Patent ID: 7707043
Filing Date: 2010-04-27
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method to input and electronically store data for a medical clinical study, comprising the steps of: through user interaction with a processor, generating a customized input platform program comprising programming instructions that operate a computer workstation having a display, that cause a collection of computer input fields to be presented at said display with said computer input fields configured only and precisely for entry, into a computer at which said input fields are displayed, of the data that is necessary for a specific medical clinical study; from said processor, electronically distributing said customized input platform program, to respective storage locations established by said customized input platform according to the DICOM standard, at each of a plurality of computer workstations each having a display, respectively located at input locations with which patients participating in the specific medical clinical study interface; upon interfacing at one of said input locations with one of said patients, entering a characteristic identifying that patient into the computer workstation at said one of said input locations and, via the computer workstation, automatically calling and activating said customized input platform program solely for said specific medical clinical study solely by entry of said characteristic into said computer workstation; via said display of said computer workstation at said one of said input locations, providing data for said specific medical clinical study only by making entries, through said computer workstation, in respective input fields of the collection of input fields caused by said customized input platform program to be presented at the computer at the display of the computer workstation at the input location; and electronically storing the data entered via the customized input platform program to generate an electronically accessible database for said customized input platform program and making said database electronically accessible to participants in said specific medical clinical study.