JP2001338061A - Device for transmitting picture and method for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a picture transmitting device capable of quickly transmitting medical information to each department concerned, and easily transmitting data by reducing the quantity of the data to be transmitted. SOLUTION: This device for transmitting pictures to plural terminals is provided with an image reading part 108 for reading the pictures of a document having plural entry columns, a storage means for preliminarily storing the correspondence of each of those terminals to each of at least one entry column in the document, an image extracting part 109 for extracting the pictures of the entry columns from the pictures of the document to each terminal according to the correspondence, and a transmitting part 111 for transmitting the extracted pictures.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for transmitting medical information such as a medical chart handled inside a medical institution, and more particularly to a technique for transmitting an image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, inside a medical institution, processes associated with medical treatment, such as medical treatment and accounting, are subdivided for each department. Described forms, for example, a medical chart to be filled out by a doctor or a test slip created based on the medical chart, a prescription,
Acquisition of injection notes, treatment notes, etc., and each department is in charge of duties.

[0003] Depending on the patient, such a form may be more than a dozen types in one medical treatment, and when the delivery destination extends to a plurality of departments, for example, it indicates the type and amount of an injection to be administered to the patient. If it is an injection note, it is sent to a treatment room in charge of injecting the patient and an accounting department that calculates the cost of the injection, and an enormous amount of forms are exchanged inside the medical institution.

[0004] In order to send these forms, in-hospital mails and conveyors which are collected and delivered regularly are usually used. By the way, the medical records that are the basis of medical information written in these forms are filled out by doctors and are kept strictly, making it difficult to falsify the contents written in the medical records. It can be said that data management is secure.

[0005]

However, in sending such a form, it takes time to convey the form, and in some cases, processing in a related department is delayed, and the patient may not be able to receive prompt medical treatment. . For this reason, it is conceivable to generate medical records, prescriptions, and the like as text data, transmit these data to departments that need them, and reduce the time required to transmit information required by each department. There is a danger, and it is hard to say that this is a preferable solution in the case where a medical record or the like is stored in an electronic document and falsification or deletion can be easily performed.

Therefore, it is conceivable to transmit such medical information such as a medical chart and a prescription written by a doctor by hand to each department as image data to reduce the information transmission time, but the image data is converted to the corresponding text data. Compared with the difference, the capacity is large, so it takes time to send,
Further, there is a problem that the capacity of a recording medium such as a buffer or a hard disk for storing the image data at the transmission destination also needs to be increased, so that it cannot be easily implemented.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has as its object to provide an image transmitting apparatus that can easily transmit handwritten medical information to relevant departments quickly.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, an image transmitting apparatus according to the present invention is an apparatus for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals. Image reading means for reading, storage means for storing in advance a correspondence between each of the plurality of terminals and one or more of the entry columns in the document, and for each of the terminals according to the correspondence, Transmitting means for extracting the image of the entry field from the image of the document and transmitting the image.

An image transmitting method according to the present invention is a method for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals, wherein a first step of reading a document image having a plurality of entry fields, and A second step of extracting an image of the entry field from the image of the document and transmitting the image to the terminal according to the correspondence between each of the plurality of terminals and one or more of the entry fields in the document; And characterized in that:

A computer-readable recording medium on which a program according to the present invention is recorded is a computer-readable recording medium on which a program for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals is recorded. A first step of reading an image of a document having an entry field, and according to the correspondence between each of the plurality of terminals stored in advance and one or more of the entry fields in the document, And extracting the image of the entry field from the image of the document and transmitting the image.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the image transmission device of the present invention. The image transmitting apparatus includes an ID reading unit 101 that reads a patient ID from a patient examination card, a data input / output control unit 102 that controls data input / output, and an input unit 103 that receives instructions from an operator. A storage unit 104 for storing past medical records and the like;
A display unit 105 that performs display according to a signal from the data input / output control unit 102 and a form (such as a medical chart) for entering instructions of a doctor or information about a patient (hereinafter referred to as “medical information”) are displayed. A format generation unit 106 for storing and outputting, a printing unit 107 for printing the form, and an image reading unit 10 for reading an image of the filled form
8, an image extraction unit 109 for partially extracting the read image, an image storage unit 110 for storing the extracted image, and a transmission unit 111 for transmitting the image.

The ID reading unit 101 is a magnetic card reader placed at the reception of a medical institution, and reads the patient ID stored on the magnetic tape of the examination card submitted by the patient at the time of receiving the examination. The input unit 103 includes a keyboard, a mouse, and the like, and receives an input from an operator.

The storage unit 104 is composed of a recording medium such as a hard disk, and stores image data of a past medical record in which a patient ID, a patient name, and a date of birth (hereinafter referred to as “personal information”) are associated. . Data input / output control unit 102
Is composed of a recording medium such as a CPU, a RAM, and a ROM.
The ID reading unit 1 receives the patient ID from the D reading unit 101, reads out the image data of the past medical chart associated with the personal information corresponding to the ID from the storage unit 104, and reads the image data.
01 is stored in the order of the read IDs.

When receiving an instruction to display a patient's past medical chart from the input unit 103, the data input / output control unit 102 outputs data for displaying an image of the medical chart to the display unit 105. When an instruction to print a form for entering medical information, that is, a chart, an inspection slip, a prescription, a treatment note, an injection note, or the like is received from the input unit 103, the instruction is output to the format generation unit 106.

The data input / output control unit 102 transmits the image of the chart read by the image reading unit 108 described later,
That is, the image of the chart after the doctor has filled out the necessary information is stored in the storage unit 104 in association with the personal information of the patient related to the chart. The image reading unit 108 includes an image scanner, a CPU, and the like, reads an image of the form in which necessary information about medical information is described by a doctor, and generates a signal for displaying the image.

The display unit 105 comprises a CRT or the like, and displays, for example, an image of a past medical record according to the received signal. The format generation unit 106 includes a CPU, a ROM, and the like. When receiving a print instruction and the personal information from the data input / output control unit 102, the format generation unit 106 generates a form format according to the instruction and displays the format. Output a signal.

The printing unit 107 includes a format generation unit 10
6 and prints the form according to the signal. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the medical chart 200 for the doctor to fill out in this manner. The form identifier column 201 shows a barcode indicating that the form is a medical record. That is, the barcode differs depending on the type of form to be printed.

The chart number column 209 indicates a serial number assigned to the chart. The personal information column 210 contains personal information of the patient, that is, I
A D column 211 and a name column 212 in which the name of the patient is shown
And the date of consultation 2 that shows the date of consultation this time
13 are shown. In the column of the chart 200, the specific contents at the time of printing are described in the above three cases.
That is, there are only the form identifier column 201, the chart number column 209, and the personal information column 210.

The finding column 220 shows a column for entering a doctor's findings, for example, a history, cause, main symptom or progress, and the like, and the operation / treatment column 230 shows a schedule for performing an operation or a treatment or a result of the operation. Is shown, and the injection column 240
Shows a column describing the type and amount of injection to be injected into the patient, and the dosing column 250 shows a column describing the type and amount of the drug to be administered to the patient.

The examination column 260 contains various examinations, for example, blood examination, urine examination, fecal examination, sputum examination, electrocardiogram examination, ultrasonic examination, electroencephalography examination, fundus examination, intraocular examination, X-ray examination, CT examination. , A check column for each check when performing MRI examination and endoscopy is shown,
The physiotherapy column 280 shows a column for describing the type and method of the physiotherapy when performing physiotherapy such as warm ship therapy or infrared therapy.

The forms printed by the printing unit 107 include types other than the above-mentioned medical records, such as an inspection sheet, a treatment sheet, an injection sheet, and a prescription, and these forms include a barcode indicating the type of the form, As in the case of the above-mentioned medical chart, it has a personal information section on which specific contents are printed, and further has one free writing section for describing items unique to the form.

The image extracting unit 109 is composed of a CPU, a ROM storing a program for executing a part of the processing shown in a flowchart described later, and the like.
Recognize the barcode in the image read by, determine the type of the form indicated by the barcode, refer to the extracted data provided for each form, refer to the rectangular range of the transmission area, Is associated with the destination of the image.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a table storing data for associating a range of an image stored in the ROM of the image extracting unit 109 with a transmission destination. FIG.
(A) shows that the image extraction unit 109 has the ID reading unit 10
In the image read from 1, the range to be recognized first,
It is a figure showing the table which stores the relation with the symbol which shows the image of the barcode described in the range concerned.

More specifically, in the upper left corner coordinate column 312, the coordinates (90
0, 5), the lower right corner coordinate column 313 indicates the coordinates (115, 15) of the lower right corner of the rectangular range, and the image identification symbol column 314 indicates an image indicating the image data of the rectangular range. The identification symbol "A" is shown. FIG. 3 (b)
It is a figure which shows the table 320 which matched the number which the barcode which recognized recognized and the kind of the form which the said number corresponded.

The bar code number column 321 is a number indicated by the bar code recognized in the rectangular range, that is, from 001 to 0.
Numbers up to 05 are shown, and the form name column 322 indicates the type of form that the number means, that is, “medical record”, “injection form”, “inspection form”, “treatment form”, and “prescription form”. ing. FIG. 3C shows that the bar code is 001,
That is, it is a diagram illustrating a table 330 indicating an extraction range when the image is a chart image.

More specifically, the bar code number column 331
Indicates a barcode number “001” indicating a medical record, and an item column 331 includes column names corresponding to a range of an image to be extracted, for example, “medical record number”, “personal information”,
The “findings”, “surgery / treatment”, “injection”, “medication”, “examination”, and “physiotherapy” are indicated, and the upper left corner coordinate column 333 is displayed.
Indicates the coordinates of the upper left corner of the rectangular range to be partially extracted, the lower right corner coordinate column 334 indicates the coordinates of the lower right corner of the rectangular range, and the image identification symbol column 335 indicates the extracted rectangle. The image identification symbols “B”,.
"I" is shown.

FIG. 3D shows that the bar code is 002-002.
005, that is, a table 340 showing an extraction range when the image is an image other than a medical chart. The bar code number column 341 indicates the number indicated by the bar code, the upper left corner coordinate field 342 indicates the coordinates of the upper left corner of the rectangular range to be partially extracted, and the lower right corner coordinate field 343 indicates the coordinates of the rectangular range. The coordinates of the lower right corner are shown, and image identification symbols “J”, “K”,..., “M” indicating the image data of the extracted rectangular range are shown in the image identification symbol column 340.

FIG. 3E shows an image identification symbol "A",
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a data table 350 in which image data corresponding to “B”,..., “M” are associated with their transmission destinations. These five tables are associated with each other using the barcode number and the image identification symbol as keys. In other words, these tables determine which part of the image should be transmitted and where for each type of form.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the image range and transmission destination determined in this way. Here, the range of the image of each form is associated with the transmission destination. Image identification symbol column 3
Reference numeral 51 denotes image identification symbols “A” to “M” indicating images of a recognized or extracted rectangular range, and the transmission destination column 352 includes
The transmission destination of the image indicated by the identifier is shown.

The image storage section 110 stores the data in which the extracted image is associated with the transmission destination. The transmission unit 111 includes a LAN card or the like, and upon receiving a destination from the data input / output control unit 102, transmits an image corresponding to the destination. The description of each unit in the image transmitting apparatus configured as described above is finished, and next, an operation for transmitting an image in the image transmitting apparatus will be described.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a process from accepting a patient's consultation card until the image transmitting apparatus prints out a form for describing medical information such as a medical chart and a prescription. The ID reading unit 101 stores the patient's examination card
If it is inserted into the reading unit 101, the ID stored in the magnetic tape is read (steps S101 to S101).
S102).

When the data input / output control unit 102 receives the ID, the I / O of the patient received from the storage unit 104 is performed.
Based on D, past medical information of the patient corresponding to the ID, for example, past medical record image data, name, address,
The storage unit 104 stores personalized text information such as the date of birth.
And the information is temporarily stored in the order of reception (step S103).

The data input / output control unit 102 determines whether there is an instruction to display a past medical record (step S10).
4) If there is such an instruction, an image of a past medical record is displayed on the display unit 105 (step S105). Then, the data input / output control unit 102 determines whether or not there is an instruction to print a form such as a medical chart or a prescription for filling in medical information (step S106). In the form corresponding to the type of
D, personal information such as name and date of birth are added, and a barcode indicating the type of the form is added to the form and printed by the printing unit 107 (step S107). When it is inserted into the unit 101, the process returns to the first step S101 for reading the ID stored in the magnetic tape.

If there is no print instruction, the process returns to the first step S101. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a process in which a doctor fills in a medical chart with necessary items and then transmits information described in a form such as the medical chart and a prescription to each department that needs the information.

The image reading unit 108 reads an image of a form on which medical information such as a medical chart or a prescription is entered (step S201), and the image extracting unit 109 recognizes and reads the barcode given to these forms. The type of the form is determined (step S202). If the form is a medical chart, the form is divided into images for each column and extracted (step S203).

If this form is other than a medical record, for example, an injection note,
In the case of an inspection slip, a treatment slip, or a prescription, the image extracting unit 109 determines that the information described in the columns of the form does not differ in the transmission destination for each column. Since the extraction is sufficient, the image is not divided for each column. When the read image is a chart, the image extraction unit 109 determines a destination for each of the images based on the range obtained by dividing the barcode and the image, that is, the range of the column used as the unit of division. Mapping,
If the read image is other than a medical record, the destination is associated with one range (step S204), and the data associated with the destination is stored in the image storage unit 110 (step S205).

The transmitting section 111 determines whether or not a transmission instruction has been given (step S206). If there is a transmission instruction, the image is stored in the image storage section 110 and the transmission destination associated with the image is transmitted. Is read, and the image is transmitted to the destination (step S207), and it is further determined whether or not the information indicated by the image, that is, whether the medical examination of the patient who is the target of the medical information has been completed (step S208). If the examination of the patient has been completed, the personal information of the patient is stored in the storage unit 104 in association with the image of the patient's chart (step S209).

If there is no transmission instruction in the transmitting unit 111, the process returns to the first step S201 in which the image reading unit 108 reads an image of a form. As described above, according to the present embodiment, in the image transmission device, after the doctor fills out the form such as the medical chart and the prescription,
By imaging these and extracting only the images required by each department, and transmitting them to each department using the transmission path, the information transmission time can be reduced as compared to physical transport, and Compared to the case where the image is sent without extracting the image, the capacity of the data can be reduced, the transmission time can be further shortened, and the image data on the recording medium of the transmission destination can be reduced.

In the present embodiment, the doctor fills in the chart with necessary items and then reads the image of the form such as the chart and prescription. Alternatively, the image of the form may be read. In this case, the image to be transmitted to each department may be only the image in the filled-in column, and the image extraction unit 109 recognizes the image and determines whether or not the image is filled in a predetermined column. It does not matter if the user gives an instruction in the field to be transmitted by inputting by the operator.

Further, in the present embodiment, the image transmitting apparatus side transmits the image stored in the image storage unit 110, but the image storage unit 1 is transmitted from a terminal located in the relevant department.
10, the image stored in the image storage unit 110 may be acquired. In either case, the image is transferred from the image storage unit 110 to each terminal.

The transmission according to claim 1 includes the movement of the image as described above. Further, in the present embodiment, although image compression is not mentioned, it goes without saying that image transmission may be performed after image compression such as JPEG. In this case, the transmission time is further shortened, and a new process for decompressing the compressed image is required on the side of the transmitted terminal.

In this embodiment, if the form read by the image reading unit 108 is other than a medical record, for example, an injection note, an inspection slip, a treatment note or a prescription, the image extracting unit 109 In the information described in the form column, the destination is not different for each column, that is,
Since it is sufficient to extract only one range to be transmitted, the image is not divided for each column. However, these forms have a plurality of columns, and the transmission destination is different for each of these columns. May be divided and extracted into images for each column.

In this case, the image extraction unit 109 associates a destination with each extracted image.

[0044]

As is apparent from the above description, the image transmitting apparatus according to the present invention is an apparatus for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals, and an image reading means for reading a document image having a plurality of entry fields. And storage means for storing in advance a correspondence between each of the plurality of terminals and at least one of the entry columns in the document; and, for each terminal, Transmitting means for extracting and transmitting an image from the document image.

An image transmitting method according to the present invention is a method for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals, wherein a first step of reading a document image having a plurality of entry fields, A second step of extracting an image of the entry field from the image of the document and transmitting the image to the terminal according to the correspondence between each of the plurality of terminals and one or more of the entry fields in the document; And characterized in that:

The computer-readable recording medium on which the program according to the present invention is recorded is a computer-readable recording medium on which a program for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals is recorded. A first step of reading an image of a document having an entry field, and according to the correspondence between each of the plurality of terminals stored in advance and one or more of the entry fields in the document, And extracting the image of the entry field from the image of the document and transmitting the image.

Thus, if the area of the image associated with the terminal is the area of the image in which the information required by the department in which the terminal is provided is indicated, the image in which unnecessary information is described Is prevented from being transmitted to the relevant department, thereby reducing the transmission capacity and the transmission time. In addition, in the document, the association indicates a correspondence between the two-dimensional coordinates indicating a range of each entry column in the read image of the document and each terminal, and the transmitting unit includes:
The extraction is performed based on the two-dimensional coordinates, the document is a medical chart, and each terminal is in charge of a processing unit based on medical information described in a corresponding entry column in the chart. It may be placed.

As a result, it is possible to prevent an image in which unnecessary medical information is described from being transmitted to a department that requires medical information, thereby reducing the transmission capacity and increasing the efficiency of temporal transmission. . The document may include an identifier, and the transmitting unit may further perform the extraction and transmission only on a document including a specific identifier.

Thus, even when there are a plurality of types of documents, the correspondence between the image area and the terminal according to the type of documents is obtained, and the transmission is performed according to the association. Further, the image transmitting apparatus may further include a printing unit that prints the document having a section for entering medical information required by the department for each area.

As a result, the position and the number of the columns of the document can be arbitrarily determined, and the freedom in preparing the document is expanded.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of an image transmission device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a medical chart printed by a printing unit and filled out by a doctor.

FIG. 3A illustrates a relationship between a range initially recognized by an image extraction unit read from an ID reading unit and a symbol indicating a barcode image described in the range. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a table to be executed. (B) is a diagram showing a table in which the number indicated by the recognized barcode is associated with the form type indicated by the number (c).
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a table indicating an extraction range when the barcode is 001, that is, the image is a chart image.
(D) is a diagram showing a table indicating an extraction range when the barcode is 002 to 005, that is, when the image is an image other than a chart. (E) is an image identification symbol “A”,
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a data table in which image data corresponding to “B”,..., “M” are associated with their transmission destinations.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an image and a transmission destination.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a process from receiving an examination card of a patient until the image transmitting apparatus prints a form for describing medical information such as a medical chart and a prescription.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a process for transmitting information described in a form such as a medical chart and a prescription to each department that needs the information after a doctor fills in a medical chart with necessary items.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 ID reading unit 102 Data input / output control unit 103 Input unit 104 Storage unit 105 Display unit 106 Format generation unit 107 Printing unit 108 Image reading unit 109 Image extraction unit 110 Image storage unit 111 Transmission unit

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An apparatus for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals, comprising: an image reading means for reading an image of a document having a plurality of entry fields; and each of the plurality of terminals and at least one of the entries in the document Storage means for preliminarily storing correspondence with columns, and transmission means for extracting and transmitting the image of the entry field from the image of the document to each terminal according to the correspondence. An image transmission device characterized by the above-mentioned. 2. The correspondence is a correspondence between two-dimensional coordinates indicating a range of each entry column in a read document image and each of the terminals. The document is a medical chart, and each terminal is placed in a department that performs processing based on medical information described in a corresponding entry column in the chart. 2. The image transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The image transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the document includes an identifier, and the transmitting unit further performs the extraction and transmission only on a document including a specific identifier. . 4. The image according to claim 2, wherein the image transmitting apparatus further comprises a printing unit that prints the document having a section for entering medical information required by the department for each area. Transmission device. 5. A method for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals, comprising: a first step of reading a document image having a plurality of entry fields; A second step of extracting the image of the entry field from the image of the document and transmitting the image of the entry field to each terminal in accordance with the correspondence with one or more of the entry fields. Transmission method. 6. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for transmitting an image to a plurality of terminals is recorded, wherein a first step of reading a document image having a plurality of entry fields, The image of the entry field is extracted from the image of the document and transmitted to each terminal in accordance with the correspondence between each of the plurality of terminals and each of the one or more entry fields in the document. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the second step is recorded.