Method and system for managing patient medical records
First Claim
1. A method for managing medical records comprising the steps of:
- (a) establishing an account for a patient;
(b) electronically storing text information associated with the patient;
(c) electronically storing paper documents associated with the patient in files capable of producing legible images;
(d) electronically storing medical images associated with the patient in files capable of producing diagnostic-quality images;
(e) associating the text information, the files of the paper documents, and the files of the medical images with the account; and
(f) providing an authorized user with access to the text information, the files of the paper documents, and the files of the medical images through a system.
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Abstract
A method and system for providing a medical record management service that supports the creating, storing, accessing, updating, and distributing of patient medical records, especially diagnostic-quality medical imaging, under the control of a patient and the coordinated care of the patient and her physician. According to a representative embodiment, the present invention includes a scanner, a clinical database, an account database, a digitizer, an e-mail server, an image server with an image archive, a web server, an Internet service provider, a web enabler, an expanded memory image archive, and a series of Internet-based software applications and graphical user interfaces that give the patients and physicians access to view and manipulate the information in the clinical database and image archives. The present invention can further include computer-aided detection and a printer capable of producing diagnostic-quality images.
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53 Claims
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1. A method for managing medical records comprising the steps of:
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(a) establishing an account for a patient;
(b) electronically storing text information associated with the patient;
(c) electronically storing paper documents associated with the patient in files capable of producing legible images;
(d) electronically storing medical images associated with the patient in files capable of producing diagnostic-quality images;
(e) associating the text information, the files of the paper documents, and the files of the medical images with the account; and
(f) providing an authorized user with access to the text information, the files of the paper documents, and the files of the medical images through a system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A system for managing medical records comprising:
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(a) a scanner that digitally encodes images of paper documents into files that are capable of producing legible images;
(b) a clinical database that stores the files that are capable of producing legible images and that stores text information;
(c) a digitizer that digitally encodes medical images into files that are capable of producing diagnostic-quality images;
(d) an image archive that stores the files that are capable of producing diagnostic-quality images;
(e) an image server in communication with the scanner, the clinical database, the digitizer, and the image archive, wherein the image server receives the files that are capable of producing diagnostic-quality images from the digitizer and transmits the files that are capable of producing diagnostic-quality images to the image archive, and wherein the image server receives the files that are capable of producing legible images from the scanner and transmits the files that are capable of producing legible images to the clinical database; and
(f) a web server in communication with the image server, wherein the web server provides a plurality of users with access to the files that are capable of producing legible images, to the text information, and to the files that are capable of producing diagnostic-quality images. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method for managing medical records comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a patient with a system that electronically stores medical records;
(b) paying a physician to identify medical records to be stored in an account of the patient in the system; and
(c) entering the identified medical records into the account of the patient. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method for managing medical image records of a patient comprising the steps of:
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(a) registering with an operations center through an imaging center; and
(b) if the imaging center does not have a digitizer or computer-aided detection (CAD) system, delivering hard copy medical images of the patient to the operations center, digitizing the hard copy medical images into digitized images at the operations center, analyzing the digitized images using a CAD system at the operations center, generating a report at the operations center if a problem is detected in the digitized images, storing the digitized images and the report, if generated, in an archive, and returning the hard copy medical images and the report, if generated, to one of the imaging center and the patient. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. A system for managing medical records comprising the steps of:
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(a) means for establishing an account for a patient;
(b) means for electronically storing text information associated with the patient;
(c) means for electronically storing paper documents associated with the patient in files capable of producing legible images;
(d) means for electronically storing medical images associated with the patient in files capable of producing diagnostic-quality images;
(e) means for associating the text information, the files of the paper documents, and the files of the medical images with the account; and
(f) means for providing an authorized user with access to the text information, the files of the paper documents, and the files of the medical images. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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