Mobile productivity tool permitting audio file attachments

• US 20030083905A1
• Filed: 10/03/2002
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vincent C. Jacobson
• Original Assignee: Vincent C. Jacobson
• Inventors: Jacobson, Vincent C.
• Application Number:
  US10/263,628
• Publication Number:
  US 20030083905A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A productivity tool (for a medical clinic, veterinary clinic, or other non-medical environments) that embeds digital audio records in patient or customer encounter records in an encounter-centric manner such that the records are associated to the applicable encounter within a particular visit.

Claims

1. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium, when executed by a computer configures the computer to embed audio data in medical patient records, the computer program comprising:

a code segment for storing to memory and retrieving from memory multiple context-centered records corresponding to multiple patients, wherein for each patient the context-centered records comprise a patient record and zero or more visit records, and wherein for each visit record there is at least one encounter record;

a code segment for receiving digital audio data representing an audio recording; and

a code segment for associating the digital audio data to an encounter record for a patient.

2. The computer program from claim 1 wherein the visit record and the encounter record are combined.

3. The computer program from claim 1 wherein the computer is a mobile computing device.

4. The computer program from claim 1 further comprising a code segment for sending the digital audio data to a second computer.

5. The computer program from claim 1 further comprising a code segment for synchronizing multiple context-centered records with at least one enterprise application.

6. The computer program from claim 1 wherein the context-centered records are structured for a medical clinic environment.

7. The computer program from claim 1 wherein the context-centered records are structured for a veterinary clinic environment.

8. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium, when executed by a computer configures the computer to embed audio data in database records, the computer program comprising:

a code segment for storing to memory and retrieving from memory multiple context-centered records corresponding to multiple customers, wherein for each customer the context-centered records comprise a customer record and at least one encounter record;

a code segment for receiving digital audio data representing an audio recording; and

a code segment for associating the digital audio data to an encounter record for a customer.

9. The computer program from claim 8 in which the customers are automobile appraisal clients.

10. The computer program from claim 8 in which the customers are real estate clients.

11. The computer program from claim 8 in which the customers are law enforcement personnel.

12. The computer program from claim 8 in which the customers are asset inventory clients.

13. The computer program from claim 8 in which the customers are inanimate physical assets.

14. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium, when executed by a computer configures the computer to embed digital data in medical patient records, the computer program comprising:

a code segment for storing to memory and retrieving from memory a plurality of context-centered records corresponding to a plurality of patients, wherein for each of the plurality of patients, the context-centered records comprise a patient record and zero or more visit records, and wherein for each visit record there is at least one encounter record;

a code segment for receiving digital data;

a code segment for associating the digital data to a first encounter record for a first patient;

a code segment for storing the digital data in the memory.