US 11,881,290 B2
Information processing apparatus and method for clinical laboratory management
Akio Miyauchi, Kobe (JP); Naoki Tsuro, Kobe (JP); Norio Kowata, Kobe (JP); Naoki Kai, Kobe (JP); Shirou Kuwaoka, Kobe (JP); Yukihisa Minematsu, Kobe (JP); Mark Dahlberg, Elgin, IL (US); Steve Postma, Mundelein, IL (US); Chris Carrier, Cary, IL (US); Jackie Guenther, Flower Mound, TX (US); and Anselm Mueller, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to Sysmex Corporation, Kobe (JP)
Filed by Sysmex Corporation, Kobe (JP)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/834,521.
Application 16/834,521 is a continuation of application No. 15/233,361, filed on Aug. 10, 2016, granted, now 10,607,724.
Prior Publication US 2020/0227145 A1, Jul. 16, 2020
Int. Cl. G16H 10/40 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 10/40 (2018.01) 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer comprising:
a controller connected through a network to a database to which a first set of analyzers in a first clinical laboratory and at least one second set of analyzers in at least one second clinical laboratory that is different from the first clinical laboratory are connected so that data from the first set of analyzers and the at least one second set of analyzers are gathered and stored at the database; and
a display configured to show, under control of the controller, a screen comprising:
a first region showing condition and/or performance data of the first set of analyzers in the first clinical laboratory in a first graphical format comprising a plurality of first indexes related to the conditions and/or performance data of the first set of analyzers; and
a second region showing condition and/or performance data of the at least one second set of analyzers in the at least one second clinical laboratory in a second graphical format that is different from the first graphical format, wherein the second graphical format comprises displaying a map and displaying at least one second index related to the conditions and/or performance data of the at least one second set of analyzers at a location on the map that corresponds to a physical location of the at least one second clinical laboratory at which the at least one second set of analyzers is located, and wherein the at least one second index is a same category of condition and/or performance data as at least one of the plurality of first indexes displayed in the first region,
wherein a user is enabled to set a display setting information stored in the database in association with user ID, the display setting information comprising a selection of at least whether to disclose laboratory data with a facility name of the user or to disclose laboratory data anonymously.