JP2002109055A - Radiogram interpretation management system for medical image and radiogram interpretation management method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the efficiency and manpower saving in the aspect of the operation of a radiogram interpretation system regarding custom support, charging for a radiogram interpretation service and the specification of a radiogram interpretation doctor. SOLUTION: This radiogram interpretation management system is installed in a data center 12 communicably connected through a network 15 to a hospital 11 and a radiogram interpretation center 13 and is provided with an image keeping device 31 having a means for receiving medical information transmitted from the hospital 11 on-like and storing it and means for on-line transferring the medical information to the radiogram interpretation center 13 and a server 32. The system is further provided with a means 33 for diagnosing the fault of a system regarding an information terminal 23 and a modality 21 installed in the hospital 11 and connected on-line, the communication network 15 and the information terminals 41 and 42 installed in the radiogram interpretation center 13 and connected on-line. Further, the system is provided with the mechanism of management for the recovery of a service charge as an agent and the specification of the radiogram interpretation doctor.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a medical image interpretation management system and an image interpretation management method, and more particularly, to a medical facility, such as a hospital or a clinic, which is connected to an interpretation facility that provides an interpretation service via a communication network. The present invention relates to a medical image interpretation management system and an image interpretation management method that are provided in a diagnostic interpretation facility and perform various management and services for interpretation support at the interpretation facility.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, medical modalities, such as an X-CT scanner and an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) device, capable of collecting a large amount of images in a short time have become widespread, and are exerting their power in diagnosis. Accompanying this, the amount of collected medical images is exploding. For this reason, since the number of medical images that must be interpreted is increasing, so-called image interpretation ASPs that provide image interpretation services at the request of each hospital are provided.
(Application Service Provider) is beginning.

As an example of an image interpretation system including the image interpretation ASP, there has been proposed a system in which a hospital, an image interpretation center (or a diagnostic center), and a data center as an image interpretation management center are mutually connected by a communication network. This system collects medical image data generated in a hospital in a data center online, sends this image data to a reading center where a specialist doctor is on standby, and requests image reading. The interpreting doctor summarizes the interpretation results in an interpretation report and sends it to the data center online. The data center manages and stores the interpretation report and sends it back to the hospital online. It is said that this makes it possible to perform a remote diagnosis in which the time from when an image is transmitted from the hospital and the interpretation report is returned to the hospital is greatly reduced.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional image reading system, it is thought that time-efficient image reading by remote diagnosis is possible, but it takes time and effort in operation and usability. And it is a system that remains uneasy.

More specifically, the maintenance and support systems for information terminals at medical facilities, workstations for interpretation at diagnostic centers, and network lines in terms of both hardware and software have not been maintained.

For this reason, when trouble occurs in performing image interpretation at any of the facilities, or when performing regular maintenance, a request is made to a service company that has been contracted in advance, or the company is seconded from that service company. It is necessary to solve the trouble by a service engineer or to receive maintenance service. At this time, the service engineer listens to the user for information such as failures, reads out the communication log, collates the results with the manual, etc., isolates whether it is a hardware problem or a software problem, and takes action Go. In other words, every time a service engineer occurs or performs maintenance, the service engineer goes to the outside and obtains information on failures and malfunctions and performs work to resolve the trouble, so extra work is required and work efficiency is improved. Did not.

[0007] In addition, medical facilities such as hospitals and clinics need to pay a fee for an image interpretation service at a diagnostic center, but this payment is indirect to a charge including an image interpretation service fee from a data center. Or directly on request from the diagnostic center. For this reason, even if this payment is made on a monthly basis, for example, a new payment account will be added to the medical facility,
This will lead to an increase in administrative work.

Further, in the case of the above-mentioned remote diagnosis system, no special means for designating a radiology doctor is provided on the medical institution side. Therefore, when it is desired to designate an interpreting doctor, it is necessary to separately notify the data center or the diagnostic center (interpreting center) using a communication means such as a telephone. This impedes speeding up of remote reading.

The present invention has been made in view of such a conventional remote diagnosis system for medical images, and provides a system for remote interpretation in which the operation of the system is further improved in efficiency and labor saving. To do so.

Further, the present invention has been made in view of a conventional remote diagnosis system for medical images, and more particularly, in terms of custom support, billing for an image interpretation service, and designation of an image interpretation doctor, the operation efficiency of the system is further improved. Another object of the present invention is to provide a system for remote image reading that is simplified and labor-saving.

[0011]

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image reading management system communicably connected to a medical facility and an image reading facility for performing image reading via communication means. A system installed in a facility, a storage unit that receives medical information including a medical image transmitted from the medical facility via the communication unit and stores the medical information, and stores the medical information in the interpretation facility. A medical image interpretation management system including a transfer unit that transfers the image data via the communication unit, wherein the medical facility, the communication unit, and a support unit that performs a failure diagnosis of image interpretation related to the image interpretation facility are provided. And

Preferably, the support means is a means for performing the failure diagnosis using the medical information stored in the storage means.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system installed in a facility communicably connected to a medical facility and a radiology facility for performing radiology through communication means,
A storage unit that receives medical information including a medical image transmitted from the medical facility via the communication unit and stores the medical information, and a transfer unit that transfers the medical information to the image reading facility via the communication unit A medical image interpretation management system comprising: a medical image interpretation service fee generated in the image interpretation facility; and a medical image interpretation service fee added to a communication line usage fee of the medical facility; Features.

Further, according to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system installed in a facility communicably connected to a medical facility through a communication means to a radiology facility for performing image interpretation, the medical facility comprising: A storage unit that receives medical information including a medical image transmitted from the communication unit via the communication unit and stores the medical information, and a transfer unit that transfers the medical information to the image interpretation facility via the communication unit. In the medical image interpretation management system, an information terminal installed in the medical facility and connected to the communication means, the communication means, and a failure diagnosis of a system related to the information terminal installed in the interpretation facility and connected to the communication means, And a collection agency means for adding and adding a medical image interpretation service fee generated by the image interpretation facility to a communication line usage fee of the medical facility and charging and collecting the medical image interpretation service fee. Characterized in that was.

Still further, according to another aspect of the present invention,
A system installed in an image reading management facility communicably connected to a medical facility and an image reading facility for performing image reading through a communication unit, wherein the medical information including a medical image transmitted from the medical facility is communicated by the system. A medical image interpretation management system comprising: a storage unit that receives the medical information received through a unit and stores the medical information; and a transfer unit that transfers the medical information to the image interpretation facility via the communication unit. An image reading doctor managing means for managing an image reading doctor who reads the medical image based on the information specified by the image reading doctor transmitted from the medical facility.

[0017] Preferably, there is provided an image interpretation result management means for storing and managing the image interpretation report transmitted from the image interpretation facility and for notifying the medical facility of the completion of the requested image interpretation.

On the other hand, the method of managing the interpretation of medical images according to the present invention, as one aspect thereof, is performed in an interpretation management facility communicably connected to a medical facility through a communication means to an interpretation facility for performing interpretation. A method for receiving medical information including a medical image transmitted from the medical facility via the communication unit, storing the medical information, and transferring the medical information to the interpretation facility via the communication unit. ,
The medical facility, the communication unit, and the medical examination facility perform a failure diagnosis on the interpretation of the medical image using the stored medical information.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of a medical image interpretation system according to this embodiment. In this image interpretation system, a hospital 11 as a medical facility, a data center 12 having a function as an image interpretation management facility, an image interpretation center 13 as an image interpretation facility, and a settlement system 14 are interconnected via a communication network 15 as communication means. Have been. Thereby, even in the hospital 11 located in a place remote from the interpretation center 13,
A remote image reading system capable of receiving an image reading service is constructed. The data center 12 and the interpretation center 13 are A
It is installed as an SP (Application Service Provider).

As various high-speed and high-performance modalities have spread in hospitals, the amount of medical information (image data and supplementary information) to be handled has rapidly increased, and the reading of images has become more sophisticated.
In view of the current situation where expertise is required, it is inevitable that medical information storage, image interpretation, and various types of information processing required for image interpretation are required outside the hospital. To respond to this, the remote interpretation system according to the present embodiment is effective.

As a preferred example, the interpretation center 13 is installed in a medical office of a university or at a location physically close to the university medical office. For this reason, it is very easy for the doctor of the university to access the reading center 13, and the reading doctor of the center 13 can always have the reading doctor on standby.

Although only one hospital 11 is shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of hospitals 11 may exist, and even in this case, each hospital 11 is connected to the same service center 12 via the communication network 15. And is communicably connected to the interpretation center 13.

The hospital 11 has an X-CT scanner, an MRI
(Magnetic resonance imaging) Medical modalities such as devices 2
1 is provided. With this modality 21, a medical image (digital image) of the subject is collected. This image data is
Router 2 via a communication line such as a LAN (not shown)
2 from the router 22 on the communication network 15 such as DICOM (Digital Imaging).
and Communication in Med
icine) sent out according to the standard. This image data is transmitted to the data center 12. Also, incidental information (including basic information and examination information) attached to the medical image of the recipient input from the console of the modality 21 is transmitted from the router 22 to the data center 12 via the communication network 15 according to a predetermined communication protocol. Is done.

An inspection request / report reference terminal 23 is connected to the router 22. This terminal 23
It is used for appointment of examinations, imaging room operations, reference of interpretation reports as interpretation results, form output, designation of an interpreting doctor, input of failure information in the system, and the like. Of these, the designation of the interpreting physician and the input of the failure information are each processing that forms part of the features of the present embodiment. The terminal 23 is connected to the data center 1 via the communication network 15 based on a predetermined communication protocol.
2 can transmit and receive information.

The data center 12 includes an image storage device 31, a reservation / report server 32, a custom support server 33, and a charge calculation server 34 which constitute a medical image interpretation management system. The image storage device 31 stores and stores medical information (including image data and its supplementary information) transmitted from the hospital 11 via the communication network 15. The supplementary information includes a hospital ID, examination ID, patient name, collection modality, collection site, examination date, examination conditions, and the like. For this reason, the supplementary information includes basic information such as the patient's ID and name and examination information indicating examination conditions.

The appointment / report server 32 is a server that manages appointment registration of an examination for a patient and an interpretation report as an interpretation result. Actually, in the image interpretation system shown in FIG. 1, the terminal 23 of the hospital 11 described above, the image observation device and the report terminal of the image interpretation center 13 described later, and the reservation / report server 32 form an examination reservation / report system. It is configured. That is, such an examination reservation / report system is integrally incorporated in this image interpretation system.

With this inspection reservation / report system,
X-CT and MRI examination appointment (examination appointment work), implementation of examinations based on appointment examinations (imaging room work), creation of examination report (interpretation report) on performed examinations (images) (finding creation work) It is also possible to output various types of summary tables (form output work), specify a radiological interpreter, and the like. The storage device of the reservation / report server 32 stores in advance software for realizing these tasks and program data of communication software based on a predetermined communication protocol for transmitting and receiving data to and from the terminal. 2 and 3 described later
The flowchart showing an example of the image interpretation processing includes the processing by the reservation / report server 32.

The custom support server 33 is responsible for the maintenance (system management, maintenance work) of the image interpretation system. In this embodiment, the custom support server 33 is installed in the data center 12 as described above, and the additional information of the image (hospital ID, examination ID, patient name, collection modality, collection site) is stored in the custom support server 33 as described later. , Inspection date, inspection condition, etc.) to perform maintenance work.

Specifically, this custom support has a mode in which a failure diagnosis is performed by receiving failure information, and a mode in which self-diagnosis is periodically performed.

In the case of the former failure diagnosis mode, the above-described inspection request / report reference terminal 23 is diverted. In the terminal 23, the operator reads the input screen for support and inputs the status of the failure by, for example, text data. The input information includes, for example, the presence / absence of an image, the presence / absence of an image interpretation report, and the status of the system. This failure information is sent online to the custom support server 33. In response to this transmission, the server 33 automatically starts the failure diagnosis program. Along with this activation, the server 33 reads the supplementary information of the inspection image from the reservation / report server 32, and refers to the image storage status of the image storage device 31, and diagnoses a failure by a predetermined algorithm. As a result, it is determined whether the error is a hardware error or a software error of the image interpretation system, and the cause of the failure or malfunction or the candidate factor thereof is displayed on the screen of the terminal 23 so as to be notified. The operator can take necessary measures according to the diagnosis result.

On the other hand, when the timing of the periodic self-diagnosis mode is reached, the custom support server 33 automatically starts the above-described failure diagnosis program, and executes the reservation / report server 32 and the image storage device 31 in the same manner as described above. Perform self-diagnosis using the stored information. The result of this diagnosis is
For example, it is displayed when the power of the inspection request / report reference terminal 23 is turned on.

A flowchart showing an example of the image reading process shown in FIGS.
And maintenance processing by the system. In the storage device of the custom support server 33, software for executing the maintenance processing is stored in advance as program data.

The fee calculation server 34 is a server that calculates a service fee for image interpretation by the image interpreting doctor in the image interpretation center 13 for each image interpretation, and calculates a fee to which the service fee for the data center 12 is added. The fee calculation server 34 also calculates the fee using the supplementary information of the inspection.

This calculation includes, for example, the timing of receiving an examination image from the hospital 11, a predetermined time (eg, every day, every week, every month), the reservation / report server 32, and the like.
At an appropriate timing, such as when an order for an interpretation report is received in response to a notification from the examination request / report reference terminal 23, or when the reservation / report server 32 receives an interpretation report from the interpretation center 33, for each hospital, for each examination ( After each interpretation, they are totaled at regular intervals. For example, hospital name, calculation date range (yy year mm
Month dd day to yy year mm month dd day), total number of requests and their breakdown (normal interpretation of CT: xx times, advanced interpretation: yy times, etc.), unit price (unit price previously stored in the system, each calculation) Is calculated with factors such as the unit price specified for the

2 and 3, which will be described later, include a fee calculation process by the fee calculation server 34. In the storage device of the charge calculation server 34, software for such charge calculation is stored in advance as program data.

The service charge information calculated by the charge calculation server 34 is transmitted to the settlement system 14 via the communication network 15.

Although the data center 12 has various functions as a facility for managing image interpretation as described above, its name is always "data center".
However, the present invention is not limited to this. Any facility or center having the above-described functions may be used, and may be called, for example, a management center, an image interpretation management center, an image interpretation service center, a service center, or the like.

The settlement system 14 is, for example, a system operated by a line provider that provides a communication line to the hospital 11. As a result, the line provider adds the line usage fee such as the telephone call fee of the hospital 11 to the charge calculation server 3.
The service fee transmitted from 4 is added and the hospital is charged. In other words, this line provider is a system for collecting the above-mentioned service fee on behalf of the system, and it is a feature of this embodiment that the line provider can provide this collection service.

By the way, in the present embodiment, it is only necessary to be able to perform the collection agent, and the settlement system 14 is not necessarily the line provider, and may be an ASP specialized in the collection service entrusted by the line provider. .

The image interpretation center 13 includes an image interpretation observation device 41 for image interpretation, a report terminal 42, a report laser printer 43, and a router 44. Image interpretation observation device 41
Is provided with a display 41a for displaying an interpreted image and a storage device 41b for storing image data and examination request information. The report terminal 42 is used to enter a result of image interpretation performed by an image interpretation doctor who logs in to the terminal 42 while viewing the image observation device 41 as an image interpretation report.
This interpretation result is sent to the laser printer 43 via the router 44.
Can be sent to and printed.

The communication network 15 may be a general public telephone line or a dedicated line, or may be an ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Communication Network) or the Internet.

Next, an example of image interpretation processing in this image interpretation system will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, in the hospital 11, after the basic information of the receiver is input from the console of the modality (examination apparatus) 21, the photographing is performed (FIG. 1, steps S1, S1).
2). The digital amount of image data collected by this photographing is transmitted online to the image storage device 31 of the data center 12, and the accompanying information is also transmitted online to the reservation / report server 32 (step S3).
In response, the image storage device 31 automatically transmits the transmitted image data to the image observation device 4 of the image interpretation center 13.
1 (step S4).

Next, information on an examination request (interview request: hospital ID, recipient ID, name, comment, etc.) is input from the examination request / report reference terminal 23 of the hospital 11 and designation of a doctor is required (steps S5 and S6). .

Of these, the designation of the image reading doctor is performed by defining which image reading doctor should read which image. In order to specify an image to be interpreted, an examination ID or a patient ID and an examination date / time may be designated. The interpretation doctor may be specified by a doctor name or a doctor ID. In addition,
An examination ID in which the doctor ID in charge of interpretation is embedded from the beginning is generated, and the reservation / report server 3 is used as part of the basic information
The examination ID transmitted to 2 may also be used for the designation of the doctor.

It should be noted that the designation of the interpretation doctor does not always have to be made. When this designation is not performed, the interpretation center 13
An appropriate doctor determined by the side will perform the interpretation. The input information from these terminals 23 is transmitted online to the reservation / report server 32, and further transferred from this server 32 to the image observation device 41 (steps S7, S7).
8). As a result, the distribution of the image data to be interpreted, the supplementary information thereof, and the image interpretation request information is completed, and they are arranged in the image observation device 41.

An image reading doctor at the image reading center 13 logs in from the report terminal 42 (step S9). In response to the login, a list of images to be interpreted is displayed on the report terminal 42 (step S10). In this list display, when an interpreting doctor is designated, an image to be interpreted that matches the ID of the logged-in interpreting doctor is displayed. When there is no designation of an interpreting physician, an image to be interpreted is displayed according to the type of the modality and the type of the examination region which are selected by the logged-in interpreting physician according to a predetermined algorithm.

When an image interpretation doctor selects an image to be interpreted from this list (step S11), the examination information, the interpretation request content, and the image are automatically and automatically displayed (steps S12 and S13).

Next, the image interpretation doctor creates an image interpretation report while observing the displayed image (step S14).
At the time of this image reading, when it is desired to refer to a past image reading report, the report terminal 42 accesses the reservation / report server 32 of the data center 12 (step S14).
a). An image serving as a key is pasted on the interpretation report by an operation of the interpretation doctor (step S14b).
The created interpretation report is stored in the reservation / report server 32.
Is returned and stored online, and printed by the printer 43 as necessary (steps S15 and S16).

On the other hand, in the hospital 11, the examination request
An inquiry can be made to the reservation / report server 32 of the data center 12 via the report reference terminal 23 as to whether or not the creation of the interpretation report has been completed.
The report can be referred to or downloaded (step S17).

As described above, since the doctor can specify the interpreting doctor on the hospital side with a simple operation, even if the types of the modalities 21 and the diagnostic parts are increased and the examination conditions are complicated, the optimal level intended by the hospital side can be obtained. It is possible to receive an interpretation service. Therefore, it is possible to stabilize the image interpretation quality at a high level and to contribute to the improvement of the reliability of diagnosis.

When the image interpretation is completed and the image interpretation report is returned, the reservation / report server 32 indicates the examination ID corresponding to the image interpretation report, and notifies the completion of the image interpretation by, for example, an electronic mail. You may make it transmit to the report reference terminal 23 (step S17). Thus, the hospital 11 can save the labor of inquiring about the completion of the interpretation and can save labor.

FIG. 4 schematically shows the outline of the processing relating to the interpretation itself.

Assume that the operator at the hospital 11 feels a defect in the image interpretation system during the execution of the image interpretation process. This allows the operator to provide the custom support server 33 to the inspection request / report reference terminal 23.
The input screen for technical support based on the above is read out, and information on the failure (failure information) is input, for example, by inputting text data or checking the button of the corresponding failure status item (step S18). This failure information is transmitted online to the custom support server 33 (step S1).
9).

In response, the custom support server 33 automatically starts the failure diagnosis program and enters the failure diagnosis (step S20). During this diagnostic process,
The server 33 reads out the image information and / or the accompanying information from the image storage device 31 and / or the reservation / report server 32 and uses them for diagnosis (step S21a).

An example from the input of the failure information to the failure diagnosis will be described. On the input screen of the terminal 23, it is assumed that the operator gives the failure information by checking, for example, "presence / absence of image display" and "presence / absence of report display". For example, in the case of a failure situation in which an image interpretation report can be displayed but no image is displayed, the former is set to “No” and the latter is set to “Yes”.
Check The custom support server 33 that has received the failure information accesses the reservation / report server 32 to access the image information attached to the image interpretation report information of the inspection (this image information is also compressed / attached and stored in the server 32). Is displayed). If you can do this,
There is no problem in the operation of the reservation / report server 32, and it can be diagnosed that the communication by the communication network 15 is busy or the network line is temporarily down. Conversely, when the image information in the reservation / report server 32 cannot be accessed (in a case where display is not possible), it can be diagnosed that there is a problem in the image storage portion in the server 32. Whether the problem of the image storage portion is software or hardware can be provided by providing further failure information or diagnosis parameters, and the failure diagnosis program can deepen the diagnosis and find the ultimate cause of the failure.

The outline of the failure diagnosis process is schematically shown by arrows A1 to A4 in FIG. As described above, since common incidental information (including basic information and inspection information) in the data center 12 is used for diagnosis, processing for collecting information necessary for diagnosis is simplified, and stable and reliable information is collected. Failure judgment can be performed. As a result, it is possible to determine whether the failure cause is a hardware error or a software error, and to present the failure cause itself or the most likely failure cause candidate. The failure diagnosis result is returned online to the hospital terminal 23 (step S21).
In addition, the custom support server 3
3 can also perform self-diagnosis periodically.

Further, the charge calculation server 34 of the data center 12 receives, for example, from the server 32 a transmission of a distribution log indicating that the reservation / report server 32 has received the interpretation request information from the modality 21 of the hospital (step S2).
2), basic information of the examination is acquired from the reservation / report server 32 (step S23). Using this basic information,
The fee calculation server 34 calculates a fee for an image interpretation service for each hospital and for each requested image interpretation in accordance with the content of the image interpretation level, the image interpretation unit price, and the like, and totals this fee for each hospital for a fixed period (for example, one month). (Step S2
4).

This charge calculation information is automatically transmitted to the settlement system 14 online (step S25). The settlement system 14 calculates and charges a service fee obtained by adding the image reading service fee and the predetermined service fee of the data center 12 to the telephone call fee used at each hospital for each of the fixed periods, for each hospital. (Step S26). As a result, the service fee is collected on behalf of the telephone call fee. The collected fees are paid to the data center 12 and the interpretation center 13, respectively. It should be noted that only the service fee for the interpretation may be collected on behalf of the user.

The outline of the collecting agency process is schematically shown by arrows B1 to B4 in FIG. By this collection agency, each hospital 11 does not increase the number of paying service charges associated with the interpretation request, and saves labor.

It should be noted that the present invention relates to a configuration for designating an image interpreting physician on the hospital side, a configuration for system failure diagnosis using shared information of the data center, and a configuration for a service fee collection agency described in the above embodiment. Only any one or two configurations can be implemented.

Further, in the configuration of the collection agency in the above-described embodiment, the configuration in which the service charge is added to the telephone call charge for each hospital and the collection is performed has been described. It means line usage fee including facsimile, internet and personal computer communication.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment, and those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention may be modified and modified as appropriate within the scope of the claims. You can also.

[0064]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A mechanism for sharing medical information held at the radiology management facility and performing a failure diagnosis on radiology has been provided within the radiology management facility, and / or a service fee for radiology interpretation has been charged for the use of communication lines at each medical facility. The system is operated by a so-called proxy collection service mechanism that provides a lump sum by adding to the system, or a system that manages the interpretation doctor specified by the hospital so that it is assigned to the interpretation facility at the interpretation facility. It is possible to provide a remote image reading system that can achieve more efficient and labor-saving work in terms of surface and usability, and can receive a stable and high-level image reading service.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an outline of a configuration of an image interpretation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary flowchart showing an outline of processing of each player in the image interpretation system according to the embodiment, together with FIG. 3;

FIG. 3 is an exemplary flowchart showing an outline of processing of each player in the image interpretation system according to the embodiment, together with FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram for explaining an outline of processing from image collection to interpretation report acquisition, including designation of an interpretation doctor.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an outline of a process of performing a failure diagnosis and a service fee proxy collection for a custom support.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Hospital (Medical Facility) 12 Data Center 13 Reading Center 14 Payment System 15 Communication Network 21 Modality 22, 44 Router 23 Inspection Request / Report Reference Terminal 31 Image Storage Device 32 Reservation / Report Server 33 Custom Support Server 34 Charge Calculation Server 41 Image Observation device 42 Report terminal 43 Printer

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A system installed in a radiology management facility communicably connected to a medical facility with a radiology facility for performing radiology interpretation through a communication means, the system including a medical image transmitted from the medical facility. A medical image interpretation management system comprising: a storage unit that receives medical information via the communication unit and stores the medical information; and a transfer unit that transfers the medical information to the image interpretation facility via the communication unit. A medical image interpretation management system, comprising: the medical facility, the communication unit, and a support unit that performs a failure diagnosis of image interpretation related to the image interpretation facility. 2. The medical image interpretation management system according to claim 1, wherein the support unit performs the failure diagnosis using the medical information stored in the storage unit. . 3. A system installed in a facility communicably connected to a medical facility and a radiology facility for performing image interpretation via a communication means, the medical information including a medical image transmitted from the medical facility. A medical image interpretation management system comprising: a storage unit that receives the medical information via the communication unit and stores the medical information; and a transfer unit that transfers the medical information to the image interpretation facility via the communication unit. A medical image interpretation management system, comprising: a collection agency means for adding a medical image interpretation service fee generated at an image interpretation facility to a communication line usage fee of the medical facility and charging and collecting the medical image interpretation service fee. 4. A system installed in a facility communicably connected to a medical facility and a radiology facility for performing image interpretation via a communication means, wherein the medical information includes a medical image transmitted from the medical facility. A medical image interpretation management system comprising: a storage unit that receives the medical information via the communication unit and stores the medical information; and a transfer unit that transfers the medical information to the image interpretation facility via the communication unit. An information terminal installed in a medical facility and connected to the communication means, the communication means, and a support means installed in the interpretation facility and performing a failure diagnosis of a system related to the information terminal connected to the communication means; A medical image reading service fee that is added to a communication line usage fee of the medical facility to collect and collect the medical image reading service fee. Management systems. 5. A system installed in a radiology management facility communicably connected to a medical facility with a radiology facility for performing radiology, including a medical image transmitted from the medical facility. A medical image interpretation management system comprising: a storage unit that receives medical information via the communication unit and stores the medical information; and a transfer unit that transfers the medical information to the image interpretation facility via the communication unit. Reading management of a medical image, comprising: a reading doctor managing means for managing a reading doctor who reads the medical image in the reading facility based on designation information of the reading doctor transmitted from the medical facility. system. 6. The medical image interpretation management system according to claim 5, further comprising: storing and managing the image interpretation report transmitted from the image interpretation facility, and providing a notification that the requested image interpretation has been completed to the medical facility. A medical image interpretation management system, comprising: 7. A method for managing medical images in a medical management facility communicably connected to a medical facility by a communication means to a medical facility for performing image interpretation, comprising: a medical image transmitted from the medical facility. The medical information is received via the communication means, the medical information is stored, and the medical information is transferred to the interpretation facility via the communication means, and the medical facility, the communication means, and the A medical image interpretation management method, wherein a failure diagnosis relating to interpretation of a medical image is performed using the stored medical information.