General Electric Company

Xiaofeng Xu

William Murray Stoval, Iii

Yongjian Bao

Glenn Robert Kulpinski

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a networked healthcare data management system. Certain embodiments of the data management system include a healthcare data archive connected to a network wherein the archived data comprises diagnostic, therapeutic, and demographic data. Certain embodiments further include a worklist server connected to the network wherein the worklist server receives data descriptors from the healthcare data archive and compiles the data descriptors into worklists. Certain embodiments also include a client system connected to a network wherein the client system queries the worklist server and the worklist server answers the queries by providing at least the network location of the archived data.

Enterprise imaging worklist server and method of use

A PACS including a source of medical data, such as a CT unit ( ), a workstation ( ) capable of creating an image of the data, and a local area network ( ). A server ( ) stores compressed medical data in a RAID ( ) and also in a magneto-optical unit ( ) and a tape DLT unit ( ). The tape unit ( ) has a transfer rate equal to or greater than the transfer rate of the RAID.

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Xiaofeng Xu