Electronic report making supporting apparatus, method, and program

• US 20040186747A1
• Filed: 12/22/2003
• Published: 09/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Takada, Yoichi, Ichihara, Takashi, Nakano, Shinichi
• Application Number:
  US10/741,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20040186747A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A system for assisting the creation of an electronic report assists the creation of electronic report data files and holds plural report templates. An appropriate template is selected from the plural report templates according to the inspection purpose. At an arbitrary time during an inspection, plural bookmarked data files are produced. Each bookmarked data file contains information identifying inspection data of interest. After the inspection, inspection data of interest is automatically identified by the bookmarked data files. The inspection data is automatically attached to the report template.

Claims

1. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report, the system being designed to assist creation of an electronic report data file about at least one inspection data file of interest or a part thereof, the inspection data file being contained in plural inspection data files produced by an inspection using a medical imaging diagnosing system or medical measuring instrument, said system for assisting creation comprising:

report template selection means for selecting a certain report template data file complying with an inspection purpose from plural report template data files containing layout information in said inspection data file;

bookmarked data file creation means for producing at least one bookmarked data file containing information identifying said inspection data file of interest or part thereof during said inspection;

inspection data file-accepting means for selectively taking in said inspection data file of interest or part thereof from said plural inspection data files based on said bookmarked data file;

electronic report data file-generating means for generating said electronic report data file using said inspection data file of interest or part thereof as a reference file, based on the layout information in said certain report template; and

means for outputting or storing said generated electronic report data file together with said reference file.

2. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 1, wherein said electronic report data file is an HTML file or a file in a similar format.

3. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 1, wherein said bookmarked data file-generating means has a microphone for converting uttered speech in accordance with given rules into a speech signal, a speech recognition portion for converting said speech signal into text string data, and a bookmarked data file-creating portion for creating said bookmarked data file based on said text string data.

4. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 3, wherein said text string data contains type of said inspection data file of interest and frame numbers of images.

5. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 4, wherein said bookmarked data file-generating means has means for gaining data about said frame numbers of images from said medical imaging disposing system or medical measuring instrument.

6. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 1, wherein said bookmarked data file contains information identifying said inspection data file of interest, an identification code for said inspection, date and time at which said bookmarked data file was produced, and type of said inspection data file of interest.

7. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 1, wherein said report template data file contains text files about said inspection and a patient undergoing said inspection and layout information about the text files, together with the layout information in said inspection data file.

8. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 1, wherein said electronic report data file-generating means has data-processing means for converting said inspection data file of interest into said reference file based on said layout information.

9. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 1, wherein said electronic report data file-generating means has editing means for editing said electronic report data file.

10. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 1, wherein said bookmarked data file-generating means produces type-specific bookmarked data files about drugs or devices used during said inspection besides type-specific bookmarked data files about said inspection data files.

11. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 10, wherein said type-specific bookmarked data files about drugs or devices contain data about names of said drugs or devices, date and time of use, and their amounts of use.

12. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 11, wherein said electronic report data file-generating means produces report data files of use history of said drugs or devices based on said type-specific bookmarked data files about drugs or devices.

13. A system for assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 11, further including a barcode reader for reading barcodes printed on said drugs or devices.

14. A method of assisting creation of an electronic report data file about at least one inspection data file of interest or a part thereof by the use of a computer, the inspection data file being contained in plural inspection data files produced by an inspection using a medical imaging diagnosing system or medical measuring instrument, said method comprising the steps of:

selecting a certain report template data file complying with an inspection purpose from plural report template data files containing layout information in said inspection data file;

producing at least one bookmarked data file containing information identifying said inspection data file of interest or part thereof during said inspection;

selectively taking in said inspection data file of interest or part thereof from said plural inspection data files based on said bookmarked data file;

producing said electronic report data file using said inspection data file of interest or part thereof as a reference file based on layout information in said certain report template data file; and

outputting or storing said produced electronic report data file together with said reference file.

15. A method of assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 14, wherein said step of producing said bookmarked data file includes the substeps of converting a speech signal entered via a microphone into text string data and creating said bookmarked data file based on said text string data.

16. A method of assisting creation of an electronic report as set forth in claim 14, wherein said step of producing said bookmarked data file includes the substep of gaining information identifying said inspection data file of interest or part thereof from said medical imaging diagnosing system or medical measuring instrument.

17. A program for assisting creation of an electronic report by operating a computer to assist creation of an electronic report data file about at least one inspection data file of interest or a part thereof, the inspection data file being contained in plural inspection data files produced by an inspection using a medical imaging diagnosing system or medical measuring instrument such that the computer acts as:

means for selecting a certain report template data file complying with an inspection purpose from plural report template data files containing layout information in said inspection data file;

means for producing at least one bookmarked data file containing information identifying said inspection data file of interest or part thereof during said inspection;

means for selectively taking in said inspection data file of interest or part thereof from said plural inspection data files based on said bookmarked data file;

means for producing said electronic report data file using said inspection data file of interest or part thereof as a reference file based on layout information in said certain report template data file; and

outputting or storing said produced electronic report data file together with said reference file.

18. A program as set forth in claim 17, wherein said means for producing the bookmarked data file includes means for converting a speech signal entered via a microphone into text string data and means for creating said bookmarked data file based on said text string data.

19. A program as set forth in claim 17, wherein said means for producing the bookmarked data file includes means for gaining information identifying said inspection data file of interest or part thereof from said medical imaging diagnosing system or medical measuring instrument.