Patent ID: 8204832

Claim:
A remote maintenance system of a medical image diagnostic apparatus, said remote maintenance system comprising: a medical image diagnostic apparatus that is configured to acquire a medical image of an object; a server installed in a service center of a company and disposed to perform maintenance service on the medical image diagnostic apparatus through a communication network that connects the server and the medical image diagnostic apparatus, wherein: the server includes image display means and communicates a request for authorizing telecommunication to the medical image diagnostic apparatus via the image display means and the communication network, and the server further comprises display control unit for causing, the medical image received from the medical image diagnostic apparatus via the communication network to be displayed by the image display means; and the medical image diagnostic apparatus comprises a conversion processing means for converting a part of personal information of the object into a concealed mark in response to the request for telecommunication transmitted from the server and transmits the medical image of the object along with the converted concealed mark, to the server via the communication network, and the medical image diagnostic apparatus further comprises image identifying means to identify the medical image of the object by reference to one or more other parts of the personal information of the object, and the medical image diagnostic apparatus comprises apparatus-side image display means, and displays on the apparatus-side image display means a message that the personal information of the object is converted into a concealed mark and the converted concealed mark is transmitted to the communication network along with the medical image of the object.