Patient consent form with voice module
OwnerShairko MISSOURIinventor
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Abstract
A medical consent form includes a written consent portion having one or more form fields regarding consent of a patient to a medical procedure marked thereon. The written consent portion is marked on a material suitable for writing by a writing instrument. A voice recorder module is embedded in the material. An actuator is coupled to the voice recorder to cause the voice recorder module to record the patient's voice consent. Prior to a medical procedure, the patient records information regarding the medical procedure using the voice recorder module. The information in the recording is compared with other written information in the operating theater to confirm the proper medical procedure is being performed on a proper consenting patient.
Claims19
A method for verifying consent to a medical procedure using a consent form comprising a voice recording module, comprising:
- recording a patient recitation of information regarding the medical procedure using the voice recording module of the consent form;
- relocating the patient to an operating theater;
- playing, at the operating theater, the patient recitation of information regarding the medical procedure from the voice recording module of the consent form;
- comparing, at the operating theater, the patient recitation of information regarding the medical procedure played from the voice recording module of the consent form and a written description of the planned medical procedure separate from the consent form;
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- responsive to a determination, at the operating theater, that the patient recitation of information regarding the medical procedure played from the voice recording module of the consent form and the written description of the planned medical procedure separate from the consent form match, performing the medical procedure.
A medical consent form comprising:
- a written consent portion having one or more form fields regarding consent of a patient to a medical procedure marked thereon, the written consent portion being marked on a material suitable for writing by a writing instrument;
- a voice recorder module embedded in the material;
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- an actuator integral to or coupled to the voice recorder causing the voice recorder module to record the patient's voice in response to an actuation of the actuator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.