JP2001060239A - Method for specifying and inputting patient's region - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hospital order system with functions of accurately specifying and inputting a region of a patient and accurately transmitting region information on a patient to an examination department at the time of order generation. SOLUTION: A three-dimensional image of a patient oneself is displayed on a region input picture for order generation and a doctor directly specifies the position and range of a necessary part on the image. Issued order contents are transmitted to the examination department and an examiner which implements the order confirms the position and range of the region of the patient that the doctor has specified through the three-dimensional image of the patient, so that the doctor who generates the order can accurately specify and input the region of the patient while individual differences of the build of the patient are reflected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an order system in a hospital, and more particularly to a method of inputting designation of a part of a patient. The order system is a system that connects a medical examination room in a hospital to each department online, and transmits various slips such as prescriptions and sample tests issued by a doctor to a patient in the consultation room to each department.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, in an order system used in a hospital, some orders created by a doctor designate a part of a patient's body. Examples of such an order include an inspection for performing an image diagnosis such as an X-ray diagnosis and a computer tomography diagnosis. In these orders, it is necessary to specify a region to be imaged.

In the prior art, a part is represented by a part name, and a doctor performs designation input of a part by selecting a corresponding part name on a part designation screen when creating an order. FIG. 4 shows an example of the prior art, and a method of selecting a part name in a hierarchical manner from a large classification to a small classification is adopted as a method of selecting a part name.
When a part 42 corresponding to a large classification is selected 43 on the two-dimensional human body diagram 41, the part names included in the classification are displayed as small classifications in a corresponding item list 44, and a part name to be designated is selected from the list. FIG. 5 is an example of a conventional technique realized by means different from that of FIG. 4, and employs a format 51 for displaying a large classification and a small classification simultaneously.

[0004]

As described in the above-mentioned prior art, according to the expression method using the determined part name, individual differences in the patient's body type such as age, gender, height / low height, fat / thinness, etc. Cannot be expressed. In addition, information on a diseased site cannot be appropriately reflected.
Therefore, when creating an order, a physician needs to write a huge amount of comment information in order to accurately specify a part. Further, it is difficult to accurately transmit the position and range of the part specified by the doctor to the laboratory technician who performs the order. Furthermore, since the laboratory technician cannot obtain information on the patient's body shape in advance, it is not possible to make sufficient preparations, and there is a problem in that the patient has to wait for a long time when performing the test.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to accurately input a patient's part at the time of order creation and to transmit accurate patient's part information to an examination department.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a three-dimensional image of the patient is used for inputting a part. A three-dimensional image of the patient himself is displayed on the part input screen at the time of order creation, and the doctor directly specifies the position and range of the part required on the image on the image. The issued order contents are transmitted to the inspection department, and the laboratory technician who executes the order confirms the position and range of the part of the patient specified by the doctor based on the three-dimensional image of the patient.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 3 shows the flow of each operation of a nurse, a doctor, and a laboratory technician that occurs from the creation of a three-dimensional image of a patient to the execution of an order when the method for specifying a part of a patient according to the present invention is used. It is shown.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the image acquisition means of the present invention.

[0010] Before receiving a doctor's consultation, the patient 11 performs a camera photograph of the whole body from three directions of the front 12, lateral 13 and upper 14 (31). Since the photographing by the camera may be performed by a doctor other than the doctor in charge, the photographing can be performed by a doctor or nurse other than the doctor in charge at the time of a pre-examination or a waiting time until the examination. Next, the images 15, 16 and 17 taken from three directions are taken into the system (32), and the three-dimensional image 1 of the patient is taken.
8 and displayed on the order terminal (33). Here, images other than the patient's body, such as the clothes of the patient and the background of the imaging location, are also captured from the images captured from three directions. In such a case, a modeling technique is applied to model the human body. Is applied to the captured image, only the body of the patient can be created as a three-dimensional image. The captured image is stored as physical information of the patient.

In this example, images are acquired from three directions: front, side, and upper. However, in order to acquire more detailed information, images are acquired in three directions, such as front, back, right, left, and upper. Needless to say, an image may be acquired with more information than the acquired information and combined and displayed as a three-dimensional image. Further, in order to obtain detailed information on the diseased part of the patient, only the diseased part, not the whole body, may be photographed and synthesized and displayed as a three-dimensional image.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a method for specifying a part of a patient. When a part is designated, a three-dimensional image 21 of the whole body of the patient is displayed on the part input screen. When the part to be specified on the three-dimensional image is selected 22,
The part is enlarged and displayed 23. Rotate the enlarged image as necessary to display the part from the direction you want to specify 2
4 The doctor who creates the order designates the position of the part and the range 25 from the rotated and displayed image and performs input 26 (35). Here, it goes without saying that the enlargement / rotation designation method may be realized by using a function button or the like.

The image information of the patient is sent to the examination department as a part of the order information (37). The laboratory technician who performs the order confirms the contents of the order together with the three-dimensional image of the patient whose part is specified (38). The laboratory technician prepares the inspection equipment according to the patient's body type before the patient arrives at the inspection department (39), and executes the order when the patient arrives at the inspection department (40).

[0014]

According to the present invention, the following effects can be expected.

The physician who creates the order can input an accurate designation of the part of the patient reflecting the individual differences of the patient's body type.

A doctor who creates an order can visually select a site, thereby facilitating a patient's site designation input.

The part information of the patient can be accurately transmitted to the laboratory technician who performs the order.

The laboratory technician who performs the order can know the patient's body shape in advance, and can make sufficient preparations for the inspection equipment. As a result, the waiting time of the patient when performing the examination can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing an example of a three-dimensional image acquiring means of a patient of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a method of inputting a part specification of a patient using a three-dimensional image of the patient himself.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart from creation of a three-dimensional image of a patient to order execution.

FIG. 4 is a view showing an example of a method for inputting a patient's part designation using a display format according to the related art.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a method of inputting a part designation of a patient using a conventional display format.

[Explanation of symbols]

11: Applicable patient, 12: Camera for photographing the front direction, 13:
Camera for horizontal photography, 14 ... Camera for upward photography, 15
... front direction image, 16 ... lateral image, 17 ... upward image, 18 ... three-dimensional image of the patient, 21 ... three-dimensional image of the patient itself, 22 ... arrow to select, 23 ... enlarged view, 2
4 ... rotation diagram, 25 ... position and range of designated part, 26 ...
Arrows to be selected, 33: Processing performed by the system after capturing images taken by the nurse into the system, 37: Processing performed by the system after the doctor issues an order, 41: Two-dimensional human body diagram, 42: Large classification Part (head in this case), 43: arrow to be selected, 44: list of part name items as minor classifications, 51: simultaneous display format of major and minor classifications.

Claims (8)

[Claims] In a hospital order system, a three-dimensional image is used to specify a part of a patient. 2. The input method according to claim 1, wherein a three-dimensional image of the patient is used. 3. The three-dimensional image according to claim 2, wherein
A patient part designation inputting method characterized by having at least one of rotation, enlargement, and reduction functions. 4. The three-dimensional image according to claim 2, wherein
A patient part designation input method comprising a function of designating a range of a part to be imaged and a position represented by a part. 5. The input method according to claim 2, wherein a three-dimensional image of the whole body of the patient is used. 6. The input method according to claim 2, wherein a three-dimensional image of a disease site of the patient is used. 7. The input method according to claim 2, further comprising a function of transmitting a three-dimensional image of the patient to another department represented by a radiation department. . 8. The input method according to claim 4, further comprising a function of transmitting a three-dimensional image of the patient and information of an imaging part to another department represented by a radiation department. Patient site designation input method.