Method using central epidemiological database
October 14, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesOccupational health/environmental surveillance Apparatus and methods for recording antimicrobic susceptibility data and biotype data Home medical surveillance system Patient care communication system Telepathology diagnostic network Classification of data records by comparison of records to a training database using probability weights Apparatus for assessing relatedness from autoradiograms Ambulatory patient health monitoring techniques utilizing interactive visual communication Medical communication system Radiological image interpretation apparatus and method InventorApplicationNo. 949646 filed on 10/14/1997US Classes:705/3, Patient record management600/300, DIAGNOSTIC TESTING707/104.1Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)ExaminersPrimary: Thomas, JosephAttorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesG06F 159/00A61B 005/00 AbstractPatient disease is diagnosed and/or treated using electronic data communications between not only the physician and his/her patient, but via the use of electronic data communications between the physician and one or more entities which can contribute to the patient's diagnosis and/or treatment, such electronic data communications including information that was priorly received electronically from the patient and/or was developed as a consequence of an electronic messaging interaction that occurred between the patient and the physician. Such other entities illustratively include a medical diagnostic center and an epidemiological database computer facility which collects epidemiological transaction records from physicians, hospitals and other institutions which have medical facilities, such as schools and large businesses. The epidemiological transaction record illustratively includes various medical, personal and epidemiological data relevant to the patient and his/her present symptoms, including test results, as well as the diagnosis, if one has already been arrived at by the e-doc. The epidemiological database computer facility can correlate this information with the other epidemiological transaction records that it receives over time in order to help physicians make and/or confirm diagnoses as well as to identify and track epidemiological events and/or trends.Other References
Field of SearchAUTOMATED ELECTRICAL FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS PRACTICE OR MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTHealth care management (e.g., record management, ICDA billing) Patient record management Insurance (e.g., computer implemented system or method for writing insurance policy, processing insurance claim, etc.) DATABASE OR FILE ACCESSING DIAGNOSTIC TESTING | |
