Patent ID: 8401869

Claim:
A streaming managed medical video network system for enabling access on a medical network to live video data captured from a plurality of locations, the system comprising: at least one streaming device associated with at least one medical treatment location of the plurality of locations, wherein the at least one streaming device is configured to receive live video data from at least one of a plurality of sources located in the at least one medical treatment location and convert the data received from the at least one source of the plurality of sources into a network packet stream, wherein the at least one source of the plurality of sources comprises a medical video source that views a procedure, the procedure comprising one of a surgical procedure, a diagnostic procedure, and a therapeutic procedure, performed at the at least one medical treatment location, the at least one medical treatment location having a plurality of medical video sources therein, the plurality of medical video sources being used during the procedure in which medical personnel are present at the medical treatment location; a network switch in communication with the at least one streaming device; and a streaming video control server that: (a) authenticates at least one of a plurality of users to the managed streaming medical video network system; (b) establishes a communication channel, the communications channel being configured to route each network packet stream from the at least one streaming device, via the network switch, towards the at least one user for enabling access by the at least one user to the network packet stream; (c) provides the network packet stream to the at least one user such that, once the at least one user has been authenticated to the system, the at least one user can view the live video data contained in the network packet stream; and (d) tracks a status of the medical treatment location during one of the surgical procedure, the diagnostic procedure and the therapeutic procedure, the status of the medical treatment location comprising one of a room status and a patient status; and wherein the at least one streaming device captures video simultaneously with state and status metadata information, by collecting patient information from a network-based software service and transmitting patient information, which is overlaid onto the video as it is being viewed by the at least one user at a remote location.