Method for the administration of medical patient data

• US 8,195,476 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2003
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Fuchs, Friedrich, Kuth, Rainer, Opderbeck, Thorsten, Schaeffer, Sabine
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Connor, Gerald J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PASS, NATALIE
• Application Number:
  US10/425,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20030229521A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,325 Days
• Field of Search: 705/51, 705/37, 705 2- 4, 600/300, 600/316, 600/425, 600/407, 707/4, 707/10, 707/104.1
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

In a method for the administration of medical patient data with a centralized or decentralized patient medical file having secured access enabled by the patient or an enable code administered by the patient, wherein the patient data contain all previous examinations with data representing when the examination was conducted and the findings, a check-in of a patient into the device is implemented before a new examination by the physician, the check-in ensuing upon indication of the initial suspicion as well as of the planned examinations, an enable of these examination via a comparison device, particularly an expert system, ensues only when no relevant, previous examinations are present in a specific, preceding time span, and invoicing for the new examination is possible only in conjunction with a documentation of the examination and its results in the patient medical file.

Claims

1. A method for administering medical patient data comprising the steps of:

electronically storing medical data for a patient in a secured patient medical file with restricted access, said medical patient data containing data representing all previous examinations of the patient including a date of each examination and findings from each examination;

before implementing a new examination of the patient with a medical device prescribed by a physician, requiring automatic electronic, non-manual comparison of said patient medical file to data representing said new examination to obtain an electronic comparison result;

automatically electronically, non-manually preventing billing of costs of said new examination if said electronic comparison result indicates a previous examination exists comparable to said new examination in said patient medical file within a predetermined time span preceding the comparison; and

when said new examination is implemented, automatically determining if data representing a documentation of said new examination have been entered in said patient file, and automatically electronically, non-manually preventing monetarily charging said patient for a cost associated with said new examination if said data representing a documentation of said new examination are not entered in said patient medical file.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising employing a centralized file as said patient medical file.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising employing a decentralized file as said medical patient medical file.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising comparing said patient medical file to said data representing said new examination at a time said new examination is planned by said physician.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising restricting access to said patient medical file by enabling access to said patient medical file only by said patient.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5 comprising enabling access to said patient medical file by said patient by requiring entry of an enable code administered by said patient.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising said patient medical file in a medium adapted to be carried by said patient.

8. A method as claimed in claim 7 comprising storing said patient medical file in a digital portable storage medium.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8 comprising storing said patient medical file on a medium selected from the group consisting of a writeable CD ROM and a DVD ROM.

10. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising conducting said comparison using an expert system.

11. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising entering said comparison result in said patient medical file.

12. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising restricting access to said patient medical file using an insurance card.

13. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising restricting access to said patient medical file using a fingerprint sensor.

14. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising restricting access to said patient medical file using an iris measurement sensor.

15. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising restricting access to said patient medical file using a password.