Personal medical information system using laser card

Seong Hyeon Cho; Keun Ho Kim; Hyung-Sik Choi M.D.; Hyun Wook Park

doi:10.1117/12.238471

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15 April 1996 Personal medical information system using laser card

Seong Hyeon Cho, Keun Ho Kim, Hyung-Sik Choi M.D., Hyun Wook Park

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Proceedings Volume 2707, Medical Imaging 1996: Image Display; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.238471
Event: Medical Imaging 1996, 1996, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

The well-known hospital information system (HIS) and the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) are typical applications of multimedia to medical area. This paper proposes a personal medical information save-and-carry system using a laser card. This laser card is very useful, especially in emergency situations, because the medical information in the laser card can be read at anytime and anywhere if there exists a laser card reader/writer. The contents of the laser card include the clinical histories of a patient such as clinical chart, exam result, diagnostic reports, images, and so on. The purpose of this system is not a primary diagnosis, but emergency reference of clinical history of the patient. This personal medical information system consists of a personal computer integrated with laser card reader/writer, color frame grabber, color CCD camera and a high resolution image scanner optionally. Window-based graphical user interface was designed for easy use. The laser card has relatively sufficient capacity to store the personal medical information, and has fast access speed to restore and load the data with a portable size as compact as a credit card. Database items of laser card provide the doctors with medical data such as laser card information, patient information, clinical information, and diagnostic result information.

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Seong Hyeon Cho, Keun Ho Kim, Hyung-Sik Choi M.D., and Hyun Wook Park "Personal medical information system using laser card", Proc. SPIE 2707, Medical Imaging 1996: Image Display, (15 April 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.238471

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