Patent ID: 8775210
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for translating healthcare data from a device-centric model of data management to a procedure-centric model of data management, comprising: performing, by at least one computer processing device: providing healthcare data received from an imaging modality to an imaging archive at one of a plurality of organizational domains, wherein each of the plurality of organizational domains comprises an associated imaging archive and at least one client system, wherein the healthcare data comprises image data and procedure data related to the image data, the healthcare data organized according to a device-centric model according to the imaging modality, the procedure data providing information regarding an imaging procedure with respect to the image data according to the device-centric model for the imaging modality, the device-centric model organizing the healthcare data in a device-centric hierarchy comprising patient, study, series, and service-object pair (SOP) instance for the imaging modality, wherein an SOP instance comprises information used to at least one of push and pull information between Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) applications; mapping the procedure data from the imaging archive to a worklist server, wherein the mapping includes information about the relationship between the image data and the procedure data, the worklist server mapping the procedure data using a procedure-centric hierarchy, wherein the worklist server is accessible to each of the plurality of organizational domains to map data from a plurality of device-centric models to the procedure-centric hierarchy, the mapping including taking the patient, study, series, and SOP instance information from the device-centric model and mapping to the procedure-centric hierarchy comprising patient, visit, order, service request, and procedure via the worklist server to decouple clinical information management from SOP instance persistency and place SOP instances within a procedure; organizing the procedure data into image worklists based on the procedure-centric hierarchy; and accepting submission of an image access query to the worklist server for the image data and the imaging procedure data related to the image data from at least one client system at one of the plurality of organizational domains, wherein the query answer from the worklist server includes the procedure data related to the image data and information to identify the network location of the image data at the imaging archive of the one of the plurality of organizational domains.