Patent ID: 7080025
Filing Date: 2006-07-18
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical examination system for scheduling an appointment for patients comprising: a plurality of wireless display devices that have a display part and a communication part held by each patient waiting for a medical examination; and a server including a plurality of displays, said plurality of displays being capable of displaying guidance information including appointments included in a scheduler and displaying information from said respective wireless display devices, and a wireless communication means for communicating with said respective wireless display devices, wherein said scheduler includes: a waiting queue means for individual medical examination items for forming waiting queues for each of a plurality of medical examination items and sequentially queuing the medical examination appointments of the patients, and a waiting queue means for individual patients for forming waiting queues for each patient and sequentially queuing medical examination items for which appointments are scheduled, said scheduler includes means for scheduling a first appointment for a first medical examination of said medical examination items so that an available time to start said first medical examination on said medical examination items is calculated, said scheduler includes means for scheduling at least a second appointment for a second medical examination of said medical examination items so that an available time to start said second medical examination on said medical examination items is calculated after the first appointment which has been previously confirmed with respect to remaining queues of said waiting queue means for individual medical items; and said scheduler includes means for maintaining an unconfirmed state of an entire appointment process in case an interval between a starting time of the first appointment and a completion time of an appointment for a last medical examination item becomes at least equal to a predetermined amount of time and one of said medical examination items starts with an empty queue time period and means for changing the empty queue time period to a void queue time period that cannot be utilized again, and means for repeating an appointment process and means for confirming the entire appointment process when an interval between the starting time of the first appointment and the completion time of the appointment for said last medical examination item becomes less than the predetermined amount of time and one of said medical examination items starts with a non-empty queue time period, wherein said server includes means for forming information concerning medical examination guidance including an individual medical examination order, a starting time and an order of said medical examination items based on said waiting queue means for individual patients and said waiting queue means for medical examination items, on one of said plurality of displays of said server for respective patients, and wherein said wireless display devices display the waiting queues for the respective patient as a queue data structure and guidance relating to a medical examination route in a form of at least one of dynamic maps and directions to a next scheduled medical examination item appointment to individual patients via said wireless communication means of said server.