Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Patent
1993-08-26
2000-01-11
Tkacs, Stephen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
705 2, G06F 1760
Patent
active
060146303
ABSTRACT:
A system for producing individualized patient educational reports for patients about to receive medical procedures, such as surgery, the reports including data relating to the particular medical procedure, the particular medical facility, and the particular physician. The system includes a medical procedure database storing data as to a plurality of medical procedures, a medical facility database storing data as to how the medical procedures are carried out at that particular medical facility, a physician database storing data as to how individual physicians vary the medical procedures, a method for manually entering individual patient data and for selecting the particular medical procedure, the particular medical facility, and the particular physician to be used for the individual patient, a formatting technique for taking the selected medical procedure, the selected medical facility, and the selected physician and preparing a report providing information for the patient as to the medical procedure the patient is about to undergo, and a printer for printing out the report. The report advises the patient what to anticipate and what is expected of him.
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Jeacock Harvey F.
Nowak Elliott B.
Patient Education Services, Inc.
Tkacs Stephen R.
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