Instructive-information supplying method and apparatus

• US 20030177177A1
• Filed: 11/04/2002
• Published: 09/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Colin Corporation (Fukuda Denshi Company Limited)
• Inventors: Narimatsu, Kiyoyuki, Oka, Tohru
• Application Number:
  US10/286,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20030177177A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A method of supplying, from a server which is connected via a communication line to a plurality of member'"'"'s terminal devices which are respectively operated by a plurality of members who are registered in advance in the server, a set of instructive information based on a set of medical information related to one of the members and stored in the server, to the one member, in response to an instructive-information request sent to the server from the one member, the method including an instructive-information-request identifying step of identifying the instructive-information request sent to the server from the one member, an instructor selecting step of selecting, when the instructive-information request sent from the one member has been identified, one of a plurality of instructors who are registered in advance in the server, and an information sending step of sending, to the selected instructor, the set of medical information related to the one member and stored in the server, to request the instructor to make the set of instructive information for the one member.

Claims

1. A method of supplying, from a server which is connected via a communication line to a plurality of member'"'"'s terminal devices which are respectively operated by a plurality of members who are registered in advance in the server, a set of instructive information based on a set of medical information related to one of the members and stored in the server, to said one member, in response to an instructive-information request sent to the server from said one member, the method comprising:

an instructive-information-request identifying step of identifying said instructive-information request sent to the server from said one member,

an instructor selecting step of selecting, when said instructive-information request sent from said one member has been identified, one of a plurality of instructors who are registered in advance in the server, and

an information sending step of sending, to the selected instructor, the set of medical information related to said one member and stored in the server, to request the instructor to make the set of instructive information for said one member.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising

a medical-information supplying step of selecting, from a plurality of sets of medical information respectively related to the plurality of members and stored in the server, the set of medical information related to a set of physical information of said one member inputted through a corresponding one of the member'"'"'s terminal devices, and sending the selected set of medical information, to said one member, and

an information storing step of storing the set of physical information of said one member inputted through said one member'"'"'s terminal device and adding the set of physical information to the selected set of medical information.

3. A method according to claim 1, further comprising a diagnosing step of making a diagnosis about a physical condition of said one member based on the set of physical information of said one member sent to the server from said one member'"'"'s terminal device, wherein the information sending step comprises sending, to the selected instructor, the selected set of medical information including the made diagnosis.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the instructor selecting step comprises selecting said one of the instructors registered in advance in the server, based on a sort of the instructive information requested by said one member.

5. A medical-information supplying apparatus including a server which is connected via a communication line to a plurality of member'"'"'s terminal devices which are respectively operated by a plurality of members who are registered in advance in the server, and supplying, from the server, a set of instructive information based on a set of medical information related to one of the members and stored in the server, to said one member, in response to an instructive-information request sent to the server from said one member, the apparatus comprising:

an instructive-information-request identifying means for identifying said instructive-information request sent to the server from said one member;

an instructor selecting means for selecting, when said instructive-information-request identifying means has identified said instructive-information request sent from said one member, one of a plurality of instructors who are registered in advance in the server; and

an information sending means for sending, to the instructor selected by the instructor selecting means, the set of medical information related to said one member and stored in the server, to request the instructor to make the set of instructive information for said one member.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a medical-information supplying means for selecting, from a plurality of sets of medical information respectively related to the plurality of members and stored in the server, the set of medical information related to a set of physical information of said one member inputted through a corresponding one of the member'"'"'s terminal devices, and sending the selected set of medical information, to said one member; and

an information storing means for storing the set of physical information of said one member inputted through said one member'"'"'s terminal device and adding the set of physical information to the selected set of medical information.

7. An apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a diagnosing means of making a diagnosis about a physical condition of said one member based on the set of physical information of said one member sent to the server from said one member'"'"'s terminal device, wherein the information sending means sends, to the selected instructor, the selected set of medical information including the made diagnosis.

8. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the instructor selecting means selects said one of the instructors registered in advance in the server, based on a sort of the instructive information requested by said one member.

9. An apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a plurality of physical-information obtaining devices which are connected to the member'"'"'s terminal devices, respectively, and which obtain respective sets of physical information from the members and supply the respective sets of physical information to the member'"'"'s terminal devices.