JP2001167181A - Information exchange system, information exchange method and recording medium recording information exchange program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information exchange system and an information exchange method which can surely refer to the information on patients with a small number of operations. SOLUTION: An input information 'in' is inputted to a keyboard 41 and the output information S41 is outputted from the keyboard 41. The information S41 is inputted to a transmission/reception protocol 42 and the output information S42a is outputted from the protocol 42. The information 42a is transmitted to a transmission/reception protocol 51 through a LAN 60, and the output information S51b is outputted from the protocol 51. The information 51b is inputted to an originating destination information conversion part 52, and an identifier S52 is outputted from the part 52 to specify a user serving as an originating destination out of the patient information included in the information S51b. The originating destinations are specified every time the patient information is inputted. The identifier S52 is stored in a memory 53.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is used, for example, in medical institutions and the like, and an information exchange system and information exchange for exchanging medical record information of a patient among users such as doctors, nurses and technicians. The present invention relates to a method and a recording medium on which an information exchange program is recorded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a conventional information exchange system. The information exchange system includes an information terminal device 10 and an information processing device 20, as shown in FIG. The information terminal device 10 has an information input unit (for example, a keyboard) 11. The keyboard 11 is provided with transmission information (for example, information that a user wants to transmit to other users, such as instructions on medical treatment) concerning a patient in charge of a plurality of users (for example, doctors, nurses, technicians, etc.) and a transmission destination. And information as input information in, and output information S11 is output. A transmission / reception protocol 12 is connected to the keyboard 11. The transmission / reception protocol 12 receives the output information S11 and outputs the output information S11.
12a, and outputs output information S12b by inputting output information S21a. The transmission / reception protocol 12 is connected to an information output unit 13 that receives the output information S12b and outputs the information in a predetermined manner. Information output unit 1
Reference numeral 3 denotes an output device such as a display, a data scope, or a printer.

Further, the transmission / reception protocol 12 includes a LAN (local communication) for transmitting output information S12a and S21a.
Information processing device 20 via an area network 30
Is connected. The information processing device 20 has a transmission / reception protocol 21. The transmission / reception protocol 21 is LA
The output information S12a transmitted via N30 is input, the output information S21b is output, and the search result information S24a
And outputs output information S21a. The registration unit 22 is connected to the transmission / reception protocol 21. The registration unit 22 receives the output information S21b, converts it into registration information S22, and outputs the converted information. Registration means 22
Is connected to the memory 23. The memory 23 inputs and stores the registration information S22, and stores the information identifier S24
The search result information S23 is output based on b. A search unit 24 is connected to the memory 23. The search unit 24 searches the memory 23 based on the information identifier S24b.
And receives the search result information S23 from the memory 23 and outputs the search result information S24a. The transmission / reception protocol 21 is connected to the search unit 24.

Next, the operations (1) and (2) of the information exchange system shown in FIG. 5 will be described. (1) Operation at the time of inputting information The input information in is input from the keyboard 11 by the operation of the caller, and the output information S11 is output from the keyboard 11. The output information S11 is input to the transmission / reception protocol 12, and the output information S12a is output from the transmission / reception protocol 12.
Is output. The output information S12a is input to the transmission / reception protocol 21 via the LAN 30, and the transmission / reception protocol 21 outputs output information S21b. Output information S2
1b is input to the registration unit 22, and the registration unit 22 outputs registration information S22. The registration information S22 is input and stored in the memory 23. (2) Operation during Information Search The information identifier S24b is output from the search unit 24 to search the memory 23, and the search result information S23 is read from the memory 23.
Is output. The search result information S23 is input to the search unit 24, and the search unit 24 outputs search result information S24a. The search result information S24a is input to the transmission / reception protocol 21, and the output information S21
a is output. The output information S21a is input to the transmission / reception protocol 12 via the LAN 30, and the output information S12b is output from the transmission / reception protocol 12. Output information S
12b is input to the information output unit 13 and output by a predetermined method.

[0005]

However, the conventional information exchange system has the following problems. That is, when inputting information, the caller must specify the user of the call destination each time, so that the operation becomes complicated,
Sometimes a caller misses information about a patient by mistaking the destination or forgetting to specify it.
Further, in a conventional information exchange system, there is a system in which information transmission destinations are grouped in advance and the group is transmitted as a transmission destination. However, since this group is created by a user, users belonging to the group are , Unless the user changed it. Therefore, there is a problem that the users in the group cannot be changed dynamically (that is, each time information is transmitted). Also, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 6-110947 proposes a medical data retrieval system for retrieving medical data and image data of a patient, but associates a patient with a user who is in charge of the patient. Because it was not a search, information about the patient was sometimes overlooked.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides an information exchange system and an information exchange system that enable a user to refer to information about a patient with a small number of operations without missing information about the patient. It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording medium recording a method and an information exchange program.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information exchange system for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users. A destination for converting the input destination information into an identifier for identifying a destination user related to the patient among the respective users based on patient information indicating a relationship between a patient and each of the users. It is characterized by comprising information conversion means and information storage means for storing the identifier.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the information exchange system according to the first aspect, wherein the user of the destination is determined each time the destination information is input.

[0009] The invention according to claim 3 relates to an information exchange system for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, wherein patient information representing a relationship between the patient and each of the users is provided. Destination information conversion means for converting the input destination information into an identifier for specifying a destination user related to the patient from among the users, and an information storage means for storing the identifier. A search unit for searching the information storage unit based on the identifier of the user or the identifier of the patient and outputting search result information; and inputting the search result information. And information output means for notifying the user that the information has arrived.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information exchange method for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, wherein patient information indicating a relationship between the patient and each of the users is provided. Based on this, the input destination information is converted into an identifier for specifying the destination user related to the patient from among the users, and the converted information is stored.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the information exchange method according to the fourth aspect, wherein the user of the destination is determined each time the destination information is input.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information exchange method for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, wherein new information arrives every time the destination information is input. Is notified to the user.

[0013] Further, the invention according to claim 7 relates to a recording medium recording an information exchange program for realizing an information exchange system for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users. Computer, based on the patient information representing the relationship between the patient and each of the users, the input destination information into an identifier for identifying the destination user related to the patient from among the respective users It is characterized by recording destination information conversion means for conversion and an information exchange program for functioning as a storage control means for storing the identifier in an information storage means.
Still further, the invention according to claim 8 relates to a recording medium storing an information exchange program for executing an information exchange method for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users. Based on the patient information representing the relationship between the patient and each user, the input destination information is converted into an identifier for specifying the destination user related to the patient from among the users, It is characterized by recording an information exchange program for executing a process of storing the obtained identifier in the storage means.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of an information exchange system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the information exchange system of this embodiment includes an information terminal device 40 and an information processing device 50.
It has. The information terminal device 40 has an information input unit (for example, a keyboard) 41. Keyboard 41
Is information transmitted by a plurality of users (for example, doctors, nurses, technicians, etc.) regarding patients in charge (for example, information that one user wants to transmit to other users, such as instructions on medical treatment)
And destination information as input information in, and output output information S41. A transmission / reception protocol 42 is connected to the keyboard 41. The transmission / reception protocol 42 receives the output information S41 and outputs the output information S42a.
And outputs the output information S51a by inputting the output information S51a.
42b. The transmission / reception protocol 42 is connected to an information output means (for example, a display) 43 which inputs the output information S42b and outputs the information in a predetermined manner. Further, the information terminal device 40 has a central processing unit (hereinafter, “CP”) for controlling the entire information terminal device 40.
U ”) and a recording medium (for example, read only memory, hereinafter referred to as“ ROM ”) 45 in which a program for operating the CPU 55 is recorded. Further, an information processing device 50 is connected to the transmission / reception protocol 42 via a LAN 60 that transmits output information S42a and S51a.

The information processing device 50 has a transmission / reception protocol 5
One. This transmission / reception protocol 51 uses LAN
The output information S42a transmitted via the control unit 60 is input to output the output information S51b, and the search result information S54a is input to output the output information S51a. A destination information converter 52 is connected to the transmission / reception protocol 51. The destination information conversion unit 52 outputs the output information S51b.
Is input based on the patient information (for example, information on the medical department where the patient is undergoing medical care and information on the user who belongs to the medical department) indicating the relationship between the patient and each user. The destination information is converted into an identifier S52 for specifying the user of the destination associated with the patient from among the users, and the converted information is output. An information storage unit (for example, a memory) 53 is connected to the destination information conversion unit 52. The memory 53 inputs and stores the identifier S52, and outputs the search result information S53 based on the information identifier S54b. The memory 53 is configured by a storage device such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a ROM, a RAM (random access memory), an IC card, or a magnetic tape. The data that can be handled by the memory 53 are, for example, all data that can be described in medical records, such as free text, images, graphs, and table data, and all data that is recorded during medical treatment, such as audio, video, and binary data.

Search means (for example, a search unit) 54 is connected to the memory 53. The search unit 54 generates the information identifier S54b based on the user identifier or the patient identifier S51c, searches the memory 53 based on the information identifier S54b, and searches the memory 53 for the search result information S
53, and outputs search result information S54a. The information identifier S54b is, for example, SQL (Structu
This is a language for searching medical information from the memory 53, such as a red query language) and a file name. The transmission / reception protocol 51 is connected to the search unit 54. Further, the information processing apparatus 50 has a CPU 55 for controlling the entire information processing apparatus 50 and a recording medium (for example, R) in which a program for operating the CPU 55 is recorded.
OM etc.) 56 are provided.

FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are first, second and third flow charts for explaining the operation of the information exchange system having the above-described configuration, respectively. With reference to these figures, the operation of the information exchange system having the above configuration (1),
(2) will be described. (1) Operation at the time of inputting information As shown in FIG. 2, at the time of inputting information, information that a certain user wants to transmit to another user is input from the keyboard 41 as input information in (step SP1). The information to be transmitted to other users may be, for example, "A blood test should be performed at the patient's next visit" or "Be careful because this patient is likely to drink." This is information that you want to inform users involved in medical treatment. The input information in is converted into a language for recording information in the memory 53, such as an SQL sentence, and output information S41 is output from the keyboard 41 (step SP2).

The output information S41 is input to the transmission / reception protocol 42, and is output from the transmission / reception protocol 42 to the output information S42.
a is output. The output information S42a is transmitted to the transmission / reception protocol 51 via the LAN 60 (step SP
3). Output information S42a transmitted via LAN 60
Is input to the transmission / reception protocol 51, and the transmission / reception protocol 51 outputs output information S51b. Output information S
51b is input to the destination information conversion unit 52, and an identifier S52 for specifying the destination user related to the patient is output from the destination information conversion unit 52 (step SP).
4). The identifier S52 is stored in the memory 53 (Step SP5). At this time, the stored information also includes information about which patient the patient is related to (that is, information for identifying the patient).

Further, in step SP4, an operation as shown in FIG. 3 is performed. First, the destination information conversion unit 5
In 2, the medical department, the attending physician, and the like on which the patient is located are specified from the patient information (step SQ1). Next, information on the users (doctors, nurses, technicians, etc.) belonging to the department is acquired, and the destination is determined (step SQ2). Further, when the patient is undergoing a medical treatment in another department such as a radiological examination, information on the doctor in charge is also determined as the transmission destination (step SQ3). In this case, it is possible to acquire whether or not a medical treatment is being performed in another department from a generally operating hospital information system, and it is also possible to acquire information on the doctor in charge. In this way,
Each time the patient information is input, the destination is specified.

(2) Operation at Information Retrieval As shown in FIG. 4, when the information exchange system is activated, a user instructs or periodically from the keyboard 41 to the LAN 60.
In response to a command issued to the search unit 54 via the, the acquisition of information is requested using the identifier of the user or the identifier S51c of the patient as a search condition (step SR11). The identifier of the user can be obtained from the destination information conversion unit 52, and the identifier of the patient is input by the user from the keyboard 41. The search unit 54 that has received the request acquires the search result information S53 based on a language for searching information from the memory 53, such as SQL, for example (step SR2). When new search result information S53 is obtained by the search unit 54, the search unit 54 outputs search result information S54a. The search result information S54a includes the transmission / reception protocol 51
To the output information S5 from the transmission / reception protocol 51.
1a is output. The output information S51a is transmitted via the LAN 60 and is input to the transmission / reception protocol 42.
The output information S42b is transmitted from the transmission / reception protocol 42 to the display 43 (step SR3), and the display 43 outputs the output information S42b (step SR3).
4). In this case, the information is transmitted using a screen, a sound, or the like so that the user can clearly understand.

As described above, in this embodiment, the destination information conversion unit 52 specifies the medical department, the attending physician, and the like on which the patient is based on the patient information. It can be sent without specifying the user information. Further, each time the search result information S54a is input, the display 43 indicates that new information has arrived.
, The information on the patient can be referred to with few operations, and the user does not miss the information on the patient.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and there are design changes and the like without departing from the gist of the present invention. Is also included in the present invention. For example, in the embodiment, the information exchange system is a single information terminal device 4.
0 and the information processing device 50, but a plurality of information terminal devices and information processing devices may be provided and these may be connected by, for example, a LAN. Further, the information terminal device 40 and the information processing device 50 may be mounted on a single information exchange system. The LAN 60 may be a public line network such as a telephone line or an optical fiber cable, or a wireless line system such as a satellite line. Further, the transmission / reception protocols 42 and 51 and the LAN 60 do not need to be in a state where communication is always possible.

The keyboard (information input unit) 41 may be composed of, for example, a numeric keypad, a switch, a mouse, a trackball, an input pen, an input tablet, a data glove, an OCR device, an image scanner, or a microphone. The data handled by the information output unit 43 is, for example, all information input by the information input unit 41, such as text, images, graphs, table data, moving images, or binary data. Therefore, the display (information output unit) 43 may be configured by an output device such as a data scope or a printer. The output information S4
When 2b is an audio signal, the information output unit 43 is configured by an audio output device such as a speaker, a headphone, an earphone, or a headset.

[0024]

As described above, according to the structure of the present invention, the destination information conversion means specifies the medical department, the attending physician, etc., on which the patient is located, from the patient information. Can be transmitted without specifying the information of the user to be transmitted. Furthermore, each time the search result information is input, the fact that new information has arrived is sent to the information output means, so that information on the patient can be referred to with a small number of operations, and the user can view the information on the patient. An information exchange system and an information exchange method that are not overlooked can be realized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of an information exchange system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a first flowchart for explaining the operation of the information exchange system.

FIG. 3 is a second flowchart for explaining the operation of the information exchange system.

FIG. 4 is a third flowchart for explaining the operation of the information exchange system.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a conventional information exchange system.

[Explanation of symbols]

43 display (information output means) 52 destination information conversion unit (destination information conversion means) 53 memory (information storage means) 54 search unit (search means)

Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Toshio Kawamoto 5-7-1 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo Within NEC Corporation (72) Inventor Yasushi Takahashi 1-4-24 Shiromi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Kansai NEC Software Corporation F term (reference) 5B049 AA01 AA02 BB42 DD01 EE05 FF03 GG04

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. An information exchange system for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, wherein the information is input based on patient information indicating a relationship between the patient and each of the users. A destination information conversion unit that converts destination information into an identifier for specifying a destination user related to the patient from among the users; and an information storage unit that stores the identifier. Characteristic information exchange system. 2. The information exchange system according to claim 1, wherein the user of the destination is determined each time the destination information is input. 3. An information exchange system for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, wherein the information is input based on patient information indicating a relationship between the patient and each of the users. Destination information conversion means for converting the destination information into an identifier for specifying a destination user associated with the patient from among the users; information storage means for storing the identifier; Searching means for searching the information storage means based on an identifier or the patient's identifier and outputting search result information; inputting the search result information; new information arrives each time the search result information is input; And an information output means for notifying a user of the fact. 4. An information exchange method for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, wherein the medical record information is input based on patient information indicating a relationship between the patient and each of the users. An information exchange method, wherein destination information is converted into an identifier for identifying a destination user associated with the patient from among the users and stored. 5. The information exchange method according to claim 4, wherein a user of the destination is determined each time the destination information is input. 6. An information exchange method for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, wherein a notification that new information has arrived each time input of destination information is notified to the user. An information exchange method characterized by: 7. A recording medium recording an information exchange program for realizing an information exchange system for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, comprising: Destination information conversion means for converting the input destination information to an identifier for identifying a destination user associated with the patient from among the users based on patient information indicating a relationship with each user. And a machine-readable recording medium on which is recorded an information exchange program for causing the identifier to function as storage control means for storing the identifier in an information storage means. 8. A recording medium recording an information exchange program for executing an information exchange method for exchanging medical record information of a patient among a plurality of users, wherein a computer stores the patient and the patient Based on the patient information indicating the relationship with each user, the input destination information is converted into an identifier that specifies the destination user related to the patient from among the users, and the obtained identifier is obtained. A computer-readable recording medium which records an information exchange program for executing a process of storing the information in a storage means.