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US 7,017,161 · App. 09/415,617 · Granted Mar 21, 2006

System and method for interfacing a radiology information system to a central dictation system

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Patent No.
US 7,017,161
App. No.
09/415,617
Granted
Mar 21, 2006
Kind
B1
Abstract

A software system provides an interface between a radiology information system and a central dictation system. The software includes first and second application modules which are both in communication with a database management system. Other components of the software system include protocol DLL's (dynamic linked libraries) and a communication DLL. Each of the software components maintains a separate trace buffer. An event occurring in any one of the components triggers a dump of all of the trace buffers. A server socket object is maintained in existence and placed in an accept mode when a client socket terminates communication with the server socket object.

Claims (17)

1. A method of interfacing a central dictation system to a radiology information system with a software system, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a first application module configured to interface with the radiology information system and a database management system;

providing a second application module configured to interface with the central dictation system, the first application module, and the database management system, the central dictation system having a dictation server;

receiving data from the radiology information system through the first application module at the second application module;

receiving patient information from the radiology information system at the first application module;

transmitting a query based on the patient information to the database management system from a first manager application module of the first application module;

determining a status of a record for the patient information in the database management system;

determining a type of event based on the patient information in response to determination of the status being existent for the record;

determining a status of an accession number associated with the patient formation;

updating the database management system with the patient information in response to a determination of the status being existent for the accession number; and

writing the type of event to a trace log.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the steps of:

determining a status of an accession number in the database management system;

determining whether a query has been issued for the accession number in the database management system; and

querying for the accession number in the database management system in response to determination of non-existence status for the accession number and no query being issued for the accession number.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising the steps of writing the accession number in the database management system from a dictation and writing the type of event to a trace log.

4. The method according to claim 3 , further comprising the step of transmitting a reconciliation message to a manager application module of said first application module.

Assignments (6)
PATENT RELEASE (REEL:017435/FRAME:0199) Recorded May 20, 2016
From: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
To: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., AS GRANTOR; ART ADVANCED RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; SPEECHWORKS INTERNATIONAL, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; TELELOGUE, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; DSP, INC., D/B/A DIAMOND EQUIPMENT, A MAINE CORPORATON, AS GRANTOR; SCANSOFT, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; DICTAPHONE CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR
Reel/Frame 038770/0824 →
PATENT RELEASE (REEL:018160/FRAME:0909) Recorded May 20, 2016
From: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
To: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., AS GRANTOR; ART ADVANCED RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; SPEECHWORKS INTERNATIONAL, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; TELELOGUE, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; DSP, INC., D/B/A DIAMOND EQUIPMENT, A MAINE CORPORATON, AS GRANTOR; HUMAN CAPITAL RESOURCES, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; INSTITIT KATALIZA IMENI G.K. BORESKOVA SIBIRSKOGO OTDELENIA ROSSIISKOI AKADEMII NAUK, AS GRANTOR; NOKIA CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; MITSUBISH DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AS GRANTOR; STRYKER LEIBINGER GMBH & CO., KG, AS GRANTOR; NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; SCANSOFT, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR; DICTAPHONE CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AS GRANTOR
Reel/Frame 038770/0869 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 9, 2013
From: DICTAPHONE CORPORATION
To: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Reel/Frame 029596/0836 →
MERGER Recorded Sep 13, 2012
From: DICTAPHONE CORPORATION
To: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Reel/Frame 028952/0397 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Aug 24, 2006
From: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
To: USB AG. STAMFORD BRANCH
Reel/Frame 018160/0909 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 7, 2006
From: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
To: USB AG, STAMFORD BRANCH
Reel/Frame 017435/0199 →