JP2002304473A - Information management system and information management method for home medical care - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information management system and information management method for home medical care capable of smoothening the information exchange among a patient, the doctor of a hospital examining the patient, and a home care equipment provider in a home medical care using home care equipment, and efficiently performing the visit to the patient's home by the provider. SOLUTION: This information management system connected to a network properly stores the result information and demand information transmitted from the home care equipment provider terminal and the hospital terminal through the network every patient, and provides the requested result information and demand information on a screen with the position of the patient's home displayed on a map when receiving an information providing request from the provider terminal or hospital terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information management system for home medical treatment using home medical equipment, and more particularly, to a patient who receives home medical care, a doctor at a hospital who examines the patient, and a supplier of home medical equipment. The present invention relates to a home medical care information management system and the like which can smoothly and efficiently exchange information during the home medical care.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, patients who receive home medical treatment such as home oxygen therapy and home ventilator therapy are in charge of providing appropriate therapy and having proper use of equipment used for home medical care. Medical examination and guidance are provided by a doctor. Usually, after receiving guidance at the hospital on the use of home medical equipment to be used when newly starting home medical treatment, the patient visits the hospital regularly or timely, and visits the hospital to see a doctor in charge. Receiving guidance. The outpatient diagnosis date may be determined when the patient visits the hospital, or may be determined by telephone or the like when the patient or doctor determines that it is necessary.

In addition, a home medical device supplier (hereinafter referred to as a “supplier”) that supplies home medical devices used in the patient's home is required to operate the home medical devices on a regular or necessary basis. At that time, a maintenance staff is dispatched to the patient's home to check medical equipment at home and exchange consumables. In addition, the supplier dispatches instructors such as nurses to the patient's home in a timely manner in order to supplement the above-mentioned consultation and guidance in the hospital, and provides guidance to the patients and checks the status of the patients.

[0004] Usually, such maintenance staff and instructors (hereinafter collectively referred to as persons in charge) belong to the sales offices and the like owned by the supplier for each region, and the sales offices and the like have jurisdiction over them. To the patient's home in the area where Then, various information obtained when the person in charge visits the patient's home or the like is provided from the supplier to the doctor in charge of the patient as appropriate. The information provided includes data on the use of home medical devices and information on the living conditions of patients acquired when the instructor visited. In addition, when visiting a patient's home, the person in charge contacts each patient and adjusts the schedule of the visit.

On the other hand, the doctor at the hospital refers to the above-mentioned various information submitted by the supplier, makes an outpatient consultation, and instructs the instructor of the supplier about future visits and guidance. If he wanted to, he would contact him by phone or other means and give instructions.

As described above, home medical care using home medical equipment is performed with the cooperation of a patient, a doctor, and a supplier.

[0007]

However, the above 3)
As described above, the communication between the parties is often made by telephone or the like, and the provision of the information is also made on paper, thus causing the following problems.

[0008] For patients, it is necessary to contact the person in charge of the above-mentioned sales office when the home medical equipment being used is in abnormal condition. There was inconvenience that we could not get.

[0009] Further, as described above, the supplier has to contact the patient to be visited by the person in charge by telephone or the like to adjust and plan the visit, which is troublesome. In particular, in the case of a new person in charge who is not used to the area, the order of visits was often inefficient. In addition, information exchange between the person in charge and the doctor at the hospital was often not conducted closely because both parties were busy.

[0010] On the other hand, on the hospital side, since the information submitted by the supplier is paper, it takes time and effort to file the information and the like, and the hospital may not be using it effectively. In addition, doctors need to contact the person in charge of the patient in order to know the status of the patient in charge, but this is hardly performed in practice because it takes time, and I could only get passive information to see. Furthermore, it takes time to give instructions to the person in charge based on the results of the examination.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a home medical device using a home medical device, in which information can be smoothly exchanged between a patient, a doctor of a hospital who examines the patient, and a provider of the home medical device, and It is an object of the present invention to provide a home medical care information management system and an information management method that enable a supplier to visit a patient's home efficiently.

[0012]

According to one aspect of the present invention, an information management system connected to a network includes a home medical device, a provider terminal, The performance information and request information transmitted from the hospital terminal are stored for each patient in a timely manner, and when there is an information provision request from the supplier terminal or the hospital terminal, the requested performance information and request information are stored in the patient home. Is provided on a screen that represents the position of the user on a map. Therefore, according to the present invention, the patient and the doctor can make a request such as a visit even when the partner is absent, and the supplier can easily grasp the request information. Will be able to do it. In addition, the doctor can easily refer to the various performance information provided by the supplier at any time. Therefore, information exchange between the patient, the doctor, and the supplier can be performed more smoothly than before. Further, since the information to be provided is represented using a map, an efficient plan can be made for a supplier's visit to the patient's home.

Further, in the above-mentioned invention, a preferable mode is that the request information transmitted by the information management system in response to the information provision request from the supplier terminal is a date specified in the information provision request. The information of the patient's home to be visited by the supplier.

Further, in the above invention, another aspect is as follows.
The information on the patient's house to be visited by the supplier includes information on the shortest route when visiting the patient's house. Therefore, even when the person in charge is unfamiliar, it is possible to efficiently visit the patient's house.

[0015] In the above invention, another aspect is as follows.
The information transmission performed by the information management system is performed using a Web page. Therefore, the provider terminal or the hospital terminal only needs to be provided with a general browser, and does not need to have a special function for receiving information provision.

Further objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from the embodiments of the present invention described below.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. However, such embodiments do not limit the technical scope of the present invention.
In the drawings, the same or similar components are denoted by the same reference numerals or reference symbols.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram according to an embodiment of a home medical information management system to which the present invention is applied. In the figure,
The home medical information management system 1 is the above-described system to which the present invention is applied, and includes a network 2 such as the Internet.
Is connected to the home medical device 3, the supplier terminal 5, and the hospital terminal 7 via the PC, and stores various information transmitted from the terminal devices and provides information to the terminal devices. The home medical information management system 1 is a server system including a personal computer, a workstation, and the like, and is installed in an information center of a supplier (a home medical device supplier or the like) described later.

The home medical device 3 in FIG. 1 is a device used by a patient 4 who receives home medical treatment such as home oxygen therapy or home assist ventilation, and is installed in each of the four patient homes. The home medical device 3 is connected to the network 2 and communicates the operation result data and the visit date of the person desired by the patient 4 to the home by means of communication means provided therein or an external communication device (not shown). The information is transmitted to the medical information management system 1. Although not shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of home medical devices 3 exist for the home medical information management system 1.

The supplier terminal 5 shown in the figure is a terminal device such as a personal computer installed at each sales office of a supplier or the like of the home medical device 3 (supplier 6). Used by maintenance staff and instructors. The supplier terminal 5 is connected to the network 2 and has a general e-mail transmission / reception function and a Web page access function, and exchanges information with the home medical information management system 1 using these functions. Do. Although not shown in FIG. 1, there are a plurality of supplier terminals 5 for the home medical information management system 1.

The hospital terminal 7 is a terminal device such as a personal computer installed in a hospital or facility for examining and providing guidance for the patient 4, and is used by a doctor 8 in charge of the patient 4. The hospital terminal 7 is also connected to the network 2 and has a general e-mail transmission / reception function and Web
It has a page access function, and exchanges information with the home medical information management system 1 using these functions. Although not shown in FIG. 1, there are a plurality of hospital terminals 7 for the home medical information management system 1.

Next, as shown in FIG. 1, the inside of the home medical information management system 1 includes a data storage unit 11, an information generation unit 12, an interface unit 13, and the like. First, the data storage section 11 stores map data 21 and patient-specific attribute data 22 as shown in the figure. The map data 21 is electronic data of a map, and is data that is expressed as a map on a screen of a terminal device or the like by means for performing a map representation of information, that is, software for a so-called geographic information system. The map data 21 is used for providing information described below.
Used as a base map. In the data storage unit 11,
For the area covering the home position of all the patients 4 managed by the home medical information management system 1, this map data 2
I have one.

The patient-specific attribute data 22 is data in which various information related to home medical care is stored for each patient 4.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the attribute data 22 for each patient. As shown in the figure, the patient 4 has a patient I for identification.
D is given, and various information is stored for each ID. “Patient home location information” (a in FIG. 2) is information indicating the location of the four patient homes on the map data 21. Is represented by an ID number or the like used for

The “business office ID” and the “physician ID” are IDs representing the business office of the supplier 6 in charge of the patient 4 and the doctor 8 in charge, respectively. In addition, “Visit date” (b in FIG. 2)
The visit date of the person in charge transmitted by the patient 4 from the home medical device 3 is the desired date of the visit, and the “diagnosis date” (c in FIG. 2) is the date of the patient 4 transmitted from the hospital terminal 7 by the doctor 8 in charge. This is the date of the next consultation. These pieces of information on the request, such as “desired visit date” and “diagnosis date”, are hereinafter referred to as request information.

The “driving record” (d in FIG. 2) and the “visit record” (e in FIG. 2) correspond to the home medical device 3 described above.
Is data of various information obtained when the person in charge visits the home of the patient 4. The former is the home medical device 3.
Therefore, the latter is transmitted from the supplier terminal 5. "Visit record"
The information includes, for example, information such as the living condition and the physical condition of the patient 4 which are heard from the patient 4 and the family of the patient 4.
These pieces of information related to the performance such as the “operation performance” and the “visit record” are hereinafter referred to as performance information. The patient-specific attribute data 22 also includes other information not shown.

Next, the information generating section 12 is a section for generating information to be provided in response to an information providing request from the supplier terminal 5 or the hospital terminal 7. Specific information generation procedure
As will be described later, the information generation unit 12 performs the processing for the map data 2 described above.
1 has a function of expressing it as a map. The generated information is delivered to an interface unit 13 described later in a format in which information can be provided by a Web page or an e-mail. Note that the information generation unit 12 is preferably implemented by a computer program describing the procedure of the information generation process performed here, and a control device that executes the process based on the computer program.

The interface unit 13 shown in FIG.
It is a part for exchanging information with other terminal devices via the network 2 and includes a Web server 31, a mail server 32 and the like. The information generated by the information generation unit 12 described above is stored in the Web server 31 by the supplier 6 and the doctor 8.
Is provided with various web pages to provide to
The mail server 32 is a server for sending and receiving electronic mail between the supplier terminal 5 and the hospital terminal 7 when necessary.

The home medical information management system 1 having the above-described configuration and function stores various information transmitted from the home medical device 3, the supplier terminal 5, and the hospital terminal 7 in a timely manner. In response to an information provision request from the doctor 8 or the doctor 8, the information is provided in an easily viewable expression.

The procedure and contents of the processing performed by the home medical information management system 1 will be described below. First, the contents when the home medical information management system 1 receives and stores the various types of information described above will be described. Regarding the operation result data of the home medical device 3 installed in each patient 4 home,
The home medical device 3 automatically transmits the data every predetermined period, for example, every day, and the data is received by the interface unit 13 and the patient-specific attribute data stored in the data storage unit 11 described above. A predetermined location as 22 (FIG. 2)
D, “Operation results”). The transmitted operation result data is accompanied by the patient ID of the patient 4 using the device or the identification information of the device, and the information on which patient 4 is determined. You.
When the patient 4 wants the person in charge of the supplier 6 to visit, the date is transmitted by inputting the date to the home medical device 3 by a predetermined operation.
One patient-specific attribute data 22 is stored in a predetermined place (b in FIG. 2, “desired visit date”).

Each time a staff member visits the home of the patient 4, information on the visit record is transmitted from the supplier terminal 5.
The transmitted information is stored in the data storage unit 11 each time.
A predetermined location (e, FIG. 2
"Visit log"). In addition, when the hospital transmits a date when the patient wants to visit the hospital as an outpatient from the hospital terminal 7, the date is also stored as a patient-specific attribute data 22 in the data storage unit 11 at a predetermined location (see FIG. 2). c, “day of consultation”).

The above-mentioned map data 21 is originally set in the home medical information management system 1, and is updated when the map is changed. Also,
When a new patient 4 is generated, attribute data 2 for each patient
2, a new record for the patient 4 is added, and “patient ID”, “patient home location information” (a in FIG. 2) and the like are set.

Next, the procedure and contents of processing when the home medical information management system 1 provides information will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing, as an example, a processing procedure when the supplier 6 requests information provision of the patient 4 to be visited. First, the supplier 6 accesses a predetermined Web page prepared by the Web server 31 of the home medical information management system 1 from the supplier terminal 5 (step S1 in FIG. 3). In response, the Web server 31 of the home medical information management system 1 returns a top page for the supplier to the supplier terminal 5 (step S2 in FIG. 3).
The supplier 6 requests information provision of the patient 4 to be visited today from the top page (step S in FIG. 3).
3). Note that the patient 4 to be visited today is merely an example, and another day such as the patient 4 to be visited tomorrow can be designated. Further, when accessing the predetermined Web page or requesting the information provision, information for identifying the business office of the supplier 6 (the business office ID and the like) is also transmitted.

In the home medical information management system 1 receiving the request, the information generating unit 12 first extracts the map data 21 of the area under the jurisdiction of the business office of the supplier 6 from the data storage unit 11 (FIG. 3) Step S4), which is represented as a map, and a base map is generated. Next, based on the transmitted business office ID and the like, the patient home position information (a in FIG. 2) of all the patients 4 in charge of the business office or the like is extracted from the patient-specific attribute data 22 and based on the information. Then, the positions of the four patient homes are plotted on the generated base map (step S5 in FIG. 3). Further, from the patients 4 in which the positions of the four patient homes are plotted, the patient 4 whose desired visit date (b in FIG. 2) of the patient-specific attribute data 22 is today is extracted, and the patient four homes are extracted. Is changed to a predetermined color on the base map (step S6 in FIG. 3). Here, the patient's house to be visited is determined based on the desired date of the visit, but the patient's house to be visited is determined in consideration of other requirements such as the scheduled maintenance date of the home medical device 3. You can also.

As described above, the information (map) of the map expression generated by the information generation unit 12 is
It is handed over to the server 31, where a reply Web page (interface screen) on which the map is placed is generated and sent back to the supplier terminal 5 which made the request (step S7 in FIG. 3).

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the returned Web page (interface screen). The right part of the figure is the map generated by the information generating unit 12. The black circles shown in the x part of the figure represent the positions of the four patient homes to be visited today, and the white circles shown in the y part represent the positions of the other four homes. With this screen, the supplier 6 can visually grasp the patient's 4 homes to visit today.

The supplier 6 browses the returned screen, prints the content displayed from a printer or the like connected to the supplier terminal 5 as necessary, and makes a visit plan for today (FIG. 3). Step S8). Although not shown in FIG. 4, four patients and their addresses may be displayed together with the positions of the four patients' homes to be visited on the displayed map. Further, a screen may be provided in which four patients to be visited and their addresses are represented in a list format.

When the supplier 6 further wants to know the optimum pattern (route) for visiting the home of the patient 4, a request to that effect is made by a predetermined operation from the received screen (see FIG. 3). Step S9). In the example of the screen shown in FIG.
Select "by region" or "by hospital" in section f of the figure. If "by region" is selected, enter the number of persons in charge to visit section g, and finally "display" in section h. Select a button.

In the home medical information management system 1 which has received the request, the information generating unit 12 first determines the four patients' homes to be visited by each person in charge, such as the business office (FIG. 3).
Step S10). At the time of the request, if "by region" is selected, the number of persons in charge
The determination of the four patient homes is made so that the numbers are equal and each visit area is smaller. On the other hand, if “by hospital” is selected, for each hospital present in the area under the jurisdiction of the sales office or the like, the patient's 4 homes in charge of the hospital will be replaced by the patient's 4 Determined as home.

Next, the information generation unit 12 provides, for each person in charge,
A process for searching for the shortest route when visiting the determined four patient homes is performed (step S11 in FIG. 3), and the result is expressed on the generated map. The map on which the shortest route is placed is delivered to the Web server 31, a return Web page on which the map is placed is generated, and returned to the supplier terminal 5 that made the request (step S12 in FIG. 3).

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the returned Web page (interface screen). (A) of the figure shows a screen when the “regional” is selected,
(B) shows a screen when the “by hospital” is selected. When "by region" is selected, as shown in (A), the respective optimal visiting routes of each person (three) are displayed on a map (ER1 to ER3 in the figure), and the person in charge You can easily plan a visit. When “by hospital” is selected, as shown in (B), for each hospital (z1 and z2 in the figure) within the relevant jurisdiction area,
The optimal visit route is displayed (HR1 and HR2 in the figure), and each person in charge can easily make a visit plan based on this route.

The supplier 6 having received the screen browses the displayed contents, prints the contents from the printer if necessary, and uses them for visiting the home of the patient 4 (step S in FIG. 3).
13).

An example in which the supplier 6 has requested information provision has been described above. Next, an example in which the doctor 8 requests information provision will be described. When the doctor 8 wants to know the information of the patient 5 in charge, he accesses a predetermined Web page prepared in the Web server 31 from the hospital terminal 7 as in the case of the supplier 6 described above. Request information display from the top page returned. Then, at that time, information for identifying the doctor 8 (such as a doctor ID) is transmitted together.

The information generating section 12 of the home medical information management system 1 generates map information plotting the four patients' homes assigned to the hospital of the doctor 8 in the same procedure as the request from the supplier 6. Further, the doctor 8 changes the color of the patient's four homes in charge and stores the map information in the Web server 31.
Hand over to The Web server 31 generates an interface screen on which the map information is placed, and returns the interface screen to the hospital terminal 7 of the doctor 8.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an interface screen to be returned. The white circles shown on the map in the figure indicate the four patients 'homes handled by the hospital, and the black circles indicate the four patients' homes handled by the doctor 8. When the doctor 8 wants to obtain various types of information for each patient 4, on this screen, he selects the home of the patient 4 whose information he wants to know. Then, a menu as shown in part i of the figure is displayed, and when the doctor 8 selects desired information from the menu, a screen displaying the information is returned from the Web server 31 and the contents can be viewed. it can. For example, when “operation result display” is selected from the menu, the operation result data of the home medical device 3 of the patient 4 is extracted from the patient-specific attribute data 22 (d part in FIG. 2) of the data storage unit 11, It is displayed in a predetermined format, for example, a graph format.

As described above, the doctor 8 can easily browse the information at any time, and can visually grasp the position of the home of the patient 4 in charge of the doctor 8, so that the doctor 8 lives in a remote place from the hospital. For the patient 4, it is also easy to give careful attention to the details, such as reducing the number of outpatient visits and increasing the number of instructor visits.

When information is to be provided to the supplier 6 or the doctor 8 at an early stage, the terminal device (5, 7) of the supplier 6 or the doctor 8 is sent from the mail server 32 of the home medical information management system 1. ), An electronic mail indicating that a predetermined Web page should be accessed may be transmitted.

An example of information provision performed by the home medical information management system 1 has been described above. The interface screen (FIG. 4) on which a map returned to the supplier terminal 5 or the hospital terminal 7 at the time of information provision is placed. , FIG. 6, etc.) can also be used for the transmission of information performed from the supplier terminal 5 or the hospital terminal 7 described above, that is, the transmission of visit records and information on consultation dates. Specifically, as shown in part i of FIG.
An information transmission item is provided in a menu displayed when a home is selected, and when that item is selected, an input screen corresponding to the information to be transmitted is returned. Further, the information transmitted from the hospital terminal 7 may include information on an instruction to the person in charge of the supplier 6 in addition to the information on the consultation date.

As described above, by using the home medical information management system 1 according to the present embodiment, the patient 4 and the doctor 8 can make requests at any time, and the supplier 6 should visit. Since the information of the patient 4 can be easily obtained, the trouble of communication and the like is reduced. In addition, since the supplier 6 can obtain the information on the patient's 4 homes to be visited as information on the map, and can also obtain information on the optimal visiting route, the visitor 4 can efficiently visit the patient's 4 homes. Furthermore,
Since the doctor 8 can easily extract the information of the patient 4 in charge of the doctor 8 at any time, more appropriate diagnosis and guidance can be performed.

Although not shown in the above embodiment, a patient terminal similar to the supplier terminal 5 or the hospital terminal 7 is provided at the patient's house to transmit information from the patient and to provide information to the patient. You may make it possible through a patient terminal. In that case, an interface screen displaying the above-described map may be used.

The scope of protection of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but extends to the inventions described in the claims and their equivalents.

(Supplementary Note 1) A home medical device installed in a patient's home receiving home medical care via a network, a supplier terminal of a supplier of the home medical device, and a hospital terminal of a hospital in charge of the patient Is a home medical care information management system that manages information related to the home medical care, and is transmitted from at least one of the home medical equipment, the supplier terminal, or the hospital terminal via the network. Request information on the home medical care and / or
Or, record information is received in a timely manner and stored for each patient, and in response to an information provision request transmitted from the supplier terminal or the hospital terminal via the network, the stored request information and / or record information are stored. Using an interface screen that displays the position of the patient's home on a map,
An information management system for home care, wherein the information is transmitted to a supplier terminal or a hospital terminal that has requested the information provision.

(Supplementary Note 2) In Supplementary Note 1, the request information stored in the information management system includes information on a desired visit date on which the patient wants to visit the supplier, and the information management system determines that the supplier terminal Home medical care, wherein the request information transmitted in response to the information provision request includes information on the patient whose desired visit date is the day specified in the information provision request. Information management system.

(Supplementary Note 3) In Supplementary Note 1, the request information transmitted by the information management system in response to the information provision request from the supplier terminal may be the supplier information on the date specified in the information provision request. Includes information on the patient's home to be visited.

(Supplementary note 4) In the supplementary note 3, the information on the patient's home to be visited by the supplier includes information on the shortest route when visiting the patient's home. system.

(Supplementary note 5) In any one of supplementary notes 1 to 4, the transmission of the request information and / or the result information performed by the information management system is performed using a Web page. Information management system.

(Supplementary Note 6) A home medical device installed in a patient's home receiving home medical care via a network, a supplier terminal of a supplier of the home medical device, and a hospital terminal of a hospital in charge of the patient A home medical information management method in an information management system that manages information related to the home medical care, wherein the information management system includes at least one of the home medical equipment, the supplier terminal, or the hospital terminal. Receiving the request information and / or results information related to the home medical care transmitted from the network via the network from time to time and storing the information for each patient, and the information management system reads the information from the supplier terminal or the hospital terminal. In response to the information provision request transmitted via the network, the stored desired information and / or
Or transmitting the performance information to a supplier terminal or a hospital terminal which has requested the information provision, using an interface screen displaying the position of the patient's home on a map, .

[0057]

As described above, according to the present invention, patients and doctors can make requests at any time, and the supplier can easily obtain information on patients to be visited.
The trouble of communication etc. is reduced. In addition, since the supplier can obtain the patient's home to be visited as information on the map and can also obtain information on the optimal visiting route, the patient's home can be efficiently visited. Further, the doctor can easily extract the information of the patient in charge of the doctor at any time, so that more appropriate diagnosis and guidance can be performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram according to an embodiment of a home medical information management system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of patient-specific attribute data 22.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of processing when the home medical information management system 1 provides information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a Web page (interface screen) returned when a supplier 6 makes an information provision request.

FIG. 5 is a Web page (interface screen) returned when the supplier 6 requests display of an optimal visit pattern.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the above.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an interface screen returned when a doctor 8 makes an information display request.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 home medical information management system 2 network 3 home medical equipment 4 patient 5 supplier terminal 6 supplier 7 hospital terminal 8 doctor 11 data storage unit 12 information generation unit 13 interface unit 21 map data 22 patient-specific attribute data 31 Web server 32 mail server

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A home medical device installed at a patient's home receiving home medical care, a supplier terminal of a provider of the home medical device, and a hospital terminal of a hospital in charge of the patient via a network. An information management system for home medical care that manages information related to the home medical care, wherein the home health care system is transmitted from at least one of the home medical equipment, the supplier terminal, or the hospital terminal via the network. Request information and / or performance information on medical care are received in a timely manner and stored for each patient. In response to an information provision request transmitted from the supplier terminal or the hospital terminal via the network, the stored request is stored. Information and / or performance information using the interface screen that displays the location of the patient's home on a map, Home care information management system and transmits the end or to the hospital terminal. 2. A home medical device installed at a patient's home receiving home medical care, a supplier terminal of a supplier of the home medical device, and a hospital terminal of a hospital in charge of the patient via a network. An information management method for home care in an information management system that manages information related to home care, wherein the information management system includes at least one of the home healthcare device, the supplier terminal, or the hospital terminal. Receiving the request information and / or performance information relating to the home medical care transmitted via the network in a timely manner and storing the information for each patient; and the information management system transmits the network information from the supplier terminal or the hospital terminal to the network. In response to an information provision request transmitted via the Position using the interface screen displayed on a map, home care information management method characterized by comprising the step of transmitting to the supplier terminal or hospital terminal that the information providing request.