MEDICAL-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK SYSTEM

• US 20100041950A1
• Filed: 10/19/2009
• Published: 02/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: IMAI, Kazunori, ODA, Yasuharu
• Granted Patent: US 8,423,379 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/109
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/05 characterised by the image sensor, e.g. camera, being in the distal end portion
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• 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-information management network system, including a medical-information management server to which a server-identification information is individually given, the medical-information management server configured to manage patient information, examination information, and a diagnosis result; a receiving device that stores an in-vivo image, which is captured by a body-insertable apparatus inserted into a subject, and information received from the body-insertable apparatus; and an image display device that is connected with the medical-information management server via a network and obtains the in-vivo image and the information received from the body-insertable apparatus that are stored in the receiving device.

Claims

1. A medical-information management network system, comprising:

a medical-information management server to which a server-identification information is individually given, the medical-information management server configured to manage patient information, examination information, and a diagnosis result;

a receiving device that stores an in-vivo image, which is captured by a body-insertable apparatus inserted into a subject, and information received from the body-insertable apparatus; and

an image display device that is connected with the medical-information management server via a network and obtains the in-vivo image and the information received from the body-insertable apparatus that are stored in the receiving device.

2. The medical-information management network system according to claim 1, wherein the server-identification information is generated using hardware information of the medical-information management server.

3. The medical-information management network system according to claim 2, wherein the hardware information is a MAC address.

4. The medical-information management network system according to claim 1, wherein the server-identification information is an IP address.

5. The medical-information management network system according to claim 1, wherein the image display device sets, before the body-insertable apparatus is inserted into the subject, the server-identification information obtained from the medical-information management server connected via the network, the patient information, and the examination information in the receiving device, and obtains, when the in-vivo image and the information of the body-insertable apparatus are obtained from the receiving device after the examination, the server-identification information, the patient information, and the examination information.

6. The medical-information management network system according to claim 5, wherein the image display device stores therein the server-identification information obtained from the medical-information management server.

7. The medical-information management network system according to claim 1, wherein the image display device rejects, when the receiving device having the server-identification information that is not stored in the image display device is connected, a reception from the receiving device of the in-vivo image, the information of the body-insertable apparatus, the server-identification information, the patient information, and the examination information.

8. The medical-information management network system according to claim 6, wherein the image display device gives out, when the receiving device having the server-identification information that is not stored in the image display device is connected, a warning to an user.

9. The medical-information management network system according to claim 5, wherein the image display device transfers the diagnosis result to the medical-information management server.

10. The medical-information management network system according to claim 9, wherein the image display device also transfers, when transferring the diagnosis result to the medical-information management server, the server-identification information obtained from the receiving device, and

the medical-information management server rejects, when the transferred server-identification information does not match the server-identification information retained in the medical-information management server, a reception of data from the image display device.

11. The medical-information management network system according to claim 9, wherein the image display device also transfers, when transferring the diagnosis result to the medical-information management server, the server-identification information obtained from the receiving device, and

the medical-information management server gives out, when the transferred server-identification information does not match the server-identification information retained in the medical-information management server, a warning to the image display device.

12. The medical-information management network system according to claim 6 or 9, wherein the medical-information management network system includes a plurality of the medical-information management servers each having different server-identification information, and

the image display device searches for the medical-information management server having the same server-identification information as the server-identification information retained in the image display device and transfers the diagnosis result to the medical-information management server thus searched.

13. A medical-information management network system according to claims 1, wherein the information received from the body-insertable apparatus is unit-identification information of the body-insertable apparatus.

14. A medical-information management network system according to claims 1, wherein the diagnosis result is all or a part of images selected from the in-vivo images obtained from the receiving device.

15. A medical-information management network system according to claims 1, wherein the diagnosis result is a report on which a comment of a user is described.