Medical data processing system

• US 20030195770A1
• Filed: 06/04/2002
• Published: 10/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Fukushima, Kazuhisa
• Application Number:
  US10/160,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20030195770A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 25/00 ICT specially adapted for hybridisation; ICT specially adapted for gene or protein expression
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 25/10 Gene or protein expression profiling; Expression-ratio estimation or normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 50/00 ICT programming tools or database systems specially adapted for bioinformatics
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 50/20 Heterogeneous data integration
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

The present invention realizes a system which enables to smoothly and efficiently study and search for disease condition, disease names, treatment methods, medication methods and other information and to smoothly and efficiently follow the procedure of paying expenses necessary for the above process. It also provides a medical data processing system in which data analysis units for medical use are connected to a communications network, wherein a database is installed as a portal site which will be accessed by the data analysis units. The present invention comprises a content server having databases for storing disease condition, disease names, treatment methods, medication methods, and other information, an analysis server for correlating the comparison result with an individual patient as a diagnostic analysis and outputting personal information, and a billing/inventory control server for outputting fee information appropriate for the comparison result included in the personal information.

Claims

1. A medical data processing system in which data analysis units for medical use are connected to a communications network, wherein a database of at least one case, whose corresponding recipes are stored as data and therefore a plurality of recipe items is provided, is installed as a portal site to be accessed by said data analysis units.

2. The medical data processing system of claim 1, wherein said case is subdivided into subdivided disease condition so as to have a hierarchical structure.

3. The medical data processing system of claim 1 or 2, wherein said portal site comprises a billing system for requesting accessees to execute billing according to the condition of use of said recipe items when access is made thereto.

4. The medical data processing system of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said recipe items are such that said corresponding recipes contained therein are linked to the location of storage of original data.

5. The medical data processing system of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said data analysis units gain access to said recipe items and download data contained therein.

6. A medical data processing system in which data analysis units for medical use are connected to a communications network, comprising:

a content server having databases for storing disease condition, disease names, treatment methods, medication methods, and other information, as diagnosis protocols, in order to output the result of comparing said databases with data sent from said data analysis unit;

an analysis server for correlating said comparison result with an individual patient as a diagnostic analysis and outputting personal information; and

a billing/inventory control server for outputting fee information appropriate for said comparison result included in said personal information from a billing database and sending back payment request/inventory control information to said data analysis units by outputting inventory control information from an inventory/register database containing stock data on, for example, medicines and treatment equipment.

7. The medical data processing system of claim 6, wherein said data is the expression profiles analysis data of chromosome/DNA/RNA/protein or the cartridge/analyzer ID data thereof, the amount-of-expression analysis data of chromosome/DNA/RNA/protein or the cartridge/analyzer ID data thereof, or the expression profiles analysis data of SNPs or the cartridge/analyzer ID data thereof.

8. The medical data processing system of claim 6 or 7, wherein disease condition, disease names, treatment methods, medication methods, and other information appropriate for said expression profiles analysis data of chromosome/DNA/RNA/protein or the cartridge/analyzer ID data thereof, said amount-of-expression analysis data of chromosome/DNA/RNA/protein or the cartridge/analyzer ID data thereof, or said expression profiles analysis data of SNPs or the cartridge/analyzer ID data thereof, from said data analysis units are registered as new content (diagnosis protocols) in said content server.

9. The medical data processing system of claim 6, wherein said analysis server receives personal objective raw analysis data directly sent from said data analysis units as personal information, and stores said information.

10. The medical data processing system of claim 6, wherein said data analysis units are provided with an interface for combining at least one piece of information, among said comparison result from said content server, said personal information from said analysis server, and said payment request/inventory control information from said billing/inventory control server, with regular test data or regular diagnosis data.