Michael E Huska

US Patent:

59743891, Oct 26, 1999

Filed:

Mar 1, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/609844

Inventors:

Melanie Ann Clark - Research Triangle Park NC
John Finley Gold - Research Triangle Park NC
Michael Edward Huska - Research Triangle Park NC
Geoffrey Harold Kabel - Research Triangle Park NC
Marc Merrill Graham - Research Triangle Park NC

International Classification:

G06F 1760

US Classification:

705 3

Abstract:

A patient medical record system includes a number of caregiver computers, and a patient record database with patient data coupled to the caregiver computers selectively providing access to the patient data from one of the caregiver computers responsive to a predetermined set of access rules. The predetermined set of rules includes a rule that access to a predetermined portion of the patient data by a first caregiver must be terminated before access to the same predetermined portion by a second caregiver is allowed.