Computerized system for conducting medical studies

US6839678B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Volker Schmidt · Lexington, US
• Werner Striebel · Schwarzenbruck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 11, 1999
• Grant date: Jan 4, 2005
• Expiry date: Feb 11, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H40/67
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a system for conducting medical studies a number of medical locations, such as clinics or medical practices, are connected to a central server via a computer network. The system is constructed in modular fashion, and it is automatically determined, with computer support within the system, whether a specific patient is eligible to participate in a medical study of the system, and if so, the sequence of the corresponding medical study is controlled centrally by corresponding modules, automatically and in a study-specific and patient-specific fashion.