MEDICAL SUPPORT CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20090199121A1
• Filed: 02/05/2008
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: ITO, Masaru, FURUKAWA, Nobuyuki, TASHIRO, Koichi, SEKIGUCHI, Kiyoshi, YAMAKI, Masahide
• Application Number:
  US12/025,922
• Publication Number:
  US 20090199121A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A medical support control system, comprising: a first controller connected to at least one device; a second controller connected to at least one device, connected to a network, and provided in a medical environment different from that of the first controller; a manipulation display device shared by the first and second controllers and alternately displaying a first GUI created by the first controller and a second GUI created by the second controller, wherein: if a prescribed report is received via the network or from the prescribed connected device while the first GUI is being displayed, a symbol indicating that the report has been received is displayed on the first GUI, and when the symbol is pressed, the first GUI is switched to a prescribed window of the second GUI corresponding to the report, and a process corresponding to the report is performed by the second controller.

Claims

1. A medical support control system, comprising:

a first controller connected to at least one device;

a second controller connected to at least one device, connected to a network, and provided in a medical environment different from that of the first controller; and

a manipulation display device shared by the first and second controllers and alternately displaying a first graphical user interface (first GUI) created by the first controller and a second graphical user interface (second GUI) created by the second controller, wherein;

if a prescribed report is received via the network or from the prescribed connected device while the first GUI is being displayed on the manipulation display device, a symbol indicating that the report has been received is displayed on the first GUI, and when the symbol is pressed, the first GUI is switched to a prescribed window of the second GUI corresponding to the report, and a process corresponding to the report is performed by the second controller.

2. The medical support control system according to claim 1, wherein:

the network is a telephone circuit; and

when there is a telephone call via the telephone circuit while the first GUI is being displayed on the manipulation display device, a symbol indicating that there is a telephone call is displayed on the first GUI, and when the symbol is pressed, the first GUI is switched to a conversation window of the second GUI, and a conversation via the second controller is enabled.

3. The medical support control system according to claim 1, wherein:

when an e-mail has been received via the network while the first GUI is being displayed on the manipulation display device, a symbol indicating that the e-mail has been received is displayed on the first GUI, and when the symbol is pressed, the first GUI is switched to an e-mail transmission/reception window of the second GUI, and the received e-mail is displayed in the e-mail transmission/reception window by the second controller.

4. The medical support control system according to claim 1, wherein:

the prescribed device is a video recorder; and

when a report indicating that there is no more free space in a storage medium is received from the video recorder while the first GUI is being displayed on the manipulation display device, a symbol indicating reception of the report is displayed on the first GUI, and when the symbol is pressed, the first GUI is switched to a video recorder manipulation window of the second GUI, and the second controller causes the video recorder to perform operations for replacing the storage medium with a new one.

5. The medical support control system according to claim 1, wherein:

the second controller has a switching unit for switching a GUI to be displayed on the manipulation display device between the first GUI and the second GUI; and

the switching unit switches a GUI to be displayed on the manipulation display device from the first GUI to the second GUI in accordance with a report from the first controller indicating that the symbol was pressed.