COMPUTER BASED MULTIPHASIC HEALTH SCREENING SYSTEM

摘要

1371443 Indicating availability of medical test stations SEARLE MEDIDATA Inc 29 March 1972 [30 March 1971] 14756/72 Heading G4T In a health screening system, wherein a central processor is linked to a plurality of stations, each operative to perform a medical test on a patient, there is provided at least one console 10 and preferably each station includes such a console 10 having arrays 12 and 14 of visual indicators, representing and identifying the various stations and the various tests respectively. The central processor is operative to selectively illuminate indicators of array 12, to indicate which stations are unoccupied, and indicators of array 14, to indicate which tests the patient has yet to undergo. The simultaneous illumination of corresponding indicators in the two arrays is an indication to the patient of which station he should visit next. For each patient, details of the tests he has or has not undergone and of which of all the available tests it is necessary for him individually to undergo are stored in the central processor and are retrievable for illumination of array 14 at only the station occupied by the patient in response to the reading of the patient identification number from his card inserted at 18. Details of which stations are unoccupied and of the identities of patients occupying the other stations are also stored and used for periodic illumination of the arrays 12 in all the stations. These latter details are updated at predetermined intervals. The individual patient details are updated at each insertion of a patient identification card into a slot 18. Commands from the central processor to either the patient or a station operator may be displayed at 20. When two or more of the stations are used as alternative locations for the carrying out of a particular test, the corresponding indicator in array 12 is illuminated when at least one of such stations is unoccupied. Operation of a computer section of the central programmer is described with reference to flow diagrams, Figs. 7-9 (not shown).