System and method for electronically managing medical data files

• US 8,296,333 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2011
• Issued: 10/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Luc Bessette
• Original Assignee: Luc Bessette
• Inventors: Bessette, Luc
• Primary Examiner(s): LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA
• Application Number:
  US13/162,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20110276551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 495 Days
• Field of Search: 707/803, 455/3.01, 455/414.3, 709/203, 705/2
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 50/00 ICT programming tools or database systems specially adapted for bioinformatics
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 50/30 Data warehousing; Computing architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols

Abstract

A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medical record data including summary information having a plurality of data elements associated with the individual, at least one of the data elements conveying medical information about the individual, and a pointers component including at least one pointer pointing to a network location containing importable medical information in connection with the individual that is not contained in the summary information component. The pointer includes a machine readable address part for processing by the client, allowing the client to import the medical information from the network location, and a label part for displaying to a user the nature of the medical information residing at the network location.

Claims

1. A network server arrangement, comprising:

a) a processor;

b) a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor for managing the operation of the network server arrangement, the network server arrangement storing in the machine readable storage a plurality of medical records, each record containing medical information about a respective individual, the network server arrangement being operative for;

i) performing an update of a particular medical record when new medical information becomes available for the individual associated with the particular medical record, the performing including;

(1) receiving from a remote network node data conveying the new medical information;

(2) storing the data in the machine readable storage in the particular medical record;

ii) in response to authentication information sent from a wireless cellular telephone of the individual associated with the particular medical record, outputting data conveying at least a portion of the new medical information for transmission to the wireless cellular telephone of the individual.

2. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 1, wherein the new medical information for transmission to the wireless cellular telephone of the individual includes a pointer to a network location remote from the network server arrangement containing medical information about the individual that can be downloaded to and viewed on the wireless cellular telephone.

3. A network server arrangement, comprising:

a) a processor;

b) a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor to service a request by a workstation client that is physically remote from the network server and communicates with the network server via a data network;

c) the network server arrangement being responsive to a request by the client to access a medical record of an individual, for;

i) generating a response to the client, the response including summary medical record data which contains;

(1) a summary information component, the summary information component including a plurality of data elements associated with the individual at least one of the data elements conveying medical information about the individual;

(2) a pointers component including at least one pointer that points to a network location containing importable medical information in connection with the individual that is not contained in the summary portion, the pointer including;

(a) a machine readable address part for processing by the client, to allow the client to import the medical information from the network location;

(b) a label part for displaying to a user at the client the nature of the medical information residing at the network location;

d) wherein the machine readable storage is a first machine readable storage and the network server arrangement stores medical records for a plurality of individuals;

e) the network server arrangement being operative for;

i) establishing a communication session with a wireless cellular telephone of a user that has a medical record stored in the network server for updating medical information about the user stored on the wireless cellular telephone, the network server communicating with the wireless cellular telephone over a data pathway, at least a segment of the data pathway being wireless;

ii) identifying among the plurality of medical records the particular medical record of the user of the wireless cellular telephone;

iii) extracting medical data from the particular medical record of the user and sending the data to the wireless cellular telephone for storage in the wireless cellular telephone.

4. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information includes medical imaging information.

5. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 4, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information is an x-ray of the individual.

6. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information is a CT scan of the individual.

7. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information is an electrocardiogram of the individual.

8. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information is an x-ray of the individual.

9. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information is a coronarography of the individual.

10. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys results of an allergy test performed on the individual.

11. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information is an electrocardiogram and that it is the most recent electrocardiogram.

12. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information is an electrocardiogram and that it is not the most recent electrocardiogram.

13. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user that the medical information is not the most recent medical information.

14. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part contains text.

15. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 14, wherein the label part textually describes the nature of the medical information.

16. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user a code describing a treatment administered to the individual.

17. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the label part conveys to the user a result of a test administered to the individual.

18. A network server arrangement as defined in claim 3, wherein the at least one pointer includes a hyperlink.

19. A network location as defined in claim 3, wherein the pointers component includes a plurality of pointers pointing to different locations in the network.

20. A network server arrangement, comprising:

a. a processor;

b. a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor for managing the operation of the server, the server storing in the machine readable storage a plurality of medical records each medical record containing medical information about a respective individual, the network server arrangement being operative for;

i. performing an update of a particular medical record when new medical information becomes available for the individual associated with the particular medical record, the performing including;

1. receiving from a remote network node data conveying the new medical information;

2. storing the data in the machine readable storage;

3. establishing a communication session with a wireless mobile communication device via a data pathway to send to the wireless mobile communication device data in relation to the new medical information, the data in relation to the new medical information includes a pointer to a network location remote from the network server arrangement containing medical information about the individual that can be downloaded to and viewed on the wireless cellular telephone.