Apparatus for collecting medical data

• US 3,970,996 A
• Filed: 01/07/1974
• Issued: 07/20/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Perfect Liberty
• Original Assignee: Perfect Liberty
• Inventors: Yasaka, Toshio, Takagi, Sadao, Ito, Ryuzo
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaw, Gareth D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vandenburg, John P.
• Application Number:
  US05/431,232
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• Field of Search: 340/172.5, 235/61.6 R, 235/61.7 R, 235/61.12, 235/150, 235/151, 128/2 R, 128/2 D, 128/2.05 R
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

An apparatus for collecting and recovering medical data which allows a number of different patients to be identified by an ID card or an ID label and has a plurality of keyboard printing units which receive medical data from the particular patient and includes a memory which receives the individual medical data relative to the individual patient identified by the patient'"'"'s number and the examination number and includes a system for transferring the data in usual form to an output unit after the necessary data has been recorded in the memory. The apparatus further includes a control unit for controlling the input and output units as well as the memory unit and includes error correcting systems.

Claims

1. Apparatus for collecting medical data comprising,

a plurality of medical data input units each including a medical data keyboard with keys that can be set to establish desired medical tests, each of said input units including an identification card reader for receiving a patient identification means and including locking means for holding said identification means until a release signal is received,

a plurality of patient test stations electrically connected to each of said medical data input unit to collect medical data from the patient whose identification means has been placed into said card reader,

a central signal collecting and processing unit including a receiving circuit electrically connected to each of said plurality of medical data input units and including an identification register electrically connected to each of said identification card readers of said input units,

a data comparison circuit connected to said identification register and comparing the information from said patient identification means with the desired patients identification and electrically connected to said input units to produce an enable signal or an identification error signal,

an error indicator at each of said input units connected to said data comparison circuit,

a control circuit in said processing unit connected to said receiving circuit,

a plurality of memory cells in said processing unit and connected to said control circuit and said receiving circuit so as to store medical test data from said patient test stations,

an end of test signal generator in said processing unit connected to said medical data input units and supplying an electrical signal to said card reader locking means to release said identification means at the end of medical tests,

data output means connected to said processing means, and

said control circuit connecting said memory cells to said output means to supply medical and identification data thereto which is reproduced by said output means.

2. Apparatus for collecting medical data according to claim 1 wherein said output means comprises a printer.

3. Apparatus for collecting medical data according to claim 1 including a plurality of queue registers in said processing unit connected to said receiving unit and control circuit to store data from a plurality of patients.