JP2016018224A - Service system for using health condition prediction diagnosis - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problems in which: while both Western medicine and oriental medicine are established as medical technology, Western medicine is preferred at present and oriental medicine is less recognized although it can be effective against lifestyle diseases; with aged society in progress, eighty percent of patients, who are so mildly symptomatic as to end in receiving primary care, are so concentrated on general hospitals that they can fail to function as expected; and disparities in healthcare and nursing homes in rural areas are in progress.SOLUTION: Provided is a service system for using health condition prediction diagnosis which is capable of consolidating and providing health information by combining the Internet, portable information terminals, both of which are socially shared, and an information distribution service based on database reflecting oriental medicine theory to increase social awareness of oriental medicine and to advance family medicine so that fundamental issues in social medical system can be addressed. As a result, the service system has functions such as promoting home medical care or easing overconcentration of hospital visits.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

The present invention uses electronic devices that are used in the vicinity of people such as portable terminal devices and wearable computers having camera functions and information display functions, and the Internet environment that has spread to society on a global scale, thereby improving human health. The present invention relates to a database-type information processing service method that collects, accumulates, analyzes, and provides all kinds of information related to the state on a uniform basis by a program that reflects the theory of Oriental medicine treatment.

People routinely use devices, medicines and information based on various technologies to understand and maintain their health. Many electronic medical devices for home use such as a thermometer, a blood pressure meter, a body fat meter, and a weight scale are provided. Many supplemental drugs or foods represented by various vitamins are also commercially available. Furthermore, in an information distribution service via the Internet, which will be described later, a vast amount of general health management information is provided.

As a means for knowing the state of a human body in a medical examination apparatus, for example, photographing using a X-ray technique is performed for grasping the state of a fracture. In addition, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detects nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals from hydrogen atoms that make up water molecules by utilizing the fact that most of the human body is composed of water. Accordingly, a device that provides a non-destructive tomographic image of a human brain is used in a medical field. In addition, medical-related devices that examine the human body along with the advancement of science and technology and the discovery of new physical phenomena are being developed one after another.

Moreover, it can be divided into modern medicine (Western medicine) and traditional medicine (Oriental medicine, Chinese medicine) from a large viewpoint of medical art. And since Western medicine has been closely related to the development of science and technology for about 150 years in modern times, many inspection devices are used in Western medicine. On the other hand, Oriental medicine is said to have a history of thousands of years as a medical technology, but since it is a medical technology system established when there is no modern electronic device, the concept of a testing device exists in it. do not do.

Medical technology in oriental medicine has a basic diagnosis called “Shinshin”, which includes patient observation, dialogue with the patient, palpation and pulse examination by touching the patient's body, and comprehensive diagnosis of the disease. Diagnosis and treatment are given. Skilled oriental medical doctors basically don't use the numerical values and waveforms from inspection devices commonly seen in Western medicine treatments for diagnosis.

Oriental medicine has a theoretical diagnostic system that is not comparable to Western medicine, unlike a technical system that concentrates only on so-called folk remedies, but its physiology and pathology are based on Western medicine. Because it is fundamentally different, treatment by oriental medicine is sometimes misunderstood as a dubious medical technique due to prejudice and neglect.

With the progress of optical fiber laying in Japan, the Internet using optical communication technology has spread to small villages in the mountains. Technology that can transmit a large amount of information at high speed through the Internet has been established, so an environment has been established that allows easy browsing and storage of high-quality video information and music information, etc., which was impossible with a telephone network. Telemedicine services that use this function in doctor-deficient areas have also begun.

Furthermore, in the use of the Internet line, not only watching TV video but also interactive information communication that can respond to the video is realized, and the information manager side only distributes information unilaterally. There is already a technical environment in which information can be exchanged with users of Internet terminals.

Mitsuaki Yamada, Fumihiko Shirota, “Oriental Medicine”, Gakken Co., Ltd., issued on June 18, 2003, ISBN4-05-104872-1

Formerly called "adult disease", nowadays diseases called "lifestyle diseases", stroke, cancer, heart disease, etc. are increasing. It gradually became clear that lifestyle related to the onset of adult diseases, and now the concept of lifestyle-related diseases has become established. Among lifestyle-related diseases, there are cases where diseases that cannot be cured by Western medicine, which is popular in society, can be cured by Oriental medicine. However, since Oriental medicine has a low social recognition level, it is not easy for patients to choose treatment methods by Oriental medicine freely and normally as treatment options.

In the current medical system, Western medical methods and treatment of diseases with medical devices developed to support Western medicine are dominant as social conventions. Some point out that the Meiji government has prioritized the spread of Western concepts and technologies and has excluded traditional Chinese medicine, Kampo, as a private treatment. In addition, due to the close involvement of the development of science and technology and the development of Western medicine, the medical system has become a medical system centered on Western medicine socially as a medical device industry and medical technology.

In general medical institutions, because of development of medical-related electronic devices, a lot of numerical examination data is regarded as a standard for judging the state of a person's body. In this diagnostic method, the medical specialty has been subdivided, and it is said that some doctors cannot make a comprehensive judgment that the diagnosis of the disease cannot be made without the numerical values measured by the testing device. It has become.

In recent years, Oriental medicine has become increasingly popular socially, and Chinese medicine has been increasingly prescribed from hospitals centered on Western medicine. However, there is a question as to whether the doctors who prescribe it prescribe Kampo medicines after being familiar with Oriental medicine. It takes a lot of time to acquire Oriental medicine, and even the National School of Medicine has little time for learning Oriental medicine. In the treatment by oriental medicine, the ability as a doctor is greatly reflected in the treatment because there is no support of electronic equipment as in western medicine. This is an issue of oriental medicine itself and an issue of doctor education system in Japan.

According to the distribution of patients in Japan, a group of about 8 million baby boomers is aging, and it is only about 10 years until it is classified as a late elderly. Statistically, about 80% of patients are primary care targets (primary care), but this patient group is inundated with general hospitals, which is an important role as general hospitals due to a decline in hospital functions. There are concerns about issues such as delays in finding high-risk patients who require secondary medicine (advanced medicine) and tertiary medicine (advanced medicine).

The medical institution has also started enlightenment activities to deal with these issues with individual medical practitioners and family physicians, but it cannot be said that it has been sufficiently effective. Many patients continue to seek medical attention from a general hospital with a large number of testing devices and equipment. In particular, elderly people often go to general hospitals first because of anxiety overlooking serious illness, because neither the person nor the surrounding family can judge whether the symptoms that are occurring are mild or severe, and in the end general hospitals There is a concern that the elderly will concentrate on the environment.

In addition, due to changes in the medical bureau system, it has been pointed out that the number of doctors who are concentrated in the city in search of places of activity is unevenly distributed in urban areas. In addition, the importance of family doctors who are treated at home is being reviewed in primary medical care, but the number of family doctors as specialists is still very small in Japan. In the rural medical environment, neither the number of ordinary doctors nor the number of family doctors with special expertise has found a radical answer to fill the gap between rural and urban areas.

One of the challenges of receiving treatment by oriental medicine is the surge in medicinal herbs. Most of the medicinal herbs needed to produce medicines used in treatment by oriental medicine consumed in Japan, so-called Chinese herbal medicine, are covered by imports from China. Prices have risen in parallel with the increase in imports due to the review of treatment by Oriental medicine. This is a great burden for patients and is an obstacle to the spread of oriental medicine.

Oriental medicine has a historical background and cannot be clearly differentiated between general folk remedies and amateurs. Therefore, social spread is delayed due to prejudice and misunderstanding. Therefore, Western medicine and Oriental medicine are both solid medical technologies by utilizing the Internet, which has become a social infrastructure, and various electronic devices (mobile terminals, personal computers, televisions, etc.) and software that can be connected to it. The following solutions will show that proper use depending on the illness will lead to the solution of the problems of Japanese medical systems.

In order to solve the problems of the current medical system related to the entire society, the health condition prediction and diagnosis software system consisting of programs based on the accumulated knowledge system of Oriental medicine is called “non-disease server”. I will call it. This “non-disease” is derived from a word used in oriental medicine, but in the explanation of this patent, although various health problems are recognized in physical health, Judgment is a word that indicates the state of the body that the disease has not developed enough to define the disease name.

In Oriental medicine, there is no use of testing equipment like Western medicine. Information on the lifestyle of the patient and information obtained from the examination method called four examinations (hope, interview, interview, interview) are comprehensive. Judgment is made and diagnosed. A medical examination is an observation of the patient's body, and the doctor visually observes the state of the whole body, facial color, tongue color, and the like. Interview is a patient's appearance captured by the doctor's ears, and observes the patient's breathing, speaking, and bad breath. The interview is to listen to the patient's story based on the contents such as lifestyle habits described by the patient. Find out about past medical history, living conditions, detailed symptoms, and preferences. For example, fractures treated more than 20 years ago are recorded as important interview information. Medical consultation means that the doctor touches the patient's affected area or body directly and takes a pulse from the wrist. This pulse does not measure the pulse rate that occurs per minute as in Western medicine, but captures the image of the pressure change of the pulse with three fingers. The doctor records the results of the four examinations as text information using oriental medical terms and onomatopoeia.

Doctors make diagnoses by comparing and analyzing patient information obtained through four examinations and systematically organized records of past Oriental medicine treatments. In the case of skilled oriental medical doctors, this diagnosis is almost instantaneous. In the process from the time the patient contacts the doctor to the diagnosis, the tongue color information captured by the doctor's eyes, the pulse information captured by the finger, and verbal communication are fundamental, such as Western medicine. There is no intervening numerical data of inspection equipment.

In Oriental medicine, the basic idea is to determine the essence of the disease, and the cause of the disease is investigated. From the information obtained by the above four examinations, classification of disease types is first performed. This process takes advantage of a unique oriental medicine taxonomy called the “Hatsun Dialect”. For example, consider two characteristics for the symptom of fever. One reason is that the cause of the increase in heat is active. The other is considered to be relatively heat-generating due to the reduced function of reducing heat. That is, there is not one factor that causes the balance to be lost from the equilibrium state, and in the case of heat, at least two factors are considered, and the treatment for each is considered to be completely different. The information used in this classification process is the above four diagnoses, that is, character information organized in terms of oriental medicine.

For example, a pulse classified as “cardiac pulse” is defined as “a pulse in which a ball continuously rolls from one to the next”. "It is gentle, light, and regular, as if it were a vein that carries the chicken's steps." In the tongue examination to observe the color of the tongue, based on the information obtained from the observation, record “white and sticky”, “yellow and sticky”, “gray and light and smooth”, etc. . In terms of pain, there are many expressions that use onomatopoeia or mimetic words, such as “sorely hurts”, “throbbing hurts”, and “spiky hurts”.

The non-disease server system is a software that replaces a diagnostic algorithm constructed with a recording system using words and characters that is the basis of such standard diagnosis in Oriental medicine. As will be described later, the image information and facial color information of the patient's tongue sent to the non-disease server from the camera attached to the camera-equipped mobile terminal or the home television set corresponded to the information obtained from the observation performed by the doctor visually. Is. In addition, expression of symptoms by voice and expression of symptoms by input of characters including mimetic words and onomatopoeia are treated as oriental medical diagnosis information similar to doctor's interview.

By constructing a non-disease server system, it becomes possible to convert the patient's health status into data by processing based on oriental medicine without using a testing device frequently used in western medicine. Since the data is based on oriental medicine that is logically systematized, it is possible to predict the future health status of this individual patient. This predictable feature is an important clue for solving various problems caused by lifestyle-related diseases.

The presence of data on the server that predicts the individual's health status, meal recipes and behavioral behaviors so that daily life is not disturbed while maintaining the state before the disease develops. It is possible to provide detailed information, such as advice on health care, advice on dietary supplements, or advice on the recommendation to visit a medical institution in the end.

The certainty of information provided by the non-disease server system and the accuracy of predicting the health status of individuals depend on the number of data processing populations. The vast population of data that we can utilize today is the vast amount of information that has been accumulated and recorded at the time of the creation of the medical technology system of Oriental medicine (Toyo Medical Big Data in recent terms). It becomes. There seems to be a difference between today's big data in Oriental medicine, where lifestyle habits such as eating habits have changed significantly, and those in the past.

One of the challenges when building a non-disease server system is updating the population information. Fortunately, the Internet environment, camera-equipped mobile devices and wearable computers have become widespread in modern times, and by utilizing this information network environment, interviews such as tongue color, facial color, luxury items, etc. from many individuals, Interview information can be obtained. It was built over thousands of years by providing recipes for health conditions and medicinal dishes, and at the same time distributing software to collect data necessary for the population to individuals and businesses using non-illnessed servers. It becomes a system that can update the conventional population in several years.

If a non-disease server system is used as a training device for students to learn Oriental medicine in medical school, it becomes a virtual patient simulator that can diagnose various cases on a personal computer. Furthermore, if it is used in a hospital, it becomes possible to support oriental medical diagnosis in the same way as a testing device in western medicine, and a medical doctor in western medicine can prescribe Chinese medicine.

The present invention reinvents the knowledge of Oriental medicine built over thousands of years by using the latest technologies of the Internet and information terminals, and predicts health conditions that can complement the weaknesses of current medical systems. It is a diagnostic software system (non-disease server system) and can be expected to greatly reduce medical costs that have already become a social burden.

By registering information about daily physical condition, including mimetic words and onomatopoeia such as personal tongue color and facial color, “Kirikiri”, “jikujiku”, etc., from the mobile terminal with camera by the non-disease server system, Can manage personal health. At the same time, this registered information contributes to the population of statistical data that is the basis of oriental medicine judgment and health status prediction in the non-disease server system. As the number of registrations increases, the health status prediction of each individual increases. The effect of improving the accuracy of.

Increasing the number of people accessing the non-disease server system can alleviate the problem of inundation of mild patients to general hospitals in Western medicine. At the same time, high-risk patients who need advanced medical care that cannot be dealt with by oriental medicine can be detected early. If the government that has jurisdiction over the municipalities with a small number of medical institutions and doctors uses the function of predicting the health status of residents using this non-disease server system, the medical disparity between the urban and local areas in question will be eased. be able to. Furthermore, in areas where nursing care facilities are closed due to depopulation and the number of inhabitants has decreased, it is possible to use a non-illnessed server system to secure and arrange doctors, nurses, and caregivers as a means to support home care.

The spread of the use of non-illness server systems by nursing homes and governments will increase social needs for oriental medicine, and farmers will begin to cultivate medicinal herbs for herbal medicine. In some regions, some farmers have already begun to grow medicinal herbs using mountainous fallow land. If the non-disease server system provides herbal medicine needs information, the type and amount of herbs to be cultivated can be grasped, and highly productive herb cultivation agriculture can be developed. Furthermore, a predictive diagnosis is possible for a non-disease server system. That is, it becomes easy to predict the cultivation amount of medicinal herbs that will be required in the future, and it is also possible to provide guidelines for production planning in medicinal herb cultivation. As a result, the increase in domestic medicinal herbs reduces the dependence on imports of herbs, lowers the cost of herbal medicines, and makes it possible to reduce medical costs for patients and governments.

By the present invention, the prejudice and misunderstanding of oriental medicine is reduced, and social needs for treatment by oriental medicine are increased, so insurance application of oriental medicine treatment is also recognized, and the treatment most suitable for the patient can be freely selected. The foundation of the medical society.

The figure which shows the difference in the view of the health state of Western medicine and Oriental medicine. The figure explaining the basic function of a non-disease server system. The figure explaining the level-up of the processing function of a non-disease server system. The figure explaining the whole picture of a non-disease server service. The figure explaining how the convenience store relates to the non-disease server. Diagram explaining how health foods and supplement sales companies relate to non-disease servers. The figure explaining how the site which distributes health consultation information and the non-illness server relate. The figure explaining how the nursing care-related information distribution site and the non-illness server relate. The figure explaining how the site of the food delivery company relates to the non-disease server. The figure explaining the relation between the information distribution site of an arrangement medicine company, and a non-disease server. The figure explaining how the administration relates to the non-disease server. The figure explaining the mount used when image | photographing the color of a tongue and a cheek.

1 Unaffected server,
2 I / O ports,
3 Data input / output unit,
4 Data storage,
5 Classification algorithm,
6 Data bus,
7 Symptom selection process,
8 Diagnosis results,
9 Each stage of the non-disease server,
10 Input information,
11 Output information,
12 service areas,
13 Internet,
14 Electronic equipment group,
15 Non-disease server system,
16 Market needs for health management,
17 Social issues
18 Issues in the medical field,
19 Nursing-related needs,
20 Herbal issues,
21 Home healthcare needs,
22 Convenience store management site,
23 Today ’s menu screen
24 Today's physical condition information screen,
25 Menu screen for medicinal dishes,
26 supplement sales company site,
27 supplement information screen,
28 A screen to manage your recent physical condition,
29 Supplement screens,
30 Physical condition analysis / prediction screen,
31 health consultation site,
32 selection of symptoms,
33 Onomatopoeia information input,
34 Today's physical condition explanation,
35 Introduction of the same symptoms
36 Acupuncture points for acupuncture,
37 Care helper / care facility site,
38 Selection of symptoms,
39 Onomatopoeia information input for symptoms,
40 Today's physical condition explanation,
41 Today's notes,
42 Point out consultation level with doctor,
43 Nursing support robot,
44 Food delivery company website,
45 Selection of ingredients
46 Physical information input,
47 Explanation of today's physical condition,
48 Today ’s medicinal menu
49 delivery car,
50 Collecting physical condition data for elderly people at home
51 Placed drug company site,
52 Selection of placement drug,
53 Physical condition information input,
54 Description of the drug,
55 Today's physical condition information,
56 Delivery of appropriate medicine in case of emergency,
57 Mount used for shooting,
58 face,
59 Tongue color,
60 cheek color,
61 User information,
62 gap,

The details of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention is composed of a “non-disease server system” which is a health condition prediction / diagnosis software system configured by a program based on the knowledge system of Oriental medicine, and an example of its usage.
Each drawing merely schematically shows the shape, size, and positional relationship of each component to the extent that the present invention can be understood, and the present invention is not limited to the illustrated examples.

In the present invention, the reason why the knowledge system based on oriental medicine is fundamental is that electronic control equipment such as Western medicine in grasping the human health condition, for example, testing equipment such as a weight scale, blood pressure meter, body fat scale, and electrocardiograph Do not basically need the information obtained from the doctor, and perform comprehensive medical diagnosis based on the visual information of the doctor's naked eyes, the pulse information obtained from the fingers by palpation, and the word information by words and conversation. Because you can.

Prior to the description of the usage form of the non-disease server system, the classification of the health condition that is the basis of the service provided by the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. Fig. 1 shows the difference in the way health is perceived between Western medicine and Oriental medicine. In Western medicine, the only way to perceive the state of health is whether it is healthy or sick. Moreover, in many cases, the range of the test value is determined from empirical data of Western medicine, and the value is often judged based on a normal value or an abnormal value. The frequency distribution (population frequency) has a normal value, that is, a healthy population, as shown in FIG. 1 (1).

In a sense, this is a mechanism that can support Japan's health insurance system. In other words, the majority of healthy people can support a small number of sick people because of the population frequency distribution shown in Fig. 1 (1), and binarization of whether health insurance is applied or not. This is because there is a binarization of health or illness. However, as the aging society progresses now and in the future, the frequency distribution in Fig. 1 (1) will not satisfy the relationship that the healthy population frequency greatly exceeds the disease population frequency. There is a concern that leads to the collapse of.

Of course, Western medicine and the current health insurance system have benefited people so far. However, there are many negative aspects. One reason is that there is a way of grasping the health condition as shown in FIG. Therefore, in order to make up for this negative aspect, this patent provides an Internet service model that is established as a business based on the understanding of the health condition of Oriental medicine as shown in FIG. Oriental medicine has a non-health condition in between health and illness. This non-health state is defined and used as a “non-disease” state.

Human health and non-health conditions are constantly changing, and the change in oriental medicine is continuous, not a binary perception of Western medicine. The horizontal axis in Fig. 1 (2) is the balance of the functions of the five organs in Oriental medicine. The non-disease state becomes more serious as this balance is lost (away from health). At this time, the population frequency distribution monotonously decreases. In FIG. 1 (2), it is represented most simply by a straight line, but it means that it does not have a peak as shown in FIG. 1 (1), and may be a curve.

And the state of illness is the time when oriental medicine shows a clear symptom in a non-disease state. In other words, there are two states of sickness and non-illness in the functional balance of a certain five organs. Naturally, there are many parts of the Oriental medicine illness and the Western medicine illness.

The service model provided by the present invention uses the microphone, camera, and accelerometer sensors provided in the mobile terminal device to explore the functional balance of the five viscera and six organs, and the functional balance of the organs related to the physical condition. It is to provide users with information on how to deal with health conditions derived from the differences. Users follow the information to bring the functional balance of organs closer to a healthier state. In this process, the details of the coping method will be described later, but various things are envisaged, such as encouragement of exercise and the purchase of foodstuffs, which are responsible for nursing care facilities, courier companies, A farmer, a health food supplier, or even a government.

The service model provided by the present invention is to provide a user registration method at a low price or free of charge when attempting to use a non-disease server system. When purchasing any item or receiving some information service, the company has a billing system that collects the appropriate value as a value-added fee for health information or simply an introduction fee from the provider or the administration.

This will be realized using existing Internet technologies and logistics networks. In other words, in the service model provided by the present invention, the non-disease server system provides a service of information for maintaining health to the user, provides a service of introduction to the contractor and the government, and As a usage fee.

Furthermore, the big data regarding the health condition from the user accumulated in the service provision process described above makes it possible to easily grasp the distribution of the health condition in the region, and is extremely useful data especially for the local government. Therefore, the present invention provides the big data to the government in the form of collecting the big data usage fee.

If the information service model according to the present invention is realized, it will be possible to receive medical services based on oriental medicine in a region with few medical institutions, as long as there is a network environment, a television set, and a mobile terminal. It is possible to change. In addition, many national budgets paid to medical institutions will be distributed to non-medical institutions, which not only reduces medical costs for the entire country, but also disperses funds outside the medical institutions. Will help.

FIG. 2 illustrates basic functions of the non-disease server system according to the present invention. In the non-disease server 1, input / output port 2 that takes in data sent from outside such as the Internet or sends data to external equipment, data input / output that classifies input or output according to the type of data The unit 3 includes a data storage 4 that accumulates various data, and a classification algorithm 5 that performs a predictive diagnosis of a human health state through an oriental medical diagnosis process from information recorded in the data storage.

The symptom record in the data storage is sent to the symptom selection process 7 in the classification algorithm 5 through the data bus 6 and compared with the same symptom recorded in the past, and an expected rough selection is made. Based on the selection result, the diagnosis result 8 derived from the symptom is obtained by repeatedly executing the next comparison and selection process.

With reference to FIG. 3, the step-up of the processing function of the non-disease server system will be described. The non-disease server is not a so-called net server that simply stores character information of oriental medical diagnosis already described in textbooks and old documents. The processing function of the non-disease server evolves in stages due to various information related to the physical condition of individuals obtained from the Internet and a social medical information loop created by information transmitted from various electronic devices through the Internet.

As shown in Fig. 3, at the first stage of each stage 9 of the non-disease server system, data storage that stores textbooks and past records is newly added to the external color of the tongue, face, and lifestyle. At this stage, input information 10 such as a description is starting to enter through a portable terminal or an Internet connection terminal. At this stage, output information 11 derived a priori from comparison and classification of information in the past record and tongue color information is provided. The way of providing this information is almost the same as palmiformation, but at this stage, by obtaining as many new tongue and complexion information as possible, the number of oriental medical diagnosis data populations can be increased quickly. Is the purpose.

Information on the patient's tongue color, facial color, eating habits, and other information obtained from nursing care robots installed at nursing care facilities is accumulated, and is also used to express patient pain collected from caregivers at nursing care sites. The information of the population increases by adding the data of the onomatopoeia and mimetic words (onomatopoeia), and as a result, the information output by the non-disease server becomes highly accurate. It is a stage where the degree of non-illness of the patient can be output. This stage is the second stage of the non-disease server.

In the next stage, guidance information from a doctor who is proficient in Oriental medicine is input to the non-disease server. Perform corrections on the diagnosis results derived from the non-disease server. In addition, by installing a terminal on the Oriental medicine treatment site on a trial basis, the diagnosis results of Oriental medicine are input. The non-disease server at this stage is defined as the third stage. Then, the non-disease server that has reached the level of the third stage is provided as a community-based non-disease server that is required to diagnose a disease condition peculiar to each region. This stage is the fourth stage.

In the fifth stage of the final stage, the non-disease server receives the most appropriate treatment for the patient, aiming for the combined use of both Western medical doctors and Oriental medicine doctors without distinguishing between Western and Eastern medicine. It is used as a medical support service system. As shown in FIG. 3, the non-disease server service field 12 is broadly divided into a data service field without medical responsibility and a medical service field with the same level of medical responsibility as a doctor.

Furthermore, since the amount of herbal medicine used by doctors can be collected at this stage, the information is distributed to domestic herb growers. As for herbs that must be imported, any quality grade medicinal herb can be imported, and in order to be able to prescribe the same prescription as in Japan, we will proceed with the analysis of medicinal ingredients and dry weight of herbs, Standardization of prescription weight of

Using Fig. 4, the collection and use of information from users such as non-disease servers, the Internet as social infrastructure, multi-function mobile terminals that can be connected to the Internet, TVs and PCs, and robots for nursing support The overall picture of the non-disease server service will be described with reference to the relationship with the electronic equipment that enables the distribution of information to.

There are various electronic device groups 14 connected to the Internet 13, and the needs of users of the devices are also various. Therefore, the information flowing on the Internet is enormous, but it is not easy to find consistent information in it. Therefore, by placing the non-disease server system 15, which is a program execution device that follows the diagnosis process of Oriental medicine, at the center of this service, it corresponds to “four diagnoses” used in Oriental medicine for information obtained via the Internet. Collect information selectively.

The reason why the diagnosis process by oriental medicine is at the center of the non-disease server service is that the doctor's eyes treated by oriental medicine do not basically require complicated test equipment information like Western medicine to grasp the human health condition. This is because the medical information can be diagnosed based on the visual information obtained by the user, the pulse information obtained from the finger by palpation, and the information obtained by words and conversation. This condition can provide information necessary for oriental medicine, such as a portable terminal with a camera, a TV with a camera, a wristband type wearable computer that detects pulse stays, and a nursing robot equipped with a TV camera function. Electronic device terminals are already popular before they can be called social infrastructure. Take full advantage of this environment.

The electronic device group 14 that can be connected to the Internet shown in FIG. 4 is used in various fields of society, and in each field, the needs and problems of users from the viewpoint of oriental medicine diagnosis are explained. Mobile terminal software already made for health management is already on the market. If the market needs 16 of health management is viewed from the perspective of Oriental medicine, it is possible to obtain information based on Oriental medical diagnosis by sending tongue images, cheek images, and daily life habit information of users to non-disease servers. it can. It is possible to provide new software such as a health check based on the tongue image, fortune-telling based on the tongue image, and confirmation of bad breath using the tongue image. At the same time, the software also has the role of increasing the data population used by non-disease servers for information processing.

The baby boom generation, which is estimated to be about 8 million people, that is, the age group with a large population, is aging at the same time. In 2025, this age group becomes the elderly at the same time, so it is a social problem 17 called the 2025 problem. If local governments suffering from medical disparities support this age group to become a non-disease server user at the same time, it is expected that it will be a solution that allows a significant number of patients to stay healthy at home. As a result, it is possible to alleviate the worst situation in which the elderly people, who are concerned about the 2025 problem, concentrate on the hospital at the same time and cause trouble in the hospital function.

In addition, although treatment by oriental medicine has begun as a problem 18 in the medical field, in general, the examination time for one patient is long and often extends over a long period of time. This includes not only the waiting time issue in outpatients but also the burden of medical expenses. There seems to be a part that such a problem can be solved by using a non-disease server by a doctor. Furthermore, side effects accidents caused by Chinese medicine prescribed by doctors of Western medicine with insufficient knowledge can also be prevented by the non-disease server. The number of family doctors required in an aging society is expected to be insufficient, but the diagnosis approach is often similar to that of Oriental medicine, so it is not possible to support family doctors or develop family doctors. It seems that the disease server can be utilized.

Nursing-related needs 19 such as nursing facilities and nursing support robots are increasing assuming an aging society. There are several possible applications of the non-disease server for this care-related need. Various types of care support robots have been proposed, and some robots equipped with a TV camera have been developed. By using such software for a care support robot with a camera, it is possible to measure the color of the patient's tongue, cheek color, etc., and send it to a non-disease server via the Internet, as with mobile terminal devices with a camera. Can do. In addition, staff working in a care facility can provide detailed care support to patients by using information from an unaffected server.

Several issues 20 of medicinal herbs have emerged in Oriental medicine treatment in Japan. One of them is the price of herbal medicine prescribed by Oriental medicine doctors. Herbal medicines are made from medicinal herbs, but most of them are imported from China. Recently, the import price has risen rapidly, and the same phenomenon as the increase in the import price of rare metals, which is essential for electronic equipment, has occurred. A major pharmaceutical company has built a huge hydroponic plant factory using the company size and has begun to produce domestically used herbs.

In addition, some herbs grow only on the open ground, and in some regions, some farmers have begun growing herbs using fallow land in satoyama. It is expected to become a high-value-added agricultural product, but on the other hand, because it is an outdoor product, there are variations in its medicinal properties, a farmer who wants to grow it as an agricultural product, and a pharmaceutical company that purchases the herb and blends it into herbal medicine Technical challenges remain between. In other words, farmers have to cultivate medicinal herbs in the open field that have the same proportion of medicinal ingredients imported from China.

It is not easy to make the medicinal components of agricultural products grown in the open field constant. If this issue is left unattended, it will be impossible to produce medicinal herbs in the future that will be exportable and produce high value-added agricultural products. Therefore, this problem is solved by utilizing the functions of the non-disease server. Herbal medicine is usually formulated with the weight (grams) of dried herbs. It is not necessarily formulated with the molecular mass of medicinal herbs. In other words, if the ratio of medicinal ingredients to the dry weight of herbs is different, the traditional Chinese herbal medicine prescription will go wrong.

This problem can be easily solved. By chemically analyzing the dry weight and medicinal component ratio of herbs in traditional prescriptions and consolidating the component ratio data as herbal data on the non-disease server, doctors can issue prescriptions with dry weight as usual. At the same time, pharmaceutical companies can formulate herbal medicines with the same functions as conventional ones by mixing weight-adjusting additives so that the medicinal properties of dry weight can be the same as those of conventional herbs. Can be manufactured.

Thus, by standardizing the medicinal ingredients and dry weight of medicinal herbs, farmers can cultivate high value-added medicinal herbs on the ground in peace. In addition, by sending medicinal herb data cultivated on non-disease servers by farmers, it becomes possible to obtain information such as regional differences in outdoor cultivation and medicinal herbs suitable for the local climate. Is also expected to throw a stone.

If standardization of the medicinal properties of dried herbs is achieved, it will be possible to export dried herbs produced in Japan to overseas with the strength of Japan's delicate and safe quality control standards. Non-disease servers are expected to have a significant impact on domestic pharmaceutical companies' export products.

Next, there is a need for home healthcare 21. In the aging society, many elderly people want to live healthy at home. For this purpose, it is necessary to enhance and enhance the conventional medical treatment by home medicine. Family doctors with specialized skills are the best countermeasures, but there are still few doctors who have acquired skills as family doctors, and many elderly people in the country still have much time to benefit from. I need.

Therefore, advancement of home medical care is performed by using a non-disease server from each home. For example, when it comes to home medicine, placement medicine is widespread. When the physical condition of an elderly person collapses, it becomes possible to issue an instruction for an appropriate medicine as compared with physical condition information that is routinely managed by a non-disease server. Companies that deploy placement medicines as a business can accurately manage the type and amount of medicines in each household by using non-disease servers. It becomes possible to deliver medicine to the home.

In Oriental medicine, cooking and medicine bowls with medicinal functions are listed as one of health management. Elderly people use home delivery to purchase food. This home delivery company uses non-disease servers to enable delivery of food based on the menu of medicines to each home. Management and delivery of meals including medicinal dishes are essential for future home health management for elderly people living in mountainous areas where they cannot procure ingredients themselves because of the distance to the supermarket. Become a service.

FIG. 5 explains how the information distribution site 22 operated by a so-called convenience store on the Internet relates to an unaffected server. At the convenience store site, a screen 23 for today's menu is prepared, and the recipes of the foods sold are displayed. In this today's menu screen, a menu for medicinal dishes is prepared, and an image of the tongue from the mobile terminal is sent, so that the menu screen 25 for today's medicinal dishes that matches the physical condition information screen 24 of the present day. Etc. are displayed. Since the non-disease server can determine the physical condition from the tongue image of the user, it is possible to provide a service that leads to such health management.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the information distribution site 26 of a health food or supplement sales company. On the screen 27 for displaying supplement information, a screen 28 for managing recent physical condition is prepared and connected to an unaffected server. If the user is already registered, based on the information from the non-disease server, guidance 29 such as supplement effects and other supplements is performed, and simultaneously the user's physical condition analysis and physical condition prediction 30 are displayed.

FIG. 7 explains how to use the non-disease server in the site 31 that distributes health consultation information. It is assumed that users of this site are interested in health on a daily basis, and personal physical condition information and lifestyle information are already registered. The user selects 32 the current symptom or enters a new symptom. At that time, students are instructed to express their symptoms in terms of mimetic words and onomatopoeia that feel the closest. For example, onomatopoeia expression information for symptoms such as tingling, tingling, or tingling is registered 33. This data becomes information for onomatopoeia processing of the non-disease server.

According to the selection of the symptom, the non-disease server comprehensively makes a judgment 34 to explain today's physical condition. In addition, based on the accumulated information, a prediction of a disease that may occur in the future and an introduction 35 of the transition of the same symptom are displayed to the user. If necessary, you can display the acupuncture acupuncture instructions 36 that you can do yourself.

FIG. 8 illustrates an example of using a non-disease server in an information distribution site 37 operated by a care facility or a care helper. Users of this site are expected to be family members who need care or care support staff. When the user selects the patient's symptom 38 or inputs the symptom, the non-disease server explains 40 the current physical condition based on the registered data. Assuming use in a nursing facility, today's notes 41 to inform the nursing support staff are displayed. In the case of home care, a consultation level 42 with a doctor based on symptoms is pointed out. At the time of symptom input and registration, the onomatopoeia expression information by the onomatopoeia and the mimetic word is input 39 as much as possible from the words that the patient complains of the symptom, and sent to the non-disease server. Since the care support robot 43 may be used for use in a care facility, it is possible to collect facial color images and word information collected by the robot into the non-disease server and reflect them in the determination of the patient's condition. Become.

FIG. 9 illustrates an example of using a non-disease server at the site 44 of the food delivery company. On the screen for selecting ingredients 45, a screen 46 for inputting physical condition information of the user is prepared and connected to the non-disease server. Simultaneously with the list of ingredients selected by the user, a commentary 47 of the user's physical condition is given. Depending on the physical condition, the non-disease server displays ingredients that should be added to the ingredients selected by the user, or another medicinal menu 48 or the like. In this home delivery service, a person basically uses a delivery vehicle 49 to deliver food directly to a user, so that a person-to-person contact is created. Therefore, if the delivery company and the government or medical institution make a contract, and the delivery person performs the information collection service 50 for photographing the color of the tongue and face of the elderly at home, the mobile terminal can be used. Even elderly people who are not living at home can take advantage of the functions of an unaffected server.

FIG. 10 illustrates a usage example of the non-disease server in the information distribution site 51 of the arranged drug company. When the user selects the placement medicine 52, he / she inputs the physical condition information of the user and the family from the screen 53 for inputting physical condition information at the same time. Simultaneously with the description 54 of the selected medicine, the physical condition information 55 of the user determined by the non-disease server is displayed. It is sufficient if the physical condition and the medicine selected are appropriate, but if this is not the case, selection of another medicine can be instructed. In the case where an emergency is required, such as when an appropriate medicine is not arranged, the appropriate medicine is quickly delivered 56 through the courier.

Next, an example in which the government uses a non-disease server will be described with reference to FIG. The data stored in the non-disease server is so-called big data that collects the health status of a huge number of people. In response to issues expected in the aging society in the future, by using non-disease servers, for example, the number of nursing homes, the number of beds in a hospital, the number of nursing helpers, etc. And various prediction information related to medical care can be obtained. Furthermore, since the above private company records personal information on the non-disease server, it is possible for the government to provide detailed care / medical services for individuals. This service is a trap of administrative services necessary for residents in areas where doctors are not available, such as remote islands and depopulated areas.

FIG. 12 shows an example of a mount 57 used when an individual who wants to register with a non-disease server photographs the color of the tongue or cheek. When an image including the entire personal face 58 is photographed, it is difficult to handle information because it conflicts with portrait rights. Therefore, since the tongue color 59 and the cheek color 60 that are part of the face are image information necessary for oriental medicine, a mount 57 that can be photographed with the face hidden is prepared. The mount 57 is white for use in color correction. In addition, the user enters simple user information 61 such as gender, age, and shooting date on the surface of the mount, then shoots with a camera-equipped mobile terminal or camera-equipped television, and sends the information to an unaffected server. . In consideration of the case where the user takes a picture of his / her own tongue, a gap 62 as a viewing window is prepared on the mount. Further, there is a method described in Patent Document 1 as a tongue photographing means that does not use a mount.

The present invention compensates for the weaknesses of medical systems built around Western medicine and enables new medical systems that can receive the most appropriate medical care for patients.

The large amount of health information of the elderly brought about by the present invention is useful in preparing countermeasures for the 2025 problem, and is particularly likely to serve as a clue to solving medical problems in local administration. large.

The non-disease server connected to the Internet according to the present invention is not limited to providing health management information, but is expected to spread to various industries such as home delivery industry, pharmaceutical industry, agriculture, and nursing robot industry.

Furthermore, if the perception of oriental medicine according to the present invention is reviewed as a whole society, the treatment of lifestyle-related diseases by oriental medicine becomes widespread, and the increase in the number of unaffected populations will reduce social medical expenditures, Since the budget can be invested in agriculture and other industries, its social effect is extremely large.

In addition, the standardized data on the medicinal properties of dried herbs according to the present invention enables the cultivation of medicinal herbs in the country, and triggers new medicinal herbs agriculture that utilizes fallow land left in mountainous areas throughout the country. In the future, herbs and herbal medicines manufactured under consistent quality control from herb cultivation to drying will become high-value-added export products as Japanese brands.

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An information processing device consisting of a database that records knowledge of Oriental medicine, a computer that infers treatment methods derived from the database and the logic of Oriental medicine, and information processing devices that can be connected to the information processing device via a computer network, and personal health information Information processing apparatus that collects, digitizes, and provides medical information based on it, its providing method, and these information processing systems. In the apparatus, an electronic information device having a function capable of converting image information that is visually observed by an oriental medical doctor into image information by a camera, and digitizing the image of a person's tongue and face. An apparatus and a method having a function of substituting information for visual judgment in medical diagnosis. In the apparatus of Claim 1 and Claim 2, in the diagnosis of Oriental medicine by digitizing the pulse information which the pulse of the Oriental medicine doctor converted from the finger | toe by palpation into the electrical signal with the electrical or optical sensor An apparatus and a method having a function of replacing judgment information by pulse diagnosis. 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a doctor who performs treatment with oriental medicine treats a symptom to be exchanged with a patient through an inquiry, and quantifies words including onomatopoeia and an onomatopoeia to determine by inquiry in an oriental medicine diagnosis. A device and method with a function to replace information. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein information relating to a person's health condition is input using an electronic information terminal device, and prediction information of a future health condition is provided from the apparatus. 6. The apparatus and method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein information on the menu of cooking, information on home-placed medicines, information on dietary supplements, advice on nursing care facilities and medical institutions and life A service method that provides information to prevent habitual diseases. 7. The service method according to claim 6, wherein a service for delivering food and ingredients and a service for delivering a medicine to be placed are provided. The method according to claim 1, wherein an administrative agency uses the device to provide a care support service and medical-related service information.