Patent ID: 10176197

Abstract:
A method of acquiring medical image data of a first subject by a user is provided. The method includes providing a mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device that includes an optical imaging component, an input component, a wireless two-way communication component, a memory and a program. The program includes authenticating the user and the program includes a request for subject identifying information. The method further includes providing user authenticating data and wirelessly transmitting the user authenticating data. The method further includes the user capturing first medical image data related to a first subject with the mobile device. The optical imaging component of the mobile wireless-communication optical-imaging device is operated by the user to capture the first medical image data. The first subject is one of a plurality of different subjects, each of whom has a distinct subject medical record on a server and for each of whom medical image data is stored in the distinct subject medical record. The method further includes storing the first medical image data in the memory. The method further includes providing first subject identifying information that uniquely identifies a first subject medical record on the mobile device in response to a program request, and wirelessly transmitting the first medical image data together with the first subject identifying information to a second device for storage in the first subject medical record on the server.