METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF A DIGITAL MEDICAL RECORD OF A PATIENT CONSISTING OF STORING IN DIGITAL FORM ALL TYPES OF MEDICAL INFORMATION

摘要

The method assembles a digital medical dossier for a patient by digital storage of all types of medial data referring to the patient. Various sources of data, eg. paper, photos, X-ray negatives (2), video images, are converted to digital data (5) and associated with other data already in digital format. They are then treated electronically (6) to compress and order them correctly prior to storage (7) in a memory space (3) defining a digital medical dossier (1), which may be consulted, modified or transmitted as appropriate. Typically a flat-bed scanner (12) is used for scanning in documents, while an appropriate scanner (13) is used for scanning radiographs, etc.