JP2008108077A - Medial institution evaluation device and medical institution information providing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical institution information for performing an appropriate treatment according to a patient's case in referring of the patient to other medical institutions. <P>SOLUTION: Referral data transmitted and received between medical institutions is accumulated in a storage part, the accumulated data is counted for each medical institution, and an evaluation point is assigned to each medical institution according to the number of referrals. Further, the tendency of temporal increase/decrease of the number of referrals is analyzed, and if the number of referrals tends to increase, a higher evaluation point is assigned. Information for a medical institution with high evaluation point is preferentially provided to a doctor, whereby the doctor can appropriately select a referral destination of the patient. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a medical institution information providing system for a plurality of medical institutions such as hospitals and clinics to introduce patients to other medical institutions, and in particular, according to disease names and symptoms based on past referral data accumulated. The present invention relates to a medical institution evaluation apparatus and a medical institution information providing system that can provide information on an appropriate medical institution.

  In recent years, it has become difficult for one hospital to provide optimal medical practices to all patients due to advances in medical technology. In other words, advances in medical technology will promote the specialization of doctors and advancement of medical equipment, so it is necessary for one medical institution to arrange specialist medical doctors in all fields and install advanced medical equipment. It has become difficult. On the other hand, there are increasing numbers of medical institutions with their own characteristics, such as medical institutions with specialized medical facilities for specialized doctors, and clinics that can easily consult about illness but difficult to conduct advanced medical practices. It is in.

  For this reason, medical institutions of a plurality of specialized hospitals, clinics, general hospitals, etc., cooperate with each other to introduce appropriate medical institutions to patients. In the cooperation of multiple medical institutions, when a doctor in charge such as a clinic introduces a patient to another medical institution, for example, a hospital or a specialist who possesses the necessary testing equipment according to the patient's case The doctor in charge of the clinic introduced the patient to the hospital where

For example, in Patent Document 1, information on highly specialized medical institutions is stored in advance for disease names, medical subjects, cases, etc., and medical institutions corresponding to patient symptoms are searched for and displayed as a list. A system for creating an electronic referral letter for a selected medical institution by a doctor selecting any one of the medical institutions is disclosed. In addition, in Patent Document 2, in order to select a doctor according to the patient's symptoms, as detailed information, detailed information such as a doctor's specialized field, years of experience, and the number of operations is registered as data, A system adapted to be searched is disclosed.
JP 2002-73822 A JP 2004-13268 A

  In the system of Patent Literature 1, when a doctor searches for a medical institution to be referred to, information on a medical institution that matches a patient's disease name can be obtained from information on a medical institution registered in advance. Typically, multiple institutional candidates are selected. In this case, since a doctor determines an optimal medical institution from a plurality of selected medical institutions, there is a problem that an optimal medical institution cannot always be determined depending on the personal knowledge of the doctor.

  In addition, if additional information such as a doctor's track record, years of experience, and number of operations is input as in the system of Patent Document 2, it becomes a material for determining the superiority or inferiority of a medical institution as an introduction destination. Such information is information based on the self-report of each medical institution, and the latest information is not always reflected. Furthermore, as long as the information is self-reported, it is possible to input the contents falsely in order to increase the number of introductions, and there is a problem that the objectivity is lacking.

  In order to solve such a problem, the first invention includes a storage unit that stores and stores an introduction reason when a medical institution introduces a patient to another medical institution and a referral medical institution as one record, and an introduction. A counting unit that counts the number of records in the storage unit that has the same introduction reason for each medical institution, and whether the introduction is suitable for the introduction reason for each medical institution based on the number of records counted by the counting unit The medical institution evaluation apparatus which has an evaluation part which provides the evaluation point which shows is provided.

  With this configuration, the present invention evaluates whether it is suitable as a referral destination of a medical institution based on the results of patient referrals actually performed at a medical site, and thus reflects the actual patient referral status of the medical institution. Evaluation is possible. Moreover, as a preferable aspect of the first invention, the name of the patient introduced and the purpose of introduction are adopted as the reason for introduction. Here, the medical institution includes various categories such as a medical institution name, a medical department, a doctor, and the like, and is used as a term that can specify an introduction destination.

  Further, in a preferred aspect of the first invention, the referral data when the patient is introduced from a terminal installed in the medical institution is received, and at least the date of introduction referral, the reason for the introduction, and the referral medical institution are received in the storage unit. It has a referral letter data acquisition unit for storing each information in the storage unit, and further receives referral letter data when a patient is introduced from a terminal installed in a medical institution, and at least the referral letter creation date is stored in the storage unit. , Having a referral letter data acquisition unit for storing each information of the introduction reason and the referral medical institution, and the counting unit evaluates if the number of referrals increased during the predetermined period is greater than or equal to a first predetermined value Calculating a time correction value to be added to the point, and calculating a time correction value to be subtracted from the evaluation point if the number of introductions in which the number of records decreased in a predetermined period is equal to or greater than a second predetermined value, , The above The number of over-de addition / subtraction to by said time correction value imparting evaluation points.

  With this configuration, when calculating the evaluation points, the evaluation points are high if the number of cases introduced at the time of calculation is increasing, and conversely, if the numbers are decreasing, the evaluation points are low. Therefore, the evaluation can be made with an emphasis on the new introduction situation, so that a more accurate evaluation is possible.

  In order to solve such a problem, a second invention is a medical institution information providing system in which a center device that collectively manages referral letter data and a terminal possessed by the medical institution are connected via a network. In the device, the referral reason when the medical institution introduces the patient to another medical institution and the storage unit that stores and stores the referral medical institution as one record match the referral reason for each referral medical institution A counting unit that counts the number of records in the storage unit, and an evaluation unit that gives an evaluation point indicating whether or not the referral destination is suitable for the referral reason for each referral medical institution based on the number of records counted in the counting unit; A center communication unit that receives a referral reason from a terminal via a network and transmits medical institution information that includes an evaluation result of the evaluation unit related to the referral reason to the terminal. Received from the terminal communication unit, the terminal communication unit that sends the referral reason to the center device via the network and receives the medical institution information related to the referral reason, the input unit to input the referral reason to other medical institutions, Medical institution information having a display unit for displaying medical institution information, and when the doctor of the medical institution inputs the introduction reason to determine the introduction destination, the medical institution information related to the introduction reason is displayed on the display unit from the center device Providing a provision system.

  With this configuration, the second invention makes it possible to evaluate whether a large number of data is suitable as a referral destination of a medical institution by centralized management of referral letter data in the center device, and It is possible to quickly introduce a patient to a suitable medical institution at a terminal installed in the medical institution.

  In a preferred aspect of the second invention, when the center communication unit receives the referral letter data from the terminal, the storage unit stores at least the information of the reason for the referral and the referral medical institution when the referral letter is created. Remember. According to this configuration, information necessary for the evaluation of the medical institution can be collected every time the medical institution introduces the patient with the referral letter data, so that the reliability of the evaluation can be improved.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, when a doctor searches a patient introduction destination medical institution, appropriate medical institution information according to the patient introduction reason can be provided based on the past introduction results.

  Hereinafter, a medical institution information providing system to which the present invention is applied will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing functional blocks of a medical institution information providing system. The medical institution information provision system is installed in a center apparatus 1 that is a medical institution evaluation apparatus that evaluates a medical institution as an introduction destination, and in medical institutions (H1, H2,. A number of terminals 2 for inputting information and displaying medical institution information of introduction destinations are connected via a network 3.

  The center device 1 includes an information processing unit 10 including a CPU / ROM / RAM, an input unit 11 including a keyboard / mouse / touch panel, and a center communication unit including a communication module that communicates with the terminal 2 via the network 3. 12, a display unit 13 composed of a liquid crystal display for displaying various information, and a storage unit 14 composed of a hard disk or the like for storing referral letter data.

  Here, the introduction letter data will be described. First, a letter of introduction refers to a document that introduces a patient examined by one medical institution to another medical institution. Information that can identify the patient, details of the examination, disease name, purpose of introduction, date of introduction, introduction It is a medical information provision form that describes the name of the previous medical institution. A patient who has received a letter of introduction at a medical institution will bring this letter of introduction to a referral medical institution for medical treatment. This referral letter is normally used when a medical institution introduces a patient to another medical institution, and therefore a detailed description is omitted.

  The referral data is electronic data of all or part of the content of the referral. In this embodiment, the referral data includes information that can identify a patient, information that can identify a referral medical institution, information that can identify a referral medical institution, and patient symptoms such as a patient's disease name and case. Information, introduction purpose information that is a request item to the referral medical institution, and creation date (time) information of the referral letter data are included. In particular, in the present embodiment, a system for exchanging introduction letter data between the terminal 2 and the center apparatus 1 via a network is constructed without using a letter of introduction.

  The storage unit 14 stores other information such as an introduction letter data table, an evaluation point storage table, patient information, medical institution information, doctor information, and various programs.

  First, the introduction letter data table will be specifically described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 shows the contents of the referral letter data table in the form of a table. The referral letter data table stores referral letter data as one record per record.

  The referral letter data table has one referral letter data as one unit (row), referral letter ID 401, patient ID 402, referral source medical institution ID 403, referral source medical department 404, referral source doctor ID 405, referral destination medical institution ID 406, referral. The items of the preclinical department 407, the referral doctor ID 408, the disease name 409, the referral purpose 410, the request contents 411, the referral letter creation date 412 and the consultation date 413 are arranged in columns. In the present embodiment, one record is formed with the introduction letter data as one unit, and the contents of the introduction letter data are stored in the fields of the respective items.

  Here, each item will be described. The referral letter ID 401 is an identification code for each referral letter data, and is a code uniquely assigned by the center apparatus 1 to each referral letter data received from the terminal 2. The patient ID 402 is an identification code for identifying a patient, and is a code given to each patient in the center device 1.

  The referral source medical institution ID 403 is an identification code for identifying the medical institution that issued the letter of introduction, and is a code given as medical institution information when registering as a medical institution belonging to this system. The referral source medical department 404 is a clinical department at a referral source medical institution such as internal medicine, surgery, and brain surgery. An introduction doctor ID 405 is an identification code for identifying the introduced doctor, and is a code given as doctor information when registering as a doctor of a medical institution belonging to this system.

  Similarly, the referral destination medical institution ID 406 is an identification code for identifying the referral medical institution, the referral destination medical department 407 is the department at the referral medical institution such as internal medicine / surgery / brain surgery, and the referral doctor ID 408 is This is an identification code for identifying the referred doctor. These are also given as medical institution information when the medical institution is registered in the system.

  The disease name 409 is the disease name of the patient to be introduced diagnosed by the referral doctor, the referral purpose 410 is the purpose of the referral doctor introducing the patient, such as hospitalization / outpatient / examination, and the request content 411 is the referral from the referral doctor Comments on specific introductions to doctors, introduction letter creation date 412 is the date when the referral data is entered at the referral source medical institution, and consultation date 413 is the date when the patient actually visits the referral destination medical institution It is remembered.

  Next, the evaluation point storage table will be described. The evaluation point storage table is counted and evaluated by the counting unit 102 / evaluation unit 103 described later based on the referral letter data stored in the referral letter data table, and indicates that the medical institution (clinical department) is suitable as a referral destination. The evaluation points shown are calculated and stored for each disease name and purpose.

  FIG. 5 is a table showing an example of the evaluation point storage table. Specifically, the evaluation point storage table stores an introduction reason 51, a medical institution name / clinical department 52, an introduction number 53, a time correction value 54, and an evaluation point 55. A method for calculating these items will be described later.

  Patient information is basic patient information and is stored in association with a patient ID given to each patient in association with the patient's name, date of birth, sex, age, address information, etc. Are registered when they first visit one of the medical institutions connected to the network.

  The medical institution information is basic information of the medical institution, and the medical institution ID, the department, the address, the telephone number, and the scale (the number of beds for each type such as general use and medical use) are assigned to each medical institution. ) And the like are stored in association with each other. An example of medical institution information is shown in FIG. There may be a plurality of medical departments such as “internal medicine”, “surgery”, “brain surgery”, “pediatrics”, etc., and a doctor ID of a doctor belonging to each medical department is also registered.

  As medical institution information, information on medical institutions connected to the network is registered by a system administrator or the like. In addition, when introducing to a medical institution that is not connected to this system using a paper introduction letter, information on the medical institution of the introduction destination is registered using the terminal 2 installed in the original institution. It is also possible.

  In the doctor information, a doctor ID is assigned to each doctor, and the medical institution ID to which the doctor belongs and other information (name, age, qualification, medical department that can be examined, etc.) are associated and registered. Similarly to medical institution information, doctor information belonging to each medical institution is registered by the system administrator. It is also possible to directly register the information of doctors belonging to the referral medical institution from each medical institution.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the information processing unit 10 will be described. The information processing unit 10 includes a referral letter data acquisition unit 101 that stores the referral letter data received by the center communication unit 12 from the terminal 2 via the network 3 in the referral letter data table of the storage unit 14, and a referral letter of the storage unit 14. A counting unit 102 that counts the number of records that satisfy a predetermined condition that will be described later from the data table, and an evaluation unit 103 that calculates an evaluation point at a referral medical institution based on the counting result of the counting unit 102 and stores it in the evaluation point storage table It is comprised including.

  The counting unit 102 refers to the referral letter data table stored in the storage unit 14, for example, at a cycle of every 24 hours, and searches for records with the same reason for referral for each referral medical institution. The process which counts is performed. That is, since one referral letter data is stored as one record in the referral letter data table, the counting unit 102 counts the number of records for which the referral reason matches for each referral medical institution. Further, the counting unit 102 counts the number of increase / decrease in the number of records that appear in time among records with matching introduction reasons.

  Here, the introduction reason indicates the patient's symptom and the desired treatment for the symptom, and in the present embodiment, the patient's “disease name” and “introduction purpose” are used as the introduction reason. “Disease name” means the name of a wound or disease confirmed based on the result of diagnosis by a doctor of the referral medical institution, or the name of a suspected wound or disease. ) Etc. “Introduction purpose” is a request item to a doctor who is an introduction destination, and indicates “examination”, “hospitalization”, and the like.

  Processing of the counting unit 102 will be described. The counting unit 102 selects “disease name 409-referral purpose 410” for records recorded in the referral letter data table of the storage unit 14 for which the referral letter creation date 412 is within a predetermined period such as one year from the present. ”To group records that have the same introduction reason. More specifically, records in which both “disease name” 409 and “introduction purpose” 410 in FIG. 4 match are grouped. For example, if “pneumonia-hospitalized” is one group, the referral letters 401 = 0001 and 0002 in FIG. 4 are classified into the group.

  How long before the current record is covered excludes the influence of seasonal fluctuations (for example, the medical institution where the patient visits when the summer is extremely hot or the winter is extremely cold). Annual units such as the past year. Note that the grouping target includes records in which the consultation date 413 is not registered. It may be possible to target only those that have been registered at the referral medical institution and the date of diagnosis 413 is stored, but in that case, the data introduced to the medical institution not connected to this system will be reflected. Note that it will not.

  Next, with respect to each grouped record, the number of cases introduced for each medical institution to be introduced is counted. Here, the number of referrals, which is the number of records in which the referral destination medical institution ID 406 and the referral destination medical department 407 match, is counted. Specifically, for the letter of introduction data categorized into the same group, the number of cases is determined for each combination in which both the “introducing medical institution ID” 406 field and the “introducing medical department” 407 field in FIG. It counts and memorize | stores in the field of the number of introductions 53 of the evaluation point storage table of the memory | storage part 14 shown in FIG.

  Further, the counting unit 102 executes a time correction value calculation process shown in FIG. Here, the time correction value is a numerical index indicating a tendency of increase / decrease in the number of introductions over time, and is a correction value used when an evaluation point is determined in a medical institution described later. That is, the time correction value obtains the increase / decrease of the number of introductions in the past predetermined period from the current time, based on the number of introductions in the past predetermined period based on the current date and a certain point in the past. For example, at the end of the month, the number of referrals for the month and the month before the past several months may be compared. In the present embodiment, an example will be described in which the number of introductions is compared in units of 30 days so that the time correction value is arbitrarily executed and it is not necessary to consider the difference in the number of days for each month. In this case, information on a closed day may be registered in the medical institution information in the storage unit 14, and 30 days other than the closed day may be targeted.

  In ST21 of FIG. 6, for each record grouped for each disease name 409-introduction purpose 410 in the referral letter data table, a record having an interval between the current date and the referral letter creation date 412 within Δt (Δt = 30 days) is picked up. Next, in ST22, the number of records, which is the number of records introduced for each group introduced by each introduction destination medical institution ID 406 / introduction destination medical department 407, is counted.

  Similarly, in ST23 and ST24, for example, on the basis of a point in time 90 days before the present, an introduction record within the past Δt is picked up from that point, and introduced for each introduction destination medical institution ID 406 / introduction destination department 407 in each record. Count the number of records. Here, the predetermined period going back from the present is determined by the period during which the change due to the above-mentioned rapid increase and decrease is converged. For example, if the information that the latest testing equipment has been introduced into a medical institution spreads and the number of referrals increases, and the number of referrals per month converges for about three months, the increase / decrease is calculated as 90 days.

  Next, in ST25, the difference between the number of records, which is the number of cases introduced in ST22 and S24, is calculated for each introduction destination medical institution ID 406 / introduction destination medical department 407.

  In ST26, based on the difference calculated in S25, the number (number of records) introduced 30 days before the current date is predetermined from the number introduced 30 days before March for each medical institution ID 406 / referral medical department 407. It is determined whether or not the value has increased more than the value. This predetermined value depends on the scale of the medical institution to be applied, the total number of referral letter data and how to obtain Δt, but is set to 100, for example. In the present embodiment, it is determined whether or not the increase number of records (number of records) is a predetermined value or more. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is determined whether or not the increase rate is a predetermined value or more. It may be.

  If it is larger than the predetermined value in ST26 (ST26-yes), it is judged that the number of records introduced for some reason (number of records) is increasing rapidly in ST27, and the medical institution ID 406 / referral department in the evaluation point storage table is determined. The number of introduced cases (number of records) is stored in the time correction value of 407.

Although the number of introduced cases (number of records) simply increased as in the present embodiment may be stored, the larger the degree of increase, the larger the value may be stored.

  Next, in ST28, based on the difference calculated in ST25, the number of cases introduced 30 days before the current time from the number of cases introduced (records) 30 days before March 30 for each medical institution ID 406 / referral department 407. It is determined whether (number of records) has decreased by a predetermined value or more. This predetermined value depends on the scale of the medical institution to be applied, the total number of referral letter data and how to obtain Δt, but is set to, for example, −100. In the present embodiment, it is determined whether or not the difference in the number of records (number of records) is a predetermined value or more. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is determined whether or not the ratio between the two is a predetermined value or more. It may be.

  If it is smaller than the predetermined value in ST28 (ST28-yes), in ST29, it is determined that the number of records introduced for some reason (number of records) is the medical institution ID 406 / referral medical department 407, and the storage unit The number of records (number of records) for the decrease is added to the time correction value in the 14 evaluation point storage table and stored.

  Although the number of introduced cases (number of records) simply decreased as in the present embodiment may be stored, the smaller the degree of decrease, the smaller the value may be stored.

  In ST30, when the number of introduced cases (number of records) is neither sudden increase nor sudden decrease, that is, from the number of introduced cases (number of records) 30 days before March 30 for each medical institution ID 406 / referral department 407 If the difference in the number of introduced days (number of records) is less than 100, “0” is stored in the time correction value of the evaluation point storage table of the storage unit 14.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the evaluation unit 103 will be described. The evaluation unit 103 executes the counting process in the counting unit 102 and calculates an evaluation point 55 based on the number of introductions 53 and the time correction value 54 in the evaluation point storage table. That is, the process of the evaluation unit 103 is based on the process of evaluating the large number of introduced cases as an index of the appropriateness of the introduction destination, and also taking into account the transition of the number of introduced cases (number of records). This is a process for calculating evaluation points.

  Here, the evaluation points will be described. The evaluation point is obtained by scoring whether a medical institution is suitable for an introduction reason when introducing a medical institution. A large number of referrals to a specific medical institution for a specific disease name / purpose means that many doctors have selected that medical institution as the referral destination based on some information. On the other hand, it shows that there is a high degree of confidence that appropriate treatment can be performed at the medical institution. Even if a medical institution such as a clinic does not know an appropriate medical institution that should introduce patients according to the name of the disease, a medical institution highly evaluated according to the number of past referrals should be Estimate and introduce patients. Therefore, the basic concept of the evaluation points in the present embodiment is to evaluate that the greater the number of actual introduction destinations, the higher the possibility that the introduction destinations are more suitable.

  In addition, the latest testing equipment was introduced, skilled doctors were assigned, or medical institutions were newly established during the year that was the subject of this evaluation, and the number of referrals to specific medical institutions increased or decreased. In this case, the evaluation point is corrected using the time correction value 54 indicating the tendency to increase / decrease over time. As a result, not only evaluation based on the number of referrals within a given period, but also information on the latest trends is reflected in the evaluation points of medical institutions more quickly, and medical institution information with high evaluation points is preferentially provided. It is possible to provide medical institutions with appropriate medical institution information suitable for referral selection.

  Specifically, the evaluation unit 103 adds the number of introductions 53 stored in the evaluation point storage table counted by the counting unit 102 and the time correction value 54 and stores the result as an evaluation point in the evaluation point 55. In the present embodiment, the time correction value 54 is counted, and the number of introductions 53 is corrected by the time correction value. However, if time correction is not necessary, processing related to the time correction value can be omitted.

  Such an evaluation point storage table is created, for example, once a day. However, it is not limited to once a day, and may be created at an appropriate timing according to the situation of introduction cases or needs of medical institutions.

  Next, the terminal 2 will be described. The terminal 2 is installed in each medical institution H1, H2,... Registered in the system, and is used when a doctor of each medical institution introduces a patient to another medical institution. The terminal 2 is composed of a CPU / ROM / RAM and the like, and a terminal information processing unit 20 that handles information processing, and a keyboard / mouse and the like, which are operated when a doctor of a medical institution inputs referral data and searches for a referee 21, a so-called communication module that is connected to the network 3 and communicates with the center device 1 and is composed of a terminal communication unit 22, a liquid crystal monitor, and the like. It is comprised from the display part 23 which displays.

  Next, an outline of the overall operation of the medical institution information system will be described. The medical institution information system is used when a medical institution needs to introduce a patient to another medical institution. First, the input unit 22 is operated from the terminal 2 installed in the referral source medical institution, and the center communication unit 12 of the center apparatus 1 is requested to provide information on the referral destination medical institution. This referral destination medical institution information request is information that can specify the referral source medical institution that is input from the input unit 21 of the terminal 2, referral that is the name of the patient to be introduced and the referral purpose that the doctor of the referral source medical institution has diagnosed. Along with the reason, the data is transmitted from the terminal communication unit 22 to the center device 1 via the network 3.

  In the center apparatus 1, when a medical institution information request is received from the center communication unit 12, the information processing unit 10 searches the evaluation point storage table using the introduction reason as a search key, and specifies medical institution information having a high evaluation point. An evaluation point is attached to the specified medical institution information and transmitted to the requesting terminal 2. Note that the medical institution information may be transmitted to the terminal 2 in descending order of evaluation points without actually attaching evaluation points.

  In the terminal 2, the medical institution information received from the center apparatus 1 is displayed on the display unit 23, and the doctor selects the introduction destination medical institution with reference to the evaluation points. If the evaluation points are not transmitted directly, the medical institution information is received in descending order of the evaluation points, so that an appropriate medical institution can be selected in the same manner.

  The doctor of the referral medical institution inputs all items while referring to the display unit 23 from the input unit 21 of the terminal 2 and transmits the referral data to the center device 1 from the terminal communication unit 22 via the network 3. .

In the center device 1, when this referral letter data is received from the center communication unit 12, the referral letter data acquisition unit of the information processing unit 10 additionally registers the referral letter data in the referral letter data table of the storage unit 14 as one record, Notify the referral medical institution that registration has been completed and the referral medical institution that the referral has been introduced.

  The details of the entire operation of the medical institution information providing system will be described with reference to an example of a procedure for introducing a patient from the medical institution H1 to the medical institution H2, with the introduction source medical institution H1 and the introduction destination medical institution H2.

At the terminal 5 installed in the medical institution H1, a doctor accesses the center apparatus 1 using a Web browser or the like, and starts an application for creating a letter of introduction. When accessing the center apparatus 1, authentication is performed using an ID and a password registered for each medical institution.

  FIG. 2 is an example of an introduction letter creation screen displayed on the screen of the display unit 23 when the application of the terminal 5 is activated. The screen shown in FIG. 2 is for a doctor to input necessary items for creating a referral letter, and the left side of the screen is divided into areas a1 to a4. A display button programmed to execute a predetermined operation when a doctor presses an input form for inputting information of a referral destination medical institution is prepared.

First, a doctor inputs patient information regarding a patient to be introduced. That is, in the area a1 in FIG. 2, the patient information to be introduced is input by operating the input unit 21 for part or all of the name, sex, date of birth, patient ID, telephone number, and address, and finally the patient Press the search button b1.
When the patient search button b1 is pressed, a search request as to whether patient information is registered in the storage unit 14 of the center apparatus 1 is transmitted together with patient information input from the terminal communication unit 22 to the center apparatus 1 via the network 3. .

  The center device 1 searches the patient information in the storage unit 14 based on the received patient information, and returns the registered content of the patient to the terminal 2 if it is already registered. On the other hand, if the corresponding patient information is not registered in the storage unit 14, a message that there is no registration is returned to the terminal 2.

  In the terminal 2, when the registration content is received from the center device 1, the registration content is displayed on the input form in the area a 1 on the screen of the display unit 23. On the other hand, when the terminal 2 receives that there is no registration, the patient registration button b2 is pressed to register a new patient. When the patient registration button b2 is pressed, the patient registration screen of FIG. 3 is displayed in a separate window. In addition, when the registration content received from the center apparatus 1 has changed, the patient registration button b2 is pressed and the change registration above the patient is performed.

  For new patient registration, the name, gender, date of birth, telephone number, and address shown in FIG. 3 are entered in the input form a7, and finally the new registration button b6 is pressed. When the new registration button b6 is pressed, the patient information is transmitted to the storage unit 14 of the center device 1 together with the patient information input from the terminal communication unit 22 to the center device 1 via the network 3.

  In the center apparatus 1, the transmitted patient information registers the patient information in the storage unit 14, and at this time, a patient ID is uniquely assigned to each patient. Then, the registered content is returned to the terminal 2.

  In the terminal 2, when the registration content is received from the center device 1, the registration content including the patient ID is displayed on the input form in the area a 1 on the screen of the display unit 23. When changing patient information, the same processing is performed except that the change registration button b7 is pressed.

  Next, the doctor operates the input unit 21 to input the name of the medical institution, the department, and the doctor, which are the referral source medical institution information in the area a2 in FIG. Since these items are registered in advance as medical institution information in the storage unit 14 of the center device 1, they may be automatically acquired from the center device 1 using the identification code of the terminal 2, the medical institution ID, or the like. . When the terminal 5 is shared by a plurality of medical departments, a candidate list of medical departments or the like is displayed, selected, and input. For example, when an input form for a medical department is selected, a medical department list of the medical institution is displayed in the medical department drop-down list, and when a doctor input form is further selected, doctors belonging to the medical department are displayed in the doctor drop-down list. Is displayed and can be selected.

  Next, the doctor operates the input unit 21 to input the introduction contents necessary for introducing the patient in the area a3 in FIG. In the area a3, in order to search for a medical institution to be referred to, a disease name and a purpose of introduction are input as a patient introduction reason. When a disease name input form is selected for a disease name, disease name candidates are displayed in a drop-down list, so the corresponding disease name is selected, and the corresponding introduction purpose is also selected from the drop-down list. The disease name is selected from, for example, pre-registered lists such as “headache”, “abdominal pain”, and “fracture”, and the introduction purpose is selected from “outpatient”, “hospitalization”, “examination”, “rehabilitation”, and the like. The doctor's comments, special notes, etc. are entered in the request contents.

  When the medical institution search button b3 is pressed after the introduction content is input, the introduction content input from the terminal communication unit 22 to the center device 1 via the network 3 is suitable for the storage unit 14 of the center device 1 as an introduction destination. A request signal for medical institution information is transmitted.

  In the center apparatus 1, when the center communication unit 12 receives a request signal for medical institution information suitable as an introduction destination, the information processing unit 10 executes a search process for searching the evaluation point storage table stored in the storage unit 14. To do. That is, medical institution information (including the medical department) that matches the received disease name and the introduction reason that is the introduction purpose is extracted from the introduction reason 51 in the evaluation point storage table. Further, a medical institution is identified from the medical institution name / clinical department 52, and information such as a location, a telephone number, and a doctor is acquired from the medical institution information stored in the storage unit 14. Then, the extracted medical institution information of the introduction destination is transmitted from the center communication unit 12 to the terminal 2. At this time, if there are a large number of extracted medical institutions, only the information on the medical institutions that are the introduction destinations of the top 10 institutions of the evaluation points 55 may be transmitted. In addition, the medical institution information of the introduction destination to be transmitted includes the name of the medical institution, the department, the location, the telephone number, the doctor, and the evaluation point.

  In the terminal 2, the medical institution information received from the terminal communication unit 22 is displayed in a list in the area a5 on the right side of the screen shown in FIG. Furthermore, the medical institution with the highest evaluation point is automatically input in the area a4.

  When an arbitrary row of the introduction destination medical institution list displayed in the area a5 is selected, the selected medical institution / clinical department / doctor is input to the input form in the area a4.

  The referring doctor can view the display screen of the display unit 23, examine the medical institution that can handle the reason for the introduction, including evaluation points, and select the medical institution to which the patient is introduced. Therefore, even if the referral doctor does not know the referral medical institution well, the patient can be referred to an appropriate medical institution.

  In addition, when introducing the patient to a medical institution that he / she knows, the referral doctor may select the corresponding medical institution from the pull-down list in the area a4. This is effective when introducing a medical institution that has newly entered the system or a newly established medical institution. The pull-down list may be acquired in advance from all medical institution information registered in advance from the center apparatus 1 or may be acquired from the center apparatus 1 when necessity arises.

  In this way, after the introduction letter data is input to the areas a1 to a4, the introduction letter creation completion button b5 is pressed. The terminal information processing unit 20 transmits referral letter data from the terminal communication unit 22 to the center device 1.

  In the center device 1, when this referral letter data is received from the center communication unit 12, the referral letter data acquisition unit 101 registers it in the referral letter data table of the storage unit 14 together with the referral letter creation date information. That is, the referral letter data acquisition unit 101 assigns a referral letter ID to the received referral letter data in the referral letter data table, and each of the referral letters such as a patient ID, a medical institution ID, a medical department name, a disease name, and a referral purpose. Record items as one record. When the referral letter data is registered in the referral letter data table, the center apparatus 1 transmits a registration completion message to the referral source terminal 2.

  Further, the center device 1 notifies the terminal 2 of the medical institution designated by the introduction destination medical institution that the introduction letter data is generated by an electronic mail including the introduction letter ID. The referral medical institution connects to the center apparatus 1 from the terminal 2, extracts the corresponding referral letter data from the referral letter data table stored in the storage unit 14 of the center apparatus 1 based on the referral letter ID 401, and introduces the referral letter. It is possible to view the details of the introduction contents at the medical institution.

  When the referral medical institution confirms that the referral letter data has been registered at the terminal 2, the referral destination medical institution name, address, doctor name, referral letter data ID, etc. are communicated verbally or in writing. The patient who receives the referral will be examined at the referral medical institution.

  When the patient visits the referral medical institution and registers that the doctor has visited the center apparatus 1 from the terminal 2 of the referral destination medical institution H2, the center apparatus 1 receives the visit date 413 in the referral letter data table. Register with.

  In this embodiment, as a selection condition for the referral medical institution, the referral medical institution is narrowed down by the name of the disease that is the reason for the referral and the purpose of the referral. However, the present invention is not limited to this. Referral medical institutions may be narrowed down according to the size of the institution and the geographical conditions of the medical institution.

  In this embodiment, the case of using a letter of introduction is explained. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a system for searching for and providing appropriate medical institution information by inputting a patient's disease name and purpose. It is good.

  In this embodiment, an example in which the introduced number of records (the number of records) is used as it is has been described. However, a value that considers the weight according to the time and season may be used. For example, the new introduction letter data may be weighted so as to increase the evaluation point, or the evaluation point in summer or winter may be decreased.

  In the present embodiment, the number of introductions and the time correction value are counted at the same timing by the counting unit. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the timing of counting the number of introductions and the time correction value may be different.

  In the present embodiment, evaluation information is attached from the center device 1 and medical institution information is transmitted to the terminal 2. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and medical care that is rearranged in descending order of evaluation points without attaching evaluation points. The engine information may be transmitted to the terminal 2 and displayed on the display unit 23 in the terminal 2 according to the order.

  Although the center communication unit, the information processing unit, and the storage unit can be realized on a single server computer, it goes without saying that they may be operated on a plurality of servers.

  In the present embodiment, the example in which the number of introductions and the time correction value are used together has been described. However, only the number of introductions may be used as an evaluation point, or the time correction value may be used as an evaluation point. Further, the evaluation points may be given to each medical institution, or may be given by specifying the clinical department of each medical institution.

1 is a functional block diagram of an introduction letter management support system to which the present invention is applied. The introduction letter input screen is shown. The patient information registration screen is shown. The referral letter data table is shown. An evaluation point storage table is shown. It is a flowchart of a calculation process of a time correction value. It is an example of medical institution information.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Center apparatus 11 Input part 12 Center communication part 13 Display part 14 Storage part 10 Information processing part 101 Referral letter data acquisition part 102 Counting part 103 Evaluation part 2 Terminal 20 Terminal information processing part 21 Input part 22 Terminal communication part 23 Display part 3 network

Claims (5)

A storage unit that stores and stores the reason for introduction when a medical institution introduces a patient to another medical institution and the medical institution to which the medical institution is introduced as one record;
A counting unit that counts the number of records in the storage unit for which the introduction reason matches for each medical institution of the introduction destination;
A medical institution evaluation apparatus comprising: an evaluation unit that gives an evaluation point indicating whether the introduction destination is suitable for the introduction reason based on the number of records counted by the counting unit .   The medical institution evaluation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reason for introduction is a name of a patient introduced and a purpose of introduction. Furthermore, referral letter data for receiving referral data when a patient is introduced from a terminal installed in a medical institution and storing at least the date of referral creation, the reason for the referral, and the information of the referral medical institution in the storage unit. Have an acquisition department,
The counting unit calculates a time correction value to be added to an evaluation point if the number of introductions in which the number of records has increased in a predetermined period is equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, and the number of introductions in which the number of records has decreased in a predetermined period. Calculates a time correction value to be subtracted from the evaluation point if is equal to or greater than a second predetermined value,
The medical institution evaluation apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the evaluation unit adds / subtracts the number of records with the time correction value to give an evaluation point. A medical institution information providing system in which a center device that collectively manages referral letter data and a terminal possessed by a medical institution are connected via a network,
The center device includes a storage unit that stores and records as a record a reason for introduction when a medical institution introduces a patient to another medical institution and a destination medical institution, and the introduction for each medical institution of the introduction destination. A counting unit that counts the number of records in the storage unit that matches the reason, and an evaluation that indicates whether the referral is suitable for the referral reason for each referral medical institution based on the number of records counted by the counting unit An evaluation unit that gives points, and a center communication unit that receives the introduction reason from the terminal via the network and transmits medical institution information to the terminal in consideration of the evaluation result of the evaluation unit regarding the introduction reason. Have
The terminal transmits an introduction reason to the center device via a network and receives medical institution information related to the introduction reason, an input unit for inputting an introduction reason to another medical institution, A display unit for displaying medical institution information received from the terminal communication unit;
When a doctor of a medical institution inputs the reason for introduction to determine an introduction destination, the medical institution information providing system displays medical institution information related to the reason for introduction from the center device on the display unit. Furthermore, the said center communication part makes the said memory | storage part memorize | store in the said memory | storage part each information of a referral reason and a referral destination medical institution at least at the time of preparation of a referral letter, when the referral letter data is received from the said terminal. Medical institution information provision system.

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