Electronic protected health information security for digital medical treatment room

摘要

A medical imaging system includes a data store having stored medical imaging data and a computer. The system may be in a medical treatment room and is adapted to receive and display imaging data from a medical procedure. The computer has a graphical user interface that receives authentication credentials. An authenticator alternately prevents or allows a user access by logging the user into the system using the authentication credentials. A file accessor receives received medical imaging data and stores it in the data store, and retrieves the stored medical imaging data and provides it to the graphical user interface for display. Documentation data is received through the graphical user interface and is stored in the data store without requiring the user to provide the authentication credentials or be logged into the system. The user cannot access the stored medical imaging data before providing the authentication credentials and being logged into the system.

主权项

1. A medical imaging system for use during a medical procedure, comprising:
a data store having stored medical imaging data; a computer in communication with the data store and having: a graphical user interface receiving user data from a user, the user data including authentication credentials used to allow the user access to predetermined system resources; an authenticator alternately preventing or allowing the user access to the predetermined system resources by logging the user into the system using the authentication credentials; a file accessor receiving medical imaging data and documentation data for the medical procedure, and storing the received medical imaging data and documentation data in the data store, and retrieving the stored medical imaging data and documentation data from the data store and providing the stored medical imaging data and documentation data to the graphical user interface for display to the user; an endoscope; and a touch screen displaying the graphical user interface; the touch screen adapted to receive the documentation data from the user through the graphical user interface without requiring the user to provide the authentication credentials or be logged into the system, the documentation data stored in the data store; the touch screen adapted to receive a selection of the endoscope as a source of the received medical imaging data and display the received medical imaging data on the touch screen in real-time during the medical procedure without requiring the user to provide the authentication credentials or be logged into the system, the received medical imaging data stored in the data store; the touch screen requiring the user to provide the authentication credentials or be logged into the system before permitting access to the stored medical imaging data or documentation data; and wherein the user is logged out of the system after a predetermined amount of time of system inactivity, the predetermined amount of time configurable by the user using the graphical user interface.