Patent ID: 6272470
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
An electronic clinical recording system handling, as electronic data, information including a patient's consultation record, comprising:a portable storage medium for storing the patient's consultation record described in a structured language as one or more specified files containing patient consultation information, as one or more of said specified files and link information indicating one or more external files containing patient consultation information, or as said link information;means for writing said one or more specified files, said one or more specified files and link information or said link information at at least one of a plurality of medical institutions in order to initially store or to add to the patient's consultation record stored in the portable storage medium, said means for writing including converting/producing means for converting or producing the link information as part or all of the patient's consultation record when the patient consultation information is determined to have a predetermined characteristic; andmeans for reading the patient's consultation record from the portable storage medium at each of the plurality of medical institutions so that each medical institution can share the patient's consultation record, said means for reading further including data acquiring/referencing means for acquiring or referencing one or more external files indicated by any stored link information read from the portable storage medium,wherein the predetermined characteristic includes file size and the means for writing further includes first determining means for determining said file size of the one or more specified files and second determining means for determining whether or not to store the one or more specified files in the portable storage medium depending on the file size determined by the first determining means.