Patent ID: 8190445
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for detection, administration and/or evaluation of a current configuration of a medical examination or therapy device, comprising the steps of: via an output port, selected from the group consisting of a programming interface and an internet platform, of a medical examination or therapy device comprised of a current combination of a plurality of device units, selected from the group consisting of hardware units and software units, said medical examination or therapy device being available in different versions respectively from different manufacturers and being modifiable to be comprised of different combinations of said plurality of device units at different times, transmitting configuration data to a database via a network placing said output port and said database in communication with each other, said configuration data identifying which of said hardware units and which of said software units are in said current combination; storing said configuration data for said medical examination or therapy device in said database with an association of the manufacturer, among said plurality of manufacturers, of said medical examination or therapy device; and through a database interface, allowing access to said configuration data stored in said database by different searchers searching for a specific medical examination or therapy device having a specific combination of said device units, and configuring said access differently for respectively different searchers defined by respectively different roles, and defining said roles as being in the group consisting of an operator role, an end user role consisting of referrers and patients, and a manufacturer role, to obtain a search result indicating whether said current combination identified by said configuration data in said database corresponds to said specific combination; and making said search result available from said database via an output of the database in a humanly perceptible form.