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Medical imaging apparatus, workflow notification system, method and program

A medical imaging and notification system technology, applied in the field of workflow notification program, can solve the problems of increasing the burden on inspection engineers, real-time information on the number of generated images and the estimated number of images to be generated is not provided, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-04-23
GE MEDICAL SYST GLOBAL TECH CO LLC
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[0005] Although imaging progress status (e.g., in progress, complete, stopped, and postponed) and information about terminated exams are sent from the medical imaging device to the HIS / RIS, real-time information (e.g., estimated remaining time for the exam), generated images Neither the number nor the estimated number of images to be generated are provided
[0006] Since inspection information, etc. are notified to nurses by telephone and pager (pocket BP device), the burden on the inspection engineer who notifies is increased

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[0161] When the nurse wants to know when to meet with patient A being imaged, he or she activates the observation agent on the cell phone to transmit a recording request for the event "three minutes before imaging of patient A terminated" to the dispatch agent. When accepting the record, the dispatch agent of the MRI device 20 returns an acceptance message. When the imaging of patient A is about to end and the event "three minutes before the end of the imaging of patient A" occurs, the dispatch agent transmits the notification message "three minutes before the end of the imaging of patient A" to the nurse's observation terminal 52 (cell phone). The nurse knows from the notification message that the imaging of Patient A is about to be terminated, and goes to see Patient A.

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[0163] For emergency MR exams, radiologists must make a diagnosis from the images as soon as they are acquired. Therefore, he or she activates the Observation Agent of the Radiologist Console to deliver a record request for the event "Acquire the series being imaged and the number of reconstructed images in real time". Upon accepting the record, the dispatch agent of the MRI device 20 returns the notification message "Number of images of the series being imaged and reconstructed" immediately at that time. Subsequently, the scheduling agent of the MRI apparatus 20 transmits a notification message "Series being imaged and number of reconstructed images" whenever an event of image reproduction occurs. Since the notification message arrives at the observation terminal 51 (radiologist console) of the radiologist, the radiologist can know the series in imaging and the number of reconstructed images in the consulting room in which the radiologist console is installed, and The progre...

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[0165] FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the relationship between the workflow notification system for medical imaging equipment and the telephone network 80 in FIG. 1 . In FIG. 7 , a telephone network 80 , a pager base station 81 and a pager 82 are added to the workflow notification system for medical imaging equipment in FIG. 1 . The person in charge of the reception who knows the waiting time for the examination by the MRI apparatus 20 will record the patient identification code and the phone number of the pager, and activate the observation agent of the reception terminal to transmit the recording request of the event "five minutes before the end of the previous patient imaging" to Dispatch agent. The record request includes a patient identification number for identifying the patient. Unlike the ID for identifying the observation terminal, a patient identification code is assigned to each patient. A pager 82 corresponding to the patient identification code is passed to the pat...

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According to the attributes of notification targets such as patients, radiology doctors, and nurses, information owned by medical imaging apparatuses is provided in appropriate timing to improve a workflow of hospitals. A dispatch agent being a software component is executed on a processor of a medical imaging apparatus. Different types of observer terminals (cellular phones, etc.) in which observer agents conforming to the attributes of notification targets operate register information (event) desired for notification in the dispatch agent. The dispatch agent monitors various processing processes being executed in the processor, and on detecting the occurrence of a registered event, notifies the observer terminals of its occurrence. Since the dispatch agent is also a sort of processes executed in the processor, network traffic is not increased by its monitoring of various processing processes.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a workflow notification system for medical imaging equipment, a medical imaging equipment, a workflow notification method for medical imaging equipment, and a workflow notification program for medical imaging equipment. In particular, the present invention relates to a workflow notification system for medical imaging equipment, a medical imaging equipment, a workflow notification method for medical imaging equipment, and a workflow notification program for medical imaging equipment that send The necessary and sufficient amount of information is communicated to those who require follow-up information. The information is imaging information of medical imaging equipment in the medical field such as MRI equipment, CT scanners, and ultrasonic diagnostic equipment. Background technique [0002] In a hospital, a Hospital Information System (HIS) and a Radiology Information System (RIS) work. HIS is a system that uses computers to pe...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F19/00H04L29/08H04L12/28A61B5/00A61B5/055G06Q10/00G06Q10/06G06Q10/10G06Q50/00G06Q50/10G06Q50/22
CPCG06F19/321G06Q50/22G06Q50/24G06Q10/06G06F19/327G16H40/20G16H30/20G16H40/67
Inventor A·肖邦
Owner GE MEDICAL SYST GLOBAL TECH CO LLC
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