METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS

A distributed medical diagnostic system is implemented using one or more first computers that execute one or more instances of a first medical diagnostic system software module and one or more second computers that execute one or more instances of a second medical diagnostic system software module. The first and second medical diagnostic system software modules are members of a system software set (including any number of such system software modules) that implements any chosen medical diagnostic system. One or more communication links are present to provide communication between the system software modules that exchange data.