Method for transmitting a communication invitation relating to a medical DICOM image

• US 8,429,230 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2010
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Amberg, Jessica, Mahr, Per Anselm
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US12/786,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20100306328A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: 705/3, 705/2, 709/203, 709/227, 709/238, 709/205, 709/206, 726/3, 370/389, 370/352, 382/254, 382/128, 382/173
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A method for transmitting an invitation to a communication relating to a medical image in a DICOM data record from a person who has access to the image to a partner is proposed. The invitation is stored as information in the DICOM data record of the image. The DICOM data record is transmitted to a server. With reference to the invitation, the server determines a message channel which leads to the partner. The server transmits the invitation to the partner via the message channel.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting an invitation for a communication relating to a medical image in a DICOM data record from a person who has access to the image to a partner, comprising:

providing the DICOM data record with a specific communication DICOM tag comprising information relating to the invitation, wherein the specific communication DICOM tag comprises a specialist discipline of the partner and a request for feedback;

storing the invitation in the DICOM data record of the image;

transmitting the DICOM data record to a server;

selecting the partner who matches the specialist discipline by the server;

determining a message channel which leads to the partner by the server;

transmitting the invitation to the partner via the message channel by the server;

checking whether the partner shows a response to the invitation within a time period by the server;

determining an alternative partner in an absence of a response by the server; and

transmitting the invitation to the alternative partner by the server,

wherein the server analyzes the invitation and obtains additional information relating to the invitation from an information source networked to the server and makes the additional information available to the person and/or the partner.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server transmits the DICOM data record to the partner.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server determines the message channel with reference to a resource management system to which the server is networked.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the person is a first person and the partner is a second person in a group of people and wherein:

the server determines the second person from the group of people with reference to the invitation, and

the server transmits the invitation to the second person.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the person sends the invitation while performing a medical procedure under sterile conditions on a patient associated with the image.