Device and method for access to information which relates to at least one medicament

• US 20070156707A1
• Filed: 12/19/2006
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Weller, Gerhard, Kagermeier, Robert, Ludwig, Klaus, Kuth, Rainer, Sierk, Dietmar, Fuchs, Friedrich, Harrison, Sean
• Application Number:
  US11/640,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20070156707A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

A device and a method are disclosed for access to at least one information item, which relates to at least one medicament, by a user, in particular in a hospital. At least one mobile electronic appliance is provided for carrying by the user. The appliance includes a reading device which is designed for reading an electronically legible identification which identifies the medicament. The mobile appliance includes a data link to at least one appliance-internal and/or -external memory device in which the information relating to the medicament is stored in such a manner that it is made available to the user via the mobile appliance as a function of the reading of the electronically legible identification of the medicament.

Claims

1. A device for access to at least one information item, which is related to at least one medicament, by a user, comprising:

at least one mobile electronic appliance, to be carried by the user, the at least one mobile electronic appliance including

a reading device for reading an electronically legible identification which identifies the medicament,

a data link to at least one appliance-internal and/or -external memory device in which the information item relating to the medicament is stored so as to be made available to the user via the mobile appliance as a function of the reading of electronically legible identification of the medicament, wherein medicament-related processes are initiateable via a computer apparatus as a function of the reading of at least one electronic identification and wherein the medicament-related processes are initiateable as a function of authorizations determined by the reading of electronically legible identifications.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a computer apparatus, with an external memory device.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the central memory device and computer apparatus is part of at least one of an appliance-external information system and procedure control.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of

at least one of the user, a patient and a location has at least one further associated identification to be read electronically by the reading device of the mobile appliance, and

at least one of the user, the patient and the location is provided with such an identification,

and wherein the at least one of the user, the patient and the location are at least one of identifiable and associateable with a group via the identification.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the information is made available to the user as a function of the reading of the further electronic identification.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronically legible identification is at least one of a barcode, an RFID transponder and a further identification which is readable without contact being made.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one electronically legible identification is in the form of at least one of a label, a chip and an identification device which is at least one of wearable and carryable on the body.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one memory device is designed for at least one of continuous recording of reading-related data and further processing of reading-related data.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein information is storable in the memory device via a computer apparatus as a function of the reading of at least one electronic identification.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein, on initiation of an ordering process for a medicament, the computer apparatus is designed to allocate a delivery address as a function of the reading of at least one further electronically legible identification.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile appliance is at least one of a handheld computer, a communication appliance, and a portable personal computer.

12. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile appliance includes a programming device and an associated indication unit for interaction with the user.

13. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile appliance includes at least one of a voice input device, a keypad and a touch-sensitive display.

24. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the medicament-related processes include at least one of ordering processes, monitoring processes and billing processes.

25. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the medicament-related processes are initiateable as a function of authorizations which are dependent on user groups.

26. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the computer apparatus includes at least one of a central server and a workstation computer.

27. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the appliance-external information system is part of a hospital information system.

28. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein at least one electronically legible identification is in the form of at least one of a pass and armband.

29. The device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the handheld computer is a personal digital assistant, the communication appliance is a mobile telephone, and the portable personal computer is a tablet PC.

30. The device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the associated indication unit is a display and wherein the interaction with the user includes at least one of the provision of information, the storage of information and the initiation of processes.

14. A method for access to at least one information item which is related to at least one medicament by a user, the user carrying a mobile electronic appliance, the method comprising:

reading an electronically legible identification which identifies the medicament, using the mobile electronic appliance;

using a data link, via the mobile electronic appliance, to access the at least one information item which is related to the at least one medicament and stored in at least one memory device, the at least one information item being made available to the user as a function of the reading of the electronically legible identification of the medicament via the mobile appliance,

initiating medicament-related processes via a computer apparatus at least one of as a function of the reading of at least one electronically legible identification and as a function of authorizations determinable by the reading of electronically legible identifications.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the user uses the data link to access a computer apparatus having an external memory device.

16. The method as claimed in one of claims 14, wherein the user uses the data link to access an at least one of a central memory device and computer apparatus, which are part of at least one of an appliance-external information system and procedure control.

17. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein at least one further electronically legible identification, at least one of associated with at least one of the user, a patient and a location and provided with such an identification, is read electronically by the reading device of the mobile appliance, with the at least one of the user, the patient and the location being at least one of identified and associated with a group via the identification.

18. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the information is made available to the user as a function of the reading of the further electronic identification.

19. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the electronically legible identification is read at least one of by contact with the reading device and without contact being made.

20. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein reading-related data is recorded in at least one memory device.

21. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein information is stored in the memory device as a function of the reading of at least one electronically legible identification.

22. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein, on initiation of an ordering process for a medicament, the computer apparatus allocates a delivery address as a function of the reading of at least one further electronically legible identification.

23. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the mobile appliance interacts with the user via a programming device and an associated indication unit.

31. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the medicament-related processes include at least one of ordering processes, monitoring processes and billing processes.

32. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the medicament-related processes are initiateable as a function of authorizations which are dependent on user groups.

33. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the appliance-external information system is part of a hospital information system.