Patent ID: 7331925

Claim:
A system for producing medical results using application-specific medical ultrasound information, comprising: a local ultrasound data collection assembly to carry out an ultrasound scan of a selected part of the human body of a patient at a given location and to produce raw, substantially unprocessed ultrasound information therefrom; a data transmission system for transmitting said substantially unprocessed ultrasound information produced by the data collection assembly to a processing location physically remote from the data collection assembly location; a processor at the remote location for automatically processing said transmitted information sufficiently to produce initial medical results comprising ultrasound images and/or a medical analysis of the selected body part from the raw ultrasound information, wherein the initial medical results are then transmitted to a sonographer who accepts the initial medical results, rejects them or decides to edit them, wherein if accepted, the initial medical results are transmitted to a medical practitioner associated with the patient; and a display device for displaying the ultrasound images, having the capability of permitting the sonographer to take measurements of the ultrasound images and/or mark portions of the images to produce edited ultrasound images, wherein the edited ultrasound images are then transmitted to the processor for another automatic processing thereof to produce further medical results, the further medical results being then transmitted to the medical practitioner associated with the patient.