IP Library Granted Patent US 10,014,078
Granted Patent B2
US 10,014,078 · App. 14/150,950 · Granted Jul 3, 2018

Method and system for presenting medical contents

Inventors: Thomas Friese (Munich, DE); Vladyslav Ukis (Nuremberg, DE)
Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
G16H30/20G06F19/322G16H10/60
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,014,078
App. No.
14/150,950
Filed
Jan 9, 2014
Granted
Jul 3, 2018
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3626
USPC
705/3
Abstract

A method is disclosed for presenting medical contents. An embodiment of the method includes generating a pseudonymized case study from a patient study using a case upload client in a hospital environment by providing the patient study with a marker and by removing personal patient data from the patient study; sending the pseudonymized case study to a computing center via the Internet and virtualizing the pseudonymized case study; transmitting the virtualized pseudonymized case study to the hospital environment via an Internet connection and mapping the virtualized pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data by way of a display client; and displaying the mapped medical contents by way of the display client with the viewer. A system, a case upload client and a case upload server for presenting medical contents, are also disclosed.

Claims (40)

1. A method for presenting medical contents, the method comprising:

generating, via a client associated with a hospital environment, a pseudonymized case study from a patient imaging study by replacing personal patient data from the patient imaging study with an anonymous marker exclusively maintained by the client, the anonymous marker being associated with the personal patient data;

sending, via a secure Internet connection, the pseudonymized case study from the client to a server associated with a computing center;

formulating, by the client, an identification feature based on the anonymous marker maintained by the client, the identification feature identifying the pseudonymized case study without providing sufficient information to map the pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data, if a user of the client requests retrieval of the pseudonymized case study from the server;

sending, via the client, the identification feature associated with the pseudonymized case study and a client identification associated with the client to the server such that the server is unable to map the pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data based on the identification feature;

virtualizing, by the server, the pseudonymized case study by (i) initiating a remote display session with the client based on the client identification, (ii) performing a remote image call-up to load the pseudonymized case study from a database into a virtual machine associated with the server based on the identification feature, and (iii) transmitting the virtualized pseudonymized case study to a viewer associated with the client via the remote display session;

mapping, via the client, the virtualized pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data based on the anonymous marker exclusively maintained by the client to generate mapped medical contents; and

displaying, on the viewer associated with the client, the mapped medical contents.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

storing, by the server, the identification feature in the database associated with the server.

3. A system for presenting medical contents, the system comprising:

a server associated with a computing center; and

a client associated with a hospital environment,

wherein the client is configured to,

generate a pseudonymized case study from a patient imaging study by replacing personal patient data from the patient imaging study with an anonymous marker exclusively maintained by the client, the anonymous marker being associated with the personal patient data, and

send, via a secure Internet connection, the pseudonymized case study from the client to the server,

formulate, by the client, an identification feature based on the anonymous marker maintained by the client, the identification feature identifying the pseudonymized case study without providing sufficient information to map the pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data, if a user of the client requests retrieval of the pseudonymized case study from the server;

send, via the client, the identification feature associated with the pseudonymized case study and a client identification associated with the client to the server such that the server is unable to map the pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data based on the identification feature;

map, via the client, virtualized pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data based on the anonymous marker exclusively maintained by the client to generate mapped medical contents, and

display, on a viewer associated with the client, the mapped medical contents; and

wherein server is configured to,

virtualize the pseudonymized case study by (i) initiating a remote display session with the client based on the client identification, (ii) performing a remote image call-up to load the pseudonymized case study from a database into a virtual machine associated with the server based on the identification feature, and (iii) transmitting the virtualized pseudonymized case study to the viewer associated with the client via the remote display session.

4. A client associated with a hospital environment, the client comprising:

a processor configured to,

generate a pseudonymized case study from a patient imaging study by replacing personal patient data from the patient imaging study with an anonymous marker exclusively maintained by the client, the anonymous marker being associated with the personal patient data maintained by the client,

send, via a secure Internet connection, the pseudonymized case study to a server associated with a computing center,

formulate an identification feature based on the anonymous marker maintained by the client, the identification feature identifying the pseudonymized case study without providing sufficient information to map the pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data, if a user of the client requests retrieval of the pseudonymized case study from the server,

send the identification feature associated with the pseudonymized case study and a client identification associated with the client to the server such that the server is unable to map the pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data based on the identification feature,

receive a virtualized pseudonymized case study from the computing center by (i) accepting a remote display session with the computing center initiated based on the client identification, and (ii) receiving the virtualized pseudonymized case study by a viewer associated with the client via the remote display session such that the virtualized pseudonymized case study is run on a virtual machine associated with the server based on the identification feature,

map the virtualized pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data based on the anonymous marker exclusively maintained by the client to generate mapped medical contents, and

display, on the viewer associated with the client, the mapped medical contents.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying displays the mapped medical contents on a diagnostic workstation associated with the hospital environment.

6. A method for presenting medical contents, comprising:

generating, via a client associated with a hospital environment, a pseudonymized case study from a patient imaging study by replacing personal patient data from the patient imaging study with an anonymous marker maintained by the client, the anonymous marker being associated with the personal patient data exclusively maintained by the client;

sending, via a secure Internet connection, the pseudonymized case study from the client to a computing center to virtualize the pseudonymized case study;

formulating, by the client, an identification feature based on the anonymous marker maintained by the client, the identification feature identifying the pseudonymized case study without providing sufficient information to map the pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data, if a user of the client requests retrieval of the pseudonymized case study from the computing center;

sending, via the client, the identification feature associated with the pseudonymized case study and a client identification associated with the client to the computing center such that the computing center is unable to map the pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data based on the identification feature;

receiving the virtualized pseudonymized case study from the computing center by (i) accepting a remote display session with the computing center initiated based on the client identification, and (ii) receiving the virtualized pseudonymized case study by a viewer associated with the client via the remote display session such that the virtualized pseudonymized case study is run on a virtual machine associated with the computing center based on the identification feature;

mapping the virtualized pseudonymized case study with the personal patient data to generate mapped medical contents; and

displaying, on the viewer associated with the client, the mapped medical contents.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 066088 FRAME: 0256. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jan 17, 2024
From: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
To: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
Reel/Frame 071178/0246 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 20, 2023
From: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
To: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
Reel/Frame 066088/0256 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 14, 2018
From: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
Reel/Frame 047498/0984 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 30, 2014
From: FRIESE, THOMAS; UKIS, VLADYSLAV
To: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 032092/0576 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2013 202 825 · Feb 21, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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