CA2150648A1 - Method of storing and preparing data occuring at different periodic intervals - Google Patents
Method of storing and preparing data occuring at different periodic intervalsInfo
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- CA2150648A1 CA2150648A1 CA002150648A CA2150648A CA2150648A1 CA 2150648 A1 CA2150648 A1 CA 2150648A1 CA 002150648 A CA002150648 A CA 002150648A CA 2150648 A CA2150648 A CA 2150648A CA 2150648 A1 CA2150648 A1 CA 2150648A1
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- data
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- periodic intervals
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01D—MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G01D9/00—Recording measured values
- G01D9/005—Solid-state data loggers
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
- G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
- G06K19/08—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means
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- Medical Treatment And Welfare Office Work (AREA)
- Communication Control (AREA)
- Credit Cards Or The Like (AREA)
- Detection And Prevention Of Errors In Transmission (AREA)
- Processing Or Creating Images (AREA)
- Optical Record Carriers And Manufacture Thereof (AREA)
- Optical Recording Or Reproduction (AREA)
- Synchronisation In Digital Transmission Systems (AREA)
- Television Signal Processing For Recording (AREA)
- Eye Examination Apparatus (AREA)
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Abstract
A description is given of a method of storing and preparing alphanumeric data generated at short periodic intervals in a mobile manner and image material generated at long periodic intervals, which method is based on a data memory card which has both a chip and an optical data memory.
Description
2I506~ 8 METHOD OF STORING AND PREPARING DATA OCCURING AT
DIFFERENT PERIODIC INTERVALS
The present invention relates to a method of storing and preparing on the one hand alphanumeric data occurring at short periodic intervals and on the other S hand image material occurring at long periodic intervals, using a personal card as the storage medium.
In the long-term observation of sequences, there often occur on the one hand data which are picked up at short periodic intervals, for example several times a day, and on the other hand image material generated at greater time intervals 10 for assessing long-term changes, a relationship existing, or having to be deduced, between the alphanumeric data determined at short periodic intervals and the long-term changes.
Such long-term observations may concern, for example, patients with chronic disorders. In such cases there may occur on the one hand data which the 15 patient himself determines without involvement of the doctor at short time intervals in the form of alphanumeric data and which are to be available for themedical examinations carried out at greater time intervals, since they provide important indications for the further therapy of long-term changes possibly discovered by the doctor. The long-term observation by the doctor on the basis 20 of examinations at relatively great time intervals, for example including photographic comparative examinations, can be supplemented by the preparation of the short-term observations determined by the patient himself andcan contribute to increased effectiveness of the therapy.
The long-term observation of a diabetic by a doctor comprises, for example, inter 25 alia, half-yearly comparative examinations of the ocular fundus, in each casephotographic records of the ocular fundus being produced and compared. On the other hand, the patient determines, inter alia, his blood-sugar level several times a day. The evaluation of short-term variations in the blood-sugar level can Le A 30 430-FC
21506~8 provide the doctor with important indications in conjunction with changes of theocular fundus.
For effective long-term therapy, it is consequently desirable to have available in each case both the observations carried out by the patient at short periodic 5 intervals and the comparative examinations carried out at longer periodic intervals. In the interests of the mobility of the patients, it would be desirable furthermore for the patient to be able to carry on him the data required for a highly informative case history.
Therefore, it has already been proposed on several occasions to use as the 10 storage medium for health-relevant data optical memory cards in credit card format which can be written to and read from by means of laser beams ("WORM" = Write Once Read Many Memory). On account of technical development in recent years, such optical memory cards have achieved storage capacities of several megabites, in particular 4 to 6 megabites. The 15 corresponding reading/writing devices for such optical memory cards are not suitable, however, to be carried on a patient.
Therefore, it is proposed according to the invention to use data memories in credit card format which have a first memory for optical data storage and a second memory in the form of an electronic chip. For writing to the electronic 20 chip, devices having the dimensions of a pocket calculator are available, which can be readily carried on a patient. The writing device for the chip can be combined, furthermore, with a device for determining the blood sugar, so that the daily blood-sugar measurement of the patient is written-directly into the chip of the memory card. As part of the, for example, half-yearly examinations by the25 doctor, the latter will call up the stored blood-sugar values, initially process them if necessary, so that they can be read in the form of a diagram with a time axis, and transfer them together with the ocular fundus image into the optical memory area. The chip memory is then available once again for the recording of blood-sugar values.
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The subject of the present invention is consequently a method of storing and preparing alphanumeric data occurring at short periodic intervals and image material occurring at long periodic intervals which is characterized in that thealphanumeric data are stored at short periodic intervals by an alphanumeric 5 writing device on a first memory in the form of an electronic memory chip of a data carrier card, the image material are stored by means of an optical reading/writing device in a memory in the form of an optical memory area of the same data carrier card, the storage of image material being accompanied at a related time in each case by the chip being read, processed if necessary and 10 the possibly processed data being transferred to the optical memory area.
The subject of the present invention is also the unit comprising a data memory card, containing at least a first optical data memory and a second electronic chip memory, a writing device for writing to the chip and a reading device for reading from the chip and also a reading/writing device for the optical data memory.
15 The method according to the invention and the unit according to the inventionare suitable everywhere where it is required to gather alphanumeric data, preferably in a mobile manner, which are evaluated in conjunction with photographic comparative records prepared at greater time intervals. Such data structures occur not only in the case of chronic disorders, but also in conjunction 20 with workplaces where there are hazardous conditions, if for example MAC
values are measured and stored within short periodic intervals and more extensive healthcare or monitoring examinations are carried out at greater time intervals, including for example X-ray records.
Furthermore, the method according to the invention and the unit according to the25 invention may be advantageous in conjunction with the trial use of drugs, both in animal testing and in human testing. It may also be expedient, however, in the observation of building structures or vehicles, generally in conjunction with the monitoring of material fatigue, to assign to the object under observation in each case a "personal" card, where on the one hand alphanumeric data, for example 30 vibration behaviour, loading values and the like, are registered at short intervals Le A 30 430-FC - 3 -21506~8 and, for example, X-ray records of welds are produced in the form of image information material at greater intervals.
The chip of the data memory card may in this case contain additional information for identifying the object under observation or the patient. On the 5 other hand, it is also possible to provide the data memory card with a plurality of chips, one of the chips being intended for the storage of such identificationdata. A further possibility is for the data memory card to be provided with an additional magnetic strip for recording the data for identifying the object under observation or the patient.
10 The method according to the invention and the unit according to the inventionare of advantage in particular whenever alphanumeric data are to be generated and stored at short periodic intervals in an unlocalized manner and independently of an energy supply and are then to be made available at longer periodic intervals, if necessary after evaluation, for example by means of 15 electronic data processing systems, in conjunction with the generation of comparative image material for further later evaluations. In this case, on the one hand the limited storage capacity of the chip, which is about 5 KB, is used in combination with the high storage capacity of an optical memory card. According to the invention, this requires the compatibility of the data memory card on the20 one hand with a mobile, low-volume and lightweight, battery-operated writing device for the chip storage and on the other hand with a substantially stationary chip-reading, data-processing and reading/writing device for optical data memories.
The data memory card to be used according to the invention is represented in 25 the attached Figure 1. The data memory card 1 contains in a frame 2 an optical data memory field 3 and the chip 4, it being possible for a second chip 4' to beprovided, if necessary.
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DIFFERENT PERIODIC INTERVALS
The present invention relates to a method of storing and preparing on the one hand alphanumeric data occurring at short periodic intervals and on the other S hand image material occurring at long periodic intervals, using a personal card as the storage medium.
In the long-term observation of sequences, there often occur on the one hand data which are picked up at short periodic intervals, for example several times a day, and on the other hand image material generated at greater time intervals 10 for assessing long-term changes, a relationship existing, or having to be deduced, between the alphanumeric data determined at short periodic intervals and the long-term changes.
Such long-term observations may concern, for example, patients with chronic disorders. In such cases there may occur on the one hand data which the 15 patient himself determines without involvement of the doctor at short time intervals in the form of alphanumeric data and which are to be available for themedical examinations carried out at greater time intervals, since they provide important indications for the further therapy of long-term changes possibly discovered by the doctor. The long-term observation by the doctor on the basis 20 of examinations at relatively great time intervals, for example including photographic comparative examinations, can be supplemented by the preparation of the short-term observations determined by the patient himself andcan contribute to increased effectiveness of the therapy.
The long-term observation of a diabetic by a doctor comprises, for example, inter 25 alia, half-yearly comparative examinations of the ocular fundus, in each casephotographic records of the ocular fundus being produced and compared. On the other hand, the patient determines, inter alia, his blood-sugar level several times a day. The evaluation of short-term variations in the blood-sugar level can Le A 30 430-FC
21506~8 provide the doctor with important indications in conjunction with changes of theocular fundus.
For effective long-term therapy, it is consequently desirable to have available in each case both the observations carried out by the patient at short periodic 5 intervals and the comparative examinations carried out at longer periodic intervals. In the interests of the mobility of the patients, it would be desirable furthermore for the patient to be able to carry on him the data required for a highly informative case history.
Therefore, it has already been proposed on several occasions to use as the 10 storage medium for health-relevant data optical memory cards in credit card format which can be written to and read from by means of laser beams ("WORM" = Write Once Read Many Memory). On account of technical development in recent years, such optical memory cards have achieved storage capacities of several megabites, in particular 4 to 6 megabites. The 15 corresponding reading/writing devices for such optical memory cards are not suitable, however, to be carried on a patient.
Therefore, it is proposed according to the invention to use data memories in credit card format which have a first memory for optical data storage and a second memory in the form of an electronic chip. For writing to the electronic 20 chip, devices having the dimensions of a pocket calculator are available, which can be readily carried on a patient. The writing device for the chip can be combined, furthermore, with a device for determining the blood sugar, so that the daily blood-sugar measurement of the patient is written-directly into the chip of the memory card. As part of the, for example, half-yearly examinations by the25 doctor, the latter will call up the stored blood-sugar values, initially process them if necessary, so that they can be read in the form of a diagram with a time axis, and transfer them together with the ocular fundus image into the optical memory area. The chip memory is then available once again for the recording of blood-sugar values.
Le A 30 430-FC - 2 -2150fig~
The subject of the present invention is consequently a method of storing and preparing alphanumeric data occurring at short periodic intervals and image material occurring at long periodic intervals which is characterized in that thealphanumeric data are stored at short periodic intervals by an alphanumeric 5 writing device on a first memory in the form of an electronic memory chip of a data carrier card, the image material are stored by means of an optical reading/writing device in a memory in the form of an optical memory area of the same data carrier card, the storage of image material being accompanied at a related time in each case by the chip being read, processed if necessary and 10 the possibly processed data being transferred to the optical memory area.
The subject of the present invention is also the unit comprising a data memory card, containing at least a first optical data memory and a second electronic chip memory, a writing device for writing to the chip and a reading device for reading from the chip and also a reading/writing device for the optical data memory.
15 The method according to the invention and the unit according to the inventionare suitable everywhere where it is required to gather alphanumeric data, preferably in a mobile manner, which are evaluated in conjunction with photographic comparative records prepared at greater time intervals. Such data structures occur not only in the case of chronic disorders, but also in conjunction 20 with workplaces where there are hazardous conditions, if for example MAC
values are measured and stored within short periodic intervals and more extensive healthcare or monitoring examinations are carried out at greater time intervals, including for example X-ray records.
Furthermore, the method according to the invention and the unit according to the25 invention may be advantageous in conjunction with the trial use of drugs, both in animal testing and in human testing. It may also be expedient, however, in the observation of building structures or vehicles, generally in conjunction with the monitoring of material fatigue, to assign to the object under observation in each case a "personal" card, where on the one hand alphanumeric data, for example 30 vibration behaviour, loading values and the like, are registered at short intervals Le A 30 430-FC - 3 -21506~8 and, for example, X-ray records of welds are produced in the form of image information material at greater intervals.
The chip of the data memory card may in this case contain additional information for identifying the object under observation or the patient. On the 5 other hand, it is also possible to provide the data memory card with a plurality of chips, one of the chips being intended for the storage of such identificationdata. A further possibility is for the data memory card to be provided with an additional magnetic strip for recording the data for identifying the object under observation or the patient.
10 The method according to the invention and the unit according to the inventionare of advantage in particular whenever alphanumeric data are to be generated and stored at short periodic intervals in an unlocalized manner and independently of an energy supply and are then to be made available at longer periodic intervals, if necessary after evaluation, for example by means of 15 electronic data processing systems, in conjunction with the generation of comparative image material for further later evaluations. In this case, on the one hand the limited storage capacity of the chip, which is about 5 KB, is used in combination with the high storage capacity of an optical memory card. According to the invention, this requires the compatibility of the data memory card on the20 one hand with a mobile, low-volume and lightweight, battery-operated writing device for the chip storage and on the other hand with a substantially stationary chip-reading, data-processing and reading/writing device for optical data memories.
The data memory card to be used according to the invention is represented in 25 the attached Figure 1. The data memory card 1 contains in a frame 2 an optical data memory field 3 and the chip 4, it being possible for a second chip 4' to beprovided, if necessary.
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Claims (2)
1. Method of storing and preparing alphanumeric data occurring at short periodic intervals and image material occurring at long periodic intervals, characterized in that the alphanumeric data are stored at short periodic intervals by an alphanumeric writing device on a first memory in the form of an electronic memory chip of a data carrier card, the image material are stored by means of an optical reading/writing device on a second memory in the form of an optical memory area of the same data carrier card, the storage of image material being accompanied at a related time in each case by the chip being read and the read data being transferred, if necessary after processing, to the optical memory area.
2. Unit comprising a data memory card, containing at least a first optical memory and a second electronic chip memory, a writing device for writing to the chip and a device for reading from the chip, writing to the optical data memory and conversion of the read chip data into optically writable data.
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEP4419576.1 | 1994-06-03 | ||
| DE4419576A DE4419576A1 (en) | 1994-06-03 | 1994-06-03 | Process for storing and processing data with different periods |
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| CA2150648A1 true CA2150648A1 (en) | 1995-12-04 |
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| CA002150648A Abandoned CA2150648A1 (en) | 1994-06-03 | 1995-05-31 | Method of storing and preparing data occuring at different periodic intervals |
Country Status (11)
| Country | Link |
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| EP (1) | EP0686938B1 (en) |
| JP (1) | JPH07334634A (en) |
| AT (1) | ATE214500T1 (en) |
| AU (1) | AU693535B2 (en) |
| CA (1) | CA2150648A1 (en) |
| DE (2) | DE4419576A1 (en) |
| DK (1) | DK0686938T3 (en) |
| ES (1) | ES2173933T3 (en) |
| PT (1) | PT686938E (en) |
| SI (1) | SI0686938T1 (en) |
| ZA (1) | ZA954552B (en) |
Families Citing this family (2)
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE19804605A1 (en) * | 1998-02-06 | 1999-08-12 | Thomas Dr Gutjahr | Medical patient data storage method, e.g. for X-ray or computer tomography images |
| AT7892U3 (en) * | 2004-12-21 | 2006-08-15 | Evelyne Lorenz | ELECTRONIC DIABETIC DIARY |
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| US4683371A (en) * | 1981-02-27 | 1987-07-28 | Drexler Technology Corporation | Dual stripe optical data card |
| US5034914A (en) * | 1986-05-15 | 1991-07-23 | Aquidneck Systems International, Inc. | Optical disk data storage method and apparatus with buffered interface |
| US5317138A (en) * | 1991-02-20 | 1994-05-31 | Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. | Information recording and or reproducing apparatus for use in hybrid type information recording medium |
| US5332890A (en) * | 1991-08-08 | 1994-07-26 | Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. | Hybrid card and its recording/reproducing apparatus |
| JPH06309339A (en) * | 1993-04-20 | 1994-11-04 | Nippon Conlux Co Ltd | Medical information managing system |
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1994
- 1994-06-03 DE DE4419576A patent/DE4419576A1/en not_active Withdrawn
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1995
- 1995-05-22 AT AT95107791T patent/ATE214500T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1995-05-22 DK DK95107791T patent/DK0686938T3/en active
- 1995-05-22 SI SI9530596T patent/SI0686938T1/en unknown
- 1995-05-22 PT PT95107791T patent/PT686938E/en unknown
- 1995-05-22 ES ES95107791T patent/ES2173933T3/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1995-05-22 DE DE59510101T patent/DE59510101D1/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1995-05-22 EP EP95107791A patent/EP0686938B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1995-05-26 JP JP7151175A patent/JPH07334634A/en active Pending
- 1995-05-30 AU AU20388/95A patent/AU693535B2/en not_active Ceased
- 1995-05-31 CA CA002150648A patent/CA2150648A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1995-06-02 ZA ZA954552A patent/ZA954552B/en unknown
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| Publication number | Publication date |
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| EP0686938B1 (en) | 2002-03-13 |
| EP0686938A2 (en) | 1995-12-13 |
| JPH07334634A (en) | 1995-12-22 |
| DK0686938T3 (en) | 2002-06-03 |
| PT686938E (en) | 2002-08-30 |
| EP0686938A3 (en) | 1998-06-10 |
| ES2173933T3 (en) | 2002-11-01 |
| ZA954552B (en) | 1996-01-24 |
| ATE214500T1 (en) | 2002-03-15 |
| DE59510101D1 (en) | 2002-04-18 |
| DE4419576A1 (en) | 1995-12-07 |
| AU2038895A (en) | 1995-12-14 |
| SI0686938T1 (en) | 2002-08-31 |
| AU693535B2 (en) | 1998-07-02 |
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Legal Events
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| EEER | Examination request | ||
| FZDE | Discontinued |