Intelligent medical image management system
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1. An image management system connected to receive messages over a healthcare enterprise network, the image management system comprising:
- a plurality of storage devices, where at least one of the storage devices has a cost characteristic that differs from the cost characteristics of the other storage devices;
means for receiving, over the network, a message that includes;
a request category, wherein the request category includes at least one of a store category, a retrieve category, and a restore category; and
at least one parameter extracted from metadata that includes information related to at least one of acquired image data, stored image data, and patient information;
a business rules processor communicatively coupled to the means for receiving that is operable to;
identify, from the received message, a set of stored rules related to the request category;
determine at least one rule in the identified set of stored rules that is satisfied by processing the at least one parameter in the received message in accordance with each rule in the identified set of stored rules; and
produce a reaction object for the satisfied rule; and
archiving means responsive to the produced reaction object to;
store at least one of image data and patient information corresponding to the metadata in at least one of the plurality of storage devices when the satisfied rule is related to the store category;
retrieve at least one of image data and patient information corresponding to the metadata from at least one of the plurality of storage devices when the satisfied rule is related to the retrieve category; and
transfer at least one of image data and patient information corresponding to the metadata from at least one of the plurality of storage devices to another of the plurality of storage devices when the satisfied rule is related to the restore category.
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Abstract
An image management system connects to a health care enterprise intranet and receives images from medical imaging devices located throughout the enterprise. The image management system also receives images, patient information and administrative information from PAC, RIS and HIS systems. The images are automatically archived in a number of storage devices having different cost and performance characteristics in accordance with a set of stored health care enterprise rules.
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1. An image management system connected to receive messages over a healthcare enterprise network, the image management system comprising:
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a plurality of storage devices, where at least one of the storage devices has a cost characteristic that differs from the cost characteristics of the other storage devices; means for receiving, over the network, a message that includes; a request category, wherein the request category includes at least one of a store category, a retrieve category, and a restore category; and at least one parameter extracted from metadata that includes information related to at least one of acquired image data, stored image data, and patient information; a business rules processor communicatively coupled to the means for receiving that is operable to; identify, from the received message, a set of stored rules related to the request category; determine at least one rule in the identified set of stored rules that is satisfied by processing the at least one parameter in the received message in accordance with each rule in the identified set of stored rules; and produce a reaction object for the satisfied rule; and archiving means responsive to the produced reaction object to; store at least one of image data and patient information corresponding to the metadata in at least one of the plurality of storage devices when the satisfied rule is related to the store category; retrieve at least one of image data and patient information corresponding to the metadata from at least one of the plurality of storage devices when the satisfied rule is related to the retrieve category; and transfer at least one of image data and patient information corresponding to the metadata from at least one of the plurality of storage devices to another of the plurality of storage devices when the satisfied rule is related to the restore category. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An image management system connected to receive messages which contain image data and associated metadata from an image producing device, which comprises:
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a plurality of storage devices, where at least one of the storage devices has a cost characteristic that differs from the cost characteristics of the other storage devices; means connected to receive the messages and a request message, wherein the request message includes a storage request category; processor means coupled to the means for receiving and being operable to examine metadata in received messages and parameters in a set of stored rules related to the request category to determine in which of said plurality of storage devices the associated image data should be stored when the set of stored rules is related to the store category; and means for storing the associated image data in the storage device determined by the processor means. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for storing images produced by a plurality of medical imaging devices located in a healthcare enterprise, the steps comprising:
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a) electronically sending, to an image management system; i) an image produced by a medical imaging device; ii) metadata associated with the image, wherein the metadata includes information about the image; and iii) a message that includes a request category, wherein the request category includes at least one of a store category, a retrieve category, and a restore category; b) storing a set of rules in the image management system which indicates how images for the healthcare enterprise are to be stored, wherein the set of rules includes rules corresponding to the store, retrieve, and restore categories; c) evaluating a stored rule selected from the request category by examining the metadata associated with each image received by the image management system; d) transferring the image in a manner indicated by a rule which is evaluated as satisfied; and e) storing the metadata associated with the image in a database. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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