Control of viewing of patient information shared between healthcare facilities

A non-transitory computer-readable medium (CRM) storing an instruction that causes a cloud server to perform an operation for managing a plurality of pieces of patient information in a system that shares the patient information among a cloud server comprising a storage, a healthcare facility comprising an imaging device, and affiliated facilities, wherein the cloud server, the healthcare facility, and the affiliated facilities are connected to one another via a network, the operation comprising causing the cloud server to:

• receive, from the healthcare facility, a medical image created by the imaging device in response to examination order information sent by a first user from one of the affiliated facilities;
• correlate the received medical image to the examination order information and add the medical image and the examination order information to the patient information stored in the storage;
• correlate the medical image to disclosure propriety information in the storage, wherein the disclosure propriety information indicates whether to allow the patient information to be disclosed to a second user;
• receive a viewing request sent by the first user or the second user from one of the affiliated facilities to view the patient information;
• determine whether to approve the viewing request based on the examination order information or the disclosure propriety information;
• and
• approve the viewing request for the first user or the second user to view the patient information and transmit the patient information to the one of the affiliated facilities from which the viewing request has been sent.

A system that manages a plurality of pieces of patient information, comprising:

• a cloud server that comprises a storage;
• a healthcare facility that comprises an imaging device;
• and
• affiliated facilities, wherein
• the system shares the patient information among the cloud server, the healthcare facility, and the affiliated facilities via a network, and
• the cloud server:
• receives, from the healthcare facility, a medical image created by the imaging device in response to examination order information sent by a first user from one of the affiliated facilities;
• correlates the received medical image to the examination order information and adds the medical image and the examination order information to the patient information stored in the storage;
• correlates the medical image to disclosure propriety information in the storage, wherein the disclosure propriety information indicates whether to allow the patient information to be disclosed to a second user;
• receives a viewing request sent by the first user or the second user from one of the affiliated facilities to view the patient information;
• determines whether to approve the viewing request based on the examination order information or the disclosure propriety information;
• and
• approves the viewing request for the first user or the second user to view the patient information and transmits the patient information to the one of the affiliated facilities from which the viewing request has been sent.