Patent Document ID: 6082776
Application ID: 08852336
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for storing medical information comprising: a tangible medium comprising: a first displayed portion comprising computer compressed medical information in: a field of a sequence of order-specific human readable characters chosen from a set of characters, wherein the sequence of characters is chosen, determined and displayed in the first portion in a unique order dependent on a specific sequential ordering of computer-generated data encoded to represent a patient's medical information, and wherein the computer compressed medical information is compressed based on multiple updateable static dictionaries and a statistical model of prior probability information to take into account that the incidence of disease, disorders, surgical procedures and medications is related to the patient's demographic grouping, and that certain diseases, disorders surgical procedures and medications will most likely occur in combinations; and a second displayed portion comprising uncompressed human readable information in: an identifying field of versions of a computer program, the multiple updateable static dictionaries, and the statistical model used to compress and produce the computer compressed medical information displayed in the first portion, a date field of the effective date of the computer compressed medical information, an initials field of initials of the patient, an emergency information field of emergency information for emergency treatment of the patient, and an information field comprising telephone and world wide web information for remote decoding of the computer compressed medical information.