Systems and methods for medical diagnostic collaboration

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9648060-B2
Application number	US-201414196930-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2014
Priority date	Nov 27, 2013
Publication date	May 9, 2017
Grant date	May 9, 2017

Abstract

Certain examples provide systems and methods for medical diagnostic collaboration. An example system includes a conversation manager to facilitate a first conversation between a first device and a second device. The conversation manager manages a plurality of conversations based on respective conversation identifiers assigned to each of the plurality of conversations. The example system also includes a collaboration session manager to facilitate, via the first conversation, a collaboration session between the first and second devices, which allows a user of the first device and a user of the second device to view, share, and comment on a medical study. In addition, the example system includes a context manager to manage context information to describe a state of the medical study as it is displayed on the first device to synchronize a state of the medical study displayed on each of the first and second devices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A medical collaboration system, comprising:
a collaboration server to obtain a request from a first device to initiate a collaboration session with a second device, the request including a medical study identifier of a first medical study being analyzed on the first device;
in response to the request, the collaboration server to receive an acceptance from the second device to participate in the collaboration session;
in response to the acceptance and a second medical study being analyzed on the second device, the collaboration server to cause the second medical study to be saved in an active work queue prior to the collaboration session being initiated;
in response to the acceptance, the collaboration server to initiate the collaboration session between the first device and the second device by providing a bookmark identifier to the second device, the bookmark identifier enabling access to context information including the medical study identifier and a snapshot of a current state of a viewport of the first device including a description of a discrete state of the first medical study;
a collaboration session manager to facilitate the collaboration session between the first device and the second device, the collaboration session manager to provide the second device with the bookmark identifier that loads the snapshot of the viewport of the first device as the medical study in response to the acceptance by the second device, the collaboration session to enable a user of the first device and a user of the second device to view, share, and comment on the medical study, wherein at least one of the collaboration server or the collaboration session manager includes a logic circuit, the collaboration session includes synchronizing, in real-time or near real-time, the medical study as displayed on the viewport of the first device, with the medical study as displayed on a viewport of the second device, such that any event, actions, or states performed on the first medical study as displayed on the viewport of the first device are also performed on the first medical study as displayed on the viewport of the second device, the collaboration server is to cause the second medical study from the active work queue to be loaded onto the second device upon the second device closing the first medical study;
a messaging/presence manager to:
facilitate messaging between the first device and the second device;
detect presence of users on a network, wherein presence includes availability or non-availability;
manage rosters of each of the users on the network, the rosters of each of the users including contacts of each of the users; and
broadcast, to each of the users, the presence corresponding to the contacts of each of the users.

2. The medical collaboration system of claim 1 , wherein the first device is within a first healthcare enterprise and the second device is within a second healthcare enterprise.

3. The medical collaboration system of claim 1 , further including a voice/video sharing tool to share at least one of voice and video between the first device and the second device.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer program code to be executed by a processor, the computer program code, when executed, to implement a system comprising:
a collaboration server to obtain a request from a first device to initiate a collaboration session with a second device, the request including a medical study identifier of a first medical study being analyzed on the first device;
in response to the request, the collaboration server to receive an acceptance from the second device to participate in the collaboration session;
in response to the acceptance and when a second medical study is being analyzed on the second device, the collaboration server to cause the second medical study to be saved in an active work queue prior to the collaboration session being initiated;
in response to the acceptance, the collaboration server to initiate the collaboration session between the first device and the second device by providing a bookmark identifier to the second device, the bookmark identifier enabling access to context information including the medical study identifier and a snapshot of a current state of a viewport of the first device including a description of a discrete state of the first medical study;
a collaboration session manager to facilitate the collaboration session between the first device and the second device, the collaboration session manager to provide the second device with the bookmark identifier that loads the snapshot of the viewport of the first device as the medical study in response to the acceptance by the second device, the collaboration session to enable a user of the first device and a user of the second device to view, share, and comment on the medical study, wherein the collaboration session includes synchronizing, in real-time or near real-time, the first medical study as displayed on the viewport of the first device, with the first medical study as displayed on a viewport of the second device, such that any event, actions, or states performed on the first medical study as displayed on the viewport of the first device are also performed on the first medical study as displayed on the viewport of the second device, wherein the collaboration server is to cause the second medical study from the active work queue to be loaded onto the second device upon the second device closing the first medical study; and
a messaging/presence manager configured to:
facilitate messaging between the first device and the second device;
detect presence of users on a network, wherein presence includes availability or non-availability;
manage rosters of each of the users on the network, the rosters of each of the users including contacts of each of the users; and
broadcast, to each of the users, the presence corresponding to the contacts of each of the users.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 4 , wherein the first device is within a first healthcare enterprise and the second device is within a second healthcare enterprise.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 4 , further including a voice/video sharing tool to share at least one of voice and video between the first device and the second device.

7. A method, comprising:
obtaining a request from a first device to initiate a collaboration session with a second device, the request including a medical study identifier of a first medical study being analyzed on the first device;
in response to the request, receiving an acceptance from the second device to participate in the collaboration session;
in response to the acceptance and when a second medical study is being analyzed on the second device, causing the second medical study to be saved in an active work queue prior to the collaboration session being initiated;
in response to the acceptance, initiating the collaboration session between the first device and the second device by providing a bookmark identifier to the second device, the bookmark identifier including context information including the medical study identifier and a snapshot of a current state of a viewport of the first device including a description of a discrete state of the first medical study, wherein the collaboration session includes synchronizing, in real-time or near real-time, the first medical study as displayed on the viewport of the first device, with the first medical study as displayed on a viewport of the second device, such that any event, actions, or states performed on the first medical study as displayed on the viewport of the first device are also performed on the first medical study as displayed on the viewport

Assignees

• Gen Electric

Inventors

• Ahmed Rizwan

Classifications

• H04L65/403 Primary

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04L51/04

  Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] · CPC title

• H04L51/046

  Interoperability with other network applications or services · CPC title

• H04L65/401

  wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title