Method and device for configuring a variety of medical information

• US 20060282469A1
• Filed: 06/08/2005
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EBM Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: EBM Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Pan, William
• Application Number:
  US11/147,199
• Publication Number:
  US 20060282469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof

Abstract

A method and a device for configuring a variety of medical information formats are described. The method is used to incorporate a variety of medical information so as to output documents in a certain format and search for information of the patient'"'"'s medication history. Thus, the device and the method are used to relieve physician'"'"'s workload.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a variety of medical information, the steps comprising:

determining whether a configuration profile exists;

accessing the configuration profile stored within a storage medium;

inputting a new configuration profile or modifying an existent configuration profile; and

saving the configuration profile to the storage medium.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the configuration profile exists in the step of determining whether a configuration profile exists, then the configuration profile is stored within the storage medium, and if the configuration does not exist, then a blank configuration profile is created.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the configuration profile is generated by extracting information and a borderline of the configuration profile is generated by employing a portable document format.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a new configuration profile is created or an existent configuration profile is modified in the step of inputting.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein it is determined whether the configuration profile is saved in the step of creating the new configuration profile or modifying existent configuration profile.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein if the configuration profile is saved, then the configuration profile is saved to the storage medium.

7. A summary method for configuring a variety of medical information, the steps comprising:

sequentially inputting a plurality of medical information format documents;

extracting a certain format from various medical information documents in conformity with a configuration rule of a configuration profile;

executing a matching process to be in conformity with the configuration rule of the configuration profile by the certain format;

determining whether the various medical information documents are in conformity with the matching process; and

creating a content summary record.

8. The summary method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the various medical information documents are edited into webpage-like medical information supported by unified resource locator (URL), or the various medical information documents are created by any one medical information format.

9. The summary method as claimed in claim 7, wherein information is extracted to generate the configuration profile and employs a portable document format to generate a borderline of the configuration profile.

10. The summary method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the configuration rule is an identification code, a patient'"'"'s name, gender, symbol, or a combination thereof.

11. The summary method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the configuration rule is a region of interest.

12. The summary method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the matching process comprises matching of keywords/symbols, matching of regions of interest, or matching of a combination thereof.

13. The summary method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the keywords/symbols is a default.

14. The summary method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the matching of regions of interests includes part of or all characters thereof.

15. The summary method as claimed in claim. 7, wherein if the various medical information format documents exist in the step of determining whether the various medical information format documents are in conformity with the matching process, then a content summary record is created, and if the various medical information format documents do not exist, then all medical information format documents are processed in accordance with the configuration rule.

16. The summary method as claimed in claim 15, wherein if all of the medical information format documents are completely processed in accordance with the configuration rule in the step of determining whether all of the medical information format documents, then processing stops, and if all of these medical information format documents are not completely processed, then a new content summary record is created responsive to are in conformity with the matching process next medical information format.

17. A device for configuring a variety of medical information, comprising:

a document input unit, used to collect documents in a variety of medical information formats;

a summary unit, used to summarize the documents in a variety of medical information formats within the document input unit in a content summary method in conformity with a configuration rule;

a configuration profile unit, wherein the configuration profile unit configures documents in a variety of medical information formats within the document input unit in conformity with the configuration rule into a document in a certain format; and

an output document unit, outputting documents in a certain format.