JP2002007650A - System and method for preparing house call schedule for doctors - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare a schedule for enabling efficient house calls for doctors by providing a means for exactly calculating time required for house calls. SOLUTION: All time zones as expected time for house calls are extracted, and the time required for moving from a patient to another patient in each of cases and the time required for consulting these patients are calculated. The time which can fulfill the most calls within the time zones is determined as the time for house calls to the patients. Each time a house call is requested, the forementioned job is repeated to complete the efficient house call schedule.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system and method for making a home visit schedule, and more particularly to an improvement in the ability to calculate the travel and consultation times required for home visits, thereby making it possible to determine the most efficient patient placement order and adhere to the doctor's time in scheduling The present invention relates to a home visit schedule creation system and a method thereof, wherein

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when deciding the schedule of home visits, it has been common practice to simply decide in the order in which they were accepted or to determine the order based on information in a range that can be known from an address.

[0003]

However, if the schedule of home visits is simply determined in the order in which they were received, it is necessary to set up a schedule in which the time and distance required to move between patients before and after the home visit schedule are longer than necessary. As a result, there has been a problem that the number of cases that can be visited in a limited time is reduced.

[0004] Further, since means for referring to the distance of the road, the congestion status, and the like are not used, the time required for the movement cannot be accurately calculated, and the time required for the home visit may be delayed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to improve the ability to calculate the travel time and consultation time required for home visits, thereby making it possible to determine the most efficient patient arrangement order. And a method for creating a home visit schedule.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a transmitting / receiving means for receiving communication from a patient via a communication line, transmitting information, and receiving means. Data collection means for collecting the obtained information; information / data conversion means for converting the information collected by the data collection means into data; Candidate patient extraction means for extracting between candidate patients based on the data converted in the above, a house call schedule database management means for managing a house call schedule database, and a candidate patient consumption time for calculating the scheduled consumption time between the candidate patients Calculation means, address database management means for managing an address database, and candidate patient database management for managing a candidate patient database And the step, characterized in that it comprises a optimal candidate patients between data selecting means for selecting an optimum candidate patients between data based on the expected consumption time between each candidate patient.

[0007] To achieve the above object, a second invention refers to address data, road data, and medical condition data in the consultation schedule creation system of the first invention in calculating the estimated time of consumption between candidate patients. It is characterized by including means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for creating a home visit schedule based on input information, comprising: a receiving step of receiving a desired home visit time; and information obtained by the receiving step. A data collection step of collecting information, an information / data conversion step of converting the information collected in the data collection step into data, and a candidate patient extracting a candidate patient based on the data converted in the information / data conversion step. An extraction step, a house call schedule database management step for managing a house call schedule database, a candidate patient expected consumption time calculation step for calculating the estimated consumption time between the candidate patients, an address database management step for managing an address database, and a candidate. Candidate patients managing inter-patient databases And while the database management step,
An optimal candidate inter-patient data selecting step of selecting the optimal candidate inter-patient data based on the expected consumption time between the respective candidate patients, an information / data converting step of converting the data of the home visit decision time into information, and transmitting the information. And a transmitting step.

[0009] To achieve the above object, a fourth invention provides a method for creating a home visit schedule according to the third invention, wherein
Address data for calculating the estimated time between candidate patients,
The method includes a step of referring to road data and medical condition data.

[0010] Here, the term "candidate patients" refers to all the gaps sandwiched by the preceding and following patients in all the desired visit time slots requested by a specific patient. The scheduled consumption time between the candidate patients is a time including the time required for the movement between the patients before and after the patient and the time required for the medical treatment. The candidate patient free time is the time from the medical treatment end time of the previous patient to the medical treatment start time of the subsequent patient.

According to these systems and methods, a home visit schedule in which patients are arranged can be created most efficiently.

Further, according to these systems and methods, it is possible to improve the accuracy of calculation and create a home visit schedule whose time is determined almost accurately.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a home visit schedule creation system according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a home visit schedule creation system according to the present invention, and 2 denotes a telephone 5 or a personal computer 6 via a telephone line 3 or the Internet 4.
A data collection unit for collecting patient information, an information / data conversion unit for converting information and data, respectively, and a candidate for extracting candidate patients within a desired time for a home visit. An inter-patient extraction unit, 10 is a home visit schedule database that stores home visit schedules, 11 is a home visit schedule database management unit that manages the transfer of data to and from the database 10, 12 is a scheduled consumption time calculation unit that calculates the time required for home visits, 13 Is an address database storing patient address data, 14 is an address database management unit that manages the transfer of data to and from the database 13, 15 is a road database that stores road data, 16 is a medical condition database that stores medical condition data, 1
Reference numeral 7 denotes an inter-patient database for storing inter-patient data, 18 an inter-patient database management unit for managing the transfer of data to and from the database 17, and 19 an optimal candidate for selecting the most suitable one from the inter-patient data. The inter-patient data selection unit.

Next, the operation of the home visit schedule creation system will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.

When a patient requests a house call from the telephone 5, patient information is sequentially collected while providing guidance by voice message. That is, when there is an incoming call from the patient's telephone 5, a guide announcement such as "Please enter your name. Please speak your name slowly after the dial tone and press # at the end." Is received by voice (S100), it is received via the transmitting / receiving unit 2 (S200). The received voice information is sent to the information / data conversion unit 8 and converted into data, and collected as name data in the data collection unit 7.

The name data obtained here is compared with the data stored in the address database 13 (S201), and if it is determined that the address is not registered, the user continues to input the address. After that, please speak your address slowly and press # at the end. ", And when the patient inputs the address by voice, send it to the information / data converter 8 to convert it to data and convert the name into address data. It is registered in the address database 13 together with the data (S101).

Next, according to the patient, the number of the desired consultation time corresponding to で in the format of ○ day to 時 hour
, And this operation is performed at all of the dates and times when a house call is desired (S102). The input data is collected by the data collection unit 7 via the transmission / reception unit 2 (S202).

When a patient requests a home visit from the personal computer 6, patient information is sequentially collected while guiding the patient by a text message. That is, when there is an incoming call from the patient's personal computer 6, an instruction text such as “Please enter your name” is sent, and when the name is input as text by the patient (S 100), it is received via the transmission / reception unit 2. (S2
00). The received text information is converted to an information / data converter 8.
The data is converted into data and collected in the data collection unit 7 as name data.

The obtained name data is collated with the data stored in the address database 13 (S201), and if it is determined that the address has not been registered, continue to "enter your address." When the patient inputs an address text, the information / data conversion unit 8
To the sending data, and register it as address data in the address database 13 together with the name data (S10).
1).

Next, the patient enters the number of the desired visit time corresponding to で using the keyboard of the personal computer 6 in the format of ○ day to 時 day of ○ day, and this is performed at all the desired visit dates and times (S102). ). The input data is collected by the data collection unit 7 via the transmission / reception unit 2 (S202).

When the input processing is completed, the preparation of a house call schedule is started (S203). First of all, it compares all of the patient's desired visit times with the visit schedule at that time,
All the patients on the schedule within the desired home visit time are extracted by the candidate patient extracting unit 9, and each of them is set as a candidate patient (S301). The portion where no other patient is registered before or after the schedule within the desired time of the home visit is also regarded as the candidate patient.

Next, when the present patient is set between each candidate patient, the time required from the medical treatment end time of the previous patient to the medical treatment start time of the subsequent patient is calculated by the estimated consumption time calculation unit 12 in all cases ( (S302), each of these is set as the scheduled consumption time between candidate patients and registered in the candidate patient database 17 (S303). In calculating, the address database 13, the road database 15, and the medical condition database 1
Each data stored in 6 is used as a calculation material.

Next, the scheduled consumption time between the candidate patients registered in the candidate patient database 17 and the free time between the candidate patients in each case are compared among all the candidate patients, and the planned consumption time is shorter than the free time. The data between candidate patients having the smallest difference is selected as the optimum candidate patient data by the optimum candidate patient data selection unit 19 (S305).
-(S306).

Next, the optimal candidate patients are determined as a range for setting the visit time of the patient, and the above-mentioned patients are arranged so as to be adjacent to the visit time of the patient who has a shorter travel time with the patient. The time zone of the patient is set within the range, and the time zone is registered in the house call schedule database 10 as a house call time (S307) to (S308).

[0026] The determined home visit time data is converted into information by the information / data converter 8.

When transmitting voice information to the patient's telephone 5, the message “Your house visit time is from
Until time. , Etc., and report the determined visit time of the patient (S204).

When transmitting text information to the patient's personal computer 6, a text such as "Your home visit time is from 0:00 to 0:00 on the day of the month and month" is sent, and the determined visit of the patient is made. The time is reported (S204).

The information is received by the patient (S103),
When the communication is cut off, the operation of the home visit schedule creation system for one patient ends.

In this embodiment, it is assumed that a home visit request from a patient is accepted for 24 hours.

In the present embodiment, the number of doctors performing home visits is not limited. The doctor having the optimum home visit time can be specified by checking the home visit schedules of all candidate doctors in response to a home visit request from a patient.

Further, in the present embodiment, the home visit schedule is always in the tentative decision stage, and the home visit schedule at the specific date and time is determined by closing the reception of the home visit request for the specific date and time.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A home visit schedule in which patients are arranged most efficiently can be created.

[0034]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a house call schedule creation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a processing operation of a house call request.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a processing operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 home visit schedule creation system 2 transmission / reception unit 3 telephone line 4 internet 5 telephone 6 personal computer 7 data collection unit 8 information / data conversion unit 9 candidate patient extraction unit 10 home visit schedule database 11 home visit schedule database management unit 12 estimated consumption time calculation unit 13 Address database 14 Address database management unit 15 Road database 16 Medical condition database 17 Database between candidate patients 18 Database management unit between candidate patients 19 Optimal candidate patient data selection unit

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A home visit schedule creation system,
Receiving communication from a patient via a communication line, transmitting and receiving means for transmitting information, data collecting means for collecting information obtained by the receiving means, and converting information collected by the data collecting means into data An information / data conversion means for converting data on the time of the home visit decision into information; a candidate patient extraction means for extracting between candidate patients based on the data converted by the information / data conversion means; A scheduled visit time database managing means for managing a scheduled visit time between the candidate patients, an expected scheduled consumption time between the candidate patients for calculating the scheduled time between the candidate patients, an address database managing means for managing the address database, and a candidate for managing the candidate inter-patient database Inter-patient database management means, and optimal candidate inter-patient data based on the expected consumption time between each of the candidate patients. Visits scheduling system comprising: the best candidate patients between data selecting means for output, the. 2. The home visit schedule creation system according to claim 1, further comprising means for referring to address data, road data, and medical condition data in calculating said scheduled consumption time between candidate patients. 3. A method for preparing a house call schedule, comprising: a receiving step of receiving a communication from a patient via a communication line; a data collecting step of collecting information obtained in the receiving step; and an information collected in the data collecting step. An information / data conversion step of converting data into data, a candidate patient extraction step of extracting between candidate patients based on the data converted in the information / data conversion step, and a home visit schedule database management step of managing a home visit schedule database. A candidate inter-patient consumption time calculating step of calculating the scheduled consumption time between the candidate patients, an address database managing step of managing an address database, a candidate inter-patient database managing step of managing a candidate inter-patient database, Based on expected time spent between candidate patients An optimal candidate inter-patient data selecting step for selecting the best candidate inter-patient data, an information / data converting step of converting the data of the visit decision time into information, and a transmitting step of transmitting the information. How to make a home visit schedule. 4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of referring to address data, road data, and medical condition data when calculating the scheduled consumption time between the candidate patients.