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| 20090193394 | Subsystem architecture for providing support services for software applications - A subsystem architecture is described that provides support services for software applications of a system. The subsystem architecture includes local infrastructure components, which provide infrastructure services to the software applications. Each local infrastructure component corresponds to a single software application and is independent from another of the local infrastructure components. The subsystem architecture may further include a central service component providing central services to at least one of the local infrastructure components. The central service component is independent and unaware of the local infrastructure components. Still further, the subsystem architecture may include an administrative component for monitoring and maintaining the local infrastructure components providing infrastructure services to the software applications. The administrative component is independent and unaware of the plurality of local infrastructure components. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090248440 | Ensuring referential integrity of medical image data - A method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed for providing information concerning scheduled procedure steps and/or information concerning performed procedure steps within a taskflow which includes a plurality of tasks for processing medical image data. Each taskflow is associated with a taskflow specific context folder. In at least one embodiment, a publisher task is adapted to select selected data out of the medical image data. For these selected data, meta-information is updated by incorporating additional information concerning scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. This is done by maintaining referential integrity between image data, scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100057915 | Method and system for distributing applications - In a data processing network there exist at least two applications which are different from one another in terms of the volumes of data that are to be processed. In at least one embodiment, each application has a multilayer structure and individual layers of the applications are distributed over different hardware resources, specifically at least one local data processing unit and at least one remote data processing unit, in such a way that the number of layers installed on the local data processing unit as a proportion of the total number of layers making up the respective application is less in the case of that application which is provided for processing the greater volume of data than in the case of the application which is provided for processing the smaller volume of data. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100122252 | Scalable system and method thereof - A scalable system and method thereof may improve scalability and Quality of Service. The scalable system may include a first scalability adapter (scaldapter) configured to manage resource consumption of at least one component based on measured data received from the at least one component, where the component is configured to run an application, and a scalability manager (scalator) configured to modify strategies of the first scaldapter for managing the resource consumption based on measured data received from a plurality of processes, each of the plurality of processes including the first scaldapter. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100174580 | METHOD FOR INTERDEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION OF SOFTWARE-ASSISTED ACTIVITY, IN PARTICULAR IN A HOSPITAL - In a hospital, a virtual team can be formed on an interdepartmental basis, with individual roles of treating physicians being defined based on a scheme appropriate to a treatment situation and specific physicians being allocated to the roles such that just-in-time planning of a patient's treatment can be carried out. In at least one embodiment, the sequential execution of tasks appropriate to the individual departments is monitored by a central data processing device. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100175071 | PROGRAM CODE COMPRISING A NUMBER OF PROGRAM CODE PACKAGE GROUPS STORED ON STORAGE UNITS - A software platform is provided for a hospital for example, wherein software modules (program code packages) are assigned in groups to different levels. In at least one embodiment, the presence of software interfaces allows software modules of different levels to be stored and run on different computer units with a data processing facility and storage unit, thus allowing communication between different levels by way of a data line. In at least one embodiment, this allows tasks to be moved out of the hospital, thereby saving costs. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100179826 | Method of providing tailor-made software for hospital departments - To provide tailor-made software for use in a specific department of a hospital, a software package suitable for use by more than one department of the hospital is provided including components implementing general tasks. Then, software is added implementing tasks which may be considered to extend the general tasks. This extension can be tailor-made for the specific department. In at least one embodiment, the software package includes both front end and back end software components, front end components reacting to user inputs and calling up back end software components, and the extension may be both at the front end and at the back end side. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100208959 | METHOD FOR MANAGING AND/OR PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - A method for managing and/or processing medical image data is disclosed, in particular for controlling a medical workflow. Furthermore, a computer system and a computer program product having a computer program product code for implementing the method are disclosed. One embodiment is directed to a method for managing and/or processing medical image data including inputting medical image data generated by one or several modalities, the image data including the description data according to a predefined structure; assigning the image data to a template as a function of the classification thereof, with the template specifying the respective processing of image data in one or several processing steps and being used for the classification preferably of lists of classification criteria; and extracting the classification criteria at least partially from the description data. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211613 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A COMPUTER WITH DATA MANAGEMENT - A storage area can be accessed by a computer. Files are stored in the storage area, in which application-related files are stored. Each of the files stored in the storage area is alternatively stored as protected or unprotected file. In at least one embodiment, as a function of commands, which are prespecified by a user to the computer within the scope of running an application, the protected files and/or the unprotected files are read out of the storage area by the computer. Furthermore, in at least one embodiment, as a function of commands which are prespecified by the user to the computer within the scope of running the application, the unprotected files stored in the storage area are changed, deleted and/or converted into protected files and/or new files are determined on the basis of files stored in the storage area and are stored as unprotected files in the storage area. Irrespective of the command prespecified by the user to the computer within the scope of running the application, the computer does not cause the files stored in the storage area to be changed, deleted or converted into unprotected files. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100223617 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING AND/OR PROVIDING COMPUTER-AIDED TASKS FOR MEDICAL TASK FLOWS - A method and a computer system are disclosed for designing and/or providing computer-aided tasks for medical task flows. In at least one embodiment, the method includes providing one or more tasks of at least one task flow, which can exchange data with one or a number of other tasks, in so far as they comply with at least one requirement for exchanging data; providing task flow management, which manages requirements in respect of a task and grants a task access for a task flow according to at least one of the requirements; providing at least one task container, which is made available as host for a task, in so far as the task complies with at least one requirement for access to the host; and providing at least one domain platform, which is used to convert the functionality and logic of at least one task, in so far as the task complies with at least one requirement in respect of the conversion. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100228769 | METHODS AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENABLING DATA RECORDS TO BE LOCATED - In large medical facilities such as hospitals or group practices run by physicians individual patients are often examined and treated by a number of specialists in succession. In view of this it is important, in spite of great differences in the workflows of the individual medical facilities, to coordinate the work of said specialists by way of an operator control device having a uniform user interface. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, methods and a program product for enabling data records to be located are provided for that purpose. By way of the methods and/or the program product, in at least one embodiment a basic page and at least one content page are provided, wherein by use of the basic page at least one display field for presenting information extracted from a data record can be generated on a screen display and wherein by use of the content page, information extracted from a data record can be displayed in a display field. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100229118 | METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRODUCING MEDICAL FINDINGS ON THE BASIS OF MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - In order to produce a set of medical findings based on image data which has been obtained by way of different imaging methods, a plurality of image viewer programs has hitherto been required. In at least one embodiment, a viewer device is to be provided, with which different image data can be viewed and with which it is simultaneously possible to produce a set of medical findings. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided wherein a base page and at least one content page with display elements are selected and are loaded and activated by a program. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100229153 | Providing a number of web services for imaging optional medical applications - A system and a computer-implemented method are disclosed, as well as a computer readable medium, for providing a number of web services for at least one medical viewing application, so as to provide the application with application-exceeding basic functionalities with regard to a transfer management service, a data management service, a workflow management service, a report management service, a protocol management service, an operating management service and an enterprise application integration management service. A web service of at least one embodiment, in that case, includes at least one remote service component, at least one business object and at least one service component. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100241443 | Sequential control and execution of medical applications at different workstations - A process, a system and a computer program product and computer readable medium are disclosed for the sequential control and execution of a medical task. In at least one embodiment, the task is processed with the aid of a plurality of different, computer-implemented, medical-technical, stateful applications. In at least one embodiment, the invention uses a 3-layer software architecture including a data layer, a business logic layer, and presentation layer. With the aid of a central server, the option is provided of a one-time loading of the extensive datasets for a task and the applications for a task, so that the datasets and the applications are subsequently preserved for a user of the medical task. As a result, multiple waiting periods for the user are avoided. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100293548 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICAL APPLICATIONS EXECUTING IN PARALLEL - A method and a computer system are disclosed for administration of medical applications running in parallel. At least one embodiment of the method includes creation of a number of application components as a result a beginning of a number of user actions; provision of a module for parallel execution and/or for coordination of the previously created application components, provision of a least one communication interface for exchanging messages and/or data between an application component and a command which is of interest to the application component which has been initiated by one of the user actions, and removal of the application component created by a user action after the user action has ended. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110029623 | TASKFLOW UNIT FOR CONTROLLING COMPUTER-AIDED MEDICAL TASKS WITHIN A MEDICAL COMPUTER NETWORK - A taskflow unit is disclosed including at least one of a device and module for controlling computer-aided medical tasks within a medical computer network. In at least one embodiment, tasks are assigned to different software units, wherein the tasks are merged to form at least one taskflow within the medical computer network. In at least one embodiment, the taskflow unit is installed on an application server within the computer network. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110078693 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE WAITING TIME WHEN WORK STEPS ARE EXECUTED FOR THE FIRST TIME - A method and a medical computer system for executing the method are disclosed for reducing the waiting time for at least one user of the computer system when they first execute at least one work step in the computer system. The method includes pre-starting a process which is not yet assigned to a user, and loading the services into the process, which the applications initiated by a user to execute the at least one work step are very likely to call without the user already being assigned to the process. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110138392 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A COMPUTER WITH PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION BY GROUPING APPLICATIONS - In at least one embodiment, if the pre-start level has the value empty container, the computer creates a container within the framework of the pre-start but does not load any application into the container. If the pre-start level has the value application, the computer creates a respective container within the framework of the pre-start for each application. If the pre-start level has a higher value, the computer determines within the framework of the pre-start a degree of grouping for the applications assigned to the respective pre-started unit, and groups the applications in accordance with the degree of grouping determined into at least one container group. Within the framework of the processing of the complex tasks, the computer terminates on switching from one application to another application, the application still being executed only if the application involves an application not able to be suspended. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110153345 | Method for operating a hospital information system - A method of operating a hospital information system, and a hospital information system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes providing a taskflow editing tool with a limited number of editing options to a user; creating a taskflow defining a number of tasks and connections of the tasks by the user using the taskflow editing tool; and performing an automated test run of the created taskflow, wherein the automated test run is checked according to a number of criteria and wherein results of the check are reported to the user. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154355 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR THE ELECTRONIC PREPROCESSING OF DIGITAL MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - A method and a system, for resource allocation provided for implementation of the method, are specified for the electronic preprocessing of digital medical image data. In at least one embodiment, provision is subsequently made to classify a plurality of preprocessing jobs, in particular by way of a classifier module, to determine whether they were generated interactively by a user request or automatically. Each preprocessing job is placed in a queue in accordance with the classification, in particular by way of an execution coordination module of the system. Data processing resources for job execution are assigned to each preprocessing job taking account of the classification, in particular by way of a resource allocation module of the system, with interactive preprocessing jobs being handled with higher priority than automatic preprocessing orders. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110161953 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM - A method for operating a hospital information system, including a plurality of computer machines interconnected in a network, is provided that keeps data and configurations globally consistent during installation, upgrade or update of the system or its subsystems, and ensures the ability of the distributed subsystems to cooperate on a single machine as well as between several machines without the need to execute the software manipulations on all machines at the same time. To this end, at least one embodiment of the method includes providing a installing module on one of the computer machines; extracting the software data from the installing module and writing the software data to a hard disk of the one computer machine; providing a set of software manipulation operations; choosing a number of software manipulation operations from the set based on the software data extracted from the installing module and executing the number of software manipulation operations on the one computer machine. | 06-30-2011 |
