Method for managing clustered medical data and medical data filing system in clustered form

• US 5,781,890 A
• Filed: 08/27/1996
• Issued: 07/14/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsubura, Shinichi, Nematbakhsh, Mohammad Ali
• Primary Examiner(s): McElheny, Jr., Donald E.
• Application Number:
  US08/703,696
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 395/202, 395/203, 395/204, 395/607, 395/615, 395/613, 395/924
• 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 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

In a medical data managing system, a plurality of medical data are first classified based on a classification item such as sorts of medical examinations. Thereafter, the classified medical data are stored in the same optical disk, or the same clustered data recording region of the optical disk in order to effectively search/retrieve desirable medical data from a plurality of optical disks based upon the classification item covering this desirable medical data. A medical data managing system comprises: a unit for sequentially acquiring a plurality of medical data about a biological body under medical examination; a unit for classifying the plurality of medical data based upon at least one of medical classification items to obtain a plurality of classified medical data; and a unit for sequentially storing the plurality of classified medical data into a plurality of data storage mediums in such a manner that the plurality of classified medical data belonging to the same classification item are stored in the same data storage medium.

Claims

1. A method for managing medical data comprising the steps of:

sequentially acquiring a plurality of medical data about a biological body under medical examination;

classifying said plurality of medical data based upon at least one of medical classification items to obtain a plurality of classified medical data; and

sequentially storing said plurality of classified medical data into a plurality of data storage mediums in such a manner that said plurality of classified medical data belonging to the same classification item are stored in the same data storage medium.

2. A medical data managing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the step of:

searching desirable medical data from said data storage mediums based upon the classification item covering said desirable medical data.

3. A medical data managing method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising the step of:

retrieving said searched medical data based upon the classification item covering said searched medical data.

4. A medical data managing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a temporal term is added to said medical classification items, whereby said plurality of medical data are first classified based upon only said temporal term, and thereafter classified based on said one of the medical classification items.

5. A medical data managing method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising the step of:

searching desirable medical data from said data storage mediums based upon the classification item covering said desirable medical data.

6. A medical data managing method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising the step of:

retrieving said searched medical data based upon the classification item covering said searched medical data.

7. A medical data managing method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said temporal term is determined in accordance with a term for medically judging whether a disease of said biological body under medical examination belongs to an acute disease or a chronic disease.

8. A medical data managing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said medical classification items are selected from a sort of medical examinations, names of patients, sorts of medical departments belonging to patients, and sorts of modalities.

9. A medical data managing method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising the step of:

subdividing said classified medical data in to a plurality of medical data subdivision groups, said medical data subdivision groups constituting a hierarchical structure.

10. A medical data managing system comprising:

means for sequentially acquiring a plurality of medical data about a biological body under medical examination;

means for classifying said plurality of medical data based upon at least one of medical classification items to obtain a plurality of classified medical data; and

means for sequentially storing said plurality of classified medical data into a plurality of data storage mediums in such a manner that said plurality of classified medical data belonging to the same classification item are stored in the same data storage medium.

11. A medical data managing system as claimed in claim 10, wherein said classifying means further searches desirable medical data from said data storage mediums based upon the classification item covering said desirable medical data.

12. A medical data managing system as claimed in claim 11, wherein said classifying means further retrieves said searched medical data based upon the classification item covering said searched medical data.

13. A medical data managing system as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

means for clustering said plurality of medical data acquired from said acquiring means to obtain a plurality of clustered medical data, whereby said clustered medical data are further classified by said classifying means.

14. A medical managing system as claimed in claim 13, wherein said clustering means includes a cluster management table to execute a medical data clustering operation.

15. A medical managing system as claimed in claim 10, wherein said data storage means are optical disks.

16. A medical managing system as claimed in claim 10, wherein said data storage means are opto-magnet disks.

17. A medical data filing system comprising:

medical data input means for inputting a plurality of medical data about a biological body under medical examination;

a plurality of storage mediums capable of storing said medical data;

data information recognizing means for recognizing medical data information attached to said medical data to derive data recognition information;

storage medium managing means for classifying said plurality of medical data based upon at least one of classification items covering said data recognition information; and

file system managing means for filing said classified medical data in said storage mediums in such a manner that said classified medical data belonging to the same classification item are filed into the same data storage medium, whereby desirable medical data is searched/retrieved form the data storage mediums based upon the classification item covering the data recognition information of said desirable medical data.

18. A medical data filing system as claimed in claim 17, further comprising:

cluster managing means for first clustering said medical data to obtain a plurality of clustered medical data, whereby said clustered medical data are classified by said storage medium managing means.

19. A medical data filing system as claimed in claim 18, wherein said cluster managing means includes a cluster management table memory containing cluster numbers, storage medium numbers and data acquisition temporal terms.

20. A medical data filing system as claimed in claim 17, wherein said data storage mediums are selected from optical disks and opto-magnet disks.