MEDICAL SERVICE SUPPORT APPARATUS

• US 20110288885A1
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: HOSOYA, Ryoichi, OMURA, Masakazu, HOSAKA, Takashi, KATO, Yusuke, ARAKI, Hiroyuki, OUCHI, Emiko
• Granted Patent: US 8,417,548 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

A recording unit holds a plurality of examination data including the examination date of a performed examination. A search unit extracts examination data matching a set condition, of the plurality of examination data held in the recording unit. An output unit outputs a search result by the search unit. A first narrowing unit extracts examination data in which the examination date is included within a designated first period. A reference data determination unit classifies the examination data extracted by the first narrowing unit by an examinee and determines, for every examinee, one piece of the examination data to be a reference in accordance with a predetermined rule. A second narrowing unit sets, for every examinee, a second period designated in at least one of the past direction and the future direction starting from a reference date that is the examination date of the examination data determined by the reference data determination unit and extracts examination data in which the examination date is included within the second period.

Claims

1. A medical service support apparatus comprising:

a recording unit configured to hold a plurality of examination data including the examination date of a performed examination;

an operation unit configured to set a search period of examination data by an operation of a user;

a search unit configured to extract examination data matching a set condition, of the plurality of examination data held in the recording unit; and

an output unit configured to output a search result by the search unit, wherein

the search unit includes;

a first narrowing indication unit configured to indicate execution of narrowing processing based on a first period set via the operation unit;

a first narrowing unit configured to extract, based on the indication, examination data in which the examination date is included within the first period;

a reference data determination unit configured to classify the examination data extracted by the first narrowing unit by an examinee and to determine, for every examinee, one piece of the examination data to be a reference in accordance with a predetermined rule;

a second narrowing indication unit configured to indicate, based on a second period set via the operation unit, execution of narrowing processing; and

a second narrowing unit configured to extract, based on the indication and for every examinee, examination data in which the examination date is included within the second period in at least one of the past direction and the future direction starting from a reference date that is the examination date of the examination data determined by the reference data determination unit.

2. The medical service support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first narrowing unit extracts examination data in which the examination date is included within the first period and in which an examinee has been diagnosed as being affected by a specific disease.

3. The medical service support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

of the examination data extracted by the first narrowing unit, the reference data determination unit determines, for every examinee, examination data in which the examination date is oldest or latest as the examination data to be a reference.

4. The medical service support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second narrowing unit extracts, for every examinee, examination data in which the examination date is included within the second period and in which an examinee has been diagnosed as being affected by a specific disease.

5. The medical service support apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising an analysis unit configured to determine a recommended examination interval of a specific disease by calculating, for every patient who has been affected by the specific disease, the days that is a difference between the examination date of examination in which no abnormality has been detected and that of the subsequent examination in which the patient has been diagnosed as being affected by the disease, with the use of the plurality of examination data held in the recording unit, and by performing statistical processing on the days.

6. The medical service support apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the first narrowing unit extracts examination data in which the examination date is included within the first period and in which an examinee has been diagnosed as being affected by a specific disease, and wherein

of the examination data extracted by the first narrowing unit, the reference data determination unit determines, for every examinee, examination data in which the examination date is latest as the examination data to be a reference, and wherein

with the examination date of the examination data determined by the reference data determination unit being a reference date, the second narrowing unit extracts, for every patient, examination data in which the examination date is included within the second period in the past direction starting from the reference date and in which no abnormality has been detected, and provides the examination data to the analysis unit.