JP6904680B2 - Nursing information processing system using location information - Google Patents

Description

The present invention uses a location information system installed in a hospital, a long-term care facility, etc. (hereinafter, referred to as a hospital) to provide nursing information of a patient, a long-term care recipient, etc. (hereinafter, referred to as a patient) to a nurse, a doctor, or the like. It relates to a nursing information processing system provided to an information device terminal carried by (hereinafter referred to as a nurse).

Conventionally, when a patient calls a nurse with a nurse call slave unit, a nurse call system that provides nursing information related to the calling patient to an information device terminal such as a PDA carried by the nurse has been used. Are known.

For example, the nurse call system of Patent Document 1 causes a nurse to carry an information device terminal having a communication function, transmits a call signal from the nurse call slave unit to the information device terminal, and causes the nurse call slave unit to carry a call signal. It is configured to send the associated patient's nursing information from the nurse call server to the information device terminal.

Further, the nurse call system of Patent Document 2 is for notifying the information device terminal closest to the patient who made the nurse call among a plurality of information device terminals that the nurse who should answer the nurse call is you. It is configured to provide special textual information and ringtones for. In addition, Patent Document 3 describes a technique using IMES (Indoor MEssaging System) for position detection of a wireless mobile terminal indoors.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2009-21281 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2014-204751 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-145873

However, the conventional nurse call system provides nursing information to the information device terminal in the hands of the nurse in response to the call by the patient, so if there is no call, the nurse will go to the patrol destination for the nursing history. There is a problem that it takes time and effort because it is necessary to find a target patient from many patients when listing or inputting a nursing record.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to grasp the current position of a nurse by a position information system, actively provide the necessary nursing information to the information device terminal carried by the nurse, and contribute to the efficiency of nursing work. It is to provide a nursing information processing system that can be used.

In order to solve the above problems, the nursing information processing system of the present invention is an information device terminal carried by a nurse in a hospital and a storage means for storing nursing information of a plurality of patients in association with a plurality of areas in the hospital. A location information system for identifying the area where the nurse is currently located from among multiple areas, and an information device for the nurses in that area by reading out the nursing information of the patient staying in the specified area from the storage means. It is characterized by including a control means for performing control for providing to the terminal.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the location information system is based on a mobile station carried by a nurse, a fixed station installed in each of a plurality of hospital areas, and communication information between the fixed station and the mobile station. Includes a location server that identifies the in-hospital area where the nurse is currently located.

The nursing information processing system of the present invention can also be implemented by combining the above location information system with an existing nurse call system in a hospital. Specifically, the storage means stores the identification information of the fixed station in association with the identification information of the corridor light and / or the nurse call slave unit, and also stores the identification information of the corridor light and / or the nurse call slave unit through the patient identification information. Identification information can be stored in association with the patient's nursing information.

On the other hand, the control means of the nursing information processing system can provide nursing information of a plurality of patients to a nurse's information device terminal in various ways. For example, the control means of one embodiment controls the information device terminal to display only the nursing information of the patient in charge of the nurse in the area specified by the location information system among the nursing information of a plurality of patients. conduct.

Another control means is to obtain the nursing information of a patient in the area specified by the location information system among the nursing information of a plurality of patients from the nursing information of the patient not in charge of the nurse. Is also preferentially controlled so that it is displayed on the information device terminal.

The nursing information provided to the information device terminal is not limited to specific information, for example, in addition to text and graphic information such as information for displaying the patient's nursing history, information for displaying the location and contact information of the doctor in charge. , Contains information to assist the nurse's input work. The latter nursing information preferably includes format information for the nurse to input a nursing record (work content treated to the patient).

Since the nursing information processing system of the present invention is configured to identify the in-hospital area where the nurse is currently present and actively provide the nursing information of the patient staying in this area to the information device terminal carried by the nurse. Even if there is no call from the patient, the nurse can easily obtain the nursing information of the target patient from among many patients, and has the effect of being able to carry out the nursing work efficiently.

It is an overall block diagram of the nursing information processing system which shows one Embodiment of this invention. It is an in-hospital layout diagram which illustrates the structure of a location information system. It is a table block diagram of the storage means which shows the association of identification information. It is a flowchart which shows the control for displaying a nursing information on an information device terminal. It is a screen transition diagram of an information device terminal that displays nursing information.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The nursing information processing system 1 shown in FIG. 1 includes a nurse call system 2 that handles information related to patient calls and a wireless location information system 3 that handles information about the current position of a nurse in a hospital, both systems 2. It is configured so that nursing information can be processed in association with location information through the cooperation of, and 3.

The nurse call system 2 includes a nurse call slave unit 21 for the patient to call a nurse in the hospital room, a corridor light 22 for displaying a call from the patient in the corridor in front of the hospital room, and a nurse in the nurse center to call the patient. To link the nurse call master unit 23, the information device terminal 24 such as a smartphone carried by the nurse N, the controller 25 that controls these nurse call devices as a whole, and the nurse call system 2 to the position information system 3. The nurse call server 26 is included.

The nurse call slave unit 21, the corridor light 22, the nurse call master unit 23, and the controller 25 are connected to the nurse call server 26 via the hub 271 and the nurse call transmission line 20. The information device terminal 24 is connected to the exchange 29 via the base station 28, and the exchange 29 is connected to the nurse call server 26 via the hub 272 and the nurse call transmission line 20. Then, the nurse call server 26 is connected to the ordering system (not shown) of the hospital, and the nursing information of a plurality of patients provided from the nurse call server 26 is stored in the storage means of the nurse call system 2.

As the storage means of the nurse call system 2, the storage device 261 provided in the nurse call server 26, the storage device (not shown) provided in the controller 25, or the controller 25 and the nurse call server 26 A computer (not shown) storage device integrated with the above, and a stand-alone storage device (not shown) can be used.

On the other hand, in the wireless position information system 3, the movable station machine 31 carried by the nurse N, the fixed station machine 32 installed in each of a plurality of areas in the hospital, and the movable station machine 31 and the fixed station machine 32 are included. It includes a location information server 33 that identifies the in-hospital area where nurse N is currently located based on communication information between them. Then, the location information of the specified nurse is stored in the storage device 331 of the location information server 33, and is always provided from the location information server 33 to the controller 25 via the nurse call server 26 during the operation of the system. ..

As shown in FIG. 2, for example, the fixed station 32 of the wireless position information system 3 includes a hospital room 6 in which patient P is hospitalized, a corridor 7 or stairs 8 connected to the hospital room 6, the inside of a corridor light 22, and other toilets and examination rooms. Such as, they are preferably arranged at substantially equal distances on the ceilings and walls of a plurality of pre-designated areas in the hospital. One of the fixed station 32 and the movable station 31 can be used as a transmitter and the other as a receiver. As the wireless position information system 3, an indoor position detection or positioning system such as IMES or BLE (Bluetooth (registered trademark) Low Energy) described in Patent Document 3 that is difficult to receive GPS or QZSS radio waves can be used.

As shown in FIG. 3, the storage means of the nurse call system 2, for example, the storage device 261 of the nurse call server 26, is provided with a nursing information table 262, a nurse information table 263, and an area information table 264. In the nursing information table 262, the patient ID is stored in advance in association with the patient-specific nursing information including the consultation subject, the nursing history, etc., together with the nurse ID in charge. In the nurse information table 263, the nurse ID is stored in advance in association with the mobile station ID and the information device terminal ID. In the area information table 264, in order to associate the nursing information of a plurality of patients with a plurality of areas in the hospital, the fixed station ID is stored in advance in association with the patient ID via the corridor light ID and / or the nurse call slave unit ID. ing.

On the other hand, the controller 25 of the nurse call system 2 functions as a control means of the nursing information processing system 1, and stores the nursing information of the patient staying in the hospital area specified by the location information server 33 in the storage device of the nurse call server 26. It is read from 261 and controlled to be displayed on the information device terminal 24 of the existing nurse in the same hospital area as the patient. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 4, the controller 25 receives the fixed station ID and the nurse ID from the position information server 33 (S41), refers to the area information table 264 of the storage device 261, and refers to the fixed station ID. Based on the corridor light ID and / or the slave unit ID linked to, the IDs of several patients admitted to the same hospital room are identified (S42), and the nursing information linked to these patient IDs is stored in the nursing information table. Read from 262 (S43).

Subsequently, the controller 25 collates the nurse ID received from the location information server 33 with the nurse ID in the nursing information table 262, and is there a patient in charge of the nurse in the same hospital area as the detected nurse? Judge whether or not (S44). Then, when there is no patient in charge, data for displaying the nursing information of all patients read from the storage device 261 is created (S45), and when there is a patient in charge, only the nursing information of the patient in charge is displayed. Create data for (S46). After that, the nurse information table 263 is used to specify the terminal ID to which the created display data is sent, and the display data is transmitted to the information device terminal 24 of the specified ID (S47). When there is a patient in charge, priority display control may be performed so that the nursing information of the patient in charge is displayed first and the nursing information of another patient is displayed later.

Next, the operation of the nursing information processing system 1 configured as described above will be described. While the system 1 is in operation, the fixed station 32 of the position information system 3 periodically emits radio waves, and the nurse's movable station 31 receives the radio waves, and based on the communication result between the two stations, The location information server 33 continuously identifies the current location of the nurse. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when the nurse N approaches the room 205 to perform the nursing work, the fixed station machine 32 and the movable station machine 31 installed in this room communicate with each other to identify the nurse N. The nurse ID to be used is combined with the fixed station ID that identifies room 205, and is stored in the location information server 33 as information for identifying the in-hospital area where the nurse N is currently located. Will be sent to.

When the nurse N completes the required nursing treatment in room 205, the treatment result is input to the information device terminal 24 by the nurse N. At this time, the nurse call controller 25 identifies the patient ID hospitalized in Room 205 based on the corridor light ID and / or the slave unit ID associated with the fixed station ID received from the location information server 33 in advance. The nursing information associated with this is read from the storage device 261 of the nurse call server 26. When there is a patient in charge of nurse N in room 205, the bed number and patient name of only the patient in charge are listed on the display unit 241 of the information device terminal 24 as shown in FIG. 5 (A).

When the nurse selects a patient after treatment on this list display screen, the screen of the display unit 241 transitions as shown in FIG. 5 (B), and the nursing information of the selected patient is displayed in detail there. NS. The nursing information display screen is not limited to a specific configuration, but preferably includes format information 242 for inputting a nursing record of the treated patient, as shown in FIG. 5 (B). This has the advantage that the nurse can input the nursing record easily and in a short time, and the nurse call server 26 can efficiently manage the treatment contents performed by many nurses.

As described in detail above, according to the nursing information processing system 1 of this embodiment, the room where the nurse is currently located is specified by the position information system 3, and the nurse carries the nursing information of the patient admitted to this room. It can be actively displayed on the display unit 241 of the information device terminal 24. Therefore, even if there is no call from the patient, the nurse can quickly find the nursing information of the target patient from many patients and easily input the nursing record provided to the patient. In particular, since the fixed station ID of the position information system 3 is stored in association with the corridor light ID and / or the nurse call slave unit ID of the nurse call system 2 in advance, the nurse call system 2 existing in the hospital is utilized and the nurse call system 2 is used. The cooperation between the system 2 and the location information system 3 has a special effect of efficiently processing a large amount of nursing information and contributing to the efficiency of nursing work.

In the above embodiment, the nurse carries both the information device terminal 24 and the mobile station machine 31, but by using a device having a function as a wireless movable station for the information device terminal 24, It can also reduce the burden on nurses. Further, the position information system 3 of the above embodiment is configured so that the movable station machine 31 receives the radio wave transmitted by the fixed station machine 32, but conversely, the radio wave transmitted by the movable station machine 31. May be configured to be received by the fixed station 32. In addition, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and the configuration of each part can be appropriately changed and implemented without departing from the spirit of the invention.

1 Nursing information processing system 2 Nurse call system 3 Position information system 21 Nurse call slave unit 22 Corridor light 23 Nurse call master unit 24 Information equipment terminal 25 Controller 26 Nurse call server 261 Storage device 31 Mobile station machine 32 Fixed station machine 33 Position Information server

Claims (4)

An information device terminal carried by a nurse in a hospital, a storage means for storing nursing information of a plurality of patients in association with a plurality of areas in the hospital, and an area in which the nurse is currently located are identified from the plurality of areas. A location information system for reading the nursing information of a patient staying in the specified area from the storage means, and a control means for controlling the information device terminal of the nurse in the area. seen including,
The location information system currently has a nurse based on the mobile station carried by the nurse, the fixed stations installed in the plurality of areas, and the communication information between the fixed station and the mobile station. Including a location information server that identifies the area
The storage means stores the identification information of the fixed station in association with the identification information of the corridor light and / or the nurse call slave unit, and identifies the corridor light and / or the nurse call slave unit through the identification information of the patient. A nursing information processing system characterized in that information is stored in association with the nursing information of the patient. The control means according to claim 1, wherein the control means controls to display only the nursing information of the patient in charge of the nurse in the specified area among the nursing information of the plurality of patients on the information device terminal. Nursing information processing system. The control means prioritizes the nursing information of the patient in charge of the nurse in the specified area among the nursing information of the plurality of patients over the nursing information of the patient not in charge of the nurse. The nursing information processing system according to claim 1 or 2, which controls display on a device terminal. The nursing information processing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the patient's nursing information includes format information for a nurse to input a nursing record.

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