On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Daniel L. Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 20:29, Tim Churches wrote: > > There is some concern here in Australia over a patent application lodged > > by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia over some rather generic features of > > EHRs. > > More prior art... > > Dr. Thomas Payne used WAN technology to distribute his own EHR between > his clinic, hospital, and local nursing home in 1990, using a DOS-based > system. > > And, of course, there's the Logician Internet software that maintained a > central data repository and served practices over the net, circa > 1996-98.
Dan, But do these prior systems provide the follwing set of functions? "comprising the steps of : the consumer causing personal health data to be stored in a secure repository, said repository requiring authentication of the consumer's identity before the consumer is provided access to the repository; the consumer selecting items of personal health data to share and identifying a health care provider, or class of health care providers, to whom access will be provided for those items of personal health data; a health care provider providing authentication of their identity to the consumer's secure repository and being provided access to those items of personal health data of the consumer for which the health care provider has been identified for sharing; the health care provider using the personal health data of the consumer to determine health care advice or the provision of a health care service for the consumer; and the health care provider recording details of the consultation and the advice or service provided to the consumer in the secure repository of health data of the consumer." Quoted from Claim 1 of http://v3.espacenet.com/textclam?CY=ep&LG=en&F=4&IDX=WO02073456&DB=EPODOC&QPN=WO02073456 Prior art that do not "read on" the claims of the patent are not relevant to this discusssion. Specifically, subset implementation does not infringe a patent. This means if we build software that does not do all the steps spelled out above, it does not infringe. Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
