Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
194 words
A hospital-based integrated medical computer system for processing medical and patient information and for evolving medical knowledge, diagnoses and prognoses which comprises: (a) at least one processor, including a memory and a plurality of medical data banks connected thereto, and a plurality of separate processor hardware modules at least indirectly connected to said memory, said modules including a communication module, at least one switching module, an administrative module and a knowledge base module; (b) hardware, firmware and software in said processor hardware modules to enable the modules to perform at least the following functions: (i) for the communication module, to control all functional processes of the other modules, the main memory and said at least one processor, so that they effectively communicate with one another; (ii) for said at least one switching module, to select and switch between selected information as it becomes relevant to a process of solving a particular problem; (iii) for the administrative module, to perform housekeeping functions, including multitasking control with resource allocation, real-time multitasking and scheduling of tasks; and, (iv) for the knowledge base module, to operate knowledge processing functions and to store information in said medical data banks.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
31 words
The hospital-based integrated medical computer system of claim 1 wherein said system further includes a general patient database connected to at least one of said memory and said processor hardware modules.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
35 words
The hospital-based integrated medical computer system of claim 1 wherein said system further includes a plurality of physician-based, remotely located physician access point units connected to said processor for operating said system from remote sources.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
77 words
The hospital-based integrated medical computer system of claim 1 wherein said medical data banks include a plurality of subareas of knowledge, and said knowledge base module includes a plurality of subprocesses, and said communication module has software to further control communication between the subareas of the medical data banks and the knowledge base module and to control the subprocesses as they pertain to a particular medical problem and to systematically organize inputs and outputs of the subprocesses.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
39 words
The hospital-based integrated medical computer system of claim 1 wherein said system further includes a plurality of remotely located patient access point units connected to said processor for operating said system from remote sources by patients for predetermined purposes.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
193 words
A method of operating a hospital-based integrated medical computer system for processing medical and patient information and for evolving medical knowledge, diagnoses and prognoses which comprises: (a) operating at least one processor, which includes a memory and a plurality of medical data banks connected thereto, and a plurality of separate processor hardware modules at least indirectly connected to said memory, said modules including a communication module, at least one switching module, an administrative module and a knowledge base module; (b) operating hardware, firmware and software in said processor hardware modules to perform at least the following functions: (i) for the communication module, controlling all functional processes of the other modules, the main memory and said at least one processor, so that they effectively communicate with one another; (ii) for said at least one switching module, selecting and switching between selected information as it becomes relevant to a process of solving a particular problem; (iii) for the administrative module, performing housekeeping functions, including multitasking control with resource allocation, real-time multitasking and scheduling of tasks; and, (iv) for the knowledge base module, operating knowledge processing functions and to store information in said medical data banks.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said system further includes a general patient database connected to at least one of said memory and said processor hardware modules.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said system further includes a plurality of physician-based, remotely located physician access point units connected to said processor for operating said system from remote sources.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
73 words
The method of claim 6 wherein said medical data banks include a plurality of subareas of knowledge, and said knowledge base module includes a plurality of subprocesses, and said communication module has software to further control communication between the subareas of the medical data banks and the knowledge base module and to control the subprocesses as they pertain to a particular medical problem and to systematically organize inputs and outputs of the subprocesses.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
43 words
The method of claim 9 wherein the software for the communication module includes the ability to select and collate subprocesses of the knowledge base module and the data from the medical data banks towards solving a particular medical query in a perceptive manner.