Computerized method and system for associating a portion of a diagnostic image with an electronic record

• US 7,885,445 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2009
• Issued: 02/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Duello, David M., Humphrey, Louis M., Hoffman, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mariam; Daniel G
• Assistant Examiner(s): WOLDEMARIAM, AKILILU K
• Application Number:
  US12/350,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20090110251A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 382/128, 382/129, 382/131, 382/132, 348/207.1, 375/522, 345/595, 345/634
• US Class Current: 382/128
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 20/00 ICT specially adapted for functional genomics or proteomics, e.g. genotype-phenotype associations
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A computerized method for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with one or more electronic records is provided. The method includes receiving a diagnostic image having data particular to at least two persons and associating a first portion of the diagnostic image with an electronic record. The method may further include storing the first portion of the diagnostic image with the electronic record and/or associating and storing a common portion of the diagnostic image with the electronic record, the common portion consisting of data common to each person whose data is shown on the image. In one embodiment, the method may further include modifying the received diagnostic image and associating and storing the modified image with an electronic record. A computer system for associating at least a portion of a diagnostic image with an electronic record is also provided.

Claims

1. A method in a computing environment having a processor and memory for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic gel image with at least one electronic medical records, the method comprising:

receiving, within the computing environment, the diagnostic gel image, the diagnostic gel image including data particular to at least two persons;

modifying the diagnostic gel image to create a modified image, wherein modifying the diagnostic gel image comprises parsing at least one lane of the diagnostic gel image particular to a second of the at least two persons from the diagnostic gel image to create a modified gel image, the modified image comprising at least one lane of the diagnostic gel image particular to a first of the at least two persons; and

storing the modified gel image with a first electronic medical record, the first electronic medical record being correlated with the first person.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the diagnostic gel image comprises at least one of capturing the diagnostic image or importing the diagnostic image.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying common lanes of the diagnostic gel image; and

identifying at least one lane of the diagnostic gel image particular to the first of the at least two persons and at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the second of the at least two persons.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising parsing all lanes of the diagnostic gel image other than the identified common lanes of the diagnostic image to create a common image portion, the common image portion consisting of data common to each of the at least two persons.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the data common to each of the at least two persons comprises at least one of a molecular weight marker, a positive control, or a negative control.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising storing the common image portion with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

aggregating the modified image and the common image portion to create a hybrid image; and

storing the hybrid image with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising storing the hybrid image with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the modified image comprises data particular to the first of the at least two persons and the common lanes of the diagnostic image.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the common lanes of the diagnostic image comprises at least one of a molecular weight marker, a positive control, or a negative control.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the common lanes of the diagnostic image represent data which is common to all persons having data represented on the diagnostic image.

12. A method in a computing environment having a processor and memory for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic gel image with at least one electronic medical records, the method comprising:

receiving, within the computing environment, the diagnostic gel image, the diagnostic gel image including data particular to at least two persons;

modifying the diagnostic gel image to create a modified image, wherein modifying the diagnostic gel image comprises obscuring at least one lane of the diagnostic gel image particular to a second of the at least two persons from the diagnostic gel image to create a modified gel image, the modified image comprising at least one lane of the diagnostic gel image particular to a first of the at least two persons; and

storing the modified gel image with a first electronic medical record, the first electronic medical record being correlated with the first person.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein receiving the diagnostic gel image comprises at least one of capturing the diagnostic image or importing the diagnostic image.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

identifying common lanes of the diagnostic gel image; and

identifying at least one lane of the diagnostic gel image particular to the first of the at least two persons and at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the second of the at least two persons.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising obscuring all lanes of the diagnostic gel image other than the identified common lanes of the diagnostic image to create a common image portion, the common image portion consisting of data common to each of the at least two persons.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the data common to each of the at least two persons comprises at least one of a molecular weight marker, a positive control, or a negative control.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising storing the common image portion with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

aggregating the modified image and the common image portion to create a hybrid image; and

storing the hybrid image with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising storing the hybrid image with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that when executed by a computing system having a processor and memory, cause the computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving the diagnostic gel image, the diagnostic gel image including data particular to at least two persons;

modifying the diagnostic gel image to create a modified image, wherein modifying the diagnostic gel image comprises at least one of obscuring or parsing one lane of the diagnostic gel image particular to a second of the at least two persons from the diagnostic gel image to create a modified gel image, the modified image comprising at least one lane of the diagnostic gel image particular to a first of the at least two persons; and

storing the modified gel image with a first electronic medical record, the first electronic medical record being correlated with the first person.