KR20000054616A - System and method for remote medical prescription via communication network and recording medium therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for writing prescriptions through communication networks is provided, so that a patient can select a doctor to receive a prescription by visiting a nearby pharmacy through a remote prescription terminal of the pharmacy regardless of distances to receive a medicine corresponding to the prescription. CONSTITUTION: A method for writing prescriptions through communication networks comprises the steps of: building a remote prescription program, an examination room for medical treatments, and an information storage in a server; receiving a medical examination reservation from a patient connected to the server through a communication network, and registering the patient in the information storage; making the patient connect to the server, and making a doctor connect to the server when the patient waits for a medical treatment, then making the doctor select the patient; making the doctor remotely treat the patient as watching a symptom of the patient through a doctor terminal; making the doctor input a prescription in the server; and making the server store the prescription in the information storage to transmit the prescription to the patient.

Description

System and method for remote medical prescription via communication network and recording medium therefor}

The present invention relates to a remote prescription system and method through a communication network, and in particular, a patient receiving a checkup from a remote doctor through a communication network, and a remote prescription method and system through a communication network for preparing prescription drugs at a nearby pharmacy with a doctor's prescription; It relates to the recording medium.

In general, in order to receive medical treatment from a doctor, the patient visits the medical institution where the doctor works, completes the reception and storage, waits for a certain time, then receives the medical treatment from the doctor, and according to the prescription prescribed by the doctor In addition, prescription drugs are prepared and used at commercial pharmacies outside hospitals.

Meanwhile, depending on the division of medicine, the patient's choice of primary, secondary, and tertiary care centers will be largely centered on large hospitals, which will lead to the avoidance of clinics, the primary care institutes. In this case, because of the increase in the number of patients due to the concentration of the patient requires a long waiting time, you will be inconvenient to provide quality medical services.

However, as described above, there is a disadvantage in the method in which the doctor and the patient meet directly and perform the medical treatment.

First, the patient must move to the hospital where the doctor works for a long time to receive the treatment, and must wait for a long time to see the doctor, there is a disadvantage that the cost and time loss increases.

Second, in the outlying areas where there is no general medical institution, the doctor can not see the doctor who is qualified as a specialist. Occurs.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to visit a nearby pharmacy in which the patient resides, select a doctor who wants to receive medical care regardless of distance through a remote prescription terminal installed in the pharmacy, and receive a remote prescription from the doctor, The present invention provides a remote prescription system, a method and a recording medium through a communication network to receive a prescribed pharmaceutical preparation.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a remote prescription system via a communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2a to 2d are diagrams schematically showing the structure of various databases stored in a server in a table form;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a remote prescription method through a communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a view showing a medical appointment screen provided to the patient to make a medical appointment,

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically illustrating a screen showing a list of waiting patients for which the server has completed the medical appointment to the doctor;

6 is a schematic illustration of a prescription input screen that a doctor provides a doctor to issue a prescription for a patient.

In order to achieve the above object, a remote prescription system through a communication network according to the present invention includes a remote prescription program and a server having an information storage unit; A pseudo terminal capable of connecting to the server through a communication network; A patient side terminal connectable to said server via a communication network; A treatment waiting unit provided in the server to allow a patient to access the server to reserve a doctor and to wait for a remote treatment; A symptom acquisition unit connected to the terminal of the patient to acquire the symptom of the patient and transmit the symptom to a doctor through a communication network; Means for allowing a doctor to select a patient in the medical treatment unit through a communication network and watch the symptoms of the patient for remote medical treatment; A doctor's remote prescription unit provided by a server for the doctor to input a prescription for the patient; And means for the server to store the doctor's prescription information in the information storage unit and to transmit it to the patient. Characterized in that it comprises a.

In order to achieve the above object, a remote prescription method through a communication network according to the present invention comprises: (a) constructing a remote prescription operation program, a medical treatment waiting unit, and an information storage unit on a server; (b) receiving a medical appointment from a patient connected to the server through a communication network and registering the medical appointment; (c) the patient accessing the server and waiting for the treatment, the doctor accessing the server through the communication network and selecting the waiting patient; (d) allowing the doctor to remotely watch the patient's symptoms through the doctor's terminal; (e) a doctor entering a prescription for a patient into a server; And (f) the server storing the prescription in an information storage unit and transmitting the prescription to a patient. Characterized in that it comprises a.

(A) establishing a remote prescription operation program, a medical treatment waiting unit, and an information storage unit in order to achieve the above another object; (b) receiving a medical appointment from a patient connected to the server through a communication network and registering the medical appointment; (c) the patient accessing the server and waiting for the treatment, the doctor accessing the server through the communication network and selecting the waiting patient; (d) allowing the doctor to remotely watch the patient's symptoms through the doctor's terminal; (e) a doctor entering a prescription for a patient into a server; And (f) the server storing the prescription in an information storage unit and transmitting the prescription to a patient. There is provided a computer-readable recording medium recording a remote prescription method through a communication network comprising a.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a remote prescription system through a communication network according to the present invention includes a server 10 connected through a communication network 1, a doctor terminal 20, and a patient terminal 30.

The server 10 includes a program 11 for operating a remote prescription, a medical treatment waiting unit 12, a remote prescription unit 13, a medical security unit 14, and an information storage unit 15.

The remote prescription program 11 includes an algorithm for allowing a patient to select a doctor to receive a remote medical examination through the communication network 1 and to make a medical appointment, and to allow the doctor to prescribe the patient remotely and then prescribe remotely. Doing.

The treatment waiting unit 12 selects and reserves a doctor and a doctor's time to be treated by a patient who is connected to the server 10 through the communication network 1, and then waits to access the server 10 at a time to receive the treatment. It is a virtual space provided in the server 10 so that.

The remote prescription unit 13 is a virtual input space provided to the doctor by the server 10 to issue a prescription for the patient after the doctor views and treats the patient's symptoms. The server 10 provides a remote prescription unit for querying a doctor to issue a prescription, which collects information necessary for a prescription form designated by the Ministry of Welfare, which includes a prescription issue screen 60 shown in FIG. In this case, patient information and doctor information are included, and there is a disease classification query and a prescription history query.

The patient information is automatically inputted from information extracted from the patient DB (17), and is divided into medical insurance subjects, medical protection subjects, car insurance, industrial accident insurance, and general patients as contents related to the types of patients to be treated. Information is provided and information about the patient's social security number, age, height, weight, medical history and medical time. The doctor information includes a doctor's name, license number, digital signature, and stamp information for the doctor extracted from the doctor DB 16. The disease classification query is to enter information on the columnar disease and injury disease of the patient. The prescription query is provided to input the name of the prescription drug, the dosage, the frequency of administration, the number of days of administration, the dosage and the reference for the preparation.

The medical security unit 14 is responsible for the security of personal information leakage, patient history, security of prescription issuance authority. If the doctor or the patient wants to access the information storage unit 15 for the doctor and the patient, the ID and password must be input to obtain the authentication of the medical security unit 14, and this security system is used. If it does not pass, it will send a re-entry message and at the same time it will not be able to access and acquire any data.

The information storage unit 15 includes a doctor DB 16 (database), a patient DB 17, a reservation DB 18, and a prescription DB 19. 2A to 2D are diagrams schematically showing structures of various DBs. Referring to the drawings, the doctor DB 16 includes information about doctors, such as doctor codes, doctor names, medical departments, office hours, and working hospitals. Information is registered. In the patient DB 17, information on a patient code, patient name, insurance type, sex, age, address, and past medical history is registered. In the reservation DB 18, information about a patient's appointment, such as a reservation code, a patient's name, a department, a doctor's name, and a treatment time, is registered. In the prescription DB 19, information about a prescription issued by a doctor, for example, a prescription code 19a, a doctor's name, a patient's name, a medical department, an age, an illness, and a prescription drug are registered.

The patient terminal 30 is a terminal connected to the server 10 through a communication network 1 by executing an application program such as a web browser (not shown), and may be a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a palmtop computer, or the like. And a symptom acquisition unit 32 for inputting the symptom of the patient.

The symptom acquisition unit 32 is an input device provided in the patient terminal 30 to show the symptoms of the patient to the doctor terminal 20, the video camera 33 for capturing a video, and for inputting voice A microphone 34, an electronic stethoscope 35 for auscultation, a keyboard 36 for text input, and the like are included.

The doctor terminal 20 is a terminal capable of accessing the server 10 through a communication network 1 by executing a web browser or an application for remote prescription, and may be a workstation, a desktop computer, a notebook computer, or the like. have. The doctor selects the patients in the treatment waiting unit 12 in the treatment waiting unit 12 of the server 10 through the doctor side terminal 20 and digitalizes the symptom acquisition unit 32 provided in the patient terminal 30. Telemedicine is performed while watching the symptoms of the patient, and a prescription for the patient is issued by the remote prescription unit 13.

In the present invention, the communication network 1 refers to the Internet which connects the world using the Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) protocol, code division multiple access (CDMA), and time division multiple access (TDMA). A wireless communication network capable of transmitting voice and data to a portable wireless telephone such as a hand held phone, a cellular phone, a mobile phone, etc. employing the IMT2000 method is described.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a remote prescription method through a communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to the drawings, a remote prescription program 11, a treatment waiting unit 12, a remote prescription unit 13, The information storage unit 15 is established (S110). Here, as shown in FIGS. 2A to 2D, the information storage unit 15 collects and registers information about a doctor who can prescribe remotely in advance, and the server 10 to receive a remote prescription. A patient DB (17) in which information about a patient registered in the patient is registered, a reservation DB (18) in which information on a department, a doctor, and a medical treatment time is registered in order for the patient to receive medical treatment, It includes a prescription DB (19) registered information for issuing a prescription for a patient after the remote medical treatment.

The patient is connected to the server 10 connected to the communication network 1 (S120). Here, the patient must be a person who has previously registered as a member or previously registered as a member in the server 10 and obtained a member certification from the medical care security unit 14. In addition, although the patient terminal 30 is preferably used as a terminal for the patient to access the server 10, when there is no patient terminal 30, the patient terminal 30 may be connected to the pharmacist side terminal 35 installed in the pharmacy.

The server 10 receives a selection for a medical department, a medical doctor, and a medical treatment time to receive medical treatment from a patient (S130). Referring to FIG. 4, the treatment appointment screen 40 shown to the patient is clicked on the selection buttons 411, 421, 431, and 432 included in the treatment department button 41, the doctor button 42, and the reservation time button 43, respectively, to select desired items. After selecting, click on the schedule execution button (44).

When the patient enters the reservation execution button 44, the server 10 stores the treatment reservation information in the reservation DB 18 of the information storage unit 15 according to the reservation item selected by the patient, and confirms that the reservation is completed to the patient. Transmit (S140). Here, the medical appointment information includes a reservation code, a patient name, a doctor name, and a medical time as shown in FIG. 2C. Then, the server 10 provides a treatment waiting list screen 50, as shown in Figure 5 so that the doctor can view the treatment appointment information.

After the doctor connects to the server 10 through the doctor side terminal 20, the doctor selects a patient in the treatment waiting unit 12 (S140). Here, the doctor is a person who is authenticated to access the server 10 as a doctor by inputting ID (ID) and password (Password) from the medical care security unit 14 of the server 10, the waiting list screen of the patient of FIG. If the doctor button 51 is selected at the doctor button 51 and the treatment date is selected at the date button 52, a list of patients scheduled for treatment is displayed in the waiting list window 53. At this time, if the patient has a medical appointment and is not connected to the server at the medical time, it will appear as "not connected" in the medical treatment column (531). The doctor selects a patient who is "waiting for treatment" in the waiting list window 53, and clicks the execution button 54 to select a patient to be remotely diagnosed.

Next, it is determined whether the patient selected by the doctor has a past medical history (S150). If there is a fact that the patient has received the remote medical care by accessing the server 10, the remarks column 532 of the waiting list window 53 is displayed as "recommended", and the name and prescription of the previously treated disease The received information is stored in the patient DB 17 of the information storage unit 15.

If there is a past history of the patient, the doctor transmits the past history of the patient stored in the patient DB (17) (S170). In this way, by looking at the information about the past medical history in advance, it will help to diagnose and prescribe the disease in the future.

On the other hand, when the remote medical examination of the patient is the first visit to transmit the symptoms of the patient input through the symptom acquisition unit 32 provided in the patient terminal (S180). Of course, even in the case of a patient with a history of the past history of the patient to obtain the symptoms through the symptom acquisition unit 32 to transmit to the doctor. Here, the symptom acquisition unit 32 is an input device provided in the patient terminal 30, as shown in Figure 1, the electronic camera 33, the microphone 34, the electronic stethoscope 35 and the keyboard 36 The symptom data for the digitalized video, voice, stethoscope, and questionnaire are transmitted to the doctor terminal 20 through the communication network 1 to assist the doctor in diagnosing a patient's disease.

The doctor sees the symptoms of the patient shown in the doctor side terminal 20 and performs remote medical examination (S190). Here, the doctor communicates with the patient, asks to see the wound in detail in order to identify the patient's disease, or hears an appeal for the patient's pain through a voice call.

Next, the doctor determines whether the disease can be identified for the patient's disease (S200). If the symptoms obtained from the patient are insufficient to judge the disease, the patient is continuously treated by asking the patient to show additional symptoms. If it is difficult to diagnose the patient's disease only by the symptoms obtained from the symptom acquisition unit 32 provided in the patient terminal 30, the patient may be directly visited to a nearby hospital and instructed to undergo a separate test.

If the doctor can identify the illness for the patient's disease, the doctor inputs the patient's prescription through the remote prescription 13 of the server 10 (S210). As a method of inputting the prescription, referring to the prescription issuing screen 60 of FIG. 6, information about a doctor to be prescribed is displayed in the doctor column 61, and information about the patient is displayed on the prescription input window 62. . Preferably, the doctor information and patient information are automatically extracted and viewed from the doctor DB 16 and the patient DB 17. The doctor clicks the selection button 621 corresponding to the patient's name, prescription drug, and taking method in the prescription input window 62 to select a prescription type, and then clicks the prescription execution button 63 to issue a prescription. As described above, the doctor does not directly enter the prescription for the patient in the server 10, the information on the registered disease name, prescription drugs, taking method, etc. registered in the server 10, just by selecting the mouse (not shown) to select the prescription By issuing it, it helps the doctor complete the prescription quickly.

The server 10 stores the prescription information issued by the doctor in the prescription DB 19 of the information storage unit 15, and transmits the prescription to the patient (S220).

The patient visits the pharmacy with the prescription and applies a pharmacist for preparation (S230). Here, the patient may take the prescription by printing it with a printer (not shown). If the patient terminal 30 is not equipped with a printer, the patient may present the prescription code 19a (see FIG. 2D) to the pharmacist and allow the pharmacist to take the prescription. It is connected to the server 10 through the pharmacist side terminal 35 to search and view the prescription of the patient stored in the prescription DB (19).

The pharmacist checks whether the prescription presented by the patient is valid and provides the patient with the preparation (S240). Here, the pharmacist compares the prescription registered in the prescription DB 19 of the server 10 according to the prescription code 19a presented by the patient, and also, the prescription printed by the patient of the server 10 It is compared with the contents of the prescription DB (19), and if the prescription is matched to prepare a prescription drug.

Next, patients receive remote medical treatment and prescriptions from doctors, receive prescription medicines from pharmacists, and then pay medical bills. Advance prepayment may be adopted.

If the payment is to be made in a postpaid manner, the patient inputs the information about the patient's credit card to the server 10 in advance and selects to pay the medical bill by credit card. Received by billing the patient, the medical expenses are sent to the doctor, the medical expenses are sent to the pharmacist, part of the medical expenses is calculated to be sent to the server 10 in the name of the remote medical treatment fee.

On the other hand, in the case of payment in a prepaid manner, the patient is provided with the pharmacist and the pharmacist pays the remote medical fee and the pharmacist together. Send money to). The telemedicine fee is preferably calculated by calculating a certain percentage of the doctor's remote care expenses rather than billing the patient.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a specific embodiment of the method for paying the remote medical fee, the preparation fee and the remote medical fee according to the remote medical care is not disclosed, and thus will be omitted since the conventional method is used.

In this way, by connecting the doctor terminal 20 and the patient terminal 30 to the server 10 through a communication network to intermediate for remote prescription, the patient connected to the server 10 to make a medical appointment After receiving remote medical treatment and prescription from a distant doctor and receiving a prescription drug according to a doctor's prescription at a nearby pharmacy, the patient can reduce the inconvenience of having to visit a distant doctor directly.

On the other hand, the present invention can also be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, which are also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (for example, transmission over the Internet). It also includes. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment and can be modified by those skilled in the art. In the embodiment of the present invention has been described by taking a patient owned by the patient terminal 30 for remote prescription as an example, by installing a remote medical terminal in a public place, such as other pharmacies or health centers and town halls and town offices of each region The same applies to receiving remote care and prescriptions from distant doctors and getting prescriptions from nearby pharmacies.

Therefore, the scope of the claims in the present invention will not be defined within the scope of the detailed description, but will be limited to the claims below.

As described above, the remote prescription system and method through the communication network according to the present invention and the recording medium have the following effects.

First, the patient can visit the hospital where the doctor works in order to receive medical treatment and prescriptions from the doctor, reducing the inconvenience of having to travel for a long time, thereby saving time and money.

Second, even in the outlying areas where specialists are not near, remote doctors and prescriptions can be received from a distant doctor through the patient terminal, so that accurate diagnosis of the disease can be received early, thereby preventing the disease from worsening.

Claims (11)

A server having a remote prescription program and an information storage unit; A pseudo terminal capable of connecting to the server through a communication network; A patient side terminal connectable to said server via a communication network; A treatment waiting unit provided in the server to allow a patient to access the server to reserve a doctor and to wait for a remote treatment; A symptom acquisition unit connected to the terminal of the patient to acquire the symptom of the patient and transmit the symptom to a doctor through a communication network; Means for allowing a doctor to select a patient in the medical treatment unit through a communication network and watch the symptoms of the patient for remote medical treatment; A doctor's remote prescription unit provided by a server for the doctor to input a prescription for the patient; And Means for the server to store the doctor's prescription information in an information storage and transmit it to the patient; Remote prescription system through a communication network comprising a. The method of claim 1, The information storage unit Doctor DB, where information about doctors is registered, Patient DB, where information about the patient is registered, Reservation DB in which the patient appointment information is registered, and Remote prescription system through a communication network, characterized in that the prescription DB is registered information about the prescription. The method of claim 1, The symptom acquisition unit is a remote prescription system via a communication network, characterized in that the input device such as an electronic camera, microphone, electronic stethoscope, keyboard. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote prescription portion Information about the type and personal details of the patient's health insurance; Information registered with the doctor's license number and digital signature, A disease classification query that registers information about the patient's columnar and injured disease, and A remote prescription system via a communication network comprising a prescription query for registering the prescription for the patient. The method of claim 1, When the patient asks a pharmacist to take a prescription with a doctor's prescription, and the pharmacist requests the server to check whether the prescription is valid, Remote prescription system through a communication network, characterized in that the server extracts the prescription information stored in the information storage unit and transmits the approval of the prescription to the pharmacist. (a) establishing a remote prescription operation program, a medical treatment waiting unit, and an information storage unit on a server; (b) receiving a medical appointment from a patient connected to the server through a communication network and registering the medical appointment; (c) the patient accessing the server and waiting for the treatment, the doctor accessing the server through the communication network and selecting the waiting patient; (d) allowing the doctor to remotely watch the patient's symptoms through the doctor's terminal; (e) a doctor entering a prescription for a patient into a server; And (f) a server storing the prescription in an information storage unit and transmitting the prescription to a patient; Remote prescription method through a communication network comprising a. The method of claim 6, The information storage unit Doctor DB, where information about doctors is registered, Patient DB, where information about the patient is registered, Reservation DB in which the patient appointment information is registered, and Remote prescription method through a communication network, characterized in that the prescription DB is registered information about the prescription. The method of claim 6, wherein in step (b) The item for which the patient selects a medical appointment includes a medical department, a doctor, and a medical treatment time. The method of claim 6, wherein in step (d) If the past history of the patient is in the information storage of the server, the remote prescription method via a communication network, characterized in that the server shows the past history of the patient to the doctor. The method of claim 6, As a method of acquiring a symptom of a patient, symptom data inputted by an input method such as a video by an electronic camera, a voice by a microphone, a stethoscope by an electronic stethoscope, a questionnaire by text input, and the like are inputted through a communication network. Remote prescription method through a communication network, characterized in that transmitted to. (a) establishing a remote prescription operation program, a medical treatment waiting unit, and an information storage unit on a server; (b) receiving a medical appointment from a patient connected to the server through a communication network and registering the medical appointment; (c) the patient accessing the server and waiting for the treatment, the doctor accessing the server through the communication network and selecting the waiting patient; (d) allowing the doctor to remotely watch the patient's symptoms through the doctor's terminal; (e) a doctor entering a prescription for a patient into a server; And (f) a server storing the prescription in an information storage unit and transmitting the prescription to a patient; A computer-readable recording medium recording a remote prescription method via a communication network comprising a.