Global telemedicine system for issuing country-customized prescription
AssigneeHicarenet Inc.
InventorsHong Jin KIM, Gwun Il Park, Ji Yeon Baek
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Abstract
A prescription with alternative medications purchasable in a residing country of a patient receiving a telemedicine service, based on a prescription issued by a hospital or doctor of a country providing the telemedicine service, is provided to the patient such that the patient receives suitable and stable subsequent treatment through medications in the residing country after receiving the telemedicine service.
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A global medication analyzing and matching system comprising:
- a receiving unit configured to receive, from a telemedicine service providing hospital of a first country, a first country language prescription including medications of the first country prescribed for a patient of a second country;
- a medication analyzing unit configured to analyze medication detail information including ingredients, contents, effects, dosage regimen, and additives for each of medication items in the first country language prescription, based on received medication database information of the first country;
- a medication matching unit configured to search a medication database of the second country for each of the medication items based on the analyzed medication detail information to calculate matching degrees of each of the medication items with found medications in the second country, and generate a second country prescription by using, as a second country alternative medication, a medication of the second country having a highest value of matching degree for each of the medication items;
- a language converting unit configured to generate a second country language prescription by converting a language of the second country prescription from a first country language to a second country language;
- a transmitting unit configured to transmit the second country language prescription to the patient in the second country;
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- a database storing data including the first country language prescription, the second country prescription, and the second country language prescription.
A global telemedicine service system for providing a telemedicine service between a telemedicine service providing hospital of a first country and a patient of a second country, the global telemedicine service system comprising:
- a telemedicine communication unit configured to transmit and receive data such that the telemedicine service is providable between the telemedicine service providing hospital of the first country and the patient of the second country;
- a prescription analyzing/matching unit configured to analyze, based on medication database information of the first country, medication detail information including ingredients, contents, effects, dosage regimen, and additives of each of medication items of a first country language prescription including medications received from the telemedicine service providing hospital via the telemedicine communication unit and issued for the patient, calculate matching degrees of each of the medication items with medications of a medication database of the second country, based on the analyzed medication detail information, and generate a second country prescription by using, as a second country alternative medication, a medication of the second country having a highest value of matching degree for each of the medication items;
- a language converting unit configured to convert data in a first country language to a second country language and provide the same to the patient, and generate a second country language prescription by converting a language of the second country prescription from the first country language to the second country language, while the telemedicine service is provided via the global telemedicine system;
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- a database storing data including data generated when the telemedicine service is provided, information related to the first country language prescription, information related to the second country prescription, and information related to the second country language prescription,
- wherein the telemedicine communication unit is further configured to transmit the second country language prescription to the patient of the second country.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.