JP2001005585A - Diagnosis and treatment supporting system and icon display controlling method in the system, and storage medium storing its program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a diagnosis and treatment supporting system the working efficiency of which is improved by deciding the order of alignment of icons based on the number of times of selection of icons. SOLUTION: When an application program managed so as to be displayed in a window as menu icons is started, an icon management program counts the number of times of start corresponding to the application program (1102). When the reset of all the number of times of start is instructed, all the number of times of start is stored as the old number of times of start. Then, the menu ions are aligned in the descending order of the number of times of start and the old number of times of start, and only a fixed number of high order icons are displayed as the icons for start of the corresponding application in the window.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a medical care support system for displaying icons for activating various application programs in a window as a menu in a window, and a display control method of the icons, and more particularly to an application program for each user. The present invention relates to a medical care support system that changes the display order of icons according to the number of times of activation, and a display control method of the icons.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Information processing has progressed in the medical field, and computer processing techniques such as a medical office support system (recept computer) and a hospital information system (ordering system) have been put into practical use and are gradually spreading. Attempts have also been made to commercialize a medical care support system (electronic medical record system) based on the digitization of medical records, which are sources of information in medical treatment.

[0003] With respect to a plurality of application programs installed in such a system, icons related to application programs that are relatively frequently used are created for activation, and are listed as a menu in a window. Then, the user can efficiently start a desired application program by selecting these start-up icons and instructing to start a required application program.

[0004] For example, Windows'95 as an OS
In a system using a Windows-based GUI (a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation) or an equivalent window type, these startup icons are created as icons called “shortcuts” for each desired application program. By arranging it in a window to be displayed as a menu, the application program corresponding to the icon is linked, and when the icon is pointed with a pointing device such as a mouse, the linked application program is called. Start its execution.

[0005] Further, a "command button" prepared in a development language and a description language of a computer program such as Visual Basic (registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation).
Can be created for each application program, such a command button can be incorporated in a window, and used as an activation icon.

If the display area that can be actually displayed on the monitor is expanded by utilizing the functions of the window, such as scrolling for each row and column and changing the page for each screen, it is possible to display a list in the window for activation. There is virtually no limit on the number of icons, and in theory, all the launch icons needed in the system can be placed in one window.

[0007]

In such prior art, various arrangements are made in the order in which the icons for startup are created, in the order of the names of the icons, and in the order of the dates. Listed as menu icons in order. However, even if the icon for activation is frequently used by the user, the icon is not rearranged to the most convenient position for the user unless the display position of the icon is intentionally changed. Therefore, in order to start the corresponding application program by the required start icon, the user needs to search for the required start icon by using the functions such as scrolling and page change, thereby deteriorating the work efficiency. Therefore, there was a problem that the usability was poor. For the user, the required application program is different for each user, so, for example, when the icons are arranged in the best condition for a certain doctor, for another doctor or nurse, or for a medical clerk,
Often, the icons are rarely used, and it may be desirable to change the arrangement of these icons.

[0008] For example, a doctor, a nurse, and a medical clerk as a user use different application programs as follows. First, doctors use an application program to enter and view patient medical data, nurses use an application program to enter patient interviews, and medical clerks refer to each patient's medical record information. An application program that transmits the information to a medical office receipt computer is used. Further, each doctor often uses a different application program for each doctor's medical care field, medical treatment pattern, and the like.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and divides the number of times an application program desired by a user is started by the user into a recent number and a number before that. , A medical care support system, a display control method therefor, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for controlling the method, in which a corresponding start-up icon is appropriately and conveniently arranged and displayed based thereon. The purpose is to provide.

In the detailed description of the present invention, an icon for activation in a medical care support system is taken as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to such a system.
In a system using a GUI environment, the present invention is also applicable to a case where the activation of the application program is controlled.

[0011]

According to the present invention, there is provided a medical treatment support system for displaying, in a window, icons for activation of application programs in a window, the number of times an application program corresponding to the icon is activated. A first activation number counting means for counting each of the application programs as a first activation number, and when an instruction is issued to reset all the first activation times, each of the first activation times is reset.
A second activation number storage unit for storing the number of activations as a second activation number; determining a display order of each icon corresponding to the application program based on the first activation number and the second activation number; Current icon list display means for selecting a predetermined number of icons as current icons from the icons ordered in the list, and displaying these current icons in a list in the window; and displaying icons not selected as the current icons as other icons. It is characterized by comprising: other icon list display means for displaying a list as icons, and list display separation instructing means for separating the display between the current icon list display and the other icon list display.

[0012] Further, regarding the selection of the current icon in the current icon list display means, if the value of the first number of times of activation of the application program does not reach a predetermined number, the icon for activation is not selected as the current icon. It is characterized by having done so.

Further, in the current icon list display means, the first activation count is set to a first order, and the second
With the number of times of activation as the second order, the order is determined so that the icons corresponding to the application programs are arranged in descending order.

[0014] The first number of times of activation and the second number of times of activation are stored for each user such as a doctor, a nurse, and a medical clerk, and the current icon list display means stores the first icon number for each user. A current icon is selected according to the number of times of activation and the second number of times of activation.

Further, there is provided a display control method for an icon applied to a medical care support system for displaying a list of icons for activation related to an application program in a window, wherein the number of times the application program corresponding to the icon is activated is determined by a number of times. Counting each application program as one startup count, and when instructed to reset all the first startup counts, before the resetting, saves each first startup count as a second startup count, and The display order of each icon corresponding to the application program is determined based on the number of times of the first activation and the number of times of the second activation, and a predetermined number of icons are selected as current icons from the icons arranged in a higher order, List these current icons in the window Shows, also an icon that has not been selected as the current icon list as other icons, to isolate the display of the current icon list and other icons list, characterized by.

Further, in the medical care support system for displaying a list of start-up icons related to an application program in a window, a program for controlling the display of the icon, the number of times the application program corresponding to the icon has been started is counted by the number of times. Counting each application program as one startup count, and when instructed to reset all the first startup counts, before the resetting, saves each first startup count as a second startup count, and The display order of each icon corresponding to the application program is determined based on the number of times of the first activation and the number of times of the second activation, and a predetermined number of icons are selected as current icons from the icons arranged in a higher order, These current icons are displayed in the window In a list, and the icons not selected as the current icon are displayed as a list of other icons, and a program for controlling the system such that the display of the current icon list display and the display of the other icon list are separated. A computer-readable storage medium according to the stored medical assistance system,
It is realized by.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration example of a main part of a computer in which a medical care support system according to the present invention is built. Doctors, nurses,
A user such as a medical clerk inputs a user ID, a password, and the like before use, and the user who is currently using the medical care support system is always grasped.

The system control unit 11 is constituted by a microcomputer system including a CPU. In this example, the OS is Windows'95 (registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation) or a window type GU equivalent thereto.
I is used. The keyboard 12 and the mouse 13 function as input means, and the keyboard 12 is used by a user to give various instructions and to input characters,
The mouse 13 is used as a GUI pointing device. Note that other input means, for example, a trackball, a touch panel, or the like may be used instead of the mouse 13. The display control unit 14 controls the display 1 such as an LCD or a CRT according to the control of the system control unit 11.
5 is controlled.

The system control unit 11 determines the number of application programs started by the system for each user,
It has a first activation number counting means 1102 for counting for each application program, and the activation number is stored in the first activation number counting file 17 as a record for each user. Then, the first activation number counting means 110
The number of starts counted in step 2 is reset by a user's instruction.

When the reset is instructed, the number of activations for each user and each application program stored up to that time is stored by the second activation number storage unit 1103.
The second start count is stored in the second start count storage file 18. The number of activations is counted and stored for each user in order to grasp the number of activations of each application program for each user.

If the number of activations is counted for a long time, the number of activations becomes too large, and the following phenomenon occurs when comparing the number of activations of each application program. For example, even if an application program is activated many times, if the number of past activations of another application program is large, the number of activations of the application program cannot easily reach the number of activations. Therefore, it becomes difficult to reflect the recent tendency of the application program to be started. Therefore, the first activation count is reset once, and the accumulated activation count up to that time is stored as a second activation count. And
By comparing the number of startups of each application program in two stages based on the first number of startups and the second number of startups, the above-described phenomenon is less likely to occur.

The system controller 11 has a display 15
In the upper window, there is provided a current icon list display unit 1104 for displaying icons for starting application programs that are used relatively frequently as current icons. The system control unit 11 also includes an other icon list display unit 1105 for displaying icons not displayed as a list as the current icon as other icons, and a list display separation instruction as a unit for separating the current icon list display from the other icon list display. Means 1106.

The file recording / reproducing unit 16 stores the first data in a memory such as a large-capacity storage device or a RAM used in the medical care support system of the present invention in accordance with an instruction from the system control unit 11.
The number of times counted by the number-of-times-of-startup counting unit 1102 is filed as a first number-of-startings count file 17 for each user in the format shown in FIG. The file recording / reproducing unit 16
The record in the first activation count file 17 for the user is read out and temporarily recorded in the memory as the first activation count extraction file 1701 for the user using the medical care support system.

The file recording / reproducing unit 16 stores the first number of starts in the first number-of-starts counting file 17 in accordance with an instruction from the second number-of-starts storage unit 1103 in the second number-of-starts storage file
And stored in the format shown in FIG. Further, the file recording / reproducing unit 16 stores the second activation count storage file 1 for the user.
8 is read out and temporarily recorded in the memory as a second activation count extraction file 1801 relating to the user using the present medical care support system.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing, by item, the contents of an application management master 19 for managing application programs used in the present system. In FIG. 2, a record number 201 in the master is a number indicating the order of records recorded in the application management master 19. The application ID 202 is the id of the application program having the application program name 204. Default sequence number 20
Reference numeral 3 denotes a default sequence number for displaying a list of current icons in the window, and a list of current icons is displayed in the window when the first activation count file 17 or the second activation count storage file cannot be used for some reason. Used as order. The startup icon address 205 is an address of a file having an image of the current icon displayed in a list in the window.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the contents of records in the first activation count file 17 for each item. The record number 301 in the file, the user ID 302 as an identification code of each user, the user name 303, and the present invention When using the system, a user password 304 for first requesting an input and confirming the authenticity of the user is valid, indicating the number of first activation times recorded in a record in the first activation count file 17. The number of applications (hereinafter, also referred to as APL) 305 and the first number of activations 306 corresponding to each of APL1 to APLn. The first activation number extraction file 1701 has the same format as the first activation number counting file 17.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing, by item, the contents of the second activation number storage file 18 in which the first activation number counting file is stored. The meanings of the items denoted by reference numerals 401 to 406 are the same as those in FIG. It is. The second startup count extraction file 1801 has the same format as the second startup count storage file 18.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a screen in which the current icons for starting an application program are listed as a selection menu. This screen is an example of a screen in the case where the user is a doctor, for example. In the icon list display area 502 in the figure, current icons 1, 2, 3,.
4 and 5 are displayed, and these current icons are icons frequently used by the user. Actually, for example, as these current icons, icons for starting an application program such as input of patient medical care information, input of a visit patient, patient search, inquiry input, finding input, and change of person in charge are displayed. A menu scroll button 501 is used to scroll and display icons that have not been displayed in the icon list display area 502 by scrolling the area, and control the scroll direction with left and right arrows.

FIG. 6 shows a screen example similar to FIG. 5, but differs from FIG. 5 in that the icons displayed in the icon list display area 502 are not the current icons but the other icons. The startup icon displayed there is an icon that is relatively unused by the user.

Next, a control procedure of the operation of the medical care support system of the present invention performed by the computer having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

Before proceeding to the processing of this flowchart,
It is assumed that the user has already been designated by the keyboard 12, the mouse 13, or the like, and the system has been operated. Further, the first startup number extraction file 1701 for each user and the second startup number extraction file 1801 for each user are already in the first startup. It is assumed that the file is extracted from the number-of-times counting file 17 and the second number-of-startups saving file 18.

In this flowchart, the application IDs are arranged in the order of the number of activations, and the icons corresponding to the application IDs in the higher rank are displayed in a list. Even if the icon corresponds to the ID,
If the first and second startup counts of the application do not reach the predetermined count, control is performed so as not to be displayed in a list, so that only the application startup icons used by the user to some extent are displayed. It is also possible to do what you want.

STEP 10: In this step, the application ID 803 is used by using the first activation number 306 and the second activation number 406 for each application program in the first activation number extraction file 1701 and the second activation number extraction file 1801. (A table used for table sorting (sorting) and having a format shown in FIG. 8) is created. Here, in the present embodiment, the application ID is represented by a continuous number, and the number of startups in the first startup number extraction file 1701 and the second startup number extraction file 1801 is the application ID.
Are recorded in this order. Then this sort table is
The first number of starts is sorted in a first descending order, and the second number of starts is sorted in a second descending order (a commonly known table sort is used for this sort).

A predetermined number of application IDs 803 positioned in the upper part of the sort table are taken out.
The following processing is performed for each application ID 803. First, an application ID 202 in the application management master 19 is searched for each application ID 803, and the same application I
Find the record with D. Next, the image of the icon to be displayed as the activation icon is read from the icon file by the activation icon address 205 in the record. Then, using the icon image and the application program name 204,
The name and the icon are displayed in the list display area 502 (see FIG. 5). Since the icon displayed here is an activation icon related to an application positioned at a higher position in the sort table, it is an icon corresponding to the “current icon” described in FIG. Note that the number of application IDs 803 to be processed here is only a predetermined number as the number of current icons, and does not mean the number of icons that can be displayed in the list display area 502.

STEP 20: In this step, STEP
On the screen (see FIG. 5) in which the current icons created in step 10 are displayed (see FIG. 5) or in the screen (see FIG. 6) in which the "other icons" created in STEP 30 are displayed in a list, the user uses the mouse Waiting for instruction by 13. If the user has instructed the list display separation instruction button 503, S
Proceed to TEP30. When the user designates an icon in the list display area 502, the process proceeds to STEP40. When the icon desired by the user is not displayed in list display area 502, menu scroll button 501 is displayed.
By operating the icon, the icon displayed in the list display area 502 can be changed. Since this scroll operation is controlled by the OS of the present system, it will not be described in this flowchart.

STEP 30: In this STEP, it is determined whether or not the current icon is currently displayed in the icon list display area 502, and if it is not displayed, the process returns to STEP 10. If the current icon is displayed, the application ID located at a higher position in the sort table created in STEP10
803 is excluded by a predetermined number, and its name and icon are displayed in the list display area 502 for each of the remaining application IDs 803 in the same manner as in STEP 10 (see FIG. 6). The icons in the list display area 502 are startup icons related to the applications in which a predetermined number of application IDs 803 located in the upper part of the sort table are excluded, and thus correspond to the “other icons” described in FIG. Icon. After the display, the process returns to STEP20.

STEP40: This step is performed in STEP2.
0 indicates that one of the application start icons 502 has been designated.
The application program having D will be started.

Therefore, the first activation count extraction file 17
The file is updated by adding 1 to the first activation count corresponding to the application ID among the first activation counts 306 in 01. After that, the record stored in the first activation count file 17 having the same user ID as the user ID in the first activation extraction file 1701 is replaced with the contents of the first activation extraction file 1701. . After performing this replacement, the OS is instructed to start the application program having the application ID, the process returns to STEP 20, and waits for the next icon instruction.

By repeating the processing in the flowchart of FIG. 7 described above, the first number of activations corresponding to each application ID specified there is as follows:
It is added by the number of times the application program has been started. Therefore, the position of each application ID in the sort table is changed each time the process in this flowchart is repeated by sorting the sort table in the first descending order with the first activation number in STEP10. The application ID gradually becomes higher in the sort table). For example, in FIG. 5, if the first activation number of the current icon 4 becomes larger than the first activation number of the previous current icon 3, the current icon 4 in the icon list display area 502 is higher than the position of the current icon 3 (see FIG. 5). 5, left side in the example of FIG. 6).

If the first number of starts has the same value, the second number of starts is specified as the second descending order in STEP10, so that the second number of starts used in the past is large or small. The display order of the icons of the application ID is determined.

The second startup count is based on the fact that the system has been used for a long period of time, and the number of startups held in the first startup count file 17 has become too large. Is the number of orbits provided in order to solve the problem that the icon of the application ID in the application list display area 502 is difficult to be displayed at a higher position. According to a user's instruction, the number of times of activation of the first activation number counting file 17 is stored in the second activation number saving file 18, and all the activation times of the first activation number counting file 17 are reset.

Here, for example, one of the application programs in the medical care support system is one that performs “input of initials information”. This application is
It is assumed that a large number of patients at the first consultation will be accepted (for example, a medical examination for students of the new grade will begin at once).
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing the transition of the display position of the icon for starting the application program on the list display screen.

It is assumed that a user, a medical clerk, instructs to reset all of the first activation counts for the user and starts the application “input of initials information”. At the time of starting, the start icon of the corresponding application program is not displayed on the current icon list display screen exemplified in FIG.
The other icon list display screen (b in FIG. 9) is displayed by the separation instruction button 503, and the “input of initial information” icon in the icon list display area 502 is searched. Input "to start the application program.

Next, the user re-enters "input of initials information".
For the user, the first activation count of the “input initial information” application program is 1 and the first activation count of other than this application program is 0. The “input initial information” icon is displayed first on the current icon list display screen (FIG. 9).
c). Then, the application program can be more easily activated than when "input of initials information" is started earlier.

In the description of the present invention, the icon for activation in the medical care support system is taken as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to such a system, but is applied to a system using a GUI environment. The present invention can also be applied to controlling the activation of a program.

[0047]

As described in detail above, according to the medical care support system of the present invention, the activation icons corresponding to the number of activated application programs are displayed on the activation icon list display screen, and the number of times of use is large. An application program can be started easily. Further, by managing the number of times of activation for each user who uses the system, it becomes possible to activate an application according to the number of times of use (user-oriented) for each user who uses the system. Then, the icons are arranged in the order in which the menu items are automatically displayed according to the user's selection tendency, thereby improving usability. Further, the selection tendency enables the application to be started in consideration of the selection tendency related to the more recent start of the application program, based on the second number of starts.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a main part of a computer in which a medical care support system is built.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing, by item, contents of an application management master that manages application programs.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing item contents of a first activation count file.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing item contents of a second activation count storage file.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a screen on which a current icon for starting an application program is displayed as a selection menu in a list.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a screen on which other icons for activating an application program are listed as a selection menu.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a control procedure related to the display of an activation icon for the operation of the medical care support system of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing a table for rearranging the number of starts for each application in the medical care support system of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing transition of a display position of an icon for starting an application program on a list display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 System control part 12 Keyboard 13 Mouse 14 Display control part 15 Display 1101 CPU 1102 1st start number counting means 1103 2nd start number storage means 1104 Current icon list display means 1105 Other icon list display means 16 File recording / reproducing part 17 1st Startup count file 18 Second startup count save file 19 Application management master

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A medical care support system for displaying a list of icons for activation of application programs in a window, wherein the number of times the application programs corresponding to the icons are activated is counted as a first activation number for each application program. A first activation count counting unit; and a second activation count storage unit that, when instructed to reset all the first activation counts, saves each first activation count as a second activation count before the reset. Determining the display order of the icons corresponding to the application program based on the first number of times of activation and the second number of times of activation, and using a predetermined number of icons as current icons from the icons arranged in a higher order; Select these current icons and add them to the window (C) a current icon list display means for displaying a list in the list, an other icon list display means for displaying a list of icons not selected as the current icon as other icons, and displaying the current icon list display and the other icon list display. A medical treatment support system, comprising: a list display separation instruction unit for separating. 2. A method for selecting a current icon in the current icon list display means, wherein, for an activation icon for which the value of the first activation number of an application program does not reach a predetermined number, the icon is selected as a current icon. The medical care support system according to claim 1, wherein the medical care support system does not perform the medical care. 3. In the current icon list display means, icons corresponding to the respective application programs are arranged in descending order by setting the first number of activations to a first order and the second number of activations to a second order. The medical care support system according to claim 1, wherein the order is determined. 4. The first activation number and the second activation number are stored for each user such as a doctor, a nurse, a medical clerk, etc., and the current icon list display means outputs the first icon number for each user. The medical care support system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a current icon is selected based on the number of times of activation and the second number of times of activation. 5. An icon display control method applied to a medical care support system for displaying a list of start icons related to an application program in a window, wherein the number of times the application program corresponding to the icon is started is determined by a number of times. Counting each application program as one startup count, and when instructed to reset all of the first startup counts, before the resetting, saves each first startup count as a second startup count; The display order of each icon corresponding to the application program is determined based on the first activation count and the second activation count, and a predetermined number of icons are selected as current icons from the icons arranged in a higher order, List these current icons in the window An icon that is not selected as the current icon is displayed as a list of other icons, and the display of the current icon list is separated from the display of the other icon list. Method. 6. A medical care support system for displaying a list of icons for startup related to an application program in a window, wherein the program controls display of the icon, and counts the number of times the application program corresponding to the icon is started. Counting each application program as one startup count, and when instructed to reset all of the first startup counts, before the resetting, saves each first startup count as a second startup count; The display order of each icon corresponding to the application program is determined based on the number of times of the first activation and the number of times of the second activation, and a predetermined number of icons are selected as current icons from the icons arranged in a higher order, Put these current icons in the window In a list, and icons not selected as the current icon are displayed as a list of other icons, and the display of the current icon list and the display of the other icon list are separated from each other. A computer-readable storage medium according to the stored medical care support system.