Statistical medical information providing apparatus

• US 20040243440A1
• Filed: 12/09/2003
• Published: 12/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Colin Corporation (Fukuda Denshi Company Limited)
• Inventors: Ogura, Toshihiko, Narimatsu, Kiyoyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/729,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20040243440A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A plurality of physical information obtaining devices 10 and a statistical medical information providing apparatus 16 are connected to each other via a communication line 18, so that a set of measurement information including a set of physical information obtained by each of the physical information obtaining devices 10 from a patient, a set of device-related information that is related to the each obtaining device, and a set of patient-related information that is related to the patient, is transmitted to the providing apparatus 16. The statistical medical information providing apparatus 16 accumulates, one by one, the sets of measurement information transmitted from the physical information obtaining devices 10, in a measurement-information data base 34 of a memory device 32, and produces a set of statistical medical information based on the sets of measurement information stored in the data base 34. Since the data base 34 receives the sets of measurement information, one after another, from the obtaining devices 10 via the communication line 18, it can easily accumulate many sets of measurement information.

Claims

1. A statistical medical information providing apparatus, comprising:

a storing means for storing a plurality of sets of measurement information each of which includes (a) a set of physical information which is obtained by a corresponding one of a plurality of physical-information obtaining devices from a corresponding one of a plurality of living subjects and is supplied from said one physical-information obtaining device via a communication line and additionally includes (b) a set of device-related information that is related to said one physical-information obtaining device;

a statistical medical information producing means for statistically analyzing the sets of physical information as part of the sets of measurement information stored by the storing means, based on the sets of device-related information, and thereby producing a set of statistical medical information; and

an outputting means for transmitting, according to a request from a user'"'"'s terminal device, the set of statistical medical information produced by the statistical medical information producing means, to the user'"'"'s terminal device.

2. The statistical medical information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sets of device-related information represent respective types of the physical-information obtaining devices, and wherein the statistical medical information producing means statistically analyzes the sets of physical information obtained by each type of physical-information obtaining devices, and thereby produces a set of statistical medical information for said each type of physical-information obtaining devices.

3. The statistical medical information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sets of device-related information represent respective physical-information obtaining methods carried out by the physical-information obtaining devices, and wherein the statistical medical information producing means statistically analyzes the sets of physical information obtained by each of the physical-information obtaining methods, and thereby produces a set of statistical medical information for said each physical-information obtaining method.

4. The statistical medical information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the statistical medical information producing means statistically analyzes the sets of physical information based on an instruction signal that is transmitted from the user'"'"'s terminal device and represents a statistical-analysis manner in which the user'"'"'s terminal device instructs the statistical medical information producing means to statistically analyze the sets of physical information.

5. A statistical medical information providing apparatus, comprising:

a storing device which stores a plurality of measurement information each of which includes (a) a set of physical information which is obtained by a corresponding one of a plurality of physical-information obtaining devices from a corresponding one of a plurality of living subjects and is supplied from said one physical-information obtaining device via a communication line and additionally includes (b) a set of device-related information that is related to said one physical-information obtaining device;

a statistical medical information producing device which statistically analyzes the sets of physical information as part of the sets of measurement information stored by the storing device, based on the sets of device-related information, and thereby produces a set of statistical medical information; and

an outputting device which transmits, according to a request from a user'"'"'s terminal device, the set of statistical medical information produced by the statistical medical information producing device, to the user'"'"'s terminal device.