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Workstation for medical service
Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 1994-01-11
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Granted: 1997-10-07
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Expires: 2014-01-11
Abstract
Abstract A system bus for connecting modules in a workstation for medical service has connected thereto a CPU, a main memory device, an input-output apparatus comprising a CRT or a display device such as liquid crystal and an operation input device, an ISDN interface, a disc and an optical card device. A list of data structural bodies stored in an optical card carried by a patient is read the optical card device, and data access is effected to facilities which seem to require data reference the use of a facility line number recorded on the optical card, through the ISDN interface.
Inventors
- 👤 Osamu Tsujii
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 23:54
CPC Classifications
G; G16; G16H; G16H10/00; G16H10/60; G16H10/65; G16H30/00; G16H30/20; G16H40/00; G16H40/60; G16H40/67; G16H70/00; G16H70/60
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
160 words
A workstation for medical service comprising: public or exclusive digital circuit interface means for interfacing with a public or exclusive digital circuit; means for reading and writing data in a removable memory medium having stored therein one or more data structures, each of the data structures including (1) a header having a facility line number of a facility which stores data of medical service information of a patient and at least one of a facility identification code which identifies the facility, a personal identification code which identifies the patient, and a personal password of the patient, and (2) medical service information relating to medical service which has been received by the patient; and means for accessing the facility through the public or exclusive digital circuit by using the data read by said means for reading and writing including at least a facility line number, to retrieve the medical service information in the facility, through the public or exclusive digital circuit.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
160 words
A workstation for medical service comprising: public or exclusive digital circuit interface means for interfacing with a public or exclusive digital circuit; means for reading and writing data in a removable memory medium having stored therein one or more data structures, each of the data structures including (1) a header having a facility line number of a facility which stores data of medical service information of a patient and at least one of a facility identification code which identifies the facility, a personal identification code which identifies the patient, and a personal password of the patient, and (2) medical service information relating to medical service which has been received by the patient; and means for accessing the facility through the public or exclusive digital circuit by using the data read by said means for reading and writing including at least a facility line number, to retrieve the medical service information in the facility, through the public or exclusive digital circuit.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
A workstation for medical service according to claim 1, wherein said personal identification code is used as a key when said workstation retrieves the data of the medical service information in other facilities.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
63 words
A workstation for medical service according to claim 2, wherein access is possible only when the permission code of the patient who is effectively appropriate to be retrieved in said other facilities is sent back in reply to a demand for said permission code from said other facilities when said workstation retrieves the data of the medical service information in said other facilities.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
73 words
A workstation for medical service according to claim 3, wherein in case of a demand for data retrieval regarding the data of medical service information for which the right to access from said other facilities is indispensable to set therein the demand for data retrieval is answered only when said permission code of the pertinent patient in the present facility is demanded and a permission code sent back coincides with said permission code.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
56 words
A workstation for medical service according to claim 1, wherein a patient's name in the header information of said medical service information including header information and medical service data is masked so as to be unidentifiable when said workstation retrieves the data of medical service information without using said personal identification code and said personal password.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
49 words
A workstation for medical service according to claim 5, wherein the patient's name in said header information is masked by optional character and transferred in reply to a demand for the data retrieval from said other facilities which does not have said personal identification code and said personal password.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
97 words
A workstation for medical service comprising: interface means for connection with a public or an exclusive line; reading means for reading data in a memory medium having stored therein one or more data structures having at least facility line number data of a respective facility in which facility medical data relating to a patient is stored; and accessing means for accessing the medical data stored in the respective facility through the public or exclusive line via said interface means using data read by said reading means including at least a facility line number from the memory medium.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
97 words
A workstation for medical service comprising: interface means for connection with a public or an exclusive line; reading means for reading data in a memory medium having stored therein one or more data structures having at least facility line number data of a respective facility in which facility medical data relating to a patient is stored; and accessing means for accessing the medical data stored in the respective facility through the public or exclusive line via said interface means using data read by said reading means including at least a facility line number from the memory medium.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
141 words
A communication system for medical service, comprising: a plurality of first terminal means each placed in a respective facility, storing medical information of a patient; reading means placed in a facility other than the facilities in which said first terminal means are placed, for reading data in a memory medium having stored therein one or more data structures having at least facility line number data of that respective facility; and second terminal means placed in said facility other than the facilities in which said first terminal means are placed, connecting with said plurality of first terminal means via a public or an exclusive line, said second terminal means being for accessing the medical data stored in the respective facility through the public or exclusive line via using the data read by said reading means including at least a facility line number.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
141 words
A communication system for medical service, comprising: a plurality of first terminal means each placed in a respective facility, storing medical information of a patient; reading means placed in a facility other than the facilities in which said first terminal means are placed, for reading data in a memory medium having stored therein one or more data structures having at least facility line number data of that respective facility; and second terminal means placed in said facility other than the facilities in which said first terminal means are placed, connecting with said plurality of first terminal means via a public or an exclusive line, said second terminal means being for accessing the medical data stored in the respective facility through the public or exclusive line via using the data read by said reading means including at least a facility line number.
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