Method for managing an electronic medical record and an EMR management system

• US 10,249,387 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2015
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chien-Kang Yang
• Original Assignee: Chien-Kang Yang
• Inventors: Yang, Chien-Kang
• Primary Examiner(s): Sorey, Robert A
• Application Number:
  US14/728,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063185A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,400 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A method is for managing an electronic medical record (EMR) entry which is to be written into a data storage device possessed by a patient and includes generating information associated with a health professional who provides a health care service that results in the EMR entry, and a location which is related to the health care service, determining whether to permit writing of the EMR entry into the data storage device according to the information thus generated, determining whether the patient agrees with writing of the EMR entry into the data storage device according to input of the patient, and writing the EMR entry into the data storage device when writing of the EMR entry is permitted by the EMR management system and is agreed upon by the patient.

Claims

1. A method for managing an electronic medical record (EMR), the method to be implemented by an EMR management system for writing an EMR entry into a data storage device possessed by a patient, the EMR management system including a server, an attendance management device that is coupled to the server and that is disposed in proximity of a location where a health care service is to be performed for recording attendance of a health professional, and a computer that is coupled to the server and that is disposed at the location and that is separate from the attendance management device, the EMR management system storing in advance a schedule that contains information associated with the health professional and the location, the method comprising the steps of:

generating, by the attendance management device, information associated with the health professional who provides the health care service that results in the EMR entry, and the location which is related to the health care service when the attendance management device is operated for attendance registration by the health professional;

determining, by the server, whether or not to permit writing of the EMR entry into the data storage device by comparing the information generated by the attendance management device and the information contained in the schedule;

the server giving the computer permission to write the EMR entry into the data storage device when it is determined that the information generated by the attendance management device conforms to the information contained in the schedule;

determining, by the computer when the data storage device is used to be connected to the computer, whether or not the patient agrees with writing of the EMR entry into the data storage device according to input of the patient;

writing, by the computer, the EMR entry into the data storage device when writing of the EMR entry is permitted by the server of the EMR management system and is agreed upon by the patient; and

withdrawing, by the server, the permission to write the EMR entry into the data storage device when departure registration, which is made by the health professional by punching out using the attendance management device, has completed for achieving secure circulation of medical records.

2. The method of claim 1, the EMR management system further including a read/write device coupled to the computer and to be coupled to the data storage device, the data storage device including a control chip, wherein the step of determining whether or not the patient agrees with writing of the EMR includes following sub-steps to be performed by the computer which was given the permission:

accessing, via the read/write device, the data storage device;

receiving a password which is inputted by the patient and which corresponds to the data storage device;

transmitting the password thus received to the data storage device, the password enabling the control chip of the data storage device to verify whether the password is valid or invalid; and

determining that the patient agrees with writing of the EMR entry when receiving from the data storage device a response that indicates validity of the password.

3. The method of claim 1, prior to writing the EMR into the data storage device, further comprising:

generating the EMR entry according to health information which results from the health care service and which is inputted by the health professional who provides the health care service; and

converting the EMR entry thus received to an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based format to obtain an XML-based EMR entry which is to be written into the data storage device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of converting the EMR entry includes:

converting the EMR entry thus received to a two-dimensional barcode, and inserting the two-dimensional barcode into the XML-based EMR entry for being scanned during browsing of the XML-based EMR entry.

5. An electronic medical record (EMR) management system configured to write an EMR entry into a data storage device possessed by a patient, the EMR management system comprising:

an attendance management device to be disposed in proximity of a location where a health care service is to be performed for recording attendance of a health professional and configured to generate information associated with the health professional who provides the health care service that results in the EMR entry, and the location which is related to the health care service when said attendance management device is operated for attendance registration by the health professional;

a server storing in advance a schedule that contains information associated with the health professional and the location, coupled electrically to said attendance management device for receiving the information generated thereby, and configured to determine whether or not to permit writing of the EMR entry into the data storage device by comparing the information received from said attendance management device and the information contained in the schedule, said server being further configured to give permission to write the EMR entry into the data storage device when it is determined that the information received from the attendance management device conforms to the information contained in the schedule; and

a computer coupled electrically to said server, disposed at the location and that is separate from the attendance management device, and configured to, when given the permission,

determine, when the data storage device is used to be connected to said computer, whether or not the patient agrees with writing of the EMR entry into the data storage device according to input of the patient, and

write the EMR entry into the data storage device when writing of the EMR entry is permitted by the server of the EMR management system and is agreed upon by the patient,

wherein said server is further configured to withdraw, from said computer which was given the permission, the permission to write the EMR entry into the data storage device when departure registration, which is made by the health professional by punching out using said attendance management device, has completed for achieving secure circulation of medical records.

6. The EMR management system of claim 5, the data storage device including a control chip, said EMR management system further comprising a read/write device to be coupled to the data storage device;

wherein said computer which was given the permission is configured to access, via said read/write device, the data storage device,

receive a password which is inputted by the patient and which corresponds to the data storage device; and

transmit the password thus received to the data storage device, the password enabling the control chip of the data storage device to verify whether the password is valid or invalid, and

determine that the patient agrees with writing of the EMR entry upon receipt from the data storage device of a response that indicates validity of the password.

7. The EMR management system of claim 5, wherein said server is further configured to:

generate the EMR entry according to health information which results from the health care service and which is inputted by the health professional who provides the health care service; and

convert the EMR entry thus received to an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based format to obtain an XML-based EMR entry which is to be written into the data storage device.

8. The EMR management system of claim 7, wherein said server is further configured to convert the EMR entry thus received to a two-dimensional barcode, and to insert the two-dimensional barcode into the XML-based EMR entry for being scanned during browsing of the XML-based EMR entry.