Patent ID: 6569097
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: A61B,G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
A system for generating application-specific medical ultrasound information, comprising:an ultrasound data collection assembly to carry out an ultrasound scan of a selected part of a human body of a patient at a given location by an operator and to produce raw, unprocessed ultrasound information therefrom but not an ultrasound image; a data transmission system for transmitting the raw, unprocessed ultrasound information obtained by the assembly to a processing location physically remote from the data collection assembly location, wherein the ultrasound information is transmitted to the remote processing location without proceeding through a local processor at the site of the data collection assembly; a processor at the remote location for processing the transmitted information sufficiently to produce a medical analysis of the selected body part therefrom, wherein the medical analysis is then transmitted back to a medical practitioner associated with the patient, wherein the medical analysis includes information suitable for use in the treatment of the patient; and a memory structure for storing program information for control of at least one ultrasound procedure to be carried out by the data collection assembly and for storing information produced from the ultrasound procedure for each patient, including a data link between the memory structure and the data collection assembly.