Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C1/00—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people
  • G07C1/10—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
  • G07C9/20—Individual registration on entry or exit involving the use of a pass
  • G07C9/28—Individual registration on entry or exit involving the use of a pass the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method and a system for the registration of working times in the home care sector. Because the attending staff in the home care sector or comparable sectors is rather ambulant and is not every day in contact with the management of this form of service, the need arises for a time registration system with which the working times can be recorded to enable optimum planning of and accounting for these activities.
• the nursing staff is provided according to the invention with a so-called data logger, for instance in the form of a key ring, with which to record the date and the times of coming and going per attended person.
• the data logger is provided according to the invention with a receiver circuit with which a contactless radio-frequent identification label can be read which, for instance, is undetachably connected with the logbook, available at the attended person, and in which the findings and acts are recorded by the nursing staff.
• the data logger for recording the above times should also be provided with a date and time clock and with a memory element to store this information at the attended person, together with the identity of the contactless radio-frequent identification label.
• the information collected in the data logger can, for instance at the end of the working day, be transmitted to a central information processing system, where this information is collected and used to record working times and the related work plans, and to generate management information.
• the data logger can be provided with two buttons.
• the date and time clock is not set at the real date and time, but in the data logger a relative date and time is used.
• the real times of coming and going are calculated on the basis of the relative dates and times as recorded in the data logger and the real date and time at the moment of the transmission of information to the central information processing system.
• the nature of the activities carried out by the nursing staff at the home of the attended person can be derived on the basis of the identity of the attended person, because this attended person has a predetermined need of attendance. Furthermore, the nature of the activities to be carried out can sometimes be derived from the identity of the nursing person, because the nursing persons have individual specialties, or also from a combination of both. By also giving the data logger itself a unique identification number and coupling it to the identity of the nursing person, it can be derived to some extent via the central information processing system which activities have been carried out for the attended person.
• the data logger may optionally be provided with a microphone, a digitizing circuit and a larger memory element to record per attended person not only the date and times of coming and going, but also a limited amount of spoken text. This spoken information can likewise be transmitted to the central information processing system.
• the transmission of all the information collected in the data logger can, for instance every day, be transmitted by telephone to the central information processing system by means of a modem function built into the data logger.
• this transmission takes place via the telephone connection with the central information processing system, preferably analogously, instead of digitally, and the information is digitized here again for storage in the memory of the central information processing system.
• the central information processing system preferably analogously, instead of digitally, and the information is digitized here again for storage in the memory of the central information processing system.
• the information can be removed from the data logger, so that it is ready again for storage of new information.

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