System for portability of images using a high-quality display

• US 8,423,081 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2010
• Issued: 04/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Jabri, Kadri N., Avinash, Gopal B., Fors, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming, William D
• Application Number:
  US12/952,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20110063323A1
• Time in Patent Office: 875 Days
• Field of Search: 455/556.1, 361/679.17, 361/67.17, 345/168, 345/656, 341/22, 341/78, 341/178
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4423 related to hygiene or sterilisation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4494 Means for identifying the diagnostic device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/467 characterised by special input means
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• 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: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved clinical workflow using wireless communication. A system for remote image display includes a data source with image data, wherein the data source is capable of transmitting the image data. The system also includes an identifiable display device capable of displaying image data transferred from the data source and a portable device capable of identifying the display device and requesting image data transfer from the data source to the display device without the transfer of the image data between the portable device and the data source. The system may also include an access point for relaying communication between the portable device and the data source. Communication between the portable device, the data source, and/or the display may include wireless communication, for example.

Claims

1. A tangible computer readable storage medium including executable program instructions which, when executed by a computer processor, cause the computer to implement a system for remote triggering of a medical diagnostic image display, the system comprising:

a portable device to facilitate retrieval of clinical image data related to a patient from a data source for local display at an identifiable display device in response to a request, the portable device arranged to;

identify an identifiable display device using an identifier associated with the identifiable display device to select the display device from among a plurality of display devices across a plurality of locations in a clinical environment,

request image data transfer from the data source to the identifiable display device, wherein image data is to be transferred directly to the display device without relay via the portable device, and wherein the data source is to transmit the image data in response to a request specifying the identifier for the identifiable display device.

2. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising an access point for relaying communication between said portable device and said data source.

3. The computer readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein said access point arbitrates between multiple requests for access.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said identifiable display device comprises a diagnostic quality display.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said data source further includes non-image data.

6. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device comprises one of a personal digital assistant (PDA), mobile phone, laptop computer, pocket personal computer or ultra personal computer.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device comprises a wireless headset.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 further comprising at least one of password and biometric authentication to establish a connection between said portable device and said data source.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device and said identifiable display device automatically synchronize when said portable device is in proximity to said identifiable display device.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device allows a user to view and modify said image data displayed by said identifiable display device.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein both of said identifiable display device and said portable device receive and display said image data from said data source.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said data source comprises at least one of a picture archiving and communication system, a radiology information system, a hospital information system, and an electronic medical record system.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device is to facilitate gaze tracking to request said image data for display at said identifiable display device.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device is to accept voice command to retrieve said image data for display at said identifiable display device.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said identifier comprises at least one of an identification number, an identification code, and a signal.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said identifiable display device further comprises a user interface to be controlled by a user.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device is to identify said identifiable display device at least one of automatically and manually by a user.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device is to facilitate data entry and retrieval from said data source via said portable device.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said portable device is to facilitate at least one of wireless annotation of said image data, wireless order entry, wireless reporting, wireless voice over internet protocol conferencing with respect to said data source and said identifiable display device.