Patent ID: 6879937

Claim:
A method for economic evaluation of proper use of a facility in operation, having the following method steps: those data which are obtaining data during proper use of the facility and are suitable for describing the proper use of the facility are recorded at the facility's location, the data are transmitted to a central database arranged at a location other than the facility's location, the transmitted data are categorized according to the type of use of the facility, using an evaluation facility associated with the database, on the basis of the categorization, the transmitted data are stored in collective files associated with the type of use, on the basis of the categorization of the transmitted data, economic evaluation of the proper use of the facility is effected, and on the basis of the economic evaluation, a proposal for modifying the facility is ascertained, wherein the facility is a medical instrument and one of magnetic resonance instrument, a computer tomograph, a lithotripter, an ultrasound instrument or an X-ray instrument.