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WO2002065337A1 - Systeme d'archivage d'informations - Google Patents

Systeme d'archivage d'informations Download PDF

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WO2002065337A1
WO2002065337A1 PCT/IB2001/000171 IB0100171W WO02065337A1 WO 2002065337 A1 WO2002065337 A1 WO 2002065337A1 IB 0100171 W IB0100171 W IB 0100171W WO 02065337 A1 WO02065337 A1 WO 02065337A1
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John Halker
Shane Grevenstein
David Immelman
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F16/00—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
    • G06F16/90—Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types
    • G06F16/95—Retrieval from the web
    • G06F16/954—Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G16—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
    • G16H—HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
    • G16H70/00—ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references
    • G16H70/20—ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references relating to practices or guidelines
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G16—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
    • G16H—HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
    • G16H70/00—ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references
    • G16H70/40—ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G16—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
    • G16H—HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
    • G16H70/00—ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references
    • G16H70/60—ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references relating to pathologies

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  • This invention relates to an information repository and, more particularly, but not exclusively, to an information repository which can be employed to provide a consolidated source of information for professional persons such as medical practitioners, legal personnel and the like.
  • the invention extends to a method of storing information for professional persons.
  • a problem with this form of information retrieval is that it is time-consuming and the person consulting a reference book is required to be skilled and knowledgeable about the layout of the reference book which is being consulted. There is no guarantee that the professional person may, indeed, find the required information, either due to oversight or due to the fact that the reference book may not contain the required information.
  • the recent increase in popularity of the World Wide Web of the Internet has provided another source of information, namely an on-line repository in which desired information may be located and retrieved by means of keyword-based search engines.
  • the World Wide Web of the Internet whilst convenient, suffers from the disadvantage that the information content is not regulated and controlled, and often turns out to be incomplete, inaccurate or irrelevant to a would-be user thereof.
  • an information repository comprising: a processor; a storage facility; an input facility operable to input information for storage in the storage facility; and a user access facility operable by a user of the information repository to retrieve and display selected information stored in the storage facility characterised in that the information stored in the storage facility relates to a particular field of professional practice.
  • the reference information to be information relating to different diseases, for the reference information to describe characteristics and surgical procedures of any particular disease, for the educational information to comprise articles for improving a medical practitioner's understanding of diseases and keeping the medical practitioner abreast of new developments in the field of medical practice, for the product information to be an electronic drug reference, for the electronic drug reference to contain any one or more of package insert text, drug information relevant to a medical practitioner and drug information relevant to a patient, for the services information to be a listing of medical service providers, for the listing to be general listing including contact information, alternatively for the to be a listing of specialized medical service providers, for the specialized medical service providers to include any one or more of pathologists, radiologists, and physiotherapists, for the services information to include a list of medical tests performed by each listed service provider, and for services information to enable the generation of a request for any one or more of the medical tests.
  • Yet further features of the invention provide for the information repository to be co-operable with a medical practice management system, for the user access facility to retrieve and display information to a medical practitioner in a context- sensitive manner, for the context-sensitive manner to correspond to a medical diagnosis made by a user of the information repository, for the user access facility to display the retrieved information in a plurality of different display modes, and for the plurality of different display modes to relate to presentation of the reference information, educational information, product information and services information, respectively.
  • the storage facility to be a distributed storage facility, for the distributed storage facility to include replication means for distributing input information across the distributed storage facility, for the distributed storage facility to be a distributed database, for the replication means to distribute information in an encrypted format, for the encrypted information to be distributed along a communication network, preferably a network conforming to the well known TCP/IP communication protocol, and, further preferably, according to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard.
  • a communication network preferably a network conforming to the well known TCP/IP communication protocol, and, further preferably, according to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard.
  • HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • the invention extends to a method of storing information, comprising the steps of: providing a processor and a storage facility; inputting information for storage in the storage facility; and retrieving and displaying selected information stored in the storage facility characterised in that the information stored in the storage facility relates to a particular field of professional practice.
  • the reference information to be information relating to different diseases, for the reference information to describe characteristics and surgical procedures of any particular disease, for the educational information to comprise articles for improving a medical practitioner's understanding of diseases and keeping the medical practitioner abreast of new developments in the field of medical practice, for the product information to be an electronic drug reference, for the electronic drug reference to contain any one or more of package insert text, drug information relevant to a medical practitioner and drug information relevant to a patient, for the services information to be a listing of medical service providers, for the listing to be a general listing including contact information, alternatively for the listing to be a specialized listing of specialized medical service providers, for the specialized medical service providers to include any one or more of pathologists, radiologists, and physiotherapists, for the services information to include a list of medical tests performed by each listed service provider, and for services information to enable the generation of a request for any one or more of the medical tests.
  • the storage facility is a distributed storage facility, for the method to include the step of replicating input information across the distributed storage facility, for replicating the information in an encrypted format, for replicating the encrypted information along a communication network, preferably a network conforming to the well known TCP/IP communication protocol, and, further preferably, according to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard.
  • a communication network preferably a network conforming to the well known TCP/IP communication protocol, and, further preferably, according to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard.
  • HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • Figure 1 is a schematic representation of an information repository according to the invention.
  • an information repository is indicated generally by reference numeral (1).
  • the information repository (1) includes a processor (2), a storage facility (3) in the form of a database, an input facility indicated generally by reference numeral (4), and a user access facility in the form of a display monitor (5) and a printer (6).
  • the input facility (4) is operable by an information content provider to input information for storage in the storage facility (3).
  • the user access facility (5) is operable by a user of the information repository (1) to retrieve and display selected information stored in the storage facility (3).
  • the information content provider would, typically, be a pharmaceutical company, a publisher of medical journals, an educational institution, a medical service provider, and the like, as will be described in more detail below.
  • the user of the information repository (1) would typically be a medical practitioner or other medical service provider.
  • the information stored in the information repository (1) will, in this particular application, relate only to content which is relevant to the medical profession or patients seeking medical advice or treatment from medical practitioners or medical service providers.
  • the information content in the storage facility (3) which is submitted by means of the input facility (4) is categorised into different categories according to a standardized, general categorization subsystem (12) for catergorising information according to areas of interest to the medical profession.
  • the categorization subsystem includes sub-categories that relate, in particular, to reference information (7), educational information (8), product information (9) and service information (10).
  • the categorization subsystem (12) includes a list of diseases which are taken to be a standard set for a particular geographic location.
  • the reference information (7) relates to these different diseases and describes characteristics and surgical procedures of any particular disease.
  • the reference information is arranged as a number of patient information leaflets that provide information on diseases, together with illustrations, where applicable. This reference information can be used to discuss various diseases between medical practitioner and patient, and can be printed out on the printer (6) as handouts for the patient.
  • the relationship of the reference information (7) to a medical practitioner's current activity is defined bythe likk between the reference information and the categorization subsystem.
  • the educational information (8) comprises articles aimed at improving medical practitioner's understanding of diseases and keeping the medical practitioner abreast of new developments in the field of medical practice.
  • the categorisation in the storage facility (3) permits a logical grouping of articles into areas of speciality within the medical field.
  • Authors are able to link their articles to pertinent diseases through the categorization subsystem (12) so that the medical practitioner is not bombarded with irrelevant information, but only that which pertains to his current activity.
  • the product information is an electronic drug reference that contains information relating to drugs, contacts, company information and literature pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry.
  • the electronic trade reference contains package insert text, drug information relevant to a medical practitioner and drug information relevant to a patient. Details of the various pharmaceutical companies providing the drugs listed in the electronic drug reference are stored in the storage facility (3), together with related contacts, resulting in a comprehensive resource for medications.
  • a pharmaceutical company is also able to submit literature containing information of a clinical nature that is meaningful and useful to improve a medical practitioner's understanding of a particular drug.
  • a pharmaceutical company is able to single out certain of its products for treatment of a particular disease by linking the drugs through the categorization subsystem (12).
  • the service information constitutes an electronic register of medical service providers such as, for example, pathologists, radiologists, physiotherapists and the like, together with respective tests and therapies that they offer.
  • the information repository (1) can also be configured to provide printed forms on the printer (6) that may be used to apply for, or to request, tests or therapies to be carried out by any of the listed service providers.
  • the services provided by the medical service providers can be linked to particular diseases, where applicable, by means of the categorization subsystem (12).
  • the tests and therapies can also be linked in this manner in order to aid a medical practitioner to rapidly identify those of relevance to a particular disease.
  • the storage facility (3) also contains a register of authorised users of the information repository (1).
  • the authorised users of the information repository (1) are medical practitioners.
  • the register will store, for each authorised user, information indicating the type of medical practitioner, the medical practitioner's practice number, together with other relevant information.
  • the user access facility (5) may be operated in a variety of different user interface modes, either as a toolbar, or as a standalone browser, or may be integrated directly into an application operating under the well-known Windows operating system software from Microsoft Corporation of Seattle, Washington.
  • Whichever user interface mode is employed by the user four different display modes corresponding to the four types of information content described above, namely reference, education, products and services, are presented and are accessible separately by means of respective windows. Any information displayed in each of these windows is filtered according to a current diagnosis made by a medical practitioner, and selected from an equivalent list to that used in the categorization system (12), thereby ensuring that the medical practitioner is only presented with information relevant to his current area of focus. It is also possible to retrieve and display information from the information repository (1) in glossary mode, which is not context-sensitive. In this mode, displayed information is not particular to a diagnosis.
  • the information repository (1) is implemented as a distributed database to enable the system to be used by a plurality of content providers as well as a plurality of information consumers, or subscribers.
  • the information repository is implemented as a distributed database with a replication facility (11) capable of distributing input information across the distributed database, thereby ensuring that each subscriber is presented with a complete, up-to-date set of information contained therein.
  • the replication is managed in a manner transparent to the content providers and the subscribers, and provides a bidirectional flow of information. This is important as it facilitates the transport of responses from subscribers back to content providers, thereby creating a powerful channel of communication.
  • the replication is achieved by means of encrypted replication data packets transported across a TCP/IP communication network under the well-known Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard. This means that both Local Area Netwok (LAN) and Internet Service Provider (ISP) enabled content providers and subscribers can use the same technology to send and receive information content updates.
  • HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • the information repository (1) is integrated with a medical practice management
  • the information repository (1) provides functions that are complementary to those which are provided by such a medical practice management system.
  • the information repository (1) may be employed for the storage and presentation of information relating to other areas of professional practice such as, for example, legal practice. Further, different classifications of the stored information are possible. Still further, a different system topology, such as a client-server system topology may be used instead of the distributed database implementation described above. Finally, the information repository (1) may be used in other areas of professional practice such as, for example, legal practice.
  • the invention therefore provides a comprehensive information repository for professional use which enables professionals to retrieve information in an effective manner.

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Système d'archivage d'informations composé d'un processeur, d'une mémoire, d'un dispositif d'entrée servant à entrer ces informations afin de les stocker dans la mémoire et d'un dispositif d'accès d'utilisateur permettant à l'utilisateur de ce système d'extraire et d'afficher les informations sélectionnées mémorisées dans la mémoire. Les informations mémorisées dans la mémoire concernent un domaine déterminé de pratique professionnelle, telle que la pratique médicale ou juridique. Le contenu des informations mémorisées est classé en différentes catégories en fonction des informations de référence, de l'expérience, des produits et des services appartenant au domaine déterminé de pratique professionnelle.
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