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Hospital-based integrated medical computer system for processing medical and patient information using specialized functional modules

  • US 6,272,481 B1
  • Filed: 09/14/1998
  • Issued: 08/07/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A hospital-based integrated medical computer system for processing medical and patient information involving a plurality of tasks and allocation of a plurality of medical resources and for generating medical knowledge, diagnoses and prognoses as a solution to an input specified medical problem, the hospital-based integrated medical computer system comprising:

  • a macrocomputer comprising;

    a network of medical data banks having memory for storing medical information and a processor for executing instructions; and

    a microcomputer comprising;

    at least one processor, including a memory for storing medical information and connected via a data bus to the network of medical data banks of the macrocomputer, the at least one processor further including a plurality of separate processor hardware modules operatively connected to said memory of the at least one processor, said modules including a communication module, at least one switching module, an administrative module and a knowledge module; and

    hardware, firmware and software operatively connected by a data bus in said processor hardware modules to enable the modules to perform at least the following functions;

    (i.) for the communication module, to control data communications between the other modules, the main memory and said at least one processor, so that they effectively communicate with one another and to receive the input medical problem;

    (ii.) for said at least one switching module, to select and switch between selected information required by a process for solving a particular problem;

    (iii.) for the administrative module, to perform housekeeping functions, including multi-tasking control to allocate the medical resources, and real-time multi-tasking and scheduling of the tasks; and

    (iv.) for the knowledge module, to operate knowledge processing functions on the medical and patient information to generate a medical problem instruction for generating the solution and to store the medical and patient information in said medical data banks; and

    wherein at least one of the medical data banks of the macrocomputer and the processor of the microcomputer are configured to receiver the medical problem instruction for execution of macroscopic and microscopic functions in the respective memory thereof to macroscopically and microscopically generate the solution to the medical problem.

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