KR20060079651A - Interactive television equipment in hospital and hospital work improving system using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an interactive television apparatus in each ward that can communicate with a server for a PACS system in which patient information and work information are stored in a database. The interactive television apparatus includes a communication means for communicating with the PACS system, and a TV receiving unit. A module, an input device for inputting information such as a camera means for photographing an image of each room, a keyboard, a controller for processing the information, and a display means for outputting an image, so that a patient or a hospital staff member Provided is a hospital operation improvement system using an interactive television device of a hospital, wherein the television device can be connected to a server of the PACS system.

Description

INTERACTIVE TELEVISION EQUIPMENT IN HOSPITAL AND HOSPITAL WORK IMPROVING SYSTEM USING THE SAME}             

1 is a schematic diagram of a general PACS system;

2 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a television apparatus according to the present invention operates in conjunction with a PACS system.

3 is a schematic system block diagram of an interactive television apparatus of a hospital according to the present invention.

Explanation of References

100-server, 10-interactive television,

11-means of communication, 12-camera,

13-input, 14-controller,

15-LCD display.

The present invention relates to improving hospital service by using a television device installed in a hospital room, and more particularly, to an interactive television device of a hospital where a hospital staff member or patient can share information and a hospital business improvement system using the same. .

In general, patients in the hospital are perceived as passive beings. That is, the patient lives in the hospital as a living room and the office as living spaces and passively accepts the instructions or information of the hospital personnel such as doctors and nurses. Therefore, there is a problem that can not lead the decision about the hospital life or plan their own personal life.

In order to plan the life of the patient, the patient needs to check his / her hospital life (eg, eating and going out, etc.) and his or her health.

For example, in hospital life, patients may want to know their weekly diet information. At this point, the patient should ask the doctor or nurse about his or her diet. This may be easy, but requires time and emotional consumption of the patient.

In addition, patients may not be able to eat due to personal circumstances. At this time, the patient may request the nurse to handle the situation. This may be easy, but in order to achieve this, nurses must go through various stages, such as delivering a patient's request to another worker, which requires time and effort.

On the other hand, one of the main tasks of the doctor is to round the patient. Before rounding the patient, he or she will make a list of patients to round, identify the patient's condition, and clarify the illness to be described to the patient.

However, doctors cannot grasp every patient's situation from trivial to important.

The nurse, on the other hand, is one of the primary duties of caring for the patient as directed by the doctor. However, since nurses have to care for many patients, there is a fear of misunderstanding a patient when taking care of a patient, for example, medication. This problem can be solved if the nurse is meticulous, but more reliable solutions are required.

As such, the hospital is wasting unnecessary time and effort caused by the difficulty of communication between the patient and the hospital staff.

Therefore, the present inventors have paid attention to the PACS system and the televisions installed in each hospital room to be used for the efficiency of the hospital.

PACS (picture archiving communication system) system installed in the hospital is generally obtained by the radiographic image diagnosis device to obtain and store the diagnosis image in a digital state, and transmits and retrieves the readings and medical records to the terminal for retrieval It is defined as having a function, and hospitals have applied it to various areas of the hospital by supplementing the function.

1 is a schematic diagram of a general PACS system. Data from a blood test room, a patient test room such as an X-ray imaging room, an MRI room, and an ultrasound imaging room is transmitted to a server and then stored in a database. Information can be retrieved through the terminal (1 ~ N) that can be used by hospital personnel, such as doctors or nurses.

On the other hand, the television installed in each room is installed for the leisure time of the patient, when the patient puts the coin into the payment device is to count the number of coins and the television is operated for a predetermined time increasing correspondingly.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an interactive television apparatus for a hospital and a hospital operation improvement system using the same, which are invented in consideration of the above circumstances, so that both the hospital staff and the patient can perform the work.

According to the present invention, an interactive television apparatus capable of communicating with a server for a PACS system in which patient information and work information are stored in a database is provided in each hospital room, and the interactive television includes communication means for communicating with a server of the PACS system. And a camera for photographing an image of each room, a TV receiving module, an input device for inputting information, a controller for processing the information, and a display means for outputting an image. Provided is a hospital business improvement system using an interactive television device of a hospital, wherein the apparatus can be connected to a server of the PACS system using a device.

In addition, the server of the PACS system of the present invention is connected to the blood test room, X-ray room, MRI room, ultrasonography room, the patient's examination information is input, the doctor room, nurse room, medical department, the terminal of the eating department and Each work information is inputted, and it is connected with the interactive television apparatus of the sickroom.

In addition, access to the server of the present invention is allowed through the input of an ID provided separately to the patient and the hospital personnel, the server is to limit the information provided according to the input ID.

The present invention provides a means for communicating with a server, a camera capable of observing a state of a sickroom, an information input device, a controller for processing inputted information, a television image and an image via the server according to the instructions of the controller. And a display means, a TV receiving module, and an on / off device, wherein the controller operates the TV receiving module according to the instruction of the input device so that a TV image is broadcasted on the display. When the input is made by the controller, the controller stops broadcasting of the TV image and outputs an image transmitted from the server to the display.

The present invention makes it possible to use an interactive television device that can access a server 100 of a PACS system in which patient information and work information required by a hospital member such as a patient, a doctor, and a nurse are stored in a database.

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

2 is a diagram illustrating a state in which an interactive television apparatus according to the present invention operates in conjunction with a PACS system, and FIG. 3 is a schematic system block diagram of an interactive television apparatus of a hospital according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, each of the hospital rooms 1 to N is provided with the interactive television apparatuses 10-1 to 10-N according to the present invention, and the television apparatus 10 connects an information line (for example, a LAN line). It is connected with the server 100 through.

To this end, the interactive television apparatus 10 includes a communication means 11 with the server 100 such as a LAN card, a camera 12, a keyboard or a button for observing a state of a hospital room, as shown in FIG. And a display unit 15 for displaying a television image and an image via the server according to the input device 13, the controller 14, and the controller 14, and a TV receiving module 16. In addition, when a coin or bill is put into the interactive television device 10 may be provided with a payment device 17 for transmitting information of the input situation. Here, the display 15 may use various display means such as an LCD, a PDP, a cathode ray, and the like. On the other hand, reference numeral 18 is a switch for turning on and off the device 10.

In this case, the interactive television apparatus 10 has a standby mode switched by the controller 14, a television broadcast mode, an information communication mode for information communication with a server, and an on-off mode switched by a switch 18. It will be provided.

The operation of the interactive television apparatus 10 configured as described above will be described.

First, the interactive television apparatus 10 maintains the off mode by the switch 18 when not in use or maintains the standby mode when the switch 18 is turned on. In the standby mode, the interactive television apparatus 10 Only the camera 12 and the communication means 11 will operate. On the other hand, in the off mode, the entire apparatus 10 is turned off.

The television broadcasting mode is performed by, for example, a coin being put into the payment device 17. For example, when a patient inserts a coin into the payment device 17, the payment device 17 counts the number of coins and transmits a corresponding signal to the controller 14 of the television device, and the controller 14 In response to the signal, the LCD display 15 and the TV receiving module 16 are operated to input and broadcast a TV image to the LCD display 15 for a predetermined time. On the other hand, when the payment device 17 is not configured, the television broadcast mode can be executed by the user's input through the input device 13. That is, when the user inputs the ID assigned to the user, the broadcast mode can be operated.

In addition, instead of the TV receiving module 16, the TV broadcast signal transmitted through the communication means 11 may be broadcast. At this time, the system of Figure 2 is further configured a TV broadcast receiver (not shown).

The television broadcast mode is automatically terminated when a predetermined time elapses according to the judgment of the controller 14, and the mode is switched to the standby mode. That is, the controller 14 determines the TV broadcast time by determining the signal from the payment device 17, and when the TV broadcast time ends, stops the operation of the LCD display 15 and the TV receiving module 16. .

The information communication mode is switched when a hospital member inputs a predetermined ID given to an individual through the input device 13. This information communication mode can be executed in both standby mode and television broadcasting mode.

That is, when a patient or a hospital member inputs his ID through the input device 13 in the broadcasting mode, the controller 14 temporarily stops the operation of the TV receiving module 16 and displays the LCD display 15 on the LCD display 15. Information transmitted from the communication means 11 is displayed.

In addition, when a patient or hospital personnel inputs their ID through the input device 13 during the standby mode, the controller 14 operates the LCD display 15 to display information transmitted from the communication means 11. do.

On the other hand, when the device is in the broadcast mode before being forced to switch to the communication mode, the controller 14 causes the TV mode to be switched back to the television broadcast mode after the communication mode is terminated. Keep the mode.

Meanwhile, the camera 12 may operate in both the standby mode except the off mode, the television broadcasting mode, and the communication mode. That is, in each mode except the off mode, when a terminal such as a nurse room, a doctor's office, a reception desk, etc., in which the hospital personnel reside, transmits a signal to the television apparatus 10 of each hospital room, the camera is operated by the controller. The images of each room collected by the hospital are transmitted to the monitoring location (nursing room, doctor's office, etc.).

During the communication mode, the patient or hospital member can access various information stored in the server.

However, there is a need to distinguish between information accessible to patients and information accessible to hospital members. To this end, different criteria apply to patients and hospital staff. For example, the patient is assigned an ID number of a different standard, and the hospital staff is also assigned an ID number of a different standard according to each task.

For example, IDs are assigned in the form shown in the following table.

object ID patient P ...                                          doctor PD ...                                          nurse PN ...                                          Staff of duties. . .                                         

In addition, access information is also restricted according to the ID number.

For example, access information includes information accessible only to doctors among hospital personnel (A), information accessible only to doctors and nurses (B), information accessible to doctors, nurses and patients (C), and patients only. It is divided into accessible information (D) and the like.

The content of this information is shown in the following table.

Information A Patient status information, findings, etc.                                          Information B Prescription information, discharge information, etc.                                          Information C Hospital cost information, diet information, treatment time, medication time, basic medical information, etc ..                                          Information D. Patient personal information.                                         

As shown in FIG. 2, the interactive television apparatuses 10-1 to 10-N installed in each hospital room in accordance with the present invention are hospitals such as doctor's offices, nurse rooms, hospitals, and meal departments serving patients' meals. It is configured to communicate with the terminals 1 ~ N of the work department.

Accordingly, the television device 10 installed in each patient room can directly communicate with the doctor's office, the hospital facts, the department of work, and the hospital departments such as the meal department. You will be able to search the information you uploaded.

According to this, a request is made to each department in which a terminal is installed in each room by using a television apparatus 10. Accordingly, each terminal uploads the requested information to a server, and in each hospital room to the server 100 through a television apparatus. You can access the uploaded information.

In addition, a hospital member, for example, a doctor or a nurse, may be able to grasp the condition of the patient from time to time through an image of each hospital room input from the camera 12 to the terminal.

According to the present invention as described above, first of all, the patient's position can determine his or her disease and can plan his schedule.

For example, the patient may skip a meal. When leaving the hospital by going out or visiting a relative, the patient receives his meal information stored in the server in the dining department from the server can be seen on the display, and input the meal omitted through the input means Done.

Information on skipping meals entered by the patient is transmitted to the terminal of the nurse room, doctor's office or meal department. Here, the nurse or doctor detects the intention of the patient to omit the meal through the terminal, and determines whether to agree to the intention. And, if the decision of consent to omit the meal is determined by the doctor or nurse, the information is transmitted from the doctor and nurse terminal to the terminal of the eating department and the clinic department, and also known to the patient by a television device or a cable. do.

Accordingly, the meal department does not prepare the patient's meal, and the department does not charge for the meal, the patient can execute his schedule.

In addition, when you want to know the disease state of his own can be confirmed using the device 10 only to the information that is open to the patient.

On the other hand, doctors may encounter data that they have not prepared during the round. For example, when it is necessary to explain the patient's condition to the patient using the MRI image, the doctor connects to the server 100 using the input means 11 of the television apparatus and is photographed in an MRI examination room to the database of the server. The stored image information can be read and explained to the patient while viewing the image on the LCD display 15 of the television apparatus 10.

If this information is determined to be accessible to the patient, it is classified as information C so that the patient can access and view it when necessary.

On the other hand, even when the patient requests other information, the patient can access the information A that can be detected and provide the information desired by the patient.

On the other hand, in the case of nurses, it is necessary to check the instructions of the doctor, or check the condition and dosage of the patient. At this time, the nurse connects to the server using the input means of the television device 10, checks the doctor's instructions, or checks and corrects the patient's condition and medication status.

If the information is accessible to the patient, the patient can compare the doctor's instructions with the nurse's medication, and the cost of the medication can be easily understood.

As described above, according to the present invention, since both the hospital staff and the patient can perform the work proactively, the patient can plan and live his / her hospital life, and the doctors or nurses can It is effective in improving the ability to cope with mistakes or accidents.

Claims (6)

Each hospital room is equipped with an interactive television device capable of communicating with the server for PACS system in which patient information and work information are stored in a database. The interactive television includes a communication means for communicating with a server of the PACS system, a camera for photographing images of each room, a TV receiving module, an input device for inputting information, a controller for processing this information, and an image for outputting the video. Configured with display means, A hospital operation improvement system using an interactive television apparatus of a hospital, wherein a patient or a hospital staff in each hospital room can access the server of the PACS system using the television apparatus. The method of claim 1, The server of the PACS system is connected to the blood test room, X-ray room, MRI room, ultrasonography room, the patient's test information is input, It is connected to the terminal of doctor's office, nurse's office, business department, and meal department, and business information of each department is inputted. A hospital business improvement system using an interactive television device of a hospital, characterized in that it is connected to an interactive television device of a hospital room. The method of claim 1, Access to the server is allowed through the input of an ID provided separately to the patient and the hospital staff, And the server restricts information provided according to the input ID. The method of claim 3, The information provided through the ID input is information accessible only to doctors among hospital personnel (A), information accessible only to doctors and nurses (B), and information accessible to doctors, nurses, and patients (C). ), And the hospital business improvement system using an interactive television device of a hospital, characterized in that the information is accessible only to the patient (D). Means for communicating with a server, a camera capable of observing the state of a sickroom, an information input device, a controller for processing inputted information, display means for displaying television images and images via the server according to the instructions of the controller, TV receiving module and the on-off device is configured, The controller operates the TV receiving module according to the input of the operation instruction of the input device so that the TV image is broadcast on the display. And the controller stops broadcasting of the TV image and outputs an image transmitted from a server to the display when the non-operation instruction is input by the input device. The method of claim 5, The apparatus further comprises a payment means, and when the payment is made by the payment means, the controller causes the TV image to be broadcasted on the display and stops broadcasting the TV image according to the input of the non-operation instruction by the input device. Interactive television device of a hospital, characterized in that.

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