Patent ID: 8429230
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting an invitation for a communication relating to a medical image in a DICOM data record from a person who has access to the image to a partner, comprising: providing the DICOM data record with a specific communication DICOM tag comprising information relating to the invitation, wherein the specific communication DICOM tag comprises a specialist discipline of the partner and a request for feedback; storing the invitation in the DICOM data record of the image; transmitting the DICOM data record to a server; selecting the partner who matches the specialist discipline by the server; determining a message channel which leads to the partner by the server; transmitting the invitation to the partner via the message channel by the server; checking whether the partner shows a response to the invitation within a time period by the server; determining an alternative partner in an absence of a response by the server; and transmitting the invitation to the alternative partner by the server, wherein the server analyzes the invitation and obtains additional information relating to the invitation from an information source networked to the server and makes the additional information available to the person and/or the partner.