Workstation for medical service

• US 5,915,242 A
• Filed: 06/06/1997
• Issued: 06/22/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tsujii, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Teska, Kevin J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN
• Application Number:
  US08/870,380
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• Field of Search: 283/76, 358/434, 250/208.1, 235/375, 705/3
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A system bus for connecting modules in a workstation for medical service has connected thereto a CPU, a main memory device, an input-output apparatus comprising a CRT or a display device such as liquid crystal and an operation input device, an ISDN interface, a disc and an optical card device. A list of data structural bodies stored in an optical card carried by a patient is read by the optical card device, and data access is effected to facilities which seem to require data reference by the use of a facility line number recorded on the optical card, through the ISDN interface.

Claims

1. A memory medium for medical service owned by each of plural patients, comprising:

a memory device main body; and

a memory portion provided on said main body having stored therein one or more data structures each having at least facility line number data of a respective facility in which medical data of each patient is stored, and said facility line number data being arranged for use in access of the medical data stored in the respective facility through a public or an exclusive line from another facility.