Method and system for configuring a variety of medical information

• US 20090049104A1
• Filed: 10/15/2008
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EBM Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: EBM Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Pan, William
• Application Number:
  US12/285,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20090049104A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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. According to one of the preferred embodiments, the medical information is automatically extracted from the pixel of an image. 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:

identifying a plurality of formats existed in an inputted rich-formatted document;

retrieving data therein with corresponding format according to a configuration rule;

extracting a variety of medical information based on the configuration rule;

configuring the information to a plurality of files with respective formats according to the configuration rule; and

storing the file in a storage medium.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration rule is the region of interests.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the inputted rich-formatted document is a medical information document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the rich-formatted document is inputted from an external device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the rich-formatted document is a rich-text file, spreadsheet/chart file, an image file, or the combination.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the medical information is automatically extracted from the pixels of the image file.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the extracted information is transferred to an Id, a person'"'"'s first name, last name and Gender.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data retrieved from the document is text-formatted data, pixel-formatted data, spreadsheet/chart-formatted data, or data with some other formats.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is configured to an index file, a text file, or an image file.

10. A system for configuring a variety of medical information, comprising:

document input means, which reads one or more documents inputted from external sources, wherein the document is a rich-formatted document;

data retrieving means, which retrieves data in the document according to a configuration rule;

content extracting means, which extracts medical information having index, text and image from the data;

document configuring means, which configures the extracted medical information to a plurality of files with respective formats; and

storing means, which stores the files in a storage medium.

11. The system of claim of 10, further comprising output means for outputting the files in the storage medium.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the document is extracted to text-formatted data, pixel-formatted data, spreadsheet/chart-formatted data, or the data with some other formats.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the files stored in the storage medium includes an index file, a text file, or an image file.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the medical information is automatically extracted from the pixels of the image file.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the extracted information is transferred to an Id, a person'"'"'s first name, last name and Gender.