Patent ID: 7257832

Claim:
A system for processing patient video images, comprising: a medical services site that includes an acquisition station, a review station, a site sever, and a local network for transporting the patient video images between the acquisition station, review station, and site server; said acquisition station for collecting the patient video images; said site sever for receiving the patient video images from said acquisition station over the local network and storing the patient video images; the review station for retrieving patient video images from the site server over the local network and displaying the patient video images to a diagnostician; an internet data center in communication with said site sewer and receiving the patient video images transmitted by the site server over an internet communication network; said internet data center including a web server and a database server; said database server storing the patient video images; and a web-based client for receiving said patient video images from the web server of said internet data center over said internet communication network; wherein the web server transmits frames of the patient video images to the web-based client in which intervening frames of the patient video images have been skipped, the web-based client displaying the received frames, and then later the web server transmits the skipped frames of patient video images, which the web-based client then displays with the previously received frames.