JP2008018136A - Health data collecting system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a health data collecting system capable of collecting a large number of pieces of information while having a simple user interface easily used by a wide rage of users including old aged and capable of carrying out higher health management. <P>SOLUTION: The content of the answer which an objective person of health management makes to the questions provided by a health management provider by voice or images is converted to voice data and image data in a voice input circuit 161 and an image input circuit 151 and stored in a memory 180 once. The voice data and the image data stored in the memory 180 are transmitted to a center server 301 via a communication network 400 by a communication control device 121 and accumulated in a database server 311. The health management provider unloads the voice data and the image data from the database server 311 and plays back the same using a doctor terminal 201 and obtains the information by the voice and the images to the answer in doctor's questions. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a health data collection device that collects health information such as blood pressure and blood glucose at home, and more specifically, a health management provider such as a doctor remotely collects health information such as a patient. The present invention relates to a health data collection device used for grasping a person's health condition.

  Conventionally, as such a health data collection device, there has been a device that includes a data input unit and a communication unit and communicates with an external communication destination via a communication line (see Patent Document 1). FIG. 9 shows the configuration of a conventional health data collection device.

  A conventional health data collection device is roughly divided into a patient terminal 100 installed on a patient who is a health management subject, a center server 300 including a database server 310 that accumulates data collected by the patient terminal 100, and A doctor terminal 200 for referring to data stored in the database server 310 by a doctor or the like who is a health care provider is provided, and these terminals and the server are connected by a communication network 400.

  The patient terminal 100 includes a vital sensor 110, a memory 111 that stores data collected by the vital sensor 110, and a communication control device 120 as measurement means for collecting patient biometric data such as a thermometer and a blood pressure monitor. Yes. Although not shown, the communication control device 120 includes an operation unit for the measurement subject to operate and a communication unit for transmitting the data stored in the memory 111 to the center server 300 via the communication network 400. ing. In addition to this, the patient terminal 100 is provided with a TV phone device 130 that can communicate with the doctor terminal 200 using images and sounds.

  On the other hand, the doctor terminal 200 communicates with the communication control device 210 having communication means for communicating with the center server 300 and output means for displaying for the doctor to refer to the data, and with the TV phone device 130 of the patient terminal 100. A TV phone device 220 is provided.

  FIG. 10 shows the appearance of the patient terminal 100. The patient terminal 100 is connected with a liquid crystal display 140 for displaying to the patient, a touch panel 170 for the patient to operate on the front surface, and a thermometer 112 as one of the vital sensors. A microphone 160 as voice input means of the telephone device 130 and a camera 150 as image input means are provided.

  FIG. 11 shows an image of the operation menu displayed on the liquid crystal display 140 of the patient terminal 100. The patient terminal 100 can use various functions in addition to the measurement of collecting biological information using the vital sensor 110 such as the thermometer 112 described above. Among them, there is an inquiry function as a function useful next to collecting biological information.

  In the main menu shown in FIG. 11, when the screen on which the inquiry key 141 is displayed is touched, the operation is accepted by the touch panel 170 and the inquiry function is activated.

  FIG. 12 shows an example of a screen when the inquiry function is operating. On the screen, a question 11 preset by a doctor and answers 12 to 14 are displayed. If the patient touches any one of the portions 12 to 14 where the answer to the question 11 on the screen is shown, for example, 13 “2. I could not sleep so much”, the answer can be accepted. The accepted answer is stored in the database server 310 in the center server 300 via the communication control device 120 of the patient terminal 100.

  The doctor can grasp the patient's condition by taking out the inquiry data stored in the database server 310 and browsing it on the display means of the doctor terminal 200. FIG. 13 shows a screen in a state where an inquiry answer is displayed on the doctor terminal 200. The question number 15 of the inquiry is displayed on the left side of the screen, and the content 16 answered by the patient is displayed on the right side. Looking at this screen, for example, the doctor knows that the answer to question Q1 was 2, and that the patient is not sleeping well.

  If the inquiry function is used in this way, it is possible to grasp the patient's state other than the biological information even in a remote place, which is useful for health management.

  Further, the conventional health data collecting device is also provided with means for transmitting a message from the doctor side to the patient. This is an advice function that operates when the advice key 142 in FIG. 11 is touched. This function is for displaying a message set in advance by a doctor, and is a simple electronic mail function from the doctor side to the patient side.

  When the advice key 142 in FIG. 11 is touched, a screen as shown in FIG. 14 is displayed on the patient terminal 100. In this case, advice on blood pressure measurement is displayed from the doctor to the patient. The patient reads the message 17 and, after understanding the content, presses the end key 18 to close the screen. In this way, the advice function is useful for sending a message from the doctor to the patient, and for carrying out meticulous health management.

  Furthermore, the conventional health data collection device has a function of setting a patient schedule from the doctor side. This is the schedule function that operates when the schedule key 143 in FIG. 11 is touched.

  This function displays a schedule set in advance by a doctor, and can specify a date and time and give a reliable instruction to a patient. In the clinical setting, you can meet and give instructions directly to the patient, but remote health care is not enough. Doing what is decided at a certain time is the basis of health management, and if this is not possible, the health management may not be sufficient, so the schedule function is a very useful function.

  When the schedule key 143 in FIG. 11 is touched, a screen as shown in FIG. 15 is displayed. The contents to be performed by the patient for each date and time are displayed in the columns 19 to 21, and the patient can perform reliable health management by referring to this screen and acting according to the determined schedule. .

As described above, in the conventional health data collection device, even when there is a physical distance between the doctor and the patient, the doctor can grasp the health condition of the patient by the inquiry function in addition to the biological data such as body temperature. In addition, instructions from doctors are transmitted to patients using the advice function, and instructions can be given to patients using the schedule function, providing an environment where health care can be provided even when doctors and patients cannot sufficiently move back and forth. We were able to.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-83066

  However, since the health management subject is often an elderly person and it is necessary to use a simple operation means, the conventional health data collection apparatus has the following problems.

  First, in the inquiry function, answers to questions set in advance by a doctor are prepared as options. This means that only simple questions and questions that can be answered with numbers can be prepared due to the restriction that only simple operation means can be prepared as described above.

  For example, for the question “Did you sleep well?” In FIG. 12 described above, there are options as shown in the figure, but as a patient, “I did not sleep well, but I did n’t sleep well.” There are cases where the answer is slightly different from the choices, such as “No,” and the contents of “2. I could not sleep so much” are also various, such as “I was asleep but was asleep” or “I wake up well at night” Answer is possible.

  On the other hand, if all of these are prepared as options, the number of answers becomes enormous, and a situation may occur where the user is tired just by answering. As described above, since the operation is simplified, the contents of the question of the inquiry are inevitably limited.

  The advice function is basically a function for sending a message to the patient from the doctor. This function can be said to be a simple e-mail function, and a doctor thinks and sends a message in a short message so as to be surely transmitted to the patient.

  For example, although it is only necessary for the patient to understand the message regarding blood pressure measurement in FIG. 14 as it is, it may be necessary to ask a question about the message in some cases.

  In the case of ordinary e-mail, if there is a question about a sent message, the message is returned as a reply to that. However, since the patient terminal 100 of the health data collection device described above is assumed to be used by elderly people, a device for inputting characters such as a keyboard is omitted, and the operation is as simple as possible. . Accordingly, the reply function is omitted because the reply by the character information from the patient side is practically impossible. For this reason, this function can only transmit unilateral information from the doctor side.

  In addition, although it is a schedule function, this function gives instructions to the patient from the doctor, but only the patient knows whether or not it is being executed according to the schedule, and the doctor knows the status. Can not do it.

  Since it is assumed that the patient and the doctor are in a remote place, the health data collection device must rely on communication means such as a telephone if the doctor tries to check the schedule execution state of the patient. In this case, since it is difficult to confirm whether or not it is executed every time for each schedule, for example, the contents every several days are confirmed. In such a situation, it is difficult for the patient to remember whether or not he / she has performed, and the doctor can not grasp the situation, so the health management cannot be performed sufficiently effectively.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention makes it possible to send detailed information from the patient side while maintaining a user interface that is easy to handle even for elderly people, thereby further simplifying health management at a remote location. An object of the present invention is to provide a health data collection device that facilitates communication between doctors and doctors and improves the quality of health care.

In order to achieve the above object, the first health data collection device of the present invention provides:
A server for storing first data relating to a question set in advance by a health care provider and second data related to the first data;
The first data is read from the server via the communication network and displayed on the first display means, and the health management subject performs a voice or image on the question displayed on the first display means. A first terminal that converts the response to audio data or image data, and transfers the converted data to the server as the second data via the communication network;
A second terminal that reads out the first and second data from the server via the communication network and converts at least the audio data or image data as the second data into audio or image; is there.

  In the first health data collection device of the present invention, it is preferable that the second data includes the contents of an answer selected by a health care target person with respect to the question in addition to the audio data or the image data.

Moreover, the second health data collection device of the present invention that achieves the above-described object provides:
A server for storing first data relating to a message entered by a health care provider, and second data related to the first data;
The first data is read from the server via the communication network and displayed on the first display means, and the subject of health management performs the contents displayed on the first display means by voice or image. A first terminal that converts the reply to audio data or image data, and transfers the converted data to the server as the second data via the communication network;
A second terminal that reads out the first and second data from the server via the communication network and converts at least the audio data or image data as the second data into audio or image; is there.

Furthermore, a third health data collection device of the present invention that achieves the above-mentioned object is as follows.
A server for storing first data relating to a schedule set in advance by a health care provider, and second data related to the first data;
The first data is read from the server via the communication network and displayed on the first display means, and the health related to the answer as to whether the health management target person has executed the schedule displayed on the display means. A first terminal that converts a comment made by a management target person by voice or image into voice data or image data, and transfers the converted data to the server as the second data via the communication network;
A second terminal that reads out the first and second data from the server via the communication network and converts at least the audio data or image data as the second data into audio or image; is there.

  In the third health data collection device of the present invention, the second data includes, in addition to the voice data or the image data, a reply indicating whether the health care target person has executed the contents instructed by the schedule. It is preferable that

  In each health data collection device of the present invention, it is preferable that the first terminal includes an operation unit operated by a health care target person, and the operation unit includes a touch panel or a push button. Alternatively, the first terminal may include voice recognition means for recognizing the voice of the health care subject and converting it into an operation signal.

  Moreover, in each health data collection device of the present invention, the first terminal includes a delay unit that captures an image after a predetermined time after the health management subject gives an instruction to reply with an image using the operation unit. Is preferred. In this case, it is preferable that the delay unit further includes a timing notification unit that notifies the timing of capturing an image.

  According to the health data collection device of the present invention, by answering each function of the health data collection terminal as information by voice or image, while following a user interface that can be used with a simple operation that has been conventionally used, The amount of information provided to doctors and the like can be significantly increased. Therefore, highly practical information can be transmitted from the health care target person without using an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse that is difficult for the elderly to handle.

  As a result, even for information that is difficult for a doctor to determine only by numerical data or simple option data, a more appropriate determination can be made by comprehensively combining voice and image answers.

  Also, for health care subjects, conventionally, it is not so much as to consult a doctor by telephone or the like, but it is possible to easily tell a doctor what he / she wants to convey. Accordingly, communication between both the doctor side and the patient side can be performed smoothly and the trust relationship can be made closer, so that the quality of remote health management can be greatly improved.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a health data collection apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In the figure, blocks having the same functions as those of the conventional apparatus of FIG. 9 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and specific descriptions thereof are incorporated.

  In FIG. 1, the health data collecting apparatus is roughly divided into a patient terminal 101 installed on a patient who is a health management subject, and a center server including a database server 311 for accumulating data collected by the patient terminal 101. 301, a doctor terminal 201 for referring to data stored in the center server 301 by a doctor or the like who is a health care provider, and a communication network 400 connecting these terminals and the server.

  The patient terminal 101 includes a liquid crystal display 140 for displaying information to the patient, a touch panel 170 for operation by the patient, a microphone 160 for inputting patient's voice, and a voice signal from the microphone 160 into voice data. And a communication control device 121 that stores the voice data from the voice input circuit 161 in the memory 180 and reads the data stored in the memory 180 and sends the data to the center server 301 via the communication network 400. Has been.

  Furthermore, the patient terminal 101 includes a camera 150 for inputting an image, and the image from the camera 150 passes through a delay circuit 152 that delays the timing for capturing an image for a predetermined time after receiving an image capturing operation from a health care subject. The image is input to an image input circuit 151 that converts the image data into image data. The image data converted by the image input circuit 151 is temporarily stored in the memory 180 via the communication control device 121.

  Note that the delay circuit 152 includes a buzzer 153 and a display lamp 154 as means for notifying the timing of delay. Furthermore, voice data from the voice input circuit 161 is input to the voice recognition circuit 162, converted into an operation signal, and input to the communication control device 121.

  The main difference between the patient terminal 101 of the present embodiment and the conventional patient terminal 100 shown in FIG. 9 is that it is provided with an audio input circuit 161, an image input circuit 151, and a memory 180. The point is that it is converted into data and stored in the memory 180.

  On the other hand, the doctor terminal 201 includes a communication control device 211 that communicates with the center server 301, a CRT display 230 that displays for the doctor to refer to the data, a memory 240 that stores data read from the database server 311, and a memory 240. The voice data is stored in the voice reproduction circuit 250 which converts the voice data into voice and outputs the voice from the speaker 251.

  In the health data collection device of the present embodiment, the patient terminal 101 constitutes the first terminal of the present invention, the doctor terminal constitutes the second terminal of the present invention, and the liquid crystal display 140 constitutes the first terminal of the present invention. The CRT display 230 constitutes the second display means of the present invention. Further, the touch panel 170 is the operation means of the present invention, the voice recognition circuit 162 is the voice recognition means of the present invention, the delay circuit 152 is the delay means of the present invention, and the buzzer 153 and the display lamp 154 are the timing notification means of the present invention. Constitute.

  Next, the operation of the health data collection device in the present embodiment will be described. First, an inquiry function among the functions that can be exhibited by the apparatus will be described. The operation menu in the patient terminal 101 will be described as being the same as that of the conventional health data collection device shown in FIG.

  When the inquiry key 141 in FIG. 11 is touched, the screen shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the liquid crystal display 140. In the figure, reference numeral 11 denotes a question set in advance by a doctor, and options 12 to 14 are displayed as answers as in the conventional apparatus. If the patient touches any part of the option areas 12 to 14 while seeing this screen, the answer is selected by the touch panel 170.

  Here, the difference from the prior art is that a voice answer 23 is prepared as one of the options. If the patient wants to make an answer other than the 12 to 14 options, the patient touches the voice answer key 23 and speaks the answer to the microphone 160.

  At this time, in the patient terminal 101, an audio signal is input from the microphone 160 to the audio input circuit 161, where it is converted into audio data and temporarily stored in the memory 180, and then transmitted from the communication control device 121 to the center via the communication network 400. The data is transferred to the server 301 and stored in the database server 311.

  In the present embodiment, the voice answer may be operated independently of other options, and after selecting any other option, if the voice answer key 23 is touched within a few seconds and the voice answer is given, Both data are transmitted to the center server 301. For example, if the patient selects option 13 “2. I could not sleep so much” and touched the voice response key 23 within a few seconds and answered “I wake up many times in the night”, then select option 13 The data and the voice data are stored in the database server 311. Each voice data is stored in a file, and is stored in the database server 311 in association with the contents of the question and the option number selected by the patient. In addition, even if a key of another option is pressed after touching the voice answer key 23, it is similarly accumulated and stored.

  The doctor operates the doctor terminal 201 to retrieve the corresponding patient data from the database server 311 through the communication network 400, temporarily store it in the memory 240, and display it on the CRT display 230. The screen image of the doctor terminal 201 at this time is shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 3, an inquiry number 24 and an option result 25 selected by the patient are displayed as the inquiry results. The difference from the prior art is that the voice answer mark 26 is displayed in addition to the options. This is because, as described above, after the patient selects the option 13, the patient touches the voice answer key 23 and responds by voice saying “I wake up many times in the night”.

  When the doctor places a pointer on the voice answer mark 26 on the screen using a mouse (not shown) and clicks, the communication control device 211 extracts the voice data of the file corresponding to the voice answer mark 26 from the data stored in the memory 240. Read out and output to the audio reproduction circuit 250. The sound reproduction circuit 250 converts the sound data into sound and outputs it to the speaker 251. Therefore, the doctor can hear the voice “I wake up many times in the night” as the voice data of the patient.

  This makes it possible to find out that the patient was “not able to sleep a lot” in response to the question “Did you sleep well?”, And that the information can be obtained as “Wake up many times in the night” Therefore, the doctor can take a more appropriate response than before based on this information. When displaying the result of the inquiry on the doctor terminal 201, when the inquiry number 24 and the result 25 of the option are touched or clicked with a mouse or the like, the contents of the question may be output as speech by voice synthesis. By doing so, the question contents and the patient's voice answer can be heard in association with each other, information can be accurately conveyed, and erroneous determination can be prevented.

  Next, the advice function will be described. When the advice key 142 on the menu screen of FIG. 11 is touched, the advice function is activated and the screen of FIG. 4 is displayed on the liquid crystal display 140.

  In this example, advice from a doctor regarding blood pressure measurement is displayed in the advice area 17 as in the conventional example. What is different from the prior art is that there is a recording key 27 for recording a reply. If the patient reads this advice in the advice area 17 and wants to reply to it, he touches the recording key 27 on the screen and speaks the reply to the microphone 160.

  At this time, inside the patient terminal 101, a voice signal is transmitted from the microphone 160 to the voice input circuit 161, converted into voice data by the voice input circuit 161, and temporarily stored in the memory 180, and then communicated by the communication control device 121. The data is transferred to the center server 301 through the network 400 and stored in the database server 311.

  For example, it is assumed that the patient asks the advice shown in FIG. 4 "Why should I rest before blood pressure measurement?" If the doctor operates the doctor terminal 201 and reads the reply of the corresponding patient, the voice is reproduced. Therefore, the doctor may return an appropriate answer by registering an advice message again.

  Next, the schedule function will be described. When the schedule key 143 on the menu screen shown in FIG. 11 is touched, the schedule function is activated and the screen shown in FIG. On the screen, in addition to the areas 19 to 21 in which the date, time, and schedule contents are displayed as in the conventional case, an execution key 28 and a voice key 29 are added to each area as answering means. Each key is used as follows.

  It is assumed that the patient has performed blood pressure measurement in the schedule area 19. When the patient touches the execution key 28 after blood pressure measurement, the execution of the schedule is stored in the memory 180, and then transferred to the center server 301 through the communication network 400 by the communication control device 121 and stored in the database server 311. It is done.

  If the doctor operates the doctor terminal 201 to retrieve the corresponding patient data from the database server 311 and displays the data on the CRT display 230 to confirm the schedule execution state, it is confirmed that the execution key 46 is pressed. Because it is possible, the doctor can confirm that the instruction is transmitted to the patient.

  Further, for example, when the patient tries to execute the instruction “Please take medicine” in area 20 in FIG. 5, the patient notices that the remaining medicine is the last one. At this time, the patient touches the voice key 29 and speaks the comment “medicine was the last one” to the microphone 160. Inside the patient terminal 101, an audio signal is transmitted from the microphone 160 to the audio input circuit 161, where it is converted into audio data and temporarily stored in the memory 180, and then transmitted to the center server 301 through the communication network 400 by the communication control device 121. Transferred and stored in the database server 311.

  In this case, if the doctor operates the doctor terminal 201 to retrieve data related to the schedule execution state of the corresponding patient from the database server 311 and displays it on the CRT display 230 to confirm the schedule execution state, the doctor It can be confirmed that the instruction is transmitted to the patient, and it can be confirmed that the medicine has run out by voice, and appropriate treatment such as preparation of the next medicine can be performed.

  As described above, in the health data collection apparatus of the present embodiment, in the inquiry function, the answer to the inquiry is stored as voice data and can be reproduced on the doctor terminal 201 side. Information can be transmitted with high practicality, and the amount of information obtained through interviews can be significantly increased.

  Furthermore, a simple interface such as a touch panel 170 can be used on the patient terminal 101 side, and the above-described goal can be achieved without using an input device that is difficult for elderly people to handle, such as a keyboard and a mouse.

  As a result, even for information that is difficult for a doctor to determine only with an inquiry option, a more appropriate determination can be made by comprehensively combining voice answers. In addition, the patient side can easily tell the doctor what he / she wants to say, though it is not so much that he / she has been bothered to talk to the doctor. For this reason, the quality of the remote health management can be remarkably improved, for example, the communication between the doctor side and the patient side can be performed smoothly and the trust relationship can be made closer.

  In the advice function, voice data of the reply from the patient side with respect to the advice from the doctor side is stored and can be reproduced on the doctor terminal 201 side. Therefore, a simple interface such as the touch panel 170 is provided from the patient side. You can reply to your doctor and tell your doctor about your anxiety and questions without using an input device that is difficult for the elderly to handle, such as a keyboard or mouse.

  In this way, from the patient's side, it is possible to obtain a sense of security by being able to communicate their thoughts to the doctor, and for the doctor, the doctor can understand well what the patient thinks. Both sides can communicate smoothly. For this reason, the trust relationship between the doctor and the patient can be made closer, and the quality of remote health management can be greatly improved.

  Furthermore, in the schedule function, data indicating whether or not the patient is executing the schedule set by the doctor and voice data indicating the execution status are stored and can be output to the doctor terminal 201 side. . For this reason, it can be confirmed that the doctor's instructions are reliably transmitted to the patient side, and further, the execution status on the patient side can be grasped by voice, so finer health management can be provided.

  Next, input of image data will be described. For example, a case where an answer to an inquiry is made with an image. The inquiry screen at that time is displayed in FIG.

  The question is “Is there anything that hurts?” As shown in 31 and arms and legs are raised as answers. While looking at this screen, the health management subject can touch the option 32 for an arm, for example, and select “arm hurts”.

  However, the image answer 35 is selected when the user has a wide range and wants to convey more details. At this time, an image signal is input from the camera 150 in FIG. The delay circuit 152 delays sending the image signal to the image input circuit 151 for 10 seconds after the health management subject presses an image answer button (not shown). At the same time, the signal from the delay circuit 152 turns on the display lamp 154 during the delay, and the buzzer 153 rings for 0.2 seconds every second to inform the health care target person that it is a waiting time before photographing. When 10 seconds elapse, the display lamp 154 is turned off and the buzzer 153 sounds for 1 second. At the same time, the image signal is sent to the image input circuit 151, where it is converted into image data and then temporarily stored in the memory 180.

  With this operation, the health care target person performs an image answering operation and then points to the camera 150 while pointing to the painful part in his / her arm with the other hand. From the state 153, it is possible to grasp the delay (waiting, preparing) and the timing at which the image data is sent.

  Thus, when answering an inquiry using an image, the expressive power is remarkably increased as compared with the conventional method of answering an inquiry using an option. Speaking of the above example, it was only information that “arms hurt” in the past, but even in places where it is difficult to explain by letters, a simple operation to display the indicated image, from the health care subject side The amount of information increases dramatically, and as a result, a very fine-tuned health management can be realized.

  Further, the operation at this time can be performed by an instruction by voice without touching the screen. In this case, the health management subject goes to the microphone 160 and utters “image answer”. The voice input to the microphone 160 is converted into characters by the voice recognition circuit 162 and then input to the communication control device 121, and accepts an instruction equivalent to the operation of the image answer 35 on the screen among the operations described above. Can do. Since the following operations are the same as those in the case of inputting image data, a detailed description is omitted. Note that the voice operation may be applied not only to the image answer shown in this example but also to the general answer to the inquiry, or may be used to operate the health data collection device itself.

  If the voice recognition circuit 162 is provided and can be operated by voice as described above, the device can be operated as long as the voice can be spoken even when the hand cannot be used or when the operation cannot be performed well. Therefore, more people are subject to health management by the health data collection device.

  The operation of the device by voice is a technology that is now becoming more common, but it is used in combination with answering an inquiry by voice or image, answering an advice, checking the execution status of a schedule, etc. as in this embodiment. Thus, it is not necessary to provide a voice input circuit or the like only for operating the device, and it can be realized relatively easily. In addition, there are many cases in which health care subjects are elderly or disabled in their limbs, and applying this technology to a health data collection device has the effect that it can be widely spread to those people.

  In the above description, in order to facilitate the explanation, the answer by voice, the answer by image, the operation by voice recognition, etc. are individually explained, but there is no limitation to combining them, and deviates from the scope of the present invention. Not what you want.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 7 shows the appearance of the patient terminal 102 of the health data collection apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. The difference from Embodiment 1 is that the display portion of the liquid crystal display 141 does not have a touch panel, and an operation instruction cannot be input from here. The operation portions are push buttons of a numeric button 191, a cancel button 192, an OK button 193, and an up / down button 194. Moreover, the microphone 160 is provided similarly to Embodiment 1, and can input an audio | voice.

  FIG. 8 shows an image of a screen in the present embodiment. In this example, a screen for performing the same inquiry as in the first embodiment is shown. The screen is composed of a question area 36, options 37 to 39, and a voice recording menu 40. The basic operation of the patient terminal 102 is to select a menu item with the up and down buttons 194 while looking at the screen and then confirm the menu with the OK button 193. The selected item is displayed with black and white reversed. In this example, since the voice recording menu 40 is inverted, it is selected. In this state, if the person to be measured presses the OK button 193, recording is started, and if the person to be measured speaks into the microphone 160, it is recorded. Subsequent operations are the same as those in the first embodiment, and are therefore omitted.

  As described above, according to the health data collection device of the present embodiment, a lot of information can be sent from the patient side by a simple input means such as a display and a push button that can display only character information. The amount of information that can be used in the future increases, and a more complete health management service can be provided.

  According to the health data collection device of the present invention, the amount of information to be collected can be significantly increased while following a user interface that can be used with a simple operation that has been conventionally used. For this reason, it is possible to transmit highly practical information from a health care target person without using an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse that is difficult to handle for the elderly, so that it can be expected to be used in the field of telemedicine.

Block diagram of a health data collection apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention Screen image of patient terminal during the inquiry function of the health data collection device Screen image of the doctor terminal of the health data collection device Screen image of patient terminal when the advice function of the health data collection device is operating Screen image of patient terminal when operating schedule function of the health data collection device Screen image of patient terminal during the inquiry function of the health data collection device External view of patient terminal of health data collection device according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention Screen image of patient terminal of the health data collection device Block diagram of a conventional health data collection device External view of conventional health data collection device Main menu screen image of patient terminal of conventional health data collection device Screen image of the patient terminal during the inquiry function of the conventional health data collection device Screen image of a doctor's terminal of a conventional health data collection device Screen image of patient terminal during advice function operation of a conventional health data collection device Screen image of patient terminal during schedule function operation of conventional health data collection device

Explanation of symbols

101 Patient terminal 121, 211 Communication control device 140, 141 Liquid crystal display 150 Camera 151 Image input circuit 152 Delay circuit 153 Buzzer 154 Display lamp 160 Microphone 161 Voice input circuit 162 Voice recognition circuit 170 Touch panel 180, 240 Memory 201 Doctor terminal 230 CRT Display 250 Audio reproduction circuit 251 Speaker 301 Center server 311 Database server 400 Communication network

Claims (10)

A server for storing first data relating to a question set in advance by a health care provider and second data related to the first data;
The first data is read from the server via the communication network and displayed on the first display means, and the health management subject performs voice or image on the question displayed on the first display means. A first terminal that converts the response to audio data or image data, and transfers the converted data to the server as the second data via the communication network;
Health data comprising: a second terminal that reads the first and second data from the server via the communication network and converts at least the voice data or image data as the second data into voice or image. Collection device.   The health data collection device according to claim 1, wherein the second data includes, in addition to the voice data or image data, a content of an answer selected by a health care target person with respect to the question. A server for storing first data relating to a message entered by a health care provider, and second data related to the first data;
The first data is read from the server via the communication network and displayed on the first display means, and the subject of health management performs the contents displayed on the first display means by voice or image. A first terminal that converts the reply to audio data or image data, and transfers the converted data to the server as the second data via the communication network;
Health data comprising: a second terminal that reads the first and second data from the server via the communication network and converts at least the voice data or image data as the second data into voice or image. Collection device. A server for storing first data relating to a schedule set in advance by a health care provider, and second data related to the first data;
The first data is read from the server via the communication network and displayed on the first display means, and the health related to the answer as to whether the health management target person has executed the schedule displayed on the display means. A first terminal that converts a comment made by a management target person by voice or image into voice data or image data, and transfers the converted data to the server as the second data via the communication network;
Health data comprising: a second terminal that reads the first and second data from the server via the communication network and converts at least the voice data or image data as the second data into voice or image. Collection device.   The health data collection device according to claim 4, wherein the second data includes, in addition to the audio data or the image data, a reply indicating whether a health management target person has executed the contents instructed by the schedule.   The health data collection device according to claim 1, wherein the first terminal includes an operation unit that is operated by a health care target person, and the operation unit includes a touch panel.   The health data collection device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first terminal includes an operation unit operated by a health care target person, and the operation unit includes a push button.   The health data collection device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first terminal includes voice recognition means for recognizing a voice of a health care target person and converting the voice into an operation signal.   The health data according to any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein the first terminal includes a delay unit that captures an image after a predetermined time after the health management target person gives an instruction to reply with an image using the operation unit. Collection device.   The health data collection device according to claim 9, wherein the delay unit further includes a timing notification unit that notifies the timing of capturing an image.

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