Medical Communication System For Efficiently Displaying Annotation Information Relating To Patients

A medical communication system for efficiently displaying annotation information relating to patients; more particularly annotation records for digital medical assets, such as a digital image data object, which define information to be displayed with the digital medical assets. The medical communication system comprises a user store comprising a plurality of user records, a patient store comprising a plurality of patient records, a medical asset store comprising a plurality of digital medical assets, and an annotation store comprising a plurality of annotation records, and is configured to obtain annotation information for a digital medical asset from a first user; generate an annotation record; store the annotation record in the annotation store, associate the annotation record with a patient record associated with the digital medical asset, receive a request from a second user to display the annotation record, and display to the second user the digital medical asset associated with the annotation record together with the annotation information in the annotation record.