System architecture for improved storage of electronic health information, and related methods

A method for storage of medical examination data, acquired from a medical device, the method performed by an application executing on a computing device in communication with the medical device, the method comprising:

• identifying data associated with a medical examination acquired from the medical device, the data comprising patient information associated with the medical examination and non-health information associated with the medical examination;
• transmitting a request to a server at a first network location, the request for retrieving a second network location that is usable by the computing device to store the patient information associated with the medical examination, the second network location being different from the first network location, wherein the server:
• determines the second network location for storing the patient information associated with the medical examination,
• provides the second network location to the computing device;
• and
• provides different network locations for different geographical region storage settings, wherein the server at the first location is configured to store non-health information associated with other medical examinations, which have geographical region storage settings different from a geographical region storage setting for the medical examination, centrally at the first network location;
• receiving the second network location from the server;
• and
• to store the data associated with the medical examination, storing:
• the non-health information associated with the medical examination at the server at the first network location, and the patient information associated with the medical examination at the second network location.

A system for storage of medical examination data, the system comprising:

• a medical device;
• a computing device for communicating with the medical device and for executing an application for receiving data associated with a medical examination acquired using the medical device, wherein the data comprises patient information associated with the medical examination and non-health information associated with the medical examination;
• and
• a server for communicating with the computing device, the server being at a first network location, and accessible by the computing device to store the non-health information associated with the medical examination, and the server being configured to:
• receive a request from the computing device for a second network location, the second network location usable for storing the patient information associated with the medical examination at the second network location, the second network location being different from the first network location,
• determine the second network location for storing the patient information associated with the medical examination, and
• provide the second network location to the computing device;
• wherein when storing the data associated with the medical examination, the application at the computing device:
• stores the non-health information associated with the medical examination at the server at the first network location, and stores patient information associated with the medical examination at the second network location;
• and
• wherein the server provides different network locations for different geographical region storage settings, and the server at the first location is further configured to store non-health information associated with other medical examinations, which have geographical region storage settings different from a geographical region storage setting for the medical examination, centrally at the first network location.