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AssigneeColin Corporation
InventorsTohru Oka, Kiyoyuki Narimatsu
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A method of providing doctor-evaluation data to a patient so that the patient selects, based on the doctor-evaluation data, one of a plurality of doctors remote from the patient and receives a diagnosis made by the selected doctor via a communication line, the method including the steps of updating a set of information that is related to evaluation of the selected doctor and provides part of the doctor-evaluation data stored by a server, based on an evaluation of the selected doctor that has been sent from a terminal device of the patient who has received the diagnosis made by the selected doctor; and sending, in response to a request signal sent from the terminal device of the patient, the doctor-evaluation data to the terminal device.
A method of providing doctor-evaluation data to a patient so that the patient selects, based on the doctor-evaluation data, one of a plurality of doctors remote from the patient and receives a diagnosis made by the selected doctor via a communication line, the method comprising the steps of:
An apparatus for providing doctor-evaluation data, comprising:
A method of determining a pay to be paid to each of a plurality of doctors who are remote from a plurality of patients and from whom each of the patients selects a home doctor in advance so as to receive a diagnosis made by the selected home doctor via a terminal device of the patient and a terminal device of the home doctor that are connected to a communication line, the method comprising the steps of:
An apparatus for determining a pay to be paid to each of a plurality of doctors who are remote from a plurality of patients and from whom each of the patients selects a home doctor in advance so as to receive a diagnosis made by the selected home doctor via a terminal device of the patient and a terminal device of the home doctor that are connected to a communication line, the apparatus comprising:
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a telediagnosis system that enables a patient to receive a diagnosis made by a doctor at a place remote from the patient, and particularly to doctor-evaluation-data providing method and apparatus, and doctor-pay determining method and apparatus, each for the telediagnosis system.
2. Related Art Statement
The above and optional objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will be better understood by reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a view for explaining the construction of a telediagnosis system to which the present invention is applied;
FIG. 2 is a view for explaining the construction of a server of the system shown in FIG. 1;
Hereinafter, there will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention in detail by reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a view for explaining the construction of a telediagnosis system 10 to which the present invention is applied.
The telediagnosis system 10 includes a plurality of patient's terminal devices 14a, 14b, 14c, . . . , 14n that are provided in respective patient's homes 12a, 12b, 12c, . . . , 12n; a plurality of doctor's terminal devices 15a, 15b, 15c, . . . , 15n that are operable by respective doctors; and a server 18 that is provided in a company which runs the present telediagnosis system 10 and functions as a doctor-evaluation-data providing apparatus or a doctor-pay determining apparatus. The patient's terminal devices 14, the doctor's terminal devices 15, and the server 18 are connectable to each other via a communication line 20.
Each of the patient's terminal devices 14 and the doctor's terminal devices 15 may be of a stationary type or of a portable type, and may be provided by a common personal computer. Each of the patient's terminal devices 14 and the doctor's terminal devices 15 includes a camera 16 such as a CCD (charge coupled device) camera; a microphone 17; and a speaker, not shown.