JPH0764964A - Life information control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a system whereby a patient himself can record various kinds of information such as a meal, exercise, physical condition in a daily life, which are required for a diagnosis and guidance for the patient, the recorded information can be practically used for self control and life information brought by the patient when he comes to a hospital is computer-processed by the hospital so that the diagnosis and guidance for the patient can be quickly and accurately executed. CONSTITUTION:An input device 1 providing an IC card reader/writer 13 and a barcode reader 15 is placed in a patient house through the use of a multi- functional telephone set 11. The patient registers its own dietary information, exercise information, inspection information, etc., in the IC card 3 through the use of the barcode reader 15. At that time, the telephone set 11 calculates even ingestion calorie corresponding to the meal and caloric consumption corresponding to exercise. The registered contents can be inquired by the liquid crystal display equipment 113 of the telephone set 11. The patient brings the IC card 3 to the hospital. A host device 5 on the hospital side reads information inside the IC card 3 with the IC card reader/writer 533 and displays it as a graph in terms of the sequence in a display.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for managing various information such as diet, exercise and physical condition in daily life in order to utilize it for human health management, medical treatment for illness, etc. The present invention relates to a living information management system suitable for use in life guidance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Diabetes mellitus is a disease in which the concentration of glucose in the blood is high and causes complications such as blood vessels, kidneys, eyes, and peripheral nerves. It is a type of chronic disease. In addition to treatment with drugs, treatment of this disease is basically by diet and exercise, and it is necessary for the patient himself to control these in daily life. In addition, accurate information on these daily lives is indispensable for proper patient guidance even in hospitals.

Generally, diabetic patients visit the hospital once every two weeks. Patients have 2 diabetes self-management notes
Record your own daily life information and bring it to the hospital. In hospitals, the data brought by patients is input and computerized, and medical data for each patient is output and used.

[0004]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Since the work of inputting data from a notebook brought by a patient and processing the data requires a large amount of data, it takes time to input, and it takes time to analyze a patient report. Usually, the hospital does not have the manpower or time to do this. For this reason, it is general that an organization outside the hospital is entrusted to perform the data input and computer processing work, and the result is returned to the hospital. Therefore, the computerized medical data is actually useful for patient guidance at the next visit two weeks later, and there is a problem that timely patient guidance cannot be provided.

On the patient side, necessary information is entered in the management notebook because the management notebook does not understand the meaning of the management notebook, how to fill in the management notebook is not well understood, and the entry is troublesome. Not a few for that reason,
There is also a problem that the living situation of the patient is not properly transmitted to the doctor.

Further, since various management tables and menus included in the management notebook are all filled with numerical values, changes in data over time and their meaning cannot be seen by the patient. Therefore, it is not possible for patients to check this data for themselves and use it for self-management of living conditions or for strengthening awareness of illness.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a living information management system which is optimal for application to diet and exercise therapy of diabetic patients, and which is necessary for diagnosing and instructing patients in daily life such as diet, exercise and physical condition. Patients can accurately and easily record various types of information, and the recorded information can be understood by the patient himself and can be utilized for self-management. Moreover, the living information brought by the patient at the time of visit to the hospital can be stored in the hospital. An object of the present invention is to provide a system capable of performing computer processing immediately and effectively and performing diagnosis and guidance of a patient quickly and appropriately.

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided an IC card for recording the daily life information of a managed person, and an input device for the managed person to input his or her daily life information. , A data processing device for an administrator that reads out the daily life from the IC card and displays it in a graph, and provides a daily life management system.

When the inputted life information includes meal information and exercise information, the managed person input device has means for automatically calculating the corresponding ingested calories and consumed calories.

Further, the administrator data processing device has means for reading a plurality of types of living information from the IC card and displaying the living information at the same time in a time series graph.

[0011]

Operation: The person to be managed (for example, a diabetic patient) inputs his / her daily life information into the IC card using the input device. When this card is given to an administrator (for example, a hospital), the administrator uses the data processing device for the administrator to read the daily life information from the IC card, and this information is displayed in a graph. As a result, the manager can grasp the situation of daily life quickly and in a form that can be easily analyzed as an image, so that the manager can be provided with accurate and prompt life guidance. As a managed person, by looking at the graph display, he / she can accurately grasp his / her living situation and utilize it for his / her own management.

Preferably, the input device for the managed person has a function of inputting information by a bar code reader and a function of reading and displaying information from the IC card. This allows the manager to easily enter information and
You can refer to the information in the card as needed to help self-management.

When the inputted life information includes meal information and exercise information, the managed person input device automatically calculates the corresponding ingested calories and consumed calories. The result of this calculation is very useful for the self-management of the manager.

The data processing device for manager can read out a plurality of types of life information from the IC card and simultaneously display them in a time series graph. As a result, it is possible to visually recognize the change in the living condition of the managed person, the correlation between the plurality of types of information, and the like, so that it becomes easy to provide accurate living guidance.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the system configuration of an embodiment of the living information management system according to the present invention. This example
Its main purpose is to manage the daily life of diabetic patients.

The present system includes an input device 1 using a multi-functional telephone placed in a patient's home, and an IC card 3 for inputting and storing the living information of the patient by the input device 1 and bringing it to the hospital by the patient. The host device 5 is installed in a hospital, reads living information from an IC card 3 brought by a patient, processes the living information, and displays the living information in a form suitable for patient diagnosis and guidance.

The input device 1 placed in the patient's home is a telephone 1
1 and an IC card reader / writer 13 connected to it
And a barcode reader 15. The telephone 11
On the operation panel, a handset 111, a large liquid crystal display 113, a ten-key pad 115, and various function keys 1
In addition to functioning as an ordinary telephone (telephone mode), it also functions as a data input / output device for the IC card 3 (data input / output mode).

The mode switching of the telephone 11 is performed manually using the ten keys 115 or the function keys 111. Alternatively, it operates in the data input / output mode when the telephone function of the telephone 11 is in the standby state, and automatically switches to the telephone mode when an incoming call is received or the handset 111 is off-hook, and when the standby mode is restored again, the automatic mode is set. Alternatively, the data input / output mode may be switched.

In the data input / output mode, the telephone 11
It is possible to input (including changing and deleting) and inquire various information with respect to the IC card 3 set in the IC card reader / writer 13. The types of information handled here include patient's name, date of birth, patient basic information related mainly to qualifications such as sex, meal information related to the content of meals taken by the patient, exercise information related to the content of exercise performed by the patient, Test information about the results of the prescribed tests performed by the patient,
It contains information on medications taken by patients and information on their physical condition and complications.

The selection of the type of information desired to be input or inquired and the selection of processing such as input or inquired are performed by operating the ten keys 115 or the function keys 117 of the telephone 11. The telephone set 11 outputs an input / inquiry screen corresponding to the selected information type to the liquid crystal display 113, as will be described later, according to the selection of the information type by the ten keys 115 or the function keys 117.

The patient refers to the displayed input / inquiry screen to input information or specify the information to be inquired.
The bar code reader 15 is frequently used for the information input operation, and the numeric keypad 115 is also used as necessary. The patient is provided with a barcode book for use with the barcode reader 15. This bar code book describes bar codes of various food items, exercise items and medicines.
Therefore, the information published in the barcode book can be easily input from the barcode reader 15.

The telephone 11 is provided with a memory card (not shown), a program for this data input / output mode, a food table describing various food items and their calories ingested, various exercise items and their consumption. Various tables such as an exercise table describing the calories are recorded. The stored contents of this memory card can be changed as necessary.

The telephone 11 has a built-in CPU, and when the food item and its amount taken by the patient or the exercise item and its amount performed are input, the input information is checked.
Then, referring to the table of the memory card, the calorie intake or the calorie consumption is automatically calculated, and the calculation result is displayed on the liquid crystal screen together with the input information. Even when the medication information and the physical condition / complication information are input, they are also displayed on the liquid crystal screen. As a result, the patient can utilize his / her input information and the above calculation results for his / her life management.

At the same time, the telephone set 11 registers the input information and the calculation result in the IC card 3 through the IC card reader / writer 13.

The ten keys 115 are used to specify the information to be inquired (specify the type of information, date and time, period, etc.). Upon receiving this designation, the telephone set 11 reads out the designated information from the IC card 3 and displays it on the liquid crystal screen.
As a result, the patient can refer to any of his / her past life information recorded in the IC card 3 at any time and utilize it for self-management.

Further, since the patient can refer to the information input to the IC card 3 by the hospital side host device 5 by the patient using the home telephone 11, it can be utilized for the self-management of the patient. However, information about patients to be used only on the hospital side can be registered in the IC card 3 from the hospital host device 5, and such information is stored in the IC card 3 that can be unlocked only by the hospital host device 5. Is written in the storage area for the encrypted data or the storage area for the encrypted information in the IC card 3, which cannot be accessed by the telephone 11 at the patient's house.

Databases such as a patient basic information database, a meal information database, an exercise information database, a physical condition / complication information database, and a statistical information database are built in the IC card 3 by inputting those information. The patient brings the IC card 3 having his / her past life information recorded in the various databases at the hospital once every two weeks. At the hospital, the IC card 3
Is set in the hospital-side host device 5, the life information of the patient is read, and the information is displayed in a convenient and convenient form so that it can be immediately used for patient guidance.

The host device 5 on the hospital side includes a reception computer system 51 and a medical office computer system 5.
3 and a LAN 55 communicatively connected to each other.

The reception system 51 is, for example, a desktop type personal computer main body 511, a CRT display 513 connected thereto, and a printer 515.
And an IC card reader / writer 517.

The medical office system 53 includes a notebook personal computer 31 having, for example, a liquid crystal display, and an IC card reader / writer 533 connected thereto.

The details of the processing performed by the two systems 51 and 53 are shown in FIG. 3. Among them, at least the processing programs relating to the reception work and the return reception work are installed in the reception system 51, and at least the medical treatment work is performed. The related processing program is installed in the clinic system 53. Each of the systems 51 and 53 has its own IC card reader / writer 517, 53 in order to perform its business.
3 to access the database in the IC card 3.

FIG. 2 shows the flow of processing in the data input / output mode of the telephone 11 of the patient's house.

As shown in FIG. 2, when the telephone 11 enters the data input / output mode, it first displays a predetermined main menu and waits for a command from the user (step 2).
01). In this state, when the above-mentioned information type displayed on the main menu screen is selected, input / inquiry processing of the selected information type is started (steps 203 and 20).
5,207,209,211 or 213).

That is, when the patient basic information is selected,
The patient basic information inquiry process is started, and a predetermined patient basic information inquiry screen is displayed (step 203). When meal information is selected, a meal information input process is started and a predetermined meal information input / inquiry process menu screen is displayed (step 20).
7). Also, exercise information, inspection information, medication information or physical condition /
When the complication information is selected, the input / inquiry processing of the selected information is started, and the input / inquiry screen of the information is displayed (steps 207, 209, 211 or 213).

Basic patient information inquiry processing (step 203)
Then, desired information can be read out and displayed from the patient basic information database in the IC card 3. In this database, in addition to the patient's name, date of birth, sex, blood type, height, weight, etc., which have already been stated, calories to be ingested by the hospital on a daily basis Guidance information such as calories to be taken, prescription drug name and its application amount is also recorded. Therefore, the patient can use this guidance information as a guide for his / her life management and medical treatment.

Exercise information, inspection information, medication information or physical condition /
Complication information input / inquiry processing (steps 205, 207,
209, 211 or 213), it is possible to input information or make an inquiry for registered information with respect to each information database in the IC card 3. Information input or inquired is displayed on the input / inquiry screen. In particular, in the case of inputting / inquiring exercise information, the calorie consumption is also displayed together with the exercise content.

Meal information input / inquiry processing (step 20)
In 5), breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack is selected from the displayed menu screen. Then, the information input / inquiry process for the selected meal is started, and the information input / inquiry screen for each meal is displayed (step 21).
5, 217, 219 or 221).

Information input / inquiry processing for each meal (step 2)
15, 217, 219 or 221), the IC card 3
It is possible to input or inquire the food item and the intake amount of each food item in the meal information database in the. Then, the entered or inquired meal content and the corresponding calorie intake are displayed on the liquid crystal display.

FIG. 3 shows details of the processing of the host device 5 on the hospital side. As shown in FIG. 3, each of the reception system and the clinic system 51 and 53 initially displays a predetermined task selection menu and waits for a command from the user (step 301). In this state, by selecting one of several jobs displayed on the job selection menu screen, the menu process of the selected job is started (steps 303, 305, 307 or 3).
09). In this case, the work can be selected within the range of the work processing program installed in each system 51, 53. That is, in the reception system 51, at least the reception work menu process (step 303) and the return work menu process (step 307) can be selected. Further, in the system 53 for the medical office, at least the medical service menu process (step 305) can be selected.

Menu processing for reception work (step 30)
In 5), a predetermined reception work menu screen is displayed, and the initial consultation work or the re-examination work can be selected on this screen, and the selection enters the first consultation work or the re-examination work (step 311 or 317).

In the initial examination work (step 311), the basic patient information of the patient can be entered and inquired into the IC card 3 of the initial examination patient (steps 313 and 315). Also, in the return visit work (step 317), the IC of the return visit patient is
Various information of the patient can be read from the card 3 (step 319).

Medical care menu processing (step 305)
Then, a predetermined medical treatment menu processing screen is displayed. Depending on the selection on the screen, patient basic information input / inquiry processing (step 321), medication set table input / inquiry processing (step 323), history inquiry menu processing ( Step 325) or management material output menu processing (step 327) can be entered.

Of these processes, the history inquiry menu process (step 325) plays a particularly important role in medical treatment and patient guidance. In this process, a predetermined history inquiry menu screen is displayed, and the IC card 3 is displayed on the screen.
The type of information to be inquired (meal information, exercise information, dietary exercise information, examination information, medication information, or physical condition / complication information) is selected from within. Then, according to the selection, display processing of the selected information type is started (steps 329, 3).
35,339,341,345 or 347).

That is, when the meal information is selected, the meal information list display process (step 329) is started, and all the meal information of the designated day or period is read from the meal information database of the IC card 3 and displayed as a list. Then, from this processing, the meal information graph display processing (step 331) can be further entered, and the calorie intake in each meal is displayed in a bar graph in chronological order.

When the exercise information is selected, the exercise information list display process (step 335) is entered, and the IC card 3
All the exercise information of the designated day or period is read out from the exercise information database and displayed in a list. From this process, the diet exercise information graph display process (step 337)
You can enter, and the calories burned by the exercise you performed are displayed in a bar graph in chronological order together with the calories burned at each meal.

When the diet exercise information is selected, the diet exercise information graph display (step 339) is directly entered, and the calorie intake for each meal and the calorie consumption for each exercise are displayed in a bar graph in chronological order. It

When the inspection information is selected, the inspection information list display process (step 341) is started and the IC card 3
All the inspection information of the specified date or period is read from the inspection information file in the above and displayed in a list. The examination information includes, for example, body weight, urine sugar amount, fasting blood glucose amount, and the like. From this processing, the inspection information graph display processing (step 34
3) can be entered and the inspection information is displayed as a line graph in chronological order.

FIG. 4 is an example of this inspection information graph display, showing how body weight, urine sugar, and blood glucose have changed.
Then, whether or not there is a correlation between these three types of test quantities,
Such an analysis can be easily performed through images as compared with the display of only numerical values. Furthermore, by examining this examination information graph together with the physical condition / complication information at each occasion, it is possible to grasp the relationship between the physical condition and symptom, and the relation with the examination information. This is very useful for the medical treatment and guidance of the doctor by the doctor, as well as the understanding and self-management of the patient's own illness.

The above-mentioned meal information graph display processing (step 331) and meal exercise information graph display processing (step 3)
From 43), it is possible to further enter the one-day situation graph display process (step 331). In this process, the ingested calories, consumed calories, body weight, urine sugar amount and fasting blood glucose amount in the designated one day are displayed graphically in time sequence. FIG. 5 shows a display example thereof, in which ingested and consumed calories are displayed as bar graphs at respective time positions, weight is displayed as spots at measurement time positions, and urine sugar amount and blood sugar amount are displayed as line graphs. Further, although not shown, abnormalities in physical condition and complications that occurred on that day are also displayed as spots in this graph display. This allows
The change and correlation of the displayed information can be easily grasped as an image, which is very useful for patient medical treatment / guidance and self-management.

The history inquiry menu (step 32)
When the medication information is selected in 5), the medication information list display (step 345) is entered, and all the medication information of the designated day or period is read from the medication information database of the IC card 3 and displayed as a list. .

If physical condition / complication is selected,
Enter the physical condition / complication list process (step 347)
Information on the specified date or period is read out from the physical condition / complication database of the C card 3 and displayed as a list.

In the return reception work (step 307), information about ingested calories and consumed calories prescribed by the doctor, prescribed medication, etc. can be written in the patient basic information database in the IC card 3 of the patient who has finished the medical treatment. it can. (Step 327). The patient can refer to the written information by using the telephone 11 and utilize it for managing daily life.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention can be implemented in a mode different from this embodiment or for a different application. For example, in addition to medical treatment for diabetic patients, it can be implemented in various fields such as maternal guidance, newborn childcare guidance, athletes' health and training management, treatment at beauty salons and lifestyle guidance.

[0055]

As described above, according to the present invention, the managed person inputs his / her daily life information into the IC card, and the manager can immediately read out the information in the IC card and display it as a graph. In addition, the manager can provide accurate and quick life guidance to the managed person, and the input information can be used for the self-manager of the managed person.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing in a data input / output mode of the patient home example telephone of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a process of a hospital-side host device according to the same embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for displaying an examination information graph by the hospital host device.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen side of an old situation graph display by the host device on the hospital side.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Patient Home Input Device 2 Hospital Host Device 3 IC Card 11 Telephone 13 IC Card Reader / Writer 15 Bar Code Reader 113 Liquid Crystal Display 51 Reception Computer System 53 Clinic Computer System 513 CRT Display 517,533 IC Card Reader・ Writer 531 Notebook type personal computer

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Toshio Kurimoto 3-3-3 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo NTT Data Communications Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Minaha Ogata Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 3-3-3 NTT DATA Communications Corporation (72) Inventor Masakazu Taniguchi 3-3-3 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo NTT DATA Communications Corporation

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An IC card for recording the daily life information of a managed person, an input device for the managed person to input his or her daily life information into the IC card, and the daily life from the IC card. And a data processing device for an administrator that displays a graph, and the living information includes diet information or exercise information, and the input device receives the diet information or exercise information. A daily life management system characterized in that it has means for calculating and recording corresponding ingested calories or consumed calories at the time and displaying them on the IC card. 2. An IC card for recording the daily life information of the managed person, an input device for the managed person to input his or her daily life information into the IC card, and the daily life from the IC card. And a data processing device for an administrator that displays a graph according to a time-series order. When the data processing device for an administrator displays the information read from the IC card as a graph, a plurality of types of information are displayed. An everyday life management system characterized by having a means for reading out and simultaneously displaying a graph.