The health care system of the universal and continuously enriching medical information

• US 20060184560A1
• Filed: 02/15/2005
• Published: 08/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Goran Indjic
• Original Assignee: Goran Indjic
• Inventors: Indjic, Goran
• Application Number:
  US10/906,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20060184560A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

Doctors input the clinical information of patients into their universal clinical-laboratory forms of the computer network system of the organization, take the different specimens and submit these records in the system that gives them the numbers that they write on the specimen containers and the kits. These numbers are also given to the examined patients if they need to go to the different health providers. Doctors order the microbiological kits and the specimen containers by the ordering computer forms of the same system. The health providers open the specific universal clinical records by the specific numbers of the containers, the kits and patients, provide service and input information of their service in specific designated places of the universal clinical-laboratory forms. They submit this information to the referring doctors who treat patients according to them or start a new examination by the new universal clinical forms. The system continuously analyzes information of all the clinical records and provides statistical data concerning present diseases, their locations, the different causes including different organisms, the sensitivity patterns of the isolated pathogen bacteria and another health related data. This analyzed information is continuously available in the Watchdog. The same system also enables the authorized health providers to interact with the system in the Watchdog in order to improve their service, treatments of their patients and the system. The system also allows that the patients get their complete medical data that copied from the system. They are printed out as their personal paper records. Patients collect and fulfill specific information concerning their health into the specially designated places of the paper records, previously compiled by their doctors. The same patients will give this information to their doctors who will incorporate them in the information of the universal clinical-laboratory records.

Claims

1. A website based health care system running on a central server that is connected with the rest of the Internet comprises:

a. a health care organization of authorized health and different service providers working and cooperating according to the specific rules and methods;

b. the authorized physicians who have their patient and ordering files residing on the server;

c. the patient files that contain their name, address, sex, age, and health care number along with their universal clinical-laboratory records;

d. the identification numbers of the universal clinical-laboratory records that are composed of date and time of their submission;

e. the identification numbers of the ordering records that are composed of time and date of their submission;

f. the appointment charts inside the private workspace of the authorized health providers where they can make new appointments for their patients according to their available time and where the patients can also put their appointments according to their available time from the public pages of the website;

g. the specimen containers and the microbiological kits are in the offices of authorized physicians;

h. the microbiological kits that are designed according to the specimens (the sputum kit, the bronchoscope kit, the urine kit, the CSF kit, the pus kit, the sexual transmitted diseases kit and the kits tailored according to the specific needs of physicians) having the specific media that support growth of the specific pathogen organisms;

i. the Watchdog statistical system, that is available to the authorized health care providers, analyzes present information of the universal clinical-laboratory and ordering record information in order to give general picture of the present health problems;

j. the patient paper records that are the physicians compile copies of the computer medical records with the questionnaires and their answers compiled by the patients.

2. The universal clinical-laboratory form of claim 1 enables organized collection of different data such as:

a. the patient record number, sex and age of the patient;

b. the summarized clinical diagnosis with their dates that are produced by the website program that takes them from the previous universal clinical-laboratory records;

c. the summarized laboratory results with their dates that are also produced by the website program that takes them from the previous universal clinical-laboratory records;

d. the summarized patient data that are taken by the authorized physician from the patient health paper record;

e. the clinical findings and clinical diagnosis that are in advance given by the website program but chosen by the authorized physician who examined the patient;

f. the recommended treatments that are proscribed by the authorized physician who examined the patient, the price of drugs and the ID number of the pharmacist who will provide drugs;

g. the referrals to the authorized health providers or the authorized hospitals;

h. the different data of taken specimens that are put in the specific containers and inoculated in the media of the specific microbiological kits (claim 1, i) and this data are arranged in the tables that are combined with prices of their transporting to the authorized laboratories and the ID number of the authorized transport provider;

i. the questionnaire for the specific patient problems that will be answered by the patient;

j. the service price of the physician with his or her ID number;

k. the identification number of the universal clinical-laboratory form that is produced by the website program when the form is submitted by the authorized physician (claim

     1) and it has in itself date and time of the submission;

l. the extension forms that have the specially designed microbiological and the other laboratory forms and empty fields for the other clinical examinations and all the above forms are connected with the fields for prices for the above services and the ID numbers of the health providers who provide the service;

m. the submitted information of the universal clinical-laboratory forms that cannot be changed.

3. The authorized physicians who order the new kits and containers, the kit and the container producers who produce them and the authorized transport providers who transport them use the ordering forms and their records that comprise:

a. the data of the newly ordered kits and containers with their prices of production and transporting that are connected with the ID numbers of their producers and transport providers and the locations where they are ordered;

b. the identification numbers of the ordering records are produced by the website when the physicians submit the ordering forms (claim 1);

c. the information of the specific ordering records is connected with the specific information of the used containers and kits of the universal clinical-laboratory forms;

d. the submitted information that cannot be changed.

4. The data of the containers and the kits with the specimens from the universal clinical-laboratory records (claim 2), including the fields for prices of their transporting to the authorized laboratories and the ID numbers of the authorized transport providers are transferred to the specific ordering records (claim 3) by the website program and the information of the price of the transporting and the ID of the transport provider are returned into the same universal clinical-laboratory records after the transport services also by the website program.

6. When the primary care physicians or the specialists submit the universal clinical-laboratory forms according to the claim 1, the records get the identification numbers by the system.

8. The authorized physician refers the patient with the number of his/her submitted universal clinical-laboratory record to the health providers in the specific appointment time that is also arranged by the referring physician (claim 1).

14. The referring physicians (primary care physicians, hospital physicians and specialists) open the enriched universal clinical-laboratory records, by their previously submitted numbers, that are in their patient computer files (claim 1).

20. The identification numbers of the universal clinical-laboratory and the ordering records including ID numbers of the health providers are used for the grouping of the above records according to the dates inside the patient files, the involved health provider records and their institution record by the website program and this information is used for the specific statistical and the other needs of the health providers:

a. the specific information of the complete universal records of the patients as the clinical diagnosis with their dates and recommended treatments, the patient'"'"'s FBC with differential blood cell analysis with their dates, the patient'"'"'s electrolytes with their dates are summarized in their new clinical-laboratory forms (claim 2);

b. the specific information of the complete universal clinical-laboratory and ordering records of the health providers as the clinical diagnosis with their dates and recommended treatments, their specific services with their prices, the ordered kits with their prices are summarized and analyzed for their specific needs;

c. the specific information of the complete universal clinical-laboratory and ordering records of the institution as the clinical diagnosis with their dates and recommended treatments, their specific services with their prices, the ordered kits with their prices are summarized and analyzed for the specific needs of the institution.

5. The transport media for different microbiological specimens do not exist because they are replaced with the kits that also have functions of the transport media and for growth of different pathogen organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi and yeasts).

7. The authorized physicians who submitted the universal clinical-laboratory forms take the specimens from patients and put them in the containers or inoculate them in the plates and the tubes of the microbiological kits and write on them the numbers of the submitted universal clinical-laboratory records.

12. When the specimens and kits with the numbers come in the authorized laboratory or when the patients come in the health institution with the numbers (claim 7), than the authorized laboratory workers or the authorized health providers open their specific universal clinical-laboratory records by the above numbers where they can find the information on what should be done.

9. The authorized producers and transport providers of the kits open the ordering records to get the specific information of:

a. the new kits and containers requested for production;

b. the used kits and containers for their transport.

10. When the kit and producers give the specific kits and containers for the specific locations to the transport providers than they input information of their prices together with their IDs and IDs of the transport providers in the ordering records and submit them into the system.

11. When the transport providers give the new kits and containers to the physicians and/or give the used kits and containers to the authorized laboratories than they input information of spent time and kilometers together with prices of the transporting and their IDs in the ordering records and submit.

13. The authorized laboratory workers or the authorized health providers input their results with dates, prices of their service and their ID numbers in the designated place of the universal clinical-laboratory records and submit.

15. When the same above physicians open the new universal clinical-laboratory forms to start new cycles of the examination, if it is necessary, than the information of the previous universal clinical-laboratory records is finished.

16. When the services (cycles) are finished, the authorized physicians make the personal paper copies of the universal clinical-laboratory records so that the patient can take preventive measures, transfer this information to another health system and pay the bill or bill their insurances.

17. The personal paper record have at their ends the special designated places with questions concerning the patients food habits, living, working and environmental conditions and they are expected to be fulfilled by the patients who will bring them to their physicians for the new examinations who will integrate them in their clinical histories.

18. The system has the program that continuously analyzes all present information of the universal clinical-laboratory and ordering records in order to provide the Watchdog with a general picture of the present diseases, their locations, pathogen organisms involved with their sensitivities patterns if they are bacteria, commonly proscribed treatments, billing information and other information related to present medical problems that are used by authorized users of the system.

19. The system enables that the authorized users interact with each other on the present information of the Watchdog, inside the Watchdog, in order to improve the service and the system that does not use any information which are products of other outside system inventions in order to keep simplicity of the system and to focus on its internal problems.

21. The health providers who provide the service, input prices of their services and their ID numbers in the designated places of the universal clinical-laboratory and ordering forms in order that the system can continuously calculate how much they earned and how much patients or their insurance must pay to the system and for the statistical needs of the Watchdog.