JP2002157340A - Animal medical care supporting system and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To support an animal medical care by providing information useful to a breeder. SOLUTION: This animal medical care supporting system is provided with a medical examination information data base in which medical treatment information from a veterinarian is recorded, and worked information for encouraging breeders to participate in events is provided to each breeder by using the medical examination information recorded in the medical examination information data base. Therefore, it is possible not only to make medical records electronic, but also to provide various event information useful to the breeders. Thus, it is possible to support an animal medical care.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to the Internet,
The present invention relates to a veterinary medical support system, a veterinary medical support method, and a recording medium using a network (communication network) such as personal computer communication.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an animal hospital for medical treatment of animals such as dogs and cats, a medical chart is created for each animal treated, and the contents are recorded and stored for each medical treatment. In medical treatment for humans, various techniques for digitizing and storing medical records have been proposed, and those techniques have begun to be applied to medical treatment for animals.

[0003]

Recently, vaccines and drugs for preventing diseases such as dogs and cats have been developed. In order to effectively prevent disease using these vaccines and the like, it is necessary to inoculate them regularly.
However, except for those that are required to be vaccinated, such as rabies vaccinations, it is up to the breeder to decide whether or not to receive other vaccines. In fact, there are many breeders who miss the opportunity to receive such events regularly.

On the other hand, various seminars on disease prevention for dogs and cats have been held, and many of these seminars are intended for general breeders. This is because it is generally difficult for the organizer of the seminar to identify breeders by type of animal or disease, so it is not possible to narrow down the seminar holding notice to specific breeders and notify them. is there. For this reason, the breeders who were trainees were not always satisfied.

[0005] In spite of these circumstances, conventional veterinary hospitals require that breeders be vaccinated in situations other than animal examination and treatment, due to the busyness of daily medical activities. Insufficient follow-up, such as prompting or providing appropriate information to each breeder, was not possible. In addition, the introduction of the electronic medical record system only improved the efficiency of medical affairs, and did not lead to the follow-up activities for breeders as described above.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides useful information to breeders not only by digitizing medical records but also by utilizing data recorded in the electronic medical records. To support animal healthcare.

[0007]

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a medical information database in which medical information of an animal is recorded and a medical information database transmitted from a terminal device connected via a communication network. Receiving means for receiving medical information including breeder information from a veterinarian, and recording the medical information in the medical information database; and a target in an arbitrary event based on data in the medical information recorded in the medical information database. Means for searching for an animal and outputting processing information for prompting participation in an event for each breeder based on the breeder information of the target animal. The invention according to claim 2 calculates a scheduled vaccination date for the next time based on the previous vaccination date in the medical information recorded in the medical information database, and calculates a scheduled vaccination date to be recorded in the medical information database. Means, based on the scheduled vaccination date in the medical care information recorded in the medical care information database, it is possible to extract the breeder information of the animal whose scheduled vaccination date comes at a predetermined time, and the event information 2. The veterinary medical support system according to claim 1, wherein the vaccination information can be output for each breeder. According to a third aspect of the present invention, the event information is predetermined seminar holding information, and the target animal in the seminar is identified by the type of animal, animal breed, and date of birth in the medical information recorded in the medical information database. The search based on at least one of a day and a disease name, and the seminar holding information as the event information can be output for each breeder based on the breeder information of the target animal. To provide a veterinary medical support system. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, when the medical treatment information from the veterinarian received by the receiving means includes ordering information of food to be administered to an animal, the ordering information is associated with breeder information. The system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising an order information recording means for recording the order information in the order information database.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process related to animal medical support based on information transmitted from a terminal device via a communication network, But,
A receiving procedure for receiving medical information including breeder information from a veterinarian transmitted from a terminal device connected via a communication network and recording the medical information in the medical information database, and a medical procedure recorded in the medical information database A search procedure for searching for a target animal at an arbitrary event based on the data in the information, and an output procedure for outputting processing information for promoting participation in the event for each breeder based on the breeder information of the target animal are provided. A recording medium is provided. Claim 6
The present invention described above is characterized in that the program calculates the next vaccination schedule date based on the previous vaccination date in the medical information recorded in the medical information database, and records the vaccination schedule to be recorded in the medical information database. It is possible to extract the breeder information of the animal whose scheduled vaccination date comes at a predetermined time based on the scheduled vaccination date in the medical information recorded in the medical information database by the search procedure. 6. The recording medium according to claim 5, wherein vaccination information as the event information can be output for each breeder by the output procedure. According to the present invention as set forth in claim 7, the event information is predetermined seminar holding information, and the program uses the search procedure to select a target animal in the seminar.
Searchable based on at least one of the animal type, animal breed, date of birth or disease name in the medical information recorded in the medical information database, and based on the breeder information of the target animal, the output procedure Thus, the recording medium according to claim 5 or 6, wherein seminar holding information can be output as the event information for each breeder. The present invention according to claim 8 is that the program breeds the order information when the medical information from the veterinarian received by the receiving procedure includes order information of food to be administered to the animal. The recording medium according to any one of claims 5 to 7, further comprising an order information recording procedure for recording the order information in an order information database in association with user information.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail based on embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an animal medical support system according to one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in this figure, the veterinary medical support system 10 according to the present embodiment includes a terminal device 2 that can be used by a veterinarian.
0 and a terminal device 30 owned by the animal breeder are connected via a communication network 40.

The veterinary medical support system 10 comprises a computer, as shown in FIG. 1, a main control unit 11 comprising a CPU and the like, a storage unit 12 comprising a memory and a hard disk drive, etc. It has hardware such as an input unit 14 composed of a keyboard, a mouse and the like connected via the unit 13 and an output unit 15 composed of a display, a printer and the like.

In the storage unit 12, a predetermined OS is installed, and a program 121 functioning as a control means for performing the animal medical support method according to the present embodiment is installed. An order information database 123 is formed.

The program 121 in this embodiment is
A receiving procedure (means) 121a for receiving information input and transmitted through the veterinarian's terminal device 20 or the like, and an output procedure (means) for outputting information to the breeder's terminal device 30 or the like.
121b, a search procedure (means) 121c for accessing and accessing the medical information database 122 and the like, a scheduled vaccination date calculation procedure (means) 121d for calculating the next scheduled vaccination date, etc., and food ordering information And the like in an order information database 123 to be described later. Note that these operations will be described later.

The medical information database 122 stores medical information including breeder information. The breeder information includes information unique to the breeder, such as the name, address, age, gender, telephone number, and e-mail address of the breeder of the animal treated by the veterinarian. The medical treatment information includes, in addition to the breeder information, animal-specific information such as animal type, animal breed, animal nickname, sex distinction, date of birth, animal medical condition, etc. Information that should be described in a normal medical record, such as the date of medical treatment, details of the medical treatment, and information on the veterinarian who performed the treatment (including information on the animal hospital to which the veterinarian belongs) is included.

In the order information database 123, order information of food to be administered to the animal according to the instruction of the veterinarian is recorded and stored in association with the breeder information. The order information referred to here is ordered when a veterinarian examines an animal and determines that a specific food (dock food, cat food, etc.) should be administered to the animal in order to treat the disease or improve the constitution. Information about the food, such as the name of the food, the name of the food manufacturing and sales company, the date of order, the date of delivery, the name of the veterinarian who ordered the food, or the name of the animal hospital to which the veterinarian belongs. Contains the information needed for

Next, the operation of the veterinary medical support system 10 according to the present embodiment will be described. Animal medical support system 1
0 is connected via the communication network 40 to the terminal devices 20 and 30 of the veterinarian or the breeder, the main control unit 11 detects through the input / output control unit 13 and stores the program stored in the storage unit 12. According to 121, predetermined communication is performed with these terminal devices 20 and 30. FIG. 2 shows such a program 121.
6 is a flowchart showing the operation procedure of FIG.

Specifically, first, the terminal device 20 of the veterinarian
Is connected via a communication network, the program 121
Is output by the output procedure 121b.
A screen for inputting the medical care information is transmitted (S10).
1). The veterinarian or his / her assistant inputs medical information including breeder information according to the screen, and the veterinary medical support system 1
Send to 0. However, the input means is optional, for example,
Information described in a paper chart can also be captured using a scanner.

Receiving procedure 12 constituting the program 121
1a has a function of receiving the transmitted information and storing the information in an area of a hard disk or a memory constituting the storage unit 12. In the present embodiment, according to the receiving procedure 121a, the medical information transmitted from the terminal device 20 of the veterinarian is received (S102), and the received medical information is formed in the storage unit 12 through a checking step (S103) described later. The information is recorded in the completed medical information database 122 (S105). The medical information referred to here includes the date of the medical treatment, the contents of the medical treatment, information on the veterinarian who performed the medical treatment, and information on the animal who received the medical treatment (for example, the type of animal, the animal breed, the nickname of the animal, , The date of birth, medical condition, etc.), as well as information (for example, name, address, e-mail address, etc.) on the breeder of the treated animal. Therefore, the screen for inputting the above medical information usually includes items for inputting these pieces of information.

If medical information from a veterinarian is received by the above-mentioned receiving procedure 121a, in the present embodiment, the received medical information from the veterinarian is received by an order information recording procedure 121e constituting the program 121 in the present embodiment. It is checked whether or not the order information of the food to be administered to the animal is included (S103). If the order information is included, the order information is associated with the breeder information in the medical treatment information and stored in the storage unit 12 (S104). Thus, by utilizing the order information recorded in the order information database 123, for example, the operator (including the owner or the administrator) of the veterinary medical support system 10 can place an order with a food manufacturing and selling company. And food can be delivered to each breeder. In this way, by being able to centrally manage the process from ordering food to delivery to each breeder, each veterinarian does not need to keep stock of food, and each breeder can receive food at home. become able to.

In this embodiment, even when order information is included in the received medical information from the veterinarian, the medical information including the order information is simultaneously recorded in the medical information database 122. On the other hand, when the order information is not included, the received medical information from the veterinarian is recorded in the medical information database 122 as it is.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the medical care information transmitted from the terminal device 20 of the veterinarian is accumulated in the medical care information database 122. The medical information accumulated in the medical information database 122 as described above is preferably set to be able to be transmitted to the terminal device 20 of the veterinarian by the output procedure 121b at any time when requested by the veterinarian. . However, in this case, the terminal device 2 of the veterinarian
In order to prevent occurrence of inconsistency in accumulated data between the database formed in the medical information database 122 and the medical information database 122, the medical information recorded in the medical information database 122 uses new medical information from a veterinarian. It is preferable to make settings so that they are updated each time they are received. Further, it is preferable that the history of the medical treatment information is set to be recordable so that the past medical record can be referred to. The history of the medical information may be set so as to be recorded and stored in the medical information database 122 in association with the treated animal, or the history information database may be stored in the storage unit 12 separately from the medical information database 122. The history information database may be formed so as to be recorded and stored in the history information database in association with the treated animal. As described above, the veterinary medical support system 10 according to the present embodiment includes the medical care information database 122 that stores medical care information, and accesses the medical care information database 122 from the veterinarian's terminal device 20 (writes medical care information). And read-out), it is possible to realize the digitization of the medical record without putting an excessive burden on the veterinarian for introducing the electronic medical record system, and to facilitate the storage of the medical record. It is possible.

Retrieval procedure 12 constituting program 121
1c has a function of searching the medical care information database 122 at a predetermined time based on arbitrary data in the medical care information recorded in the medical care information database 122, and extracting animal breeder information corresponding to the data. When a search is performed by the search procedure 121c, data serving as a search condition can be arbitrarily selected from data in the medical care information recorded in the medical care information database 122 in accordance with the content of the event information. In addition, it is preferable that the time to execute the search is set in advance in accordance with the content of the event information. For example, if the event information is a content that is regularly notified to the breeder, such as vaccination, it is preferable to set in advance to execute the search at a predetermined date and time every month. The event information referred to here is information that is provided to the breeders and is useful for the prevention or treatment of animal diseases, and information that encourages the breeders to take an active action, such as vaccination information And seminar holding information are given as specific examples, but are not limited to these, and can be set arbitrarily.

When providing vaccination information as event information, for example, in this embodiment, the program 121
According to the scheduled vaccination date calculation procedure 121d, the next scheduled vaccination date is calculated based on the previous vaccination date in the medical care information recorded in the medical care information database 122, and the calculated planned vaccination date is calculated. It is recorded in the medical information database 122 in advance (S106). Then, at a predetermined time set in advance, a search of the medical care information database 122 by the search procedure 121c is executed (S10).
7). At this time, the search condition is set in the medical information database 12.
Based on the scheduled vaccination date in the medical information recorded in 2,
As a result of the search, breeder information of animals whose scheduled vaccination date comes at a predetermined time is extracted.

If the breeder information of the animal whose scheduled vaccination date comes at a predetermined time is extracted by the search procedure 121c, the vaccination information as processing information for prompting participation in the event is output. In the embodiment, as the means, vaccination information for urging the breeder to receive a vaccination is transmitted to the terminal device 30 of the breeder by the output means 121b constituting the program 121 (S108). As described above, according to the present embodiment, the breeder is encouraged to take an active action regarding vaccination, and the breeder is regularly vaccinated without losing the opportunity for the animals that he or she keeps. be able to.

On the other hand, when providing, for example, seminar holding information as event information, the search procedure 121c is performed at a predetermined time set in advance according to the holding time of the seminar.
Search of the medical information database 122 is performed (S108). At this time, a search is performed based on at least one of the animal type, animal breed, date of birth, or disease name in the medical care information recorded in the medical care information database 122, and as a result, the target animal in the seminar is extracted.
Then, by the output procedure 121b, seminar holding information is transmitted to the terminal device 30 of the breeder of the target animal as processing information for prompting participation in the event. As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to extract a breeder who is a subject of a seminar by using the medical treatment information recorded in the medical treatment information database 122. If it is related to a disease and the disease has been shown to be susceptible to some kind of animal in the past, narrow down the search to animals that are already sick or those that are susceptible to the disease. It is possible to provide the keeper of the animal with the information on the holding of the seminar.

The recording medium on which the program 121 functioning as the control means is recorded includes a hard disk of a computer constituting the veterinary medical support system 10, a magnetic disk such as a flexible disk, and a CD-ROM. And optical disks such as DVDs, magneto-optical disks such as MOs and MDs, and semiconductor cards such as IC cards. Further, the program 121 is provided via a communication line using a hard disk drive, a semiconductor memory, or the like of an arbitrary computer (not shown) connected to the veterinary medical support system 10 via a communication network 40 as a recording medium. You can also. Further, the program may be provided by a single recording medium, or the program 12
1 may be divided and stored in a plurality of recording media and provided.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention,
In addition to digitizing the medical record, it is possible to use the medical information recorded in the medical information database to provide useful event information to the breeders, and to support animal medical care. In addition, when the system is equipped with an ordering information database, it is possible to centrally manage from ordering food to be administered to the animal to delivery to each breeder in order to treat and improve the constitution of the animal. Thus, the burden on veterinarians and breeders can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a schematic configuration of a veterinary medical support system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining an operation procedure of a program as a control unit according to the embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 animal medical support system 11 main control unit 12 storage unit 121 program 121a receiving procedure (means) 121b output procedure (means) 121c search procedure (means) 121d scheduled vaccination date calculation procedure (means) 121e order information recording procedure (means) 122 Medical Information Database 123 Order Information Database 13 Input / Output Control Unit 14 Input Unit 15 Output Unit 20 Veterinary Terminal Device 30 Breeder Terminal Device 40 Communication Network

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A medical treatment information database in which medical treatment information of an animal is recorded, and medical treatment information including breeder information from a veterinarian transmitted from a terminal device connected via a communication network are received. Receiving means for recording in an information database; searching for a target animal in an arbitrary event based on data in the medical treatment information recorded in the medical treatment information database; participating in the event based on breeder information of the target animal And a means for outputting processing information for prompting the breeders for each breeder. 2. A vaccination schedule date calculating means for calculating a next vaccination schedule date based on a previous vaccination date in the medical information recorded in the medical information database and recording the date in the medical information database. Based on the scheduled vaccination date in the medical care information recorded in the medical care information database, it is possible to extract the breeder information of animals whose scheduled vaccination date comes at a predetermined time, and to prevent the animal as the event information. The animal medical support system according to claim 1, wherein the inoculation information can be output for each breeder. 3. The event information is predetermined seminar holding information, and the target animal in the seminar is determined by the type of animal, animal breed, date of birth or disease name in the medical information recorded in the medical information database. The animal medical support according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a search is performed based on at least one, and seminar holding information as the event information can be output for each breeder based on the breeder information of the target animal. system. 4. When an order information of a food to be administered to an animal is included in the medical information from a veterinarian received by the receiving means, the order information is associated with breeder information and an order information database. 4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an order information recording means for recording the order information.
2. The animal medical support system according to item 1. 5. A recording medium recording a program for causing a computer to execute a process related to animal medical support based on information transmitted from a terminal device via a communication network, wherein the program is executed via the communication network. A receiving procedure for receiving medical information including breeder information from a veterinarian transmitted from a terminal device connected thereto and recording the medical information in the medical information database; and data in the medical information recorded in the medical information database. Based on the above, a search procedure for searching for a target animal in an arbitrary event, and an output procedure for outputting processing information for promoting participation in the event for each breeder based on the breeder information of the target animal are provided. Recording medium. 6. The scheduled vaccination date to be calculated by the program based on the previous vaccination date in the medical information recorded in the medical information database and the next scheduled vaccination date to be recorded in the medical information database. Comprising a calculation procedure, based on the scheduled vaccination date in the medical care information recorded in the medical care information database, by the search procedure, it is possible to extract the breeder information of the animal whose scheduled vaccination date comes at a predetermined time 6. The recording medium according to claim 5, wherein the output procedure can output the vaccination information as the event information for each breeder. 7. The program according to claim 7, wherein the event information is predetermined seminar holding information, and the program
The target animal in the seminar can be searched based on at least one of the animal type, animal breed, date of birth or disease name in the medical treatment information recorded in the medical treatment information database, and the breeder information of the target animal can be retrieved. 7. The recording medium according to claim 5, wherein the output procedure can output seminar holding information as the event information for each breeder. 8. 8. When the program includes order information of food to be administered to an animal in the medical information from a veterinarian received in the receiving procedure, the program associates the order information with breeder information. The recording medium according to any one of claims 5 to 7, further comprising an order information recording procedure for recording the order information in an order information database.