Measurement support system and measurement support method
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Abstract
A measurement support system includes a measurement device and a management device connected to the measurement device via a communications network. When the measurement device uses consumable materials such as reagents, the management device manages the stock of consumable materials, supplies the consumable materials, and corrects measured data in accordance with the state of the consumable materials. Thus, the measurement support system can reduce the burden on users of the measurement device. The reagents that are used in measurement by a personal measuring instrument (3) located at each of patients'"'"' homes (B, C, . . . ) are assigned a reagent ID number beforehand. This reagent ID number and measured data are transmitted to a host computer (1) of a medical institution (A). The host computer (1) determines the stock of reagents based on the consumable material identifier received from the personal measuring instrument (3) and ships the reagents to the patient'"'"'s home when the stock is running low. The host computer (1) also corrects the measured data in view of a calibration curve and degradation based on the production lot information of the reagents stored in correspondence with the reagent ID number.
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32 Claims
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1-27. -27. (canceled)
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28. A measurement support method for supporting measurement performed by a measurement device using consumable materials,
the measurement device being connected to a management device via a communications network, and the management device collecting and managing measured data of the measurement device, the method comprising: -
storing an expiration date of consumable materials in correspondence with a consumable material identifier that identifies the consumable materials in the management device;
sending the consumable material identifier of consumable materials to be used in measurement from the measurement device to the management device before starting the measurement;
allowing the management device to retrieve the expiration date of the consumable materials that corresponds to the consumable material identifier received from the measurement device and to send the expiration date to the measurement device; and
allowing the measurement device to determine for every measurement whether the consumable materials to be used in the measurement are past the expiration date based on the expiration date received from the management device. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31)
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32-37. -37. (canceled)
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