Patent ID: 8166381

Claim:
A method of managing medical information, comprising: receiving at a first computer a plurality of image series resulting from a patient medical imaging procedure, each image series comprising one or more digital medical images in a format that is incompatible with displaying in an Internet web browser; providing a pointer associated with the patient medical imaging procedure; in response to user selection of the pointer at a second computer, providing an Internet web page for display in an Internet web browser on the second computer, the Internet web page forming a user interface for a medical image workstation when displayed in the Internet web browser without requiring software executing outside the Internet web browser on the second computer, the user interface comprising a rectangular grid of one or more rows and one or more columns for simultaneously displaying a plurality of navigational images in the user interface of the Internet web page, and providing to the user the plurality of navigational images for display in the user interface of the Internet web page, the plurality of navigational images corresponding to different ones of the image series from the patient medical imaging procedure, the plurality of navigational images comprising a format that is compatible for displaying in an Internet web browser without requiring software executing outside the Internet web browser on the second computer, the plurality of navigational images being converted to a browser compatible format before being transmitted over the Internet; and in response to user selection of one of the plurality of navigational images, providing to the user the one or more digital medical images of the image series associated with the selected one of the navigational images for display in the user interface of the Internet web page, the one or more digital medical images comprising a format that is compatible for displaying in the Internet web browser without requiring software executing outside the Internet web browser on the second computer, the one or more digital medical images providing medical information to the user, the one or more digital medical images being converted to a browser compatible format before being transmitted to the second computer, wherein the medical image workstation enables user navigation among the plurality of navigational images and the one or more digital medical images of the image series to permit medical diagnosis from the one or more digital medical images without requiring software executing outside the Internet web browser.