Medical apparatus for diagnosis or treatment

• US 7,469,383 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2004
• Issued: 12/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Busch, Erik
• Primary Examiner(s): BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY
• Application Number:
  US10/981,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20050100131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,510 Days
• Field of Search: 715/700, 715/707, 715/708, 715/731, 715/751, 715/753, 715/754, 715/777, 715/2, 715/51, 715/741, 715/742, 715/743, 700/17, 700/65, 700/83, 600/1, 600/300, 606/1, 607/5, 128/903, 434/350, 601/41, 713/182, 725/25, 725/30, 726/2, 705/2, 705/51
• US Class Current: 715/743
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00199 with a console, e.g. a control panel with a display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/467 characterised by special input means

Abstract

The invention relates to a medical apparatus for diagnosis and/or treatment using a procedure (20), with an operating console (11) to control the use of components of the procedure (20), the operating console (11) having an input device (22), an output device (27) and an assistance module (26) to assist the user, which can be adapted to users'"'"' varying levels of training. This enables the user interfaces of the operating console to be adapted to the varying levels of knowledge of the medical operating personnel, so that the user in question is offered only those commands, with corresponding additional information, which the user has for example already learned during training.

Claims

1. A medical apparatus for executing a medical procedure, comprising:

an application device for executing the medical procedure having a plurality of application components;

an operating console for controlling the application components;

an input device for inputting a control command;

an output device for displaying a graphic user interface; and

an assistance module adapted to support a user for operating the medical apparatus according to a level of competence of the user;

a control function configured in conjunction with the assistance module to control a user'"'"'s access rights, and thereby vary and limit the user'"'"'s ability to operate the device with the application components, based on a profile of the user so that, given multiple levels of access, access by a user to operate the device with the application components is limited to a level consistent with information in the profile, such that different users may be provided with different levels of access to control or operate and wherein when access is made available to a user the apparatus is configured to a mode of operation corresponding to a designated level for that user.

2. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the medical procedure includes an element chosen from the group consisting of acquiring medical data related to bodily functions, diagnosis of a medical condition and treatment of a medical condition of a patient and wherein access by a user to operate the device with the application components is limited to a level consistent with information in the profile corresponding to a level of knowledge of the user, such that different users may be provided with different levels of access to operate the device based on level of knowledge of each user.

3. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the assistance module includes a plurality of support data sets adapted to be displayed on the output device corresponding to a plurality of levels of competence.

4. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operating console includes a sensor device for verifying the user.

5. The Medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operating console includes a checking device for checking an access authorization, a skill level, and the competence level of the user using a data set representing the user.

6. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the graphic user interface is adapted to change a user-related screen displayed on the graphic user interface based on a data set representing the user.

7. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operating console includes a memory device connected to the input device, the memory device having a plurality of stored user profiles for dynamically adapting the graphic user interface according to a current user profile input via the input device.

8. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a functionality of an application software for executing the medical procedure includes a hierarchy of function levels.

9. The medical apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the assistance module is adapted to determine a function level according to a current user profile.