Computer system and method for storing medical histories using a carrying size card

• US 5,659,741 A
• Filed: 04/17/1995
• Issued: 08/19/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Information Retrieval Acquisition LLC
• Original Assignee: Stuart S. Bowie
• Inventors: Eberhardt, Silvio P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rones, Charles
• Application Number:
  US08/422,901
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: 235/492, 235/439, 364/413.02, 364/413, 283/76, 283/7, 40/2.2, 379/38, 379/93, 368/10, 206/37, 206/232, 395/615, 340/825.54
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A computer system and method for programming it for storage of individual medical histories on a storage device, preferably about the size of a credit card, for adding new medical data about the individual to the device and for communicating with other computers to retrieve large data records about the individual; and for enabling a second computer to collate and sort data relating to selected medical fields from the data of such individual and from the data about other individuals transferred to the second computer.

Claims

1. A medical history computer system (CS) usable by a health care specialist (HCS) for recording the medical history (MH) of persons comprising:

A. An electronic computer (CP) having;

a. a memory (M) including a random access memory (RAM) and means for permanent memory (PM);

b. means for storing MH data (MHD) for each person in the M;

c. means for receiving a MH storage device (SD), said SD being no larger than a normal human hand and preferably the size of a credit card, and which is optimally routinely carried daily by each person whose MH is recorded;

d. means for transferring MHD for each person from/to the M to the SD;

e. means for adding new MH data (NMHD) for each such person to the SD by inputting the new MH data in the RAM;

f. means for transferring the NMHD for each person onto the SD for each such person, whereby said NMHD becomes part of the MHD stored on the SD for that person;

B. said CS also having a monitor for the visual display of the MHD on the RAM;

C. Said CS including an MH program for storing a person'"'"'s MH, said program comprising means for creating a MH file for the person, for modifying that MH file, and for creating a critical information file (CIF) for that person;

D. said CS further including means for searching for specific information in a MH based on a character string supplied by the HCS or other source, wherein the CS includes a program comprising;

a. means for searching the MH for specific words that are specified in the character string;

b. means for interpreting logic operators such as AND and OR in the character string in order to determine whether a particular character string that contains multiple words connected by said logic operations can be successfully matched with a MH that contain some of the said specified words, and

c. means for searching for each word given in the character string in terms of such word per se and also its synonyms and other related words.

2. The invention of claim 1 further including means for searching a MH for selected data and plotting that data in a graph.