Appeal No. 1999-0289
Application No. 08/336,690
Representative independent claim 21 is reproduced as
follows:
21. In a medical information recording and reproducing
apparatus having a processor connected to an input/output unit, a
medical diagnostic imaging unit, a display unit and a digital
audio tape (DAT) unit using a digital audiotape cassette
including a DAT having a recording area for recording and
reproducing digitized audio signals, a method of forming and
using a personal medical information file, comprising the steps
of:
(a) dividing said recording area of said DAT into a
plurality of areas including an identification information (ID)
area for storing said ID information of a single specified
person, a personal medical history information area for storing
case and therapeutic history information of said single specified
person, a medicative history information area for storing
medicative history information of said single specified person,
an examination image history information area and an examination
image information area for storing examination image information
of said single specified person;
(b) processing medical information including ID information,
case and therapeutic history information, medicative history
information and examination image history information of said
single specified person and examination image information of said
specified person received from said input/output unit and said
medical diagnostic imaging unit respectively to prepare said
information for recording in said DAT;
(c) recording in said ID area of said DAT said ID
information of said single specified person, and recording data
of at least one of said case and therapeutic history information,
said medicative history information, said examination image
history information and said examination images information,
related to a medical treatment said single specified person has
received in one of said ID areas, said personal medical history
information area, said medicative history information area, said
examination image history information area and said examination
image examination image history information area and said
examination image information area corresponding to said data to
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