PATIENT ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM COMPRISING INTELLIGENT INTERFACE DEVICE FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF MEDICAL DATA

• US 20110264468A1
• Filed: 10/21/2009
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Micronova AG
• Original Assignee: Micronova AG
• Inventors: Lingmann, Jurgen
• Application Number:
  US13/129,895
• Publication Number:
  US 20110264468A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• 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

Abstract

A patient administration system according to the invention comprises a device which executes a patient administration program, a data source for making medical data available and an interface device which is integrated between the device and the data source and receives data from the data source, converts them to keyboard scan codes which are specific of the patient administration program and outputs said keyboard scan codes to the device. An interface device according to the invention is adapted to be integrated between a device which executes a patient administration program and a data source for making medical data available and receives the data from the data source, converts them to keyboard scan codes which are specific of the patient administration program and outputs said keyboard scan codes to the device. A method according to the invention comprises the following steps: receiving medical data from a data source for making medical data available, converting the medical data to keyboard scan codes which are specific of the patient administration program and outputting the keyboard scan codes to the device.

Claims

1. A patient administration system, comprising:

a device which executes a patient administration program;

a data source for making medical data available; and

an interface device which is coupled between the device and the data source and receives data from the data source, converts them to keyboard scan codes which are specific of the patient administration program and outputs said keyboard scan codes to the device.

2. The patient administration system of claim 1, wherein the data source is a medical device, and wherein the medical device is an X-ray device or an ultrasonic examination device.

4. The patient administration system of claim 1, wherein the data source is a graphic input interface.

5. The patient administration system of claim 1, wherein the interface device is connected to the data source via an interface for the transfer of medical data, and wherein the interface for the transfer of medical data is a GDT interface, a DDT interface or an HL7 interface.

15. The patient administration system of claim 1, wherein the keyboard scan codes are buffered in a buffer storage.

23. The patient administration system of claim 1, wherein the interface device stores the data received from the device in a database, wherein the database for storing the data received from said device is an external database,

wherein the external database is run on a database server, and

wherein said database is an SQL database.

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33. An interface device adapted to be integrated between a device which executes a patient administration program and a data source for making medical data available and to receive data from the data source, converts them to keyboard scan codes which are specific of the patient administration program and outputs said keyboard scan codes to the device.

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35. A patient administration method for operating an interface device which can be connected to a device which executes a patient administration program, the method comprising the following steps:

receiving medical data from a data source for making medical data available;

converting the medical data to keyboard scan codes which are specific of the patient administration program; and

outputting the keyboard scan codes to the device.

41. The method of claim 35, further comprising:

inspecting at least a portion of the data received from the data source by means of rules, wherein the step of inspecting at least one portion of the received data is done category-wise, and

wherein the categories include medical histories, reports, diagnoses, ICD codes, therapies, accounting digits or forms.

44. The method of claim 35, wherein the step of converting the medical data to keyboard scan codes is done by means of a cross-reference list, and

wherein the cross-reference list indicates the keyboard scan codes into which the data received from the data source are converted in dependency of the patient administration program used.

46. The method of claim 35, wherein outputting of the keyboard scan codes to the device is done category-wise, and

wherein the categories include medical histories, reports, diagnoses, ICD codes, therapies, accounting digits or forms.

48. The method of claim 35, wherein outputting of the keyboard scan codes to the device includes the injection of the keyboard scan codes into an API of the device.

50. The method of claim 46, wherein the step of outputting the keyboard scan codes category-wise prior to the step of outputting comprises:

marking the keyboard scan codes currently to be outputted in the buffer storage by means of a mark indicating that outputting has not yet been terminated.

51. The method of claim 35, wherein the step of outputting the keyboard scan codes to the device is repeated as soon as the interface device receives an error message from the device with regard to the output of the keyboard scan codes, wherein repeating of the output of the keyboard scan code to the device is done by making use of the keyboard scan codes buffered in the buffer storage.

53. The method of claim 48, wherein the method following the step of outputting the keyboard scan codes to the device comprises the following step:

canceling the mark indicating that outputting has not yet been terminated when the interface device does not receive an error message from the device with regard to the output of the keyboard scan codes to the device.

54. The method of claim 35, further comprising:

receiving a patient score,

comparing the received patient score to one or more predefined score values, and

releasing a message as soon as the received patient score exceeds a predefined score value.

56. The method claim 54, wherein the message includes a recommendation of treatment or a recommendation for referral to a specialist or to a hospital.

61. The method of claim 35, further comprising:

outputting the data received from the device to another program, wherein the step of outputting the data received from the device to another program includes outputting the data stored in the database to the other program, and

wherein outputting of data is done in anonymous form.

64. The method of claim 61, wherein said other program is adapted to output a recommendation of treatment for the patient(s) in response to the data received from the interface device, and

wherein said other program is a Care engine.

66. The method of claim 35, further comprising:

inspecting, by making use of a database describing the interaction between medications, the data in one category with regard to possible interactions; and

outputting a message as soon as any possible interaction could have been detected.

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