Device to make expert knowledge accessible for the operation of medical examination devices

• US 20050038311A1
• Filed: 08/29/2003
• Published: 02/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Kuth, Rainer
• Granted Patent: US 7,640,172 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A device to make expert knowledge available to a user (doctor) of a medical examination device is provided, with a transmission device in order to transcribe at this examination device a handbook procedure of an outside expert in the form of pulse sequences, protocols, parameter sets or the like for the examination device, coordinated with precise medical diagnoses by the inquiring user with an external (if necessary, decentralized) databank which stores settings for a plurality of clinical cases from patient parameters, as well as a computer (expert system) that searches for appropriate suggestions in the databank upon request, and the user submits one or more suggestions according to the result, in that, on a correspondingly expanded user interface of the user examination device, the respective providers are indicated and parallel and offered to be selected.

Claims

1. A device to make expert knowledge available to a user of a medical examination device, comprising:

a handbook procedure of an outside expert comprising at least one of pulse sequences, protocols, and parameter sets for the examination device;

a transmission device configured to transcribe the handbook procedure for the device at an examination in coordination with a precise medical diagnoses by the inquiring user;

an external databank comprising a storage area with suggestions for settings for a plurality of clinical cases from patient parameters; and

a computer configured to search for appropriate suggestions in the databank upon request, the computer comprising;

an extended user interface of the examination device configured to display a result of a user inquiry of one or more possible suggestions, if available, and concurrently indicate respective providers of the suggestions offered; and

an input by which the user selects one or more suggestions according to the result.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the databank is decentralized.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the computer is implemented as an expert system.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the extended user interface is configured to further concurrently provide an associated indication of a cost structure.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the extended user interface is configured to indicate at least one of the cost structure or an ability of a suggestion to be offered according to a category by color.

6. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a license billing system coupled to the transmission device that is configured to provide a license payment to experts or a clinic that compiled the handbook procedure, the license billing system further comprising a disabling device that prevents an expanded usage beyond a stipulated and paid usage.

7. The device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a license billing system coupled to the transmission device that is configured to provide a license payment to experts or a clinic that compiled the handbook procedure, the license billing system further comprising a disabling device that prevents an expanded usage beyond a stipulated and paid usage.

8. The device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a license billing system coupled to the transmission device that is configured to provide a license payment to experts or a clinic that compiled the handbook procedure, the license billing system further comprising a disabling device that prevents an expanded usage beyond a stipulated and paid usage.

9. A method for making expert knowledge available to a user of a medical examination device, comprising:

providing a handbook procedure by an outside expert, the handbook procedure comprising at least one of pulse sequences, protocols, and parameter sets for the examination device;

storing a plurality of handbook procedures in an external decentralized databank in storage area of the databank that includes suggestions for settings for a plurality of clinical cases from patient parameters;

entering an inquiry by the user to a computer input related to a current examination;

searching, by the computer, appropriate suggestions in the databank based on the inquiry;

displaying results of the search on an extended user interface of the examination device in the form of one or more possible suggestions, if available, and concurrently displaying respective providers of the suggestions offered;

selecting, by the user on an input to the extended user interface, one of the displayed resulting suggestions; and

transcribing, by a transcription device, the handbook procedure with the appertaining selected suggestion for use by the medical device.