Patent ID: 7953614

Claim:
A method of managing medical data received from at least one medical imaging facility, the medical data comprising at least medical images and medical reports, the method comprising: receiving, from a user computing device operated by a user, user defined rules indicating respective storage locations for different types of medical data, the user defined rules including a first storage location of an Internet-accessible storage system for storing medical images from one or more medical data information sources and a second storage location of the Internet-accessible storage system for storing medical reports from one or more medical data information sources, wherein the medical data information sources include one or more of a medical imaging center, a radiology center, or a hospital and the medical images comprise one or more of radiograph, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Ultrasound (US), mammogram, positron emission tomography scan (PET), or nuclear scan (NM) images; intermittently receiving medical data comprising one or more medical reports and medical images from at least one of the medical data information sources via one or more networks; applying the user defined rules to the intermittently received medical data, wherein said applying comprises: identifying, by a computing system, a medical image in the intermittently received medical data; associating, by the computing system, the identified medical image with a corresponding patient; associating the identified medical image with the first storage location of the user defined rules; initiating transmission of the identified medical image to the Internet-accessible storage system with information indicating that the medical image is to be stored at the first storage location; identifying, by the computing system, a medical report in the intermittently received medical data; associating, by the computing system, the identified medical report with a corresponding patient; associating the identified medical report with the second storage location of the user defined rules; initiating transmission of the identified medical report to the Internet-accessible storage system with information indicating that the medical report is to be stored at the second storage location.