Health care information system
First Claim
1. A health-care information system comprising:
- referee hospital information storage means for storing hospital information including diagnostic-care department information, information on doctors, and hospital map information on referee medical institutions as patient referral destinations;
examination information acceptance means for accepting patient information from referrer medical institutions as patient referral sources;
referee hospital information presentation means for selecting appropriate referee medical institutions from said referee hospital information storage means based on examination information accepted by said examination information acceptance means, and for presenting hospital information on the selected referee medical institution to said referrer medical institutions;
referral deciding means for accepting decisions on referee medical institutions from said referrer medical institutions; and
patient referral information presentation means for creating patient referral information based on patient information accepted by said examination information acceptance means, and for sending said patient referral information to the referee medical institutions decided upon by said referral deciding means.
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Abstract
Health care information system that stores information on referee medical institutions that are of relatively large size or otherwise having high-level expertise in specific diagnostic care and diseases, and based on information input by doctors at clinics or relatively small hospitals, selects appropriate referee medical institutions. Assistance is provided when the referrer medical institution sends a referral letter; and assistance is also provided when the referee hospital sends back patient examination reports. Information on hospitals (11), (12), . . . among referee medical institutions (1) is stored in a referee hospital information database (211) at a health care information center (2). Based on patient referral information from a referrer medical institution (3), an appropriate referee medical institution is selected, and information on the selected institution is presented to the referrer medical institution (3).
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5 Claims
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1. A health-care information system comprising:
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referee hospital information storage means for storing hospital information including diagnostic-care department information, information on doctors, and hospital map information on referee medical institutions as patient referral destinations;
examination information acceptance means for accepting patient information from referrer medical institutions as patient referral sources;
referee hospital information presentation means for selecting appropriate referee medical institutions from said referee hospital information storage means based on examination information accepted by said examination information acceptance means, and for presenting hospital information on the selected referee medical institution to said referrer medical institutions;
referral deciding means for accepting decisions on referee medical institutions from said referrer medical institutions; and
patient referral information presentation means for creating patient referral information based on patient information accepted by said examination information acceptance means, and for sending said patient referral information to the referee medical institutions decided upon by said referral deciding means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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