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An imaging instrument includes a compact hand-held housing having an electronic imaging element supported within a housing, and a plurality of interchangeable instrument heads separably attachable to the housing. Each of the instrument heads includes an optical system disposed in alignment with the

An imaging instrument includes a compact hand-held housing having an electronic imaging element supported within a housing, and a plurality of interchangeable instrument heads separably attachable to the housing. Each of the instrument heads includes an optical system disposed in alignment with the electronic imaging element along an instrument viewing axis. Preferably, the instrument includes a controller with sufficient programmable logic to capture and store a plurality of imaging images which can be transferred along with audio and/or annotation data relating to a captured image. Corresponding video, control and audio data can be then transferred using a receiving cradle to a computer which contains software which organizes the stored data for further processing. In a preferred example, the audio files can be transcribed through a network utilizing voice recognition software.

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1. A method for creating and maintaining records containing at least image, text and audio data during a physician's office encounter said method comprising the steps of:attaching at least one medical diagnostic instrument head including at least one of a otoscopic, episcopic and ophthalmoscopic ins

1. A method for creating and maintaining records containing at least image, text and audio data during a physician's office encounter said method comprising the steps of:attaching at least one medical diagnostic instrument head including at least one of a otoscopic, episcopic and ophthalmoscopic instrument head to a hand-held digital camera thereby creating a hand-held medical multimedia instrument; capturing image data relating to at least one medical target of a patient using said hand-held medical multimedia instrument; capturing audio data corresponding to at least one patient using said hand-held medical multimedia instrument; capturing control data relating to at least captured image and audio data using said hand-held multimedia instrument; transferring the captured audio, control and image data from said multimedia instrument to at least one of a local and remote computer station; storing said data in a database associated with said computer station; transferring audio data from said computer station to at least one transcription site; transcribing said audio data at said at least one transcription site into text-readable data; transferring said text-readable data from said at least one transcription site to said computer database for storage thereof; wherein said transferring step includes the further step of incorporating said text-readable data with associated image, control and audio data as part of a patient specific data record.