Patent ID: 8255239
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. An electronic access controller for accessing medical information, comprising: at least one server at which a first data file and a second data file are stored with said second data file being stored separately from said first data file, said first data file containing a plurality of findings generated by medical personnel describing a medical state of a patient, and said second file containing images, each comprised of image points, acquired from the patient with a medical imaging apparatus, at least one subset of said images stored in said second file forming a basis for at least one subset of the findings stored in said first file; said second file being organized to comprise, for each of said images stored therein, an unambiguous identification thereof; a computerized access controller unit configured to establish a communication path to said at least one server to access said first data file and said second data file; after establishment of said communication path, said access controller unit being configured to detect one of said subsets of said images and to generate a link only to said one of said subsets of images by specifying identification and by adding a pointer to said link that points to at least one image point in at least one of said images that forms said basis for said at least one subset of findings, and to store said link containing said pointer in said first data file in association with the subset of findings in the first data file for which said one subset of images in the second data file forms the basis; an electronic information retrieval input unit connected to said computerized access controller unit allowing a user to make an entry that selects one of said subsets of findings stored in said first data file, and said computerized access controller unit being configured to retrieve said one of said subsets of findings from said first data file and, using said link with said pointer therein to also retrieve only said one subset of images from said second data file that form the basis of said one subset of findings in said first data file; and a display connected to said computerized access controller unit at which said computerized access controller unit causes the retrieved one subset of findings and the retrieved one subset of images to be displayed as a displayed image with the pointer pointing, in said displayed image, to said at least one image point.