Method and system for early detection of disease
OwnerPatrick Kelly, Charles Conroyinventors
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Abstract
A method and system is provided wherein a user can access a scheduling service provider to arrange for a MRI-based health care screening appointment without a medical referral. After a user profile is completed and accepted by the scheduling service, an appointment for the MRI-based health care screening appointment, such as a magnetic resonance imaging scan of the user's brain, can be scheduled at participating health care screening facilities in the user's geographical area, the scheduling increasing the percentage utilization of the participating MRI-based health care screening facility and the availability of the health care screening procedure to the general public.
Claims20
A method for health care screening, comprising:
- contacting a scheduling service;
- scheduling an abbreviated MRI procedure designed for an asymptomatic individual via the scheduling service;
- determining if the abbreviated MRI procedure can be authorized;
- and
- scheduling the abbreviated MRI procedure;
- wherein the scheduling includes selecting a location and an unused time slot for the abbreviated MRI procedure available between scheduled diagnostic MRI procedures at one of a predetermined set of existing procedure facilities affiliated with the scheduling service as a function of location and time parameters of a user and an availability of the predetermined set of procedure facilities.
A system for health care screening, comprising:
- a central processing unit;
- and
- a memory coupled to the central processing unit;
- wherein
- computer program means stored in the memory are executed by the central processing unit, the executed computer program means
- receiving a request for an abbreviated MRI-based health care screening procedure designed for an asymptomatic individual,
- determining if the abbreviated MRI-based health care screening procedure can be authorized, and
- scheduling the abbreviated MRI-based health care screening procedure, wherein the scheduling includes selecting a location and an unused time slot for the health care screening procedure available between scheduled diagnostic MRI procedures at one of a predetermined set of existing procedure facilities affiliated with the scheduling service as a function of location and time parameters of a user and an availability of the predetermined set of procedure facilities.
An article of manufacture, comprising:
- a computer usable medium having computer readable code means embodied therein for causing a scheduling of an abbreviated MRI-based health care screening procedure designed for an asymptomatic individual, the computer readable program code means in said article of manufacture including
- computer readable program means for causing a computer to receive a request for the abbreviated MRI-based health care screening procedure designed for an asymptomatic individual,
- computer readable program means for causing the computer to determine if the abbreviated MRI-based health care screening procedure can be authorized, and
- computer readable program means for causing the computer to schedule the abbreviated MRI-based health care screening procedure, wherein the scheduling includes selecting a location and an unused time slot for the health care screening procedure available between scheduled diagnostic MRI procedures at one of a predetermined set of existing procedure facilities affiliated with the scheduling service as a function of location and time parameters of a user and an availability of the predetermined set of procedure facilities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.