitting of the ID information of the medical image providing apparatus comprises:

receiving ID information of the user terminal from the user terminal via the NFC;

checking information about permissions assigned to the user terminal, based on the ID information of the user terminal; and

selectively transmitting the ID information of the medical image providing apparatus to the user terminal, based on the information about the permissions.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising transmitting the medical image to the user terminal via the NFC.

15. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program for executing the method of claim 1.

9. A method of providing a medical image, performed by a user terminal, the method comprising:

receiving identification (ID) information of a medical image providing apparatus from the medical image providing apparatus via near-field communication (NFC);

displaying a set of virtual keys mapped to the ID information of the medical image providing apparatus;

receiving a control command from the outside via the set of virtual keys; and

transmitting the control command to the medical image providing apparatus via the NFC.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a medical image from the medical image providing apparatus via the NFC; and

displaying the medical image.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising transmitting the medical image to a server.

12. An apparatus for providing medical images, the apparatus comprising:

a communication unit for receiving patient identification (ID) information from a patient terminal via near-field communication (NFC);

a search unit for searching for information about an object to be diagnosed, based on the patient ID information;

an image obtaining unit for obtaining a medical image about the object, based on the searched for information; and

a controller for controlling the communication unit, the search unit, and the image obtaining unit.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the communication unit transmits ID information of the medical image providing apparatus to a user terminal and receives a control command from the user terminal, via the NFC, and the controller performs the control command.

14. A user terminal comprising:

a communication unit for receiving identification (ID) information of a medical image providing apparatus from the medical image providing apparatus and transmitting a control command received from the outside to the medical image providing apparatus, via near-field communication (NFC);

a display unit for displaying a set of virtual keys mapped to the ID information of the medical image providing apparatus, and receiving the control command from the outside via the set of virtual keys; and

a controller for controlling the communication unit and the display unit.