JPH0478959A - Method and device for processing medical treatment information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify the medical treatment information management by recording medical treatment information in an optical memory card through a computer, and fetching the information of this card as prescribed medical treatment information by the computer. CONSTITUTION:Medical treatment information consisting of character information or/and image information obtained from a consulted individual is written (4) in an optical memory card 5 in accordance with a format prescribed by a computer 1 by using the computer 1, and the written medical treatment information is read (4) in accordance with a request command from the computer 1 and reproduced at any time. In such a state, image information is displayed and reproduced as a processing (2) image of addition and subtraction of each image, enlargement of an image, bright/dark adjustment of an image, a scroll of a designated image and a polyhedral display of an image, etc., and also, a processing image is converted to a file (6) and reproduced. In such a way, storage and management of medical examination data can be simplified remarkably.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] This invention records medical information for each individual patient on an optical memory card via a computer, and retrieves the information on the optical memory card as predetermined medical information by the computer. The present invention relates to a method and device for processing medical information that can be useful for medical management.

[Conventional technology]

Medical management has traditionally relied exclusively on doctors' medical records, which contain patient information such as medical history, test results, prescriptions, and treatments using handwritten letters and figures. Image information such as line photographs is also used.

In addition, with the recent remarkable development of electronic technology, the amount of image information such as electrocardiograms, thermography, X-ray CT, and nuclear magnetic resonance CT has increased further, and among these, X-ray-related image information is far more abundant than other types of image information. It has been used extensively in the field of medical management.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

These image information and text information are stored individually for each patient as is, and the raw information (
However, with the recent development of medical technology, the types of diseases will inevitably increase, and the number of patients will increase due to the arrival of an aging society, so the types and amount of information will change. is also increasing at an accelerating pace.

In this ever-increasing medical information, 1
With the current information processing methods mentioned above, it has become extremely difficult to immediately retrieve information on individual patients and provide medical treatment, and there is also the troublesome problem of taking up a lot of space to store and manage this medical information. cannot be ignored either.

In addition, when determining a patient's medical history and healing status over time to determine an appropriate treatment policy, a large amount of accumulated data must be reassembled according to a predetermined policy. The overflow of information will make it increasingly difficult to organize the data, which will inevitably impede the ability to make prompt decisions and establish policies for treatment.

In particular, unorganized raw image information does not necessarily satisfy the brightness and darkness of 9 images, the sharpness of 1 image, and the size of 1 image, resulting in a lack of accuracy in judgment. There is also.

The inventors of this invention, as a result of intensive study in view of the problems with the softness of conventional medical information, used a computer to store various information necessary for medical management, such as the above-mentioned text and images, onto an optical memory card. The medical information processing method and apparatus of the present invention, which can be compactly organized and recorded in a predetermined format and output and reproduced at any time as desired, have been completed.

[Means to solve the problem]

In this invention. The medical information processing method uses a computer to process medical information consisting of text information and/or image information obtained from individual patients.

It consists of writing medical information on an optical memory card according to a format specified by the computer, and reading and reproducing the written medical information at any time according to a request command from the computer. The present invention is characterized in that it displays and reproduces a processed image such as adjusting the brightness and darkness of an image, scrolling a specified image, and displaying an image in multiple planes, and also reproduces the processed image as a film.

Further, the medical information processing device of the present invention converts analog image information of medical information consisting of nine image information and character information into A
an image processing means that performs /D conversion and outputs it as a reproduced image on a monitor, a host computer that can input digital image information and/or character information, transmit it to the image processing means, and output it on a monitor, and medical information of the above. an optical memory card writing/reading means for writing and reading the information on the optical memory card according to a prescribed format in the host computer; and a film forming means for displaying the image information processed by the image processing means on a film; The image processing means is characterized in that it is configured to read specified medical information displayed on the host computer from the optical memory card and perform necessary image processing on the image information therein.

[For production]

Information about patients and medical information in general.

Information regarding inspection is as illustrated in Table 1,
These are generally indicated by characters (including numbers, codes, etc.).

[Margin below]

Table 2 On the other hand, typical examples of image information that uses images for examination and diagnosis are shown in Table 2 below.

[Margin below]

This invention uses a computer to appropriately select medical information such as a single character image of an individual examinee and other medical information exemplified in Tables 1 and 2 above and set the medical information of the individual examinee. , this information is written on an optical memory card, and this information can be read at any time and reproduced and displayed in an organized state.

Therefore, all of the set medical information is substantially inputted into the computer, written into the optical memory card by the optical memory card writing/reading means from this computer in a specified format, and the written medical information is Based on a request command output to the computer, necessary information can also be retrieved from the writing/reading means of the optical memory card and displayed, and can also be printed out from an output unit such as a printer constituting the computer.

At that time, all of the image information obtained is input to the computer as digital images. Therefore, 2. For example, the information obtained as analog images, such as the analog X-ray images in Table 2 above, is stored in the image processing means. 1) Image information and character information directly obtained as digital images, such as the digital X-ray images in Table 2, are converted into digital images by an A/D converter and input into the computer. Enter.

Further, the image information written to the optical memory card is displayed as an image after being subjected to predetermined image processing by one image processing means.

Such image processing includes mutual addition and subtraction of one image, enlargement of one image, brightness adjustment of nine images, scrolling of specified images, and multi-screen display of images, etc., and this makes it possible to make diagnosis and treatment policy decisions that depend on images. can make a significant advantageous contribution.

Furthermore, apart from such image display, the image information recorded on the optical memory card can be displayed and stored as a film image such as a 35m film image or a slide film image by a film forming means as needed. If there is a request to lend images from a hospital, these films can be lent out, or the film can be carried with you to presentations at academic conferences, etc., making it convenient.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an example of a medical information processing method and a processing device according to the present invention.

The processing device of the present invention substantially includes a host computer 1
and 1 image processing means 2. Monitor consisting of a TV monitor etc. 3. It is composed of an optical memory card writing/reading means 4, an optical memory card 5, and a film forming means 6 consisting of a video copy machine, etc., and in this embodiment, a transmitted light box 7 and a film set in the transmitted light box 7 are attached thereto. It is equipped with a CCD camera 8 for taking photographic images etc., and these transmitted light boxes 7 and CC
The D camera 8 may be replaced with other image transmitting means.

The host computer 1 includes a central processing section 1a equipped with arithmetic processing functions, and a display section 1b.

It is equipped with an input section such as a keyboard (not shown), and an output section such as a printer, and directly receives medical information consisting of digital image information 9b and character information 10, and also
Image information obtained by A/D converting an analog image photographed by a CD camera 8 by an image processing means 2 is written to an optical memory card through an optical memory card writing/reading means.

It has a function of reading designated data and sending it to the image processing means when transmitting information to the image processing means 2.

The image processing means 2 A/D converts the analog image information captured by the CCD camera 8, sends the converted information to the host computer 1, and performs various image processing determined by the request from the host computer 1. The image is then reproduced on the monitor 3.

The writing/reading means 4 of the optical memory card 5 writes information to and reads information from the optical memory card 5 in response to a request command from the host computer 1, and this writing/reading means 4 effectively responds to the request from the host computer 1. Since it operates by receiving commands, it does not have any special operating means, but only has an activation/stop button 4a.

The optical memory card 5 is a recording medium for recording 1 image information and text information 9 It is usually about the size of a business card and has the name of the hospital, patient name, etc. printed on a part of the surface 2 It can be written by hand or by pasting a label on it. This is provided with a write @5a that can be specified explicitly.

The film forming means 6 converts the image output to the monitor 3 into 35
The images are reproduced on Tsuru film or slide film so that they can be used when requests are made to loan images from other hospitals or when presentations are made at academic conferences.

The CCD camera 8 is configured to take an X-ray photograph or the like placed on the transmitted light box 7 and send the captured image to the image processing means 2 as an analog image.

An example of a method for processing medical information using the above device will be described in detail below.

The medical information registered as a target of this processing method is mainly the text-based information listed in Table 1 above and the analog and digital image information listed in Table 2.
For example, analog image information such as an X-ray photograph is obtained by photographing an X-ray photograph set in the transmitted light box 7 with a CCD camera 8 and sending it to the image processing means 2 as analog image information 9a. , performs A/D conversion and displays it on the monitor 3 as a digital image, and also transmits it to the host computer 1.

In addition, image information i9 obtained directly as a digital X-ray image
b is input to the host computer 1 together with the one-character information 10, and only the image information 9b is sent to the image processing means 2 as needed.
It can then be reproduced on the monitor 3.

At this time, the one-character information 10 can be entered using an input unit such as a keyboard attached to the host computer 1.

Part 2 All of the medical information consisting of the analog image information 9a A/D converted by the image processing means 2, image information 9b obtained as a digital image, and character information 10 is transferred to the optical memory card via the host computer 1. The writing/reading means 4 writes the information to the optical memory card 5 according to a prescribed format, and the written information is read from the optical memory card 5 by the writing/reading means 4 of the optical memory card.

The contents of this reading are displayed as designated information on the display 1b by instructions from the host computer 1, and the two-character information can be printed out by a printer (not shown).

Among the read information, image information 9a and 9b are transmitted to the image processing means 2, and predetermined image processing is performed on the information output to the monitor 3.

Specifically, the image processing is performed according to the following request command received from the host computer 1.

■ Calculation between images Add mutual data such as different X-ray photographs.

By subtracting it, it can be used to confirm the progress state of the lesion.

■ Zoom-up on the output screen Assists in diagnosis by enlarging lesions and difficult-to-diagnose areas in X-ray photographs, etc.

■ Emphasizing the brightness of the displayed image If the photographed image is too dark or too bright, the brightness of the image is emphasized to reproduce the image accurately.

■ Scroll the specified screen You can see hidden parts of enlarged photos by moving them up, down, left, and right.

■ Simultaneous display of images on multiple screens Displaying the progress of the patient's disease and the x'g films for each year, for example, on a maximum of four screens, allows time-series management of the patient.

The image information processed by the image processing means 2 is then reproduced on 35-fi film or the like using the film forming means 6 and stored. You can prepare for presentations, etc.

The optical memory card 5 has the writing a5a on the surface as described above.
The hospital name, patient name, etc. are displayed, but the input format is the patient information section where the patient's name, date of birth, gender, date of first consultation, etc. are entered.

Directory section for selecting data on the card.

It is preferable that the card is provided with an index section, further composed of a data management section for management, a data section for recording the data itself, etc., so that the necessary information can be quickly and reliably output from the card. .

Note that the analog image information includes, for example, an X-ray photograph taken by an X-ray photographing device.

Without copying using the transmitted light box 7 and CCD camera 8, the information taken by the X-ray imaging device is directly transferred to the optical memory card via the host computer as A/D converted data through the image processing means. It is also possible to write the image information, thereby making it possible to process the image information more rationally.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The medical information processing method of the present invention uses a computer to write medical information consisting of characters and/or images obtained from a patient into an optical memory card according to a format specified by the computer, and the written medical information is read and reproduced according to a request command from the computer, nine of these image information are subjected to predetermined image processing and reproduced, and the processed images are reproduced on film.

Such an optical memory card allows a large amount of medical information to be stored in a compact manner, thereby significantly simplifying the storage and management of medical data.

In addition, the medical information recorded on this optical memory card can be quickly and accurately reproduced and displayed through the computer, and especially regarding image information, since the obtained information is subjected to image processing, the recognition of each image information becomes more accurate. hand,
This can greatly improve the accuracy of diagnosis by eliminating misdiagnosis and confusion in judgment.

Furthermore, such an optical memory card can store a large amount of medical information, so it has the advantage of facilitating chronological management of patients.

In part, the medical information processing device of the present invention includes the computer, an optical memory card, means for writing/reading information on the optical memory card, and 9 processing image information to reproduce and display a predetermined image. This device is excellent in that it can store a large amount of medical information on an optical memory card with such a simple configuration. It is.

The major feature of this device is that it is extremely easy to operate by inputting medical information into an optical memory card and displaying the output based on commands from the computer, making it extremely effective in processing the increasing amount of medical information. It is something to do.

Note that optical memory cards are advantageous in that information once input cannot be arbitrarily deleted or modified, so the information at the time of input can be reliably saved as is.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an example of a medical information processing method and a processing device according to the present invention. 1... Host computer 2... Image processing means 3... Monitor 4... Optical memory card writing/reading means Optical memory card film forming means Transparent box COD camera, analog image information, digital image information, character information 5・ 6 ・ 7 ・ 8 ・ a b C

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Using a computer to collect medical information consisting of text information and/or image information obtained from individual patients,
It consists of writing medical information on an optical memory card according to a format specified by the computer, and reading and reproducing the written medical information at any time according to a request command from the computer. 1. A method for processing medical information, characterized by displaying and reproducing a processed image such as adjusting brightness and darkness of an image, scrolling a specified image, and displaying an image in multiple planes, and also reproducing the processed image as a film. (2) an image processing means for A/D converting analog image information of medical information consisting of image information and text information and outputting it as a reproduced image on a monitor; A host computer capable of transmitting the medical information to an image processing means and outputting it to a monitor, an optical memory card writing/reading means for writing and reading the medical information on an optical memory card according to a prescribed format in the host computer, and the image processing means. and a film forming means for displaying processed image information on film, and the image processing means reads specified medical information displayed on the host computer from the optical memory card and converts the image information therein into a desired image. A medical information processing device characterized in that it is configured to perform processing.