On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Tim Churches wrote: > 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
Tim, You are welcome! Even if all we have is prior art that "reads on" their claim 1, then their patent is already significantly narrowed. If you know how to reach any of these 3 inventors, perhaps we ought to invite them to join us for a discussion on the OpenHealth list? > - but I have found another paper which desribes that. Do you have an URL or reference that you care to share? > But your paper covers their other claims nicely - the more the merrier! ok. > > 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. Often this type of patent is never used to sue anyone. We should not get too alarmed (yet) but instead read it as any other kind of publication and try to contact the authors. > 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. Interesting! Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
