Medical care support system

• US 7,788,110 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2002
• Issued: 08/31/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: Kotake, Atsushi, Ogino, Hirokazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Rines; Robert D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thomas; Joseph
• Application Number:
  US10/123,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20030200114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,058 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The present invention intends to provide various medical-related service by connecting the Medical Application Service Provider (MASP), which is a new institution providing medical care support service, and multiple medical institutions through private lines or general communication network including Internet Connection. The present invention provides the system that receives and transmits medical information among the Medical Application Service Provider (MASP) 2 and online terminals 4-1 to 4-4 placed at the medical institution 4 through the communication line 3. The MASP carries out process of medical data, responding to orders from online terminals, and transmits results to the online terminals placed at the medical institution. Further, the order of medical supply can be transmitted from the online terminal of the medical institution to MASP 2 and processed to efficiently deliver the medical supply.

Claims

1. A medical support system, comprising:

an online terminal, disposed at a medical institution;

a sensor or probe, connected to the online terminal and adapted to detect a biological signal of a living body; and

a server, disposed at a medical application service provider, and communicatively connected to the online terminal via a wide-area communication network, wherein;

the online terminal comprises a first transmitter, operable to transmit the biological signal to the server via the wide-area communication network; and

the server comprises;

a processor, operable to process the biological signal transmitted from the online terminal, thereby generating biological signal data; and

a second transmitter, operable to transmit the biological signal data to the online terminal via the wide-area communication network.

2. The medical support system as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the server is adapted to be communicatively connected to, via the wide-area communication network, a plurality of online terminals which are respectively disposed at a plurality of medical institutions; and

the processor is operable to process a biological signal transmitted from any one of the online terminals.