Method and information system for performing a clinical study on a patient

• US 20070143146A1
• Filed: 02/09/2005
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schmidt, Markus, Rumpel, Eva, Schneider, Siegfried, Schreiner, Horst, Abraham-Fuchs, Klaus, Zahlmann, Gudrun
• Application Number:
  US10/589,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20070143146A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A method is disclosed for performing a clinical study on a patient. The study-related or patient-related data is stored in a memory during the study. The memory is readable by a physician who is foreign to the study and is associated with the patient. An information system for a clinical study on a patient encompasses a memory for study-related or patient-related data, which is allocated to the patient, a data input device for storing data in the memory, and a data reading device for reading out the data from the memory. The data reading device is accessible to a physician who is foreign to the study and is associated with the patient.

Claims

1. A method for carrying out a clinical study involving a patient, comprising:

storing at least one of study-related and patient-related data, to be read out by a non-study doctor assigned to the patient, in a memory during the clinical study.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data are stored in the memory by a study doctor.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the non-study doctor reads the data out from the memory before an interaction with the patient.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data are stored in the memory with standardized structuring.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein clear instructions to the non-study doctor are stored as data.

11. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the non-study doctor reads the data out from the memory before an interaction with the patient.

12. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the data are stored in the memory with standardized structuring.

13. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein clear instructions to the non-study doctor are stored as data.

14. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the data are assigned to various classes, and the non-study doctor reads only information of one class out from the memory.

6. The method as claimed in claim, wherein the data are assigned to various classes, and the non-study doctor reads only information of one class out from the memory.

7. An information system for a clinical study on a patient, having comprising:

a memory assigned to the patient for at least one of study-related and patient-related data;

having a data input device for storing data in the memory; and

a data reading device, accessible by a non-study doctor assigned to the patient, for reading the data out from the memory.

8. The information system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the memory is portable.

9. The information system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the memory is part of a data network, to which data input and output devices are connectable and wherein authorization, is required for access to the data.

10. The information system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the data reading device is portable.

15. The information system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the data reading device is portable.

16. The information system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the data reading device is portable.

17. An information system for a clinical study on a patient, comprising:

memory means, assigned to the patient, for at least one of study-related and patient-related data;

input means for storing data in the memory means; and

reading means, accessible by a non-study doctor assigned to the patient, for reading the data out from the memory means.

18. The information system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the memory means is portable.

19. The information system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the memory means is part of a data network, to which data input and output devices are connectable and wherein authorization is required for access to the data.

20. The information system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the reading means is portable.