HEALTH SCREEN AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT THE HEALTH SCREEN
First Claim
1. A health screen for finding medical deviations, wherein the health screen comprises at least data processing means and data transmission means for establishing an electronic communication connection with an electronic database system of at least one health service provider, the database system comprising information related to parameters describing patients'"'"' characteristics, such as weight, age, sex and/or nationality in electronic form, and wherein the health screen is configured to gather, by said electronic communication connection, data related to the patients of the electronic database system for its use,wherein the health screen is also configuredto determine at least one screening group by parameters describing the patients'"'"' characteristics in such a way that the data of at least one first parameter describing the characteristic of each patient of said screening group are substantially the same,to compare a patient'"'"'s indicator value describing data related to at least one other parameter of the patients of the screening group to a norm value which relates to a value of the data related to said second parameter of the patients of said screening group that is regarded as normal, or a target value,and if the patient'"'"'s indicator value differs from the corresponding norm value by at least a predetermined threshold value,to generate feedback information to be delivered in electronic form about the patient who had an indicator value that differed from the corresponding norm value by at least a predetermined amount.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a health screen and a method for finding medical deviations, in which patients whose data have at least one desired factor in common are selected as a screening group from the data of the database systems of health service providers. The patient'"'"'s indicator value describing the data of patients in the screening group is then compared to a norm value describing normal values, and if the patient'"'"'s indicator value differs from the norm value, a query requiring a reply in machine-readable form is signalled to a third party for receiving a reply to the query, and feedback information is signalled to the database systems of health service providers as triggered by the received reply about the patient who had an indicator value that deviated from the corresponding norm value by at least a predetermined amount.
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16 Claims
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1. A health screen for finding medical deviations, wherein the health screen comprises at least data processing means and data transmission means for establishing an electronic communication connection with an electronic database system of at least one health service provider, the database system comprising information related to parameters describing patients'"'"' characteristics, such as weight, age, sex and/or nationality in electronic form, and wherein the health screen is configured to gather, by said electronic communication connection, data related to the patients of the electronic database system for its use,
wherein the health screen is also configured to determine at least one screening group by parameters describing the patients'"'"' characteristics in such a way that the data of at least one first parameter describing the characteristic of each patient of said screening group are substantially the same, to compare a patient'"'"'s indicator value describing data related to at least one other parameter of the patients of the screening group to a norm value which relates to a value of the data related to said second parameter of the patients of said screening group that is regarded as normal, or a target value, and if the patient'"'"'s indicator value differs from the corresponding norm value by at least a predetermined threshold value, to generate feedback information to be delivered in electronic form about the patient who had an indicator value that differed from the corresponding norm value by at least a predetermined amount.
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9. A method for finding medical deviations by a computerized central system, wherein data in electronic form comprised by an electronic database systems of health service providers and describing patients'"'"' characteristics, such as weight, age, height, sex and/or nationality, is collected for the use of the central system by a communication connection connecting the database systems of health service providers and said central system,
wherein the method also comprises: -
determining at least one screening group by parameters describing the patients'"'"' characteristics in such a way that the data of at least one first parameter describing the characteristic of each patient of said screening group are essentially the same, comparing a patient'"'"'s indicator value describing data related to at least one other parameter of the patients of the screening group to a norm value, which relates to a value of the data related to said second parameter of the patients of said screening group that is regarded as normal, or a target value, and if the patient'"'"'s indicator value differs from the corresponding norm value by at least a predetermined threshold value, generating feedback information to be delivered in electronic form about the patient who had an indicator value that differed from the corresponding norm value by at least a predetermined amount. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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