NETWORK-BASED MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM

• US 20110191065A1
• Filed: 01/25/2011
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Hyung Chan
• Application Number:
  US13/013,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191065A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/188
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A network-based medical treatment system dynamically manages examination devices that perform medial examinations. The medical treatment system receives examination orders, allocates the examination orders to the examination devices, monitors the status of the examination devices, and manages examination results to efficiently process the examination orders.

Claims

1. A network-based medical treatment system comprising:

a terminal device that generates an examination order;

an examination device that receives the generated examination order over a network, and performs an examination corresponding to the received examination order; and

a remote order manager that assigns the generated examination order to the examination device, transmits the assigned examination order to the examination device associated with the examination order over the network, and receives an examination result of the performed examination from the associated examination device.

2. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 1, wherein the remote order manager stores the examination order generated by the terminal device in a new order queue.

3. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 2, wherein the remote order manager comprises a memory that stores the new order queue.

4. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 2, wherein the new order queue includes a plurality of queues, the examination device comprises a plurality of examination devices, and a number of the plurality of queues is equal to a number of examination device types among the plurality of examination devices.

5. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 2, wherein the remote order manager stores a current analysis order queue that includes a list of examination orders currently being processed in the examination device.

6. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 5, wherein the remote order manager, in response to receiving the examination result of the examination device, removes the examination order corresponding to the examination from the current analysis order queue, and transfers a new examination order stored in the new order queue to the current analysis order queue.

7. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 5, wherein the new order queue includes a plurality of queues, the examination device comprises a plurality of examination devices, and a number of the plurality of queues is equal to a number of examination device types among the plurality of examination devices.

8. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of queues includes a number of entries equal to a number of examination devices among the plurality of examination devices that correspond to a type of examination.

9. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 5, wherein the remote order manager includes a remote order scheduler that receives the examination order from the terminal device, stores the received examination order in one of the new order queue or the current analysis order queue.

10. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 9, wherein the remote order scheduler determines a state of the current analysis order queue and transfers an examination order of the new order queue to the current analysis order queue in response to the determining.

11. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 9, wherein the remote order manager includes an examination result manager that, upon completion of the examination of the examination device, transmits the examination result received from the corresponding examination device to the terminal device.

12. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 11, wherein the examination result manager receives the examination result and stores the received examination result in a database.

13. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 11, wherein the remote order manager includes a device state buffer that stores state information of each of the plurality of examination devices to recognize a current state of each of the plurality of examination devices.

14. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 13, wherein the device state buffer includes a plurality of device state buffers, and a number of the plurality of device state buffers is equal to a number of the plurality of examination devices.

15. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 14, wherein each of the plurality of device state buffers includes a number of entries equal to a number of the plurality of examination devices corresponding to a type of examination.

16. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 13, wherein the state information of the examination device includes an examination device identifier (ID) field, a local examination number field, a high-priority local task number field, a quality control field, a residual examination time field, an operator field, an examination type field, and an examination policy field.

17. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the examination device ID field identifies a unique ID of the examination device.

18. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the state field indicates a current state of the examination device.

19. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 18, wherein the state field identifies the current state of the examination device on the basis of reference information that includes information about at least one of an idle state, an analyzing state, an abnormal state, and a disabled state.

20. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the local examination number field indicates a number of unprocessed local examination orders input through a user interface of the examination device.

21. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the high priority local task number field indicates a number of high-priority examination orders from among idle-state examination orders of the examination device.

22. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the quality control field indicates quality management frequency and time of the examination device.

23. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the residual examination time field indicates a residual time required by the examination device to complete the examination order.

24. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the operator field indicates an operator who operates the examination device.

25. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the examination type field indicates a type of the examination.

26. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 16, wherein the examination policy field indicates a processing priority of a local examination order locally input at the examination device and the examination order.

27. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 13, wherein the remote order manager further includes a state monitor that periodically collects state information of the examination device and updates content data of the device state buffer.

28. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 27, wherein the examination device, in response to completing the examination order, transmits changed state information to the device state monitor.

29. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device includes a user interface that accepts the examination order from a user.

30. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 1, wherein the examination is medical treatment.

31. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device and the remote order manager are installed independently of each other.

32. The network-based medical treatment system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device and the remote order manager are implemented as one device.