Patent ID: 6157914
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
A medical support system comprising:plural local database systems located at different addresses, each of the plural local database systems comprising:plural databases configured to store medical data of patients and retrieval data of the medical data in an individual manner, the retrieval data including addresses of the patients and IDs of the patients, anda management system corresponding to the plural databases of the local database system and configured to store a relationship between the addresses of the patients and system IDs of said plural local database systems,wherein one of the databases of the local database system is configured to determine, upon receiving a request for retrieving medical data of a patient, the request including the retrieval data of the patient, whether or not the medical data of the patient is stored in the one database based on the ID of the patient and is configured to transfer the request to the corresponding management system when the medical data is not stored in the one database, andwherein the corresponding management system is configured to determine, upon receiving the request from the one database, whether or not the medical data is stored in any of the plural databases in the local database system based on the ID of the patient and is configured to transfer the request to another management system of another local database system based on the address of the patient when the medical data is not stored in any of the plural databases in the local database system.