The present invention is a centrally deployed, computer-based system for uniquely indexing and searching a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) or other like device. This system and method uses a LAN, WAN or global communication system, e.g., the Internet, to acquire, analyze, index, search and retrieve medically relevant facts about all patients requested by the user interacting with a PACS system. The central deployed, computer-based system of the present invention has various components that will i) increase the efficiency of a users ability to find health care related data while also improving the quality of care to individual patients; and ii) solves the problem associated with relative inaccessibility caused by storing large amounts of data on patients with various diseases within a PACS, a clear weakness of the current picture archiving and communications systems.