Patent ID: 8457990

Claim:
A method comprising: accessing, by a computing system, user-defined rules for storing medical data, wherein the user-defined rules are defined by a user and the user-defined rules indicate at least: which types of medical data should be transmitted from medical data storage devices to a secondary medical data storage system, wherein the types of medical data include at least one or more of medical images or medical reports, and locations in the secondary medical data storage system associated with respective types of medical data; for respective pieces of medical data: determining, by the computing system, based on the user-defined rules and type of the piece of medical data, whether the piece of medical data should be transmitted to the secondary medical data storage system; and in response to determining that the piece of medical data should be transmitted to the secondary medical data storage system: generating information indicating a location where the piece of medical data should be stored in the secondary medical data storage system, the information comprising a token including location data or location data that is added into the piece of medical data; and transmitting the piece of medical data and the generated information to the secondary medical data storage system.