Patent ID: 9092556
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: A61B,G11B,G16H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for sharing medical data in a telemedicine session comprising: receiving a biometric imaging stream in real time from a medical scanning device at a first telemedicine device that is at a first location on a network; receiving a data stream in real time at a second telemedicine device that is at a second location on the network that is different from the first location, the data stream being one selected from the group consisting of a video stream received from a video camera and a biometric data stream that is received from a medical sensing device wherein the biometric imaging stream and the data stream are received simultaneously; obtaining a plurality of biometric imaging frames from the biometric imaging stream as the biometric imaging stream is being received; obtaining a plurality of data frames from the data stream as the data stream is being received; inserting timestamps into the biometric imaging and data frames so that they can be rendered synchronously in real time on a remote device; inserting a first timestamp into one of the biometric imaging frames at the first telemedicine device wherein the first timestamp is obtained at the first telemedicine device using a timing source selected from the group consisting of an NTP server and a GPS satellite; inserting a second timestamp into one of the data frames at the second telemedicine device wherein the second timestamp is obtained at the second telemedicine device using a timing source selected from the group consisting of an NTP server and a GPS satellite wherein the one of the biometric imaging frames is obtained at the first telemedicine device at approximately the same time as the one of the data frames is obtained at the second telemedicine device, thereby causing the first timestamp to be approximately the same as the second timestamp and helping to ensure that the ones of the biometric imaging and data frames are rendered approximately simultaneously at the remote device; and transmitting the biometric imaging and data frames in real time to the remote device while the biometric imaging and data streams are being received so that the biometric imaging and data frames can be rendered in substantially real time at the remote device.