Tele-evaluation system, especially for medicine

US6454709B1 · kind B1 · utility

Inventors

• Peter Kleinschmidt · Munich, DE
• Klaus Abraham-Fuchs · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 29, 2000
• Grant date: Sep 24, 2002
• Expiry date: Sep 22, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S128/904
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a tele-evaluation system, especially a tele-medicine system for centralized remote evaluation of information, particularly medical patient information and measurement data, based on one-time use articles (disposable items) that are identified with data and/or can collect measurement data, the disposable items carries an individual encoding key for encoding the data in a patient station that is linked via data line or data network to a storage station and/or evaluation-reception station. A disposable-ID is applied to or stored in the disposable item and is automatically collected at the patient station and is simultaneously transmitted unencoded, with an identifier for the patient station. The reception station has a data link to the disposable item manufacturer in order to query, using the disposable-ID, the individual key for decoding the data.