Patent ID: 6421649
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
A medical system comprising:a plurality of organizational units adapted for respectively performing procedures, at respective predetermined times, in a predetermined sequence of procedures relating to a treatment of a patent; a plurality of data processing units respectively associated with said organizational units; a communication network connecting all of said data processing units for data exchange therebetween; at least one of said data processing units having an input unit allowing entry of an input of a time increment delay which effects the respective times at which the respective procedures in at least some of the other organizational units in said predetermined sequence, said time increment delay input being immediately retrieved by the respective data processing units via said communication network; and a control computer, connected to said communication network, which overrides all of said data processing units receiving and processing said time increment delay input, said control computer producing processed information relating to said time increment delay and immediately making said processed information available to all of said data processing units via said communication network, said control computer interrogates at least some of said data processing units as to whether said predetermined sequence can be maintained, and processing any time increment delays entered via the respective data processing units and adjusts said predetermined sequence dependent on said time increment delays to produce an updated sequence, and said control computer makes said updated sequence immediately available to all of said data processing units via said communication network.