COMPLETE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEM BY ON- LINE INTEGRATION OF A REAL TIME INTERACTING PANEL OF MEDICAL SPECIALITIES

摘要

The invention refers to an innovative diagnostics protocol by using a cooperative methodology between multidisciplinary medical teams that participate simultaneously at an evaluation and an analysis of the case, said team which exchanges medical opinions and works together proactively and in real-time in order to establish the diagnostics and a complete treatment scheme. The interest area of the present invention is the rapid and complete diagnostics of a patient using a multidisciplinary team of doctors that simultaneously work and evaluate the patient in real time by using remote continuous monitoring equipment of the vital functions at the patient's home, after which the relevant data are transmitted and analyzed continuously in a decision center. The necessary technical platform for implementing the complete diagnostics method is composed of a dispatch system (1) which can manage a number of simultaneous calls, where patients call and get in touch with the coordinating medical doctor, said doctor who retrieves patient information and decides which medical domains will be involved in the panel following the method for choosing the medical specialties, then he or she nominates doctors that will take part in the panel by selecting them from a specialists database (2), said specialists who communicate between them and with the patient using a telemedicine system (3) which is composed of an audio-video bidirectional communication patient terminal (4) which is brought by the medical doctor that examines the patient at his or hers location, audio-video bidirectional specialist communication systems (5) which specialists use and a software application that manages the telemedicine system (6), said application which allows simultaneous bidirectional audio-video communication between medical specialists, the coordinating doctor, the doctor that performs the tests and the examination, said application which runs on a specialized server (7).