MEDICAL IMAGE EXCHANGE SYSTEM, IMAGE RELAY SERVER, MEDICAL IMAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, MEDICAL IMAGE RECEIVING SYSTEM, RELAY SERVER AND IN-HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical image exchange system which allows a plurality of medical institutions to easily exchange medical image data with each other without considerably changing the configuration of a medical image control system of each medical institution.SOLUTION: A two-stage transfer system which transfers medical image data in two stages is employed. Flow of medical image data is controlled based on an image relay tag. In a first stage, a relay server of a sending-side medical institution obtains medical image data from a PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) to transmit the data to an image relay server, and the image relay server records the data in its storage device. In a second stage, a relay server of a receiving-side medical institution receives the medical image data from the image relay server, and the relay server of the receiving-side medical institution records the data in its storage device. Then, an in-hospital terminal of the receiving-side medical institution issues an import order to the PACS to make it possible to refer to the medical image data.