Patent ID: 7630907
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for introduction and processing of data and thereafter determining and generating presentations on a display screen of an electronic data processing system for controlling administration of radioactive pharmaceuticals to patients, comprises the steps of: processing patient data relating to at least one patient to whom a particular radioactive pharmaceutical is to be administrated and radioactive pharmaceutical data relating to the particular radioactive pharmaceutical itself; presenting, on the screen of the electronic data processing system, a complete main flow diagram showing all essential routines; displaying each essential routine selected by an operator on the screen in sequence, enabling the operator to perform each step in that selected essential routine and allowing for immediate return to the complete main flow diagram for obtaining details on each successive essential routine so that all the essential routines can be efficiently performed; introducing into at least one database, a first set of information about the at least one patient, a second set of information about the particular radioactive pharmaceutical, a third set of information about at least one dose of the particular radioactive pharmaceutical to the at least one patient, and a fourth set of information about dates administrations of the particular radioactive pharmaceutical to the at least one patient are to be performed; automatically assigning to the respective first, second, third and fourth sets of introduced information, a separate one of first codes about the at least one patient who is to receive a radioactive pharmaceutical, a separate one of second codes about each radioactive pharmaceutical to be administered to the at least one patient, a separate one of third codes about the doses of radioactive pharmaceuticals which can be administrated to the at least one patient, and a separate one of fourth codes about dates in which administration may take place; automatically locating information about the at least one patient, information about the particular radioactive pharmaceutical, information about the doses, information about the dates of activities to determine the particular radioactive pharmaceutical to be administrated to each patient and the doses thereof, and the dates of administration of the doses by locating the first, second, third, and fourth codes, and generating a display thereof; automatically correlating the first, second, third and fourth codes to the information sought so that the patients and the pharmaceuticals and the doses and the dates of activities are in the at least one database and can be automatically retrieved from the at least one database by the codes assigned thereto, thereby reducing the redundancy of information recorded; introducing into the at least one database a fifth set of information about tests to be performed on the at least one patient and a separate one of fifth codes assigned to each of those tests that will always remain the same for such tests regardless of the patients on whom the tests are to be performed; introducing into the at least one database a sixth set of information about studies to be performed based on the tests conducted on the at least one patient and a separate one of sixth codes assigned to each of those studies that will always remain the same for such studies regardless of the patients on whom the studies are to be performed; and introducing into the at least one database a seventh set of information about testing for radioactivity levels and a separate one of seventh codes assigned to each of the tests for radioactivity levels, wherein the same codes will be applied to such tests regardless of the radioactive pharmaceuticals with respect to which the tests are to be performed; wherein each of the codes are automatically assigned information which is introduced into the electronic data processing system such that the codes do not have be manually introduced by the operator thereof; and the first codes assigned to a patient will always remain the same for that patient, the second code assigned to the radioactive pharmaceutical will always remain the same for that radioactive pharmaceutical regardless of the patient the radioactive pharmaceutical is administered to, the third code assigned to the dose will always remain the same regardless of the patient and/or the pharmaceutical, and the fourth code will always remain the same for such date or dates regardless of the patient, dose and/or radioactive pharmaceutical.