US 11,998,368 B2
Image capture system using an imager code scanner and information management system
Mark Irish, Moorestown, NJ (US); Carl Sisco, Milan, TN (US); and Jody Bardman, Green Lane, PA (US)
Assigned to Draeger Medical Systems, Inc., Andover, MA (US)
Filed by Draeger Medical Systems, Inc., Andover, MA (US)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/812,918.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/815,646, filed on Mar. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0281542 A1, Sep. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/318 (2021.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01)
CPC A61B 5/7495 (2013.01) [A61B 5/318 (2021.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic medical record (EMR) management system, comprising:
a data server configured to store a plurality of EMRs for a plurality of patients, wherein each EMR is associated with a different one of the plurality of patients;
an imaging device configured to capture an image medically related to a specific patient and transmit the captured image, wherein the imaging device is a scanner configured to read machine-readable codes in a code scanning mode and to capture images in an image capture mode;
an information management system arranged for managing medical data, the information management system communicatively coupled to the imaging device and to the data server, wherein the information management system is configured to receive the captured image from the imaging device, upon receiving the captured image, automatically associate the captured image with the specific patient, including associating the captured image with an EMR of the specific patient, and upon associating the captured image with the EMR of the specific patient, automatically store the captured image in the EMR of the specific patient in the data server; and,
wherein the data server includes a database of patient identifiers (IDs), each being mapped to a different machine-readable code of a plurality of machine-readable codes,
the scanner is configured to read a machine-readable code related to the specific patient and output code information representative of the machine-readable code to the information management system, and,
the information management system is configured to analyze a format of the machine-readable code, determine whether the machine-readable code has a patient ID format, and, on a condition the machine-readable code has the patient ID format, receive from the data server a corresponding patient ID that is mapped to the machine-readable code.