EP1690208A2 - System for sharing personal multi-language medical-health data and process for managing such data - Google Patents
System for sharing personal multi-language medical-health data and process for managing such dataInfo
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- the present invention refers to a system for sharing personal multi-language medical-health data and to a process for managing said data.
- the present invention solves a need that in the latest years has been given an always increasing importance.
- a local hospital assistance that is as much as possible complying with their own health condition and coherent with their own general anamnesis and with clinical examinations and possible therapies and/or previous surgical interventions; in order to guarantee such service, it is obviously necessary that each structure aimed for health assistance, whichever its geographical location is, can easily and quickly access updated medical-health data related to the individual requesting assistance.
- the CD card moreover, though having high memory capability, has the inconvenience of the delicacy of its physical structure, being particularly subjected to accidental scratches and breaks that makes it difficult or impossible to use, above all in particular environmental situations. Moreover, all the above systems do not provide for a uniform medical language and do not allow an international use, these latter characteristics being surely the most qualifying aspects for a modern health information system.
- Object of the present invention is solving the above prior-art problems, by providing a system for sharing personal medical-health information that, by employing a portable memory device with very small encumbrance and that is structurally sturdy, allows quickly consulting the medical-health data related to the user that are stored therein on any personal computer, even a portable one, without the help of dedicated hardware or software, thereby allowing a physician to quickly intervene in coherence with the general user anamnesis, above all in cases of emergency.
- a further object of the present invention is providing a portable memory device in which all user' s medical-health data are stored in all world languages, using the standard terminology complying with the provisions of the World Health Organisation (WHO) , allowing in this way to consult and understand the history and the clinical situation of a user without ambiguities or delays, whichever and wherever the hospital structure that must treat him, is located.
- an object of the present invention is providing software for computers, even for portable computers, that allows entering, updating, reading, processing medical-health data and storing them in a local data base and in the portable memory device.
- Such device 1 is composed of a main body 2, equipped with interface means 3 of a USB type, for connecting to and exchanging data with the above electronic processors 10, 20, and containing a mass memory (for example of the Flash type) , a transmission controller for USB adapted to control the interface means 3 of the USB type and a mass memory micro-controller operatively coupled with the above transmission controller and the above mass memory; the micro-controller is further equipped with a software code that controls its operation and that allows modifying the contents of the mass memory of the device 1 only when this latter one is connected to a computer 10, even a portable one, equipped with the software for managing the personal medical-health data according to the present invention, and prevents the modification of data when instead it is connected to a computer 20, even a portable one, that is not equipped with the above software.
- a software code that controls its operation and that allows modifying the contents of the mass memory of the device 1 only when this latter one is connected to a computer 10, even a portable one, equipped with the software for managing the personal medical-health data according to the
- the mass memory of the memory device 1 cannot be accessed for writing and formatting without the intervention of the managing software according to the present invention.
- a displaying software is further stored, that allows reading the medical-health data stored therein on any computer 20 not equipped with the managing software according to the present invention.
- the memory device 1, as described above, allows obtaining several advantageous aspects that are well adapted to reach the objects of the present invention; these aspects mainly are:
- the main body 2 is made of heat-welded plastic material but it can be made of another metallic or precious material though keeping the absolute water-tightness through known sealing techniques;
- the mass memory of the device 1 is aimed to contain all medical-health data related to the system user; such data have been, as a non-limiting example, structured in the present invention into three sections :
- Identifying and emergency data that are directly accessible since mandatory in case of emergency comprise:
- Health data (whose reading on computer 20, even of the portable type, not equipped with the managing software according to the present invention, is constrained by the issue of a password) are the user's case history completed with: general anamnesis: pathologies, immunisations, allergies and other anamneses, listed in rigorous chronological order; clinical notes containing physician's objective examinations, diagnoses, results of specialist and instrumental examinations, drug therapies and related posologies prescribed to the patient in addition to the physicians' names that treated the patient; release reports related to possible hospital recoveries; certifications and examinations (diagnostic and instrumental examinations, specialist visits, certificates, etc.).
- Service data (whose reading on computers 20, even of the portable type, not equipped with the managing software according to the present invention is not possible) comprise personal information of a reserved character like those related to one's own physician and health structure to which one belongs and other data that it is deemed useful to enter for interactions with public health information system, with insurance system and with systems of other private operators in the field.
- the above medical-health data related to the system user according to the present invention are entered and updated on the memory device 1 through a managing software according to the present invention, residing on computers 10, even of the portable type, in health structures and medical studies, whose operation is shown in Fig. 1 and 2.
- FIG. 1 shows the flow diagram of the step of firstly entering the procedure for managing medicalhealth data according to the present invention; after having connected the computer 10, even of the portable type, and the device 1 through their respective USB interface means, the patient's personal data are entered Fll and the patient's clinic, therapy and drug data are entered F12, for example by means of a keyboard; afterwards, all data are stored F13 on a temporary working data base and, after a confirmation of entered data F14, data are stored F15 in an historical data base residing on the computer 10, even of the portable type, and ⁇ transferred F16, together with the displaying software, into the mass memory of the device 1.
- the managing software has also a data base available containing the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) (over 18,000 items) filled-in by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in all languages, that allows automatically transferring information on the device into all world languages and in compliance with the ICD.
- ICD International Classification of Diseases
- WHO World Health Organisation
- FIG. 2 shows the flow diagram of the step of updating the procedure for managing medical-health data according to the present invention
- the software takes care of downloading F200 on its own temporary working data base all data contained in the mass memory of the device 1; for updating the data, the patient's updated personal data are entered F21 and the patient's updated clinical, therapy and drug data are entered F22, for example by means of a keyboard; afterwards, all data are again stored F23 onto a temporary working data base and overwritten onto the previous ones; herein below, after confirming F24 the entered data, the updated data are filtered F25 depending on storage needs of the structure that is performing the update and, following a confirmation of entry F26, are stored F27 into an historical data base residing on the computer 10, even of the portable type, and are transferred F28 into the mass memory of the device 1.
- the device 1 Every time therefore the device 1 is given to an authorised health operator, and therefore is equipped with the managing software according to the present invention, the same device- 1 updates the historical data base of the operator, depending on information contained therein and acquired previously and afterwards by ' entering new and further data.
- the device 1 in this way is always completed with all information, becoming the update pilot for every historical data base of the authorised health structures/medical studies in which the device 1 is introduced. In this way a complete copy of all information contained in the device 1 will always be on the historical data base of the authorised health structure/medical study that performed the latest update.
- FIG. 3 shows the flow diagram of the step of reading the procedure for managing medical-health data according to the present • invention; after having connected the computer 20, even of the portable type, and the device 1 through their respective USB interface means, the displaying program residing in the mass memory of the device 1 is started F31 according to the procedures of the operating system of the computer 20; alternatively such starting can occur in "autorun” (automatic execution) according to known modes; afterwards, the language is selected F32 in which it is desired to read the information; afterwards, once having extracted F33 all information related to user identifying and emergency data from the multi-language data base residing in the mass memory of the device 1 in the selected language, these data are displayed F25; in order to proceed with the display of health data F36, it is necessary to enter and recognise a password F35 by means of the displaying program.
- the contents of the device 1 can never be modified nor integrated by other files of any type, since they are protected by hardware and software devices that prevent the access to its writing and formatting.
- the displaying and consulting of essential stored data deemed as freely accessible (emergency data, drugs and related current patient's posology and anamnesis) , as well as descriptions of fields, messages, help notes and so on can be performed also abroad by any health operator that is simply equipped with a computer, even of the portable type, since the system has specific functions available for selecting the language into which it is desired to read all information.
Abstract
A system is disclosed for sharing personal multilanguage medical-health data comprising: a portable storage device (1) adapted to be connected to electronic processors for entering and updating (10) and for consulting (20) data, equipped with interface means (3) of the USB type, with a program for electronic processors for displaying personal medicalhealth data, and with a program for electronic processors for managing personal medical-health data; a process for managing personal multi-language medicalhealth data is also disclosed.
Description
SYSTEM FOR SHARING PERSONAL MULTI-LANGUAGE MEDICALHEALTH DATA AND PROCESS FOR MANAGING SUCH DATA
The present invention refers to a system for sharing personal multi-language medical-health data and to a process for managing said data. The present invention solves a need that in the latest years has been given an always increasing importance. In fact, in a world context in which every individual has the chance of rather easily travel almost to any part of the world, it is necessary for such individuals, that for any reason have to stay, for more or less lengthy periods also in foreign countries, to have available, in case of personal medical-health needs, a local hospital assistance that is as much as possible complying with their own health condition and coherent with their own general anamnesis and with clinical examinations and possible therapies and/or previous surgical interventions; in order to guarantee such service, it is obviously necessary that each structure aimed for health assistance, whichever its geographical location is, can easily and quickly access updated medical-health data related to the individual requesting assistance. It is further essential that such data are expressed in a standard technical-medical terminology and in the language of the health operator that requests it, this to guarantee an highly better and univocal understanding of these information, free from ambiguities. Firstly, the efforts along this direction have
been devoted to study information systems that allowed health operators, in case of assistance to a subject outside their own competences, to be interfaced with a central data base at national level containing complete personal medical-health data belonging to such individual. These information systems provided for the creation of peripheral data bases residing in each hospital structure and medical study, containing medical-health data of each one of their assisted people related to the assistance offered by such structure or study. These peripheral data bases, all interconnected through a high-speed information network, would then have to transfer their own partial information to the central system. To such central data base, containing all complete information related to every single individual, it was possible, by any authorised health operator, to remotely access from any point in the country to get such data in case of need. This system suffered severe functional problems and enormous realisation obstacles, which caused it to be abandoned. Its major problems were: for realising the centralised data base, it was necessary to interconnect all public and private health structures, this de facto being unable to be realised both due to very high costs and, above all, due to excessively long times that would have not allowed guaranteeing a successful project; - the system did not allow in any way the chance of using information at international level, namely it did not allow that information about any person could be timely queried and correctly interpreted, not only in his own country but in any other country (think about the different languages) , by the physician that at that
time needed anamnesis data about this person, above all in emergency situations. In reply to the problems of these "integrated" •information systems, in these latest years, different initiatives have been developed with the intention of providing to a single person a service that satisfies the need of having available an efficient health identification tool whichever was the country in which such person was. The services substantially offered so far deal with:
- a system consisting in the entry of some health data via Internet in a suitable web site, directly by the interested person; such system however cannot provide, obviously, any guarantee both as regards the medical point of view, since the medical competences of the affected person are generally rather scarce, and as regards the timely information point of view, above all in emergency situations, since consulting the medicalhealth data of the affected person needs accessing the Internet network;
- cards with magnetic band with or without chip that, due to their very small memory capability (a few Kbytes) are used only as access to a local system interconnected by using specific readers. This system, though valid for other objectives, does not make it accessible to consult personal health data outside the interconnected structures, falling then again into the problems of the integrated system; - optical-reading cards composed of a mini-CD with recordable support with a credit card format; such system needs customisations for every single medical specialisation, operations that, obviously, imply long
realisation times. For data reading, the system uses common CD readers, but for writing the CD, masterising devices are necessary, such writing instruments being scarcely spread, above all in the medical field, and being particular in their use. The CD card, moreover, though having high memory capability, has the inconvenience of the delicacy of its physical structure, being particularly subjected to accidental scratches and breaks that makes it difficult or impossible to use, above all in particular environmental situations. Moreover, all the above systems do not provide for a uniform medical language and do not allow an international use, these latter characteristics being surely the most qualifying aspects for a modern health information system. Object of the present invention is solving the above prior-art problems, by providing a system for sharing personal medical-health information that, by employing a portable memory device with very small encumbrance and that is structurally sturdy, allows quickly consulting the medical-health data related to the user that are stored therein on any personal computer, even a portable one, without the help of dedicated hardware or software, thereby allowing a physician to quickly intervene in coherence with the general user anamnesis, above all in cases of emergency. A further object of the present invention is providing a portable memory device in which all user' s medical-health data are stored in all world languages, using the standard terminology complying with the provisions of the World Health Organisation (WHO) ,
allowing in this way to consult and understand the history and the clinical situation of a user without ambiguities or delays, whichever and wherever the hospital structure that must treat him, is located. Moreover, an object of the present invention is providing software for computers, even for portable computers, that allows entering, updating, reading, processing medical-health data and storing them in a local data base and in the portable memory device. The above and other objects and advantages of the invention, as will appear from the following description, are obtained by a system for sharing personal multi-language medical-health data as claimed in Claim 1. Moreover, the above ' and other objects and advantages of the invention, as will appear from the following description, are obtained by a process for managing personal medical-health data as claimed in Claim 7. Preferred embodiments and non-trivial variations of the present invention are claimed in the dependent Claims . The present invention will be better described by some preferred embodiments thereof, given as a non- limiting example-, with reference to the enclosed drawings, in which: - Figure 1 is a flow diagram that shows one of> the steps of the process according to the present invention; - Figure 2 is a flow diagram that shows another step of the process according to the present invention; and - Figure 3 is a flow diagram that shows another
step of the process according to the present invention. With reference to the Figures, it is possible to note that the system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is composed of:
- a portable memory device 1, known in the art;
- a common computer 10, even of the portable type, equipped with at least one USB port and with a software for managing personal medical-health data according to the present invention, which will be described below;
- a common computer 20, even of the portable type, equipped with at least one USB port. With reference to the Figures, a preferred embodiment of the portable memory device 1 is shown. Such device 1 is composed of a main body 2, equipped with interface means 3 of a USB type, for connecting to and exchanging data with the above electronic processors 10, 20, and containing a mass memory (for example of the Flash type) , a transmission controller for USB adapted to control the interface means 3 of the USB type and a mass memory micro-controller operatively coupled with the above transmission controller and the above mass memory; the micro-controller is further equipped with a software code that controls its operation and that allows modifying the contents of the mass memory of the device 1 only when this latter one is connected to a computer 10, even a portable one, equipped with the software for managing the personal medical-health data according to the present invention, and prevents the modification of data when instead it is connected to a computer 20, even a portable one, that is not equipped with the above software. In this way, the mass memory of the memory device 1 cannot be accessed for writing and formatting without the
intervention of the managing software according to the present invention. In the mass memory of the device 1, a displaying software is further stored, that allows reading the medical-health data stored therein on any computer 20 not equipped with the managing software according to the present invention. The memory device 1, as described above, allows obtaining several advantageous aspects that are well adapted to reach the objects of the present invention; these aspects mainly are:
- high mass memory capability that allows storing all health data of a user for his whole life;
- absolute water-tightness and resistance to falls and impacts guaranteed by a main body 2 that allows it to correctly operate even in adverse environmental situations. In this preferred embodiment, the main body 2 is made of heat-welded plastic material but it can be made of another metallic or precious material though keeping the absolute water-tightness through known sealing techniques;
- practically unlimited length of use since for keeping data in memory it does not need any energy supply;
- recognition through codes residing in the device 1 itself by means of the above managing software according to the present invention, preventing the possible use of different information storage devices;
- all contained data are ciphered, for example using the known cryptographic modes identified with abbreviations: 128 BIT ENCRYPTION, RC5 (12 LOOP) and RC5 (16 LOOP) ;
- very small size, weight and shape for a very easy portable transport in a pocket or, as an example, as key-holder or trinket.
The mass memory of the device 1 is aimed to contain all medical-health data related to the system user; such data have been, as a non-limiting example, structured in the present invention into three sections :
- identifying and emergency data;
- health data (case history) ;
- service data. Identifying and emergency data that are directly accessible since mandatory in case of emergency, comprise:
- data related of the device 1 user (name, surname, birth date, address, telephone, etc.), data related to personal physician and to the person to be contacted in case of need; emergency data and warning notes (blood group, current pathologies, allergies, psychical states and other situations implying clinical attention) ;
- drug therapies and related current posology. Health data (whose reading on computer 20, even of the portable type, not equipped with the managing software according to the present invention, is constrained by the issue of a password) are the user's case history completed with: general anamnesis: pathologies, immunisations, allergies and other anamneses, listed in rigorous chronological order; clinical notes containing physician's objective examinations, diagnoses, results of specialist and instrumental examinations, drug therapies and related posologies prescribed to the patient in addition to the physicians' names that treated the patient; release reports related to possible hospital
recoveries; certifications and examinations (diagnostic and instrumental examinations, specialist visits, certificates, etc.). Service data (whose reading on computers 20, even of the portable type, not equipped with the managing software according to the present invention is not possible) comprise personal information of a reserved character like those related to one's own physician and health structure to which one belongs and other data that it is deemed useful to enter for interactions with public health information system, with insurance system and with systems of other private operators in the field. The above medical-health data related to the system user according to the present invention are entered and updated on the memory device 1 through a managing software according to the present invention, residing on computers 10, even of the portable type, in health structures and medical studies, whose operation is shown in Fig. 1 and 2. Fig. 1 shows the flow diagram of the step of firstly entering the procedure for managing medicalhealth data according to the present invention; after having connected the computer 10, even of the portable type, and the device 1 through their respective USB interface means, the patient's personal data are entered Fll and the patient's clinic, therapy and drug data are entered F12, for example by means of a keyboard; afterwards, all data are stored F13 on a temporary working data base and, after a confirmation of entered data F14, data are stored F15 in an historical data base residing on the computer 10, even
of the portable type, and ■ transferred F16, together with the displaying software, into the mass memory of the device 1. The managing software has also a data base available containing the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) (over 18,000 items) filled-in by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in all languages, that allows automatically transferring information on the device into all world languages and in compliance with the ICD. Fig. 2 shows the flow diagram of the step of updating the procedure for managing medical-health data according to the present invention; after having connected the computer 10, even of the portable type, and the device 1 through their respective USB interface means, the software takes care of downloading F200 on its own temporary working data base all data contained in the mass memory of the device 1; for updating the data, the patient's updated personal data are entered F21 and the patient's updated clinical, therapy and drug data are entered F22, for example by means of a keyboard; afterwards, all data are again stored F23 onto a temporary working data base and overwritten onto the previous ones; herein below, after confirming F24 the entered data, the updated data are filtered F25 depending on storage needs of the structure that is performing the update and, following a confirmation of entry F26, are stored F27 into an historical data base residing on the computer 10, even of the portable type, and are transferred F28 into the mass memory of the device 1. Every time therefore the device 1 is given to an authorised health operator, and therefore is equipped with the managing software according to the present
invention, the same device- 1 updates the historical data base of the operator, depending on information contained therein and acquired previously and afterwards by' entering new and further data. The device 1 in this way is always completed with all information, becoming the update pilot for every historical data base of the authorised health structures/medical studies in which the device 1 is introduced. In this way a complete copy of all information contained in the device 1 will always be on the historical data base of the authorised health structure/medical study that performed the latest update. Fig. 3 shows the flow diagram of the step of reading the procedure for managing medical-health data according to the present • invention; after having connected the computer 20, even of the portable type, and the device 1 through their respective USB interface means, the displaying program residing in the mass memory of the device 1 is started F31 according to the procedures of the operating system of the computer 20; alternatively such starting can occur in "autorun" (automatic execution) according to known modes; afterwards, the language is selected F32 in which it is desired to read the information; afterwards, once having extracted F33 all information related to user identifying and emergency data from the multi-language data base residing in the mass memory of the device 1 in the selected language, these data are displayed F25; in order to proceed with the display of health data F36, it is necessary to enter and recognise a password F35 by means of the displaying program. Service data, since they are reserved only for the personal user physician, cannot be consulted with a computer 20 not
equipped with the managing ' software according to the present invention. By using therefore the system for sharing personal medical-health data in case of need or in emergency situations, all information contained in the device 1 can be displayed and consulted by any health structure or medical study, equipped with a common computer, even of the portable type, without the need of being equipped with specific readers, even is lacking the managing software according to the present invention, by following the modes provided by the procedure and without affecting the different protections inserted for integrity and safety of data subject to secrecy, also in view of the user privacy. In this case, the contents of the device 1 can never be modified nor integrated by other files of any type, since they are protected by hardware and software devices that prevent the access to its writing and formatting. With the same modes, the displaying and consulting of essential stored data deemed as freely accessible (emergency data, drugs and related current patient's posology and anamnesis) , as well as descriptions of fields, messages, help notes and so on can be performed also abroad by any health operator that is simply equipped with a computer, even of the portable type, since the system has specific functions available for selecting the language into which it is desired to read all information.
Claims
1. System for sharing personal multi-language medicalhealth data, characterised in that it comprises:
- at least one electronic processor (10) for entering and updating said data;
- at least one electronic processor (20) for consulting said data;
- at least one portable storage device (1) adapted to be connected to said electronic processors for entering and updating (10) and for consulting (20) said personal medical-health data, said device (1) comprising a main body (2) equipped with interface means (3) of a USB type for connecting to said electronic processors (10, 20) and containing a mass memory, a transmission controller for USB adapted to control said interface means (3) of a USB type and a mass memory microcontroller operatively coupled with said transmission controller and said mass memory, said mass memory being further adapted to store a program product for an electronic processor for displaying, said program comprising a set of instructions adapted to allow displaying said medical-health data contained in said mass memory of said device (1) on displaying means of said electronic processors (10, 20), said microcontroller being further adapted to allow modifying a contents of said mass memory when said device (1) is connected to said electronic processor (10) for entering and updating and to prevent a modification of a contents of said mass memory when said device (1) is connected to said electronic processor (20) for consulting; - at least one of said electronic processors (10) for entering and updating data being equipped with: means ror entering saiα meαicai-neaπzn αaca or a user, means for storing said medical-health data, USB interfacing means, means for transmitting said personal medicalhealth data from said storage means to said mass memory of said device (1) , means for displaying said medicalhealth data, means for processing said medical-health data, storing means containing a data base containing the International Classification of Diseases ICD written by the World Health Organisation WHO in all languages;
- at least one of said electronic processors (20) for consulting being equipped with USB interfacing means and means for displaying said medical-health data, said personal medical-health data being complying with said International Classification of Diseases ICD written by the World Health Organisation WHO and being structured into a plurality of data bases, each one of said data bases being adapted to express said personal medicalhealth data in a different language and said plurality of data bases being stored in said storage means for said medical-health data of said electronic processor (10) for entering and updating and in said mass memory of said device (1) .
2. System according to claim 1, characterised in that each one of said data bases of said personal medicalhealth data comprises identification and emergency data, health data and service data.
3. System according to claim 2, characterised in that said identification and emergency • data comprise personal identification data related to said user of said system, data related to a personal physician of said user, data related to a person to be contacted in case of medical-health problems of said user, warning notes comprising blood group, current pathologies; allergies, psychical states and other situations implying . clinical relevance for said user and drug therapies and related current posology.
4. System according to claim 2, characterised in that said health data comprise a general anamnesis of said user comprising pathologies, immunisations, allergies and other anamneses arranged in a chronological order, known clinics containing performed examinations, diagnoses, results of specialist and instrumental examinations, drug therapies and related posologies prescribed to the user and names of physicians that treated said user, dispatching reports related to possible hospital recoveries of said user and certifications and results of diagnostic and instrumental examinations, specialist visits.
5. System according to claim 2 , characterised in that said service data comprise personal information with a reserved character related to a health structure to which said user belongs and useful information for possible iterations with a public health information system, with an insurance system and with other operators .
6. System according to claim 1, characterised in that said main body (2) is airtight.
7. Process for managing personal multi-language medical-health data using a system according to claim 1, characterised in that it comprises the steps of: entering said medical-health data, said step of entering being adapted to be carried out only by authorised personnel;
- optionally updating said medical-health data, said step of updating being adapted to be carried out only by authorised personnel; and-
- optionally reading said medical-health data.
8. Process for managing personal multi-language medical-health data according to claim 7, characterised in that said step of entering said medical-health data comprises the steps of:
- connecting said electronic processor (10) and. said device (1) through said respective USB interfacing means ;
- entering (Fll, F12) said medical-health data by means of said entering means of said electronic processor (10);
- storing (F13) said medical-health data on a temporary working data base; confirming (F14) a correctness of said entered medical-health data; storing (F15) said medical-health data into an historical data base residing in said electronic processor (10) ;
- transferring (F16) said program for an electronic displaying processor and said medical-health data structured into said plurality of data bases into said mass memory of said device (1) .
9. Process for managing personal multi-language medical-health data according to claim 7, characterised in that said step of optionally updating said mecLical- health data comprises the steps of: - connecting said electronic processor (10) and said device (1) through said respective USB interfacing means; - downloading (F20) all said medical-health data from said mass memory of said device (1) onto a temporary working data base; - entering (F21, F22) updated medical-health data by means of said entering means f said electronic processor (10) ;
- storing (F23) said updated medical-health data into a temporary working data base; confirming (F24) a correctness of said entered medical-health data; filtering (F25) said updated medical-health data depending on specific storage needs of said updating step;
- confirming (F26) a correctness of said filtering step (F25) ;
- storing (F27) said updated medical-health data into an historical data base residing in said electronic processor (10) ;
- transferring (F28) said updated medical-health data structured into said plurality of data bases into said mass memory of said device (1) .
10. Process for managing personal multi-language medical-health data according to claim 7, characterised in that said step of optionally reading said medicalhealth data comprises the steps of:
- connecting said electronic processor (10) and said device (1) through said respective USB interfacing means;
- starting (F31) said displaying program resident in said mass memory of said device (1) according to procedures of an operating system of said electronic processor (20) ;
- selecting (F32) a language for reading said medicalhealth data; - extracting (F33) said medical-health data in said selected language from said plurality of data bases stored into said mass memory' of said device (1) ;
- displaying (F34) said identification and emergency data of said user stored in said mass memory of said device (1) in a selected language;
- entering (F35) a password for acceptance; displaying (F36) said medical—health data in a selected language.
11. Program product for an electronic processor comprising a set of instructions adapted to perform the process according to any of claims 7 to 10.
12. Electronic processor (10) comprising said storage means in which said program product according to claim 11 is stored, and further comprising managing, processing and control means adapted to perform the program product according to' claim 11 to implement the process according to any one of claims 7 to 10.
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