Patent ID: 7310651

Claim:
A medical communications and management system for facilitating the generation, storage, retrieval and transmission of digitized medical information comprising: a) at least one server system having a database associated therewith, said server system and database associated therewith being operative to receive, store, retrieve and transmit medical image data generated by a medical image modality selected from the group consisting of computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, digital x-ray, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, angiography and nuclear magnetic resonance, said server system and database associated therewith further being operative to receive, store, retrieve and transmit digital data corresponding to an item of digitized information selected from the group consisting of an audio file, a scanned image and a digital photograph, said server system and database associated therewith having a single retrievable file for receiving, storing, and retrieving computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, digital x-ray, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, angiography, nuclear magnetic resonance, scanned images, digital photographs, and digital audio; b) a communications link; and c) at least one information retrieval device operatively coupled by said communications link to said server system and database associated therewith, said information retrieval device being selected from the group consisting of a hospital information system, an e-mail server, a fax server, and an archive server.