Researchers Submit Patent Application, “Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Information Processing Program”, for Approval (USPTO 20230215526): Patent Application

2023 JUL 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journalists report that a patent application by the inventors HIRAGAMI, Tomohide (Tokyo, JP); HOSONO, Yasuyuki (Tokyo, JP); KANEKO, Yasuhisa (Tokyo, JP); KITAMURA, Nobuya (Tokyo, JP); NAGAMIYA, Kenji (Tokyo, JP), filed on November 29, 2022, was made available online on July 6, 2023.

No assignee for this patent application has been made.

News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “

“The disclosed technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program.

“The following technology is known as technology related to information processing related to health management of a user. For example, JP2014-85986A discloses a health management device that associates pieces of individual information included in each of a first information group, which is a set of a plurality of pieces of schedule information, a second information group, which is a set of a plurality of pieces of biological information, and a third information group, which is a set of a plurality of pieces of comment information, with each other based on a match or similarity of words included in each individual information, receives selection of any individual information included in any of the first to third information groups, and displays another individual information associated with the selected individual information in an enhanced manner.”

As a supplement to the background information on this patent application, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent application: “In the medical document data, such as an electronic medical record, medical information, such as a symptom obtained through an interview with a patient, is recorded. However, there is a case in which the patient is not clearly aware of his/her symptom or cannot correctly report his/her symptom to a doctor. In such a case, information lacking in the accuracy is recorded in the medical document data, and as a result, there is a risk that it is difficult to appropriately formulate an examination order, make a diagnosis, perform a treatment plan, and the like.

“The disclosed technology is to contribute to the improvement of the accuracy of medical information recorded in medical document data.

“The disclosed technology relates to an information processing apparatus comprising at least one processor. The processor is configured to acquire medical document data in which medical information obtained by a medical examination of a user is recorded, acquire at least one of input information which is input to a user terminal device used by the user or biological information which is measured for the user, extract related-information which is related to the medical information from at least one of the input information or the biological information, and perform association processing of associating the extracted related-information with related medical information.

“According to the disclosed technology, it is possible to contribute to the acquisition of accurate medical information as compared with a case in which at least one of the input information which is input to the user terminal device or the biological information, which is measured for the user is not acquired.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. An information processing apparatus comprising: at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire medical document data in which medical information obtained by a medical examination of a user is recorded, acquire at least one of input information which is input to a user terminal device used by the user or biological information which is measured for the user, extract related-information which is related to the medical information from at least one of the input information or the biological information, and perform association processing of associating the extracted related-information with related medical information.

“2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to display the medical information on a display screen, and display the related-information, which is associated with the medical information displayed on the display screen, on the display screen based on an input operation or a selection operation.

“3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to display a result of comparing the medical information with the related-information associated with the medical information on the display screen.

“4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to perform the association processing for information obtained through an interview with the user out of the medical information.

“5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input information includes a search keyword input to a search engine.

“6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input information includes a content transmitted or dispatched to a specified or unspecified party.

“7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to perform processing of selecting input information including a specific word related to a physical condition of the user out of the acquired input information and recording the selected input information in a recording medium, and perform the association processing for the input information recorded in the recording medium.

“8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the biological information is information measured by a wearable device worn by the user.

“9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the medical document data is an electronic medical record.

“10. An information processing method executed by at least one processor provided in an information processing apparatus, the method comprising: acquiring medical document data in which medical information obtained by a medical examination of a user is recorded; acquiring at least one of input information which is input to a user terminal device used by the user or biological information which is measured for the user; extracting related-information which is related to the medical information from at least one of the input information or the biological information; and associating the extracted related-information with related medical information.

“11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an information processing program causing at least one processor provided in an information processing apparatus to execute a process comprising: acquiring medical document data in which medical information obtained by a medical examination of a user is recorded; acquiring at least one of input information which is input to a user terminal device used by the user or biological information which is measured for the user; extracting related-information which is related to the medical information from at least one of the input information or the biological information; and associating the extracted related-information with related medical information.”

For additional information on this patent application, see: HIRAGAMI, Tomohide; HOSONO, Yasuyuki; KANEKO, Yasuhisa; KITAMURA, Nobuya; NAGAMIYA, Kenji. Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Information Processing Program. U.S. Patent Application Number 20230215526, filed November 29, 2022 and posted July 6, 2023. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(20230215526)&db=US-PGPUB&type=ids

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