APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FORWARD MEDICAL DATA FILES FROM A MEDICAL FACILITY NETWORK TO ANOTHER NETWORK
An apparatus, a system, a method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The apparatus including a memory storing logic corresponding to a medical data forwarding engine (MDFE), and one or more processors to execute the logic to perform operations including: accessing encoded medical information compliant with a medical signal handling protocol, the encoded medical information from a medical computing system of a medical facility network, wherein the encoded medical information includes one of a medical data file or a medical file fragment; preprocessing the encoded medical information by making the encoded medical information compliant with a networking communication protocol compatible with a web interface of a network external to the medical facility network (external network); and forwarding, after preprocessing, the encoded medical information to the external network based on the networking communication protocol.
1 . An apparatus including a memory storing logic corresponding to a medical data forwarding engine (MDFE), and one or more processors to execute the logic to perform operations including:
accessing encoded medical information compliant with a medical signal handling protocol, the encoded medical information from a medical computing system of a medical facility network, wherein the encoded medical information includes one of a medical data file or a medical file fragment;
preprocessing the encoded medical information by making the encoded medical information compliant with a networking communication protocol compatible with a web interface of a network external to the medical facility network (external network); and
forwarding, after preprocessing, the encoded medical information to the external network based on the networking communication protocol.
2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the operations include determining the networking communication protocol prior to preprocessing.
3 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the networking communication protocol includes at least one of WebSocket or Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure (HTTPS).
4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the networking communication protocol allows full-duplex communication using a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection.
5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the networking communication protocol uses a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption or a Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption.
6 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the networking communication protocol uses a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) handshake or a Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake.
7 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein preprocessing further includes at least one of: compressing, decompressing, appending routing information, encrypting, decrypting, format conversion, or anonymizing.
8 . The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein preprocessing that comprises format conversion includes changing a file format of the encoded medical information from a first file format to a second file format different from the first file format to make the encoded medical information compatible with the networking communication protocol.
9 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the first file format or the second file format includes one of: a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format, a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, a Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) format, an MPEG format, a MPEG4 part 14 (MP 4 ) format, an Audio Video Interleave (AVI) format, a QuickTime File Format (MOV) format, a Windows Media Video (WMV) format, or Flash Video (FLV) format.
10 . The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein anonymizing includes at least one of: removing personal identifying information (PII), replacing PII with a unique identifier, reducing information in the PII, or adding noise to the encoded medical information.
11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include determining, prior to preprocessing and based on at least one of metadata of the encoded medical information or pixel data of the encoded medical information, one or more parts of the encoded medical information to be preprocessed.
12 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include determining, prior to preprocessing and based on a preconfiguration of pixel data corresponding to one or more parts of the encoded medical information to be changed, the one or more parts of the encoded medical information.
13 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more parts correspond to at least one of metadata of the encoded medical information or payload data of the encoded medical information.
14 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the encoded medical information is first encoded medical information, and the one or more parts are one or more first parts, the operations further including, after determining the one or more first parts, determining one or more second parts of a second encoded medical information based on a determination of the one or more first parts, preprocessing the one or more second parts to make the encoded medical information compliant with the networking communication protocol, and forwarding, after preprocessing the one or more second parts, the second encoded medical information to the external network based on the networking communication protocol.
15 . A routing system including:
a web interface circuitry;
a memory storing logic corresponding a medical data forwarding engine (MDFE); and
one or more processors coupled to the web interface circuitry to execute the logic to perform operations including:
accessing encoded medical information compliant with a medical signal handling protocol, the encoded medical information from a medical computing system of a medical facility network, wherein the encoded medical information includes one of a medical data file or a medical file fragment;
preprocessing the encoded medical information by making the encoded medical information compliant with a networking communication protocol compatible with a web interface of a network external to the medical facility network (external network); and
forwarding, after preprocessing, and through the web interface circuitry, the encoded medical information to the external network based on the networking communication protocol.
16 . The routing system of claim 15 , wherein the operations further include receiving a medical data file from the medical facility network, and fragmenting the medical data file to obtain medical file fragments therefrom, the encoded medical information corresponding to one of the medical file fragments.
17 . A method to be performed at a processing circuitry of a medical facility network, the method including:
accessing encoded medical information compliant with a medical signal handling protocol, the encoded medical information from a medical computing system of the medical facility network, wherein the encoded medical information includes one of a medical data file or a medical file fragment;
preprocessing the encoded medical information by making the encoded medical information compliant with a networking communication protocol compatible with a web interface of a network external to the medical facility network (external network); and
forwarding, after preprocessing, the encoded medical information to the external network based on the networking communication protocol.
18 . The method of claim 17 , further including receiving a medical data file from the medical facility network, and fragmenting the medical data file to obtain medical file fragments therefrom, the encoded medical information corresponding to one of the medical file fragments.
19 . The method of claim 18 , wherein fragmenting includes fragmenting based on a size of the medical data file.
20 . The method of claim 18 , wherein the processing circuitry is a processing circuitry of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).
21 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the encoded medical information includes a first medical file fragment of a first medical data file, the operations further including routing the first medical file fragment and subsequent medical file fragments of the first medical data file on a fragment by fragment basis by routing the first medical file fragment to the external network before all fragments of the first medical data file are accessed by the one or more processor.
22 . The method of claim 21 , wherein the first medical data file is part of a plurality of medical data files from the medical facility network, and the first medical file fragment is part of a plurality of medical file fragments of at least some of the medical data files, the operations further including routing the medical file fragments of at least some of the plurality of medical data files, and remaining ones of the plurality of medical data files to the external network before receiving all file fragments of at least one of the plurality of medical data files.
23 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the medical signal handling protocol includes Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM).
24 . One or more computer-readable media comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform the method of claim 16 .
25 . An apparatus including means to perform the method of claim 16 .