Andrew Ho wrote: > Tim, > > I published this "invention" back in 1998 titled "Patient-Controlled > Electronic Medical Records". Please see: > http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/patient-controlled > and referenced here: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/oio > > This work has been online and retrievable via Google and other search > engines for many years. Performing a Google search using > "patient-controlled electronic medical records" as the search term > retrieves this paper as the first hit.
OK, many thanks. Your paper covers many of their claims, although it does not mention controlling selective uploading and access to particular data items via a template, which is also part of their claims - but I have found another paper which desribes that. But your paper covers their other claims nicely - the more the merrier! > I wonder if the Australian pharmacists read my invention and is now > trying to steal it? It would be amazing if they neglected to run a > Google search on related prior art. :-) Possible but I doubt it. I suspect it is more a case of a set of solutions which are fairly obvious to anyone who considers the problem in detail. The Pharmacy Guild was part of a multi-sectoral committee which considered design issues for a shared medication record for Australia (now called MediConnect). They just happened to file this patent application just after that design work was winding down - which allegedly came as a surprise to the other committee members. Tim C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 254 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20041124/efa3a009/attachment.asc>
