System and method for minimizing transmitted data between diverse institutions
First Claim
1. A system for managing patient information, comprising:
- a central database having a database server communicating with a first network interface;
a display terminal and a client server communicating with a second network interface;
a forms database at the database server and a forms database at the client server, the client forms database being at least a subset of the database server forms database, each form having a unique name and metadata associated with each unique name;
wherein information filled in fields of a named form at the display terminal is transmitted through the second interface, the information including a form name of the unique names, the information is received through the first network interface and the unique form name used to retrieve metadata from the database server forms database and to formulate a query to the central database; and
the named form in each of the client forms database and the database forms database each correspond to a same named form in another forms database.
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Abstract
A system and method transmitting data in heterogeneous networks is described. A plurality of fillable forms is available to a user, each form having a name and metadata corresponding to the data fields that are displayable or retrievable by the form. The same form name is associated with the same metadata at another site, which may be another user or a central data base. When data values are filled in a form, the data values and the form name is transmitted over a network interface. At another location, the data values are received over a network interface, and a form having the same name as that of the received data is retrieved from a forms data base at the receiving location and used either to display the received data values in a form substantially the same as the transmitting form, or to formulate a query to a data base.
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10 Claims
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1. A system for managing patient information, comprising:
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a central database having a database server communicating with a first network interface; a display terminal and a client server communicating with a second network interface; a forms database at the database server and a forms database at the client server, the client forms database being at least a subset of the database server forms database, each form having a unique name and metadata associated with each unique name; wherein information filled in fields of a named form at the display terminal is transmitted through the second interface, the information including a form name of the unique names, the information is received through the first network interface and the unique form name used to retrieve metadata from the database server forms database and to formulate a query to the central database; and
the named form in each of the client forms database and the database forms database each correspond to a same named form in another forms database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A computer program product, stored or distributed in a tangible form on a computer readable medium, the product comprising:
instructions executable by a computer to; communicate with a central database having a database server and communicate over a network with a display terminal and a client server; manage a forms database at the data base server and a forms database at the client server, the client forms database being at least a subset of the database server forms database, each form having a unique name and metadata associated with each unique name; wherein information filled in fields of a named form of the client server forms data base at the display terminal is transmittable over the network, the information including a form name of the unique names, and the unique form name is used to retrieve metadata from the database server forms data base and to formulate a query to the central database; and
the fillable form in the client forms database and a named form in the centrally-located database have the at least the same metadata for filled fields corresponding to the information filled in fields of the named form; and
, the named fillable form in each of the client forms database and the database server forms database each correspond to a same named form in another forms database.
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5. A method of managing patient information, the method comprising:
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providing a locally-located forms database having a plurality of form types, each form type in the locally-located forms database having a unique name and associated form metadata; displaying a fillable form having a name of the unique names in the locally-located forms database; entering information into at least one field of the fillable form, the information being at least a value of data inserted into of one of the fillable fields; transmitting the information entered into the fillable form and at least the unique form name of the fillable form over an interface to a network, except that the metadata associated with the unique form name is not transmitted, wherein the named tillable form in the locally-located forms database and a named form in a remotely-located database have the same metadata for tillable fields and, the named tillable form in each of the locally-locate forms database and the remotely-located forms database correspond to a same named tillable form in a centrally-located database. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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