EXAMINATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR ENDOSCOPIC EXAMINATION

• Main Authors: YASUDA HIDEKI, KOBAYASHI MAKOTO, SUZUKI HITOSHI, NOMURA TADAKUNI, INABA HIROFUMI, YADA KOHEI, NAKAHARA TETSUYUKI, KURIYAMA SAORI, YAMAGATA FUMIO, ISHIZUKA TATSUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.10.2010
• Subjects: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

An examination-schedule memory unit stores an examination schedule including a plurality of examinations. An operation-status acquisition unit acquires the operation status of a washing apparatus that washes a scope used for an examination. A rescheduling unit changes the start time of at least one examination included in an examination schedule in accordance with the operation status acquired by the operation-status acquisition unit. The rescheduling unit may specify the washing-completion time of the used scope based on the washing-start time acquired by the operation-status acquisition unit, determine whether or not an already-washed scope will be available at the start time of each examination based on the specified washing-completion time and the start time of each examination, and change, when it is determined that there will be no already-washed scopes available, the start time of the examination to be after the time at which an already-washed scope will become available.