JP2003304341A - Care system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To link all-time supervision of physical information for a person insured by care insurance, care related dealers, care related organizations, etc., including persons insured by care insurance. <P>SOLUTION: The system provides automatic transmission of physical information of the person insured by the care insurance to medical institutions via the Internet based on fulltime connection, the all-time supervision of physical information by the medical institutions, actions for the persons insured by the care insurance using voice, TV image, and video chat in case of emergency, efficiency enlargement, opening, and service expansion of the care business realized by information network totalization for visiting care person, care dealers, finance organizations, related sections of local government. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a nursing care system using an always-connected Internet, including a care recipient insurer, a visiting caregiver, a nursing care company, a hospital / elderly care welfare facility / nursing care health facility / nursing care medical treatment. The present invention relates to a nursing care system that smoothly carries out work related to nursing care of each institution by centralizing and linking various types of information in medical institutions such as facilities, long-term care insurance municipalities, and financial institutions.

[0002]

[Prior Art] There is no conventional series of connections between the insured under the long-term care insurance system, caregivers including visiting caregivers, related medical institutions such as hospitals, municipal insurance departments responsible for long-term care insurance, nursing care products providers, and financial institutions. , Individual care work, medical care work, operation of long-term care insurance system and collection of insurance money through the care recipient,
It operates individually, such as providing nursing care items and collecting money. For this reason, the burden on the frequent office work itself related to the long-term care insurance system, such as application for the use of the insured insurer or his / her family or related persons to the jurisdiction of the municipality concerning the care, exercise of the long-term care insurance system, payment of insurance premiums, etc., is large. . In addition, the cared person often needs physical management such as health condition on a regular basis, but in many cases the medical care facility does not provide sufficient care, and many cared insurers have anxiety.

[0003]

As described above, in the nursing care system based on the current nursing care insurance system, there are the following situations. The health status of the care recipient is
Home care service providers, home care support companies and visiting caregivers (helpers) such as nursing care facilities and medical institutions such as doctors and nurses are first grasped by visiting the insured person. In many cases, it is not possible for an insurer to respond to sudden changes in the health condition of the insurer, and the insured person is worried about the health condition when the visiting caregiver or doctor / nurse is absent. It is argued that it may not be possible to quickly rescue the cared person. Also,
The visiting caregiver or medical institution that performed normal care work must prepare a nursing care report or perform a work report each time after returning to the home or office duties after the work. It takes time and effort to create a report when involved in a long-term care insurance system such as an institution. In addition, after that, the nursing care company must submit the report materials, and in response to that, each department of each municipality under its jurisdiction must perform the care insurance affairs, which requires a great deal of time and effort. When paying for nursing care products used for nursing care, the burden of payments to the care product insurers and the municipalities under their jurisdiction is not light.

An object of the present invention is to provide a nursing care system capable of constantly monitoring the health condition of a care receiver and coping with a sudden change in the health condition by linking with a visiting nurse, a nursing company, and a medical institution. Especially. Another object of the present invention is to centralize and share nursing care work information with visiting caregivers, caregivers, municipalities in jurisdiction, financial institutions and nursing care products providers, thereby calculating long-term care insurance charges, paying insurance premiums, and nursing care products. It is to provide a convenient nursing care system to the insured and related persons involved in the nursing care insurance system.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the care system according to the present invention is achieved by sharing information between care-related businesses by utilizing the always-connected Internet. Achieved by centralizing information for related companies such as governments, medical institutions, and financial institutions by transmitting in real time the information and information of the insured person's own physical information and care data, and sharing the information. .

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings using examples. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a nursing care system according to the present invention. In the figure, a care terminal (a personal computer, a mobile terminal, or a dedicated device thereof) 3 that is constantly connected to the Internet is installed in the insured person's home 1. Further, there is provided a physical information transmitting device that measures the blood pressure, pulse, body temperature, etc. of the cared person and transmits the data by radio waves. When the cared person wears this physical information transmitting device, the cared person's blood pressure, pulse, body temperature, etc. are measured, and those data are transmitted automatically. When data is transmitted from this physical information transmission device, it is transmitted to an address preset in the care terminal 3, for example, to a necessary department such as a medical institution. As the care terminal 3, a personal computer,
You can use telephone, videophone, video chat function, etc.

The nursing care terminal 3 includes a home for a caregiver 4, a nursing care business company (home service business operator, home care support business operator, nursing care health facility, etc.) 5, a financial institution 6, a medical institution 7, a nursing care product provider 8 and municipalities. It is connected to the department 9 having jurisdiction over the Internet, and a terminal and a server having software applications related to nursing care services are installed.

The care terminal 3 is always connected to the Internet for 24 hours 365 days. When the insured person wears the physical information transmitting device 2 on his / her body at home 1, data such as blood pressure, pulse, and body temperature are transmitted to the care terminal 3 and transmitted from the care terminal 3 to the relevant departments such as the medical institution 7. To be done. That is, the two physical information transmission devices 2 attached to the care receiver send the body data of one care recipient to the care terminal 3 at regular intervals (for example, 5 minutes), and the care terminal 3 displays the body of the care recipient. When the data is received from the two physical information transmitting devices, the physical data of the insured person is automatically transmitted to the registered medical institution such as a hospital which the insured person takes care of via the always-connected Internet. At the medical institution 7 that received the data,
The received data is analyzed automatically or manually to grasp the physical condition of the insured person.

The medical institution 7 outputs the physical information transmitted from the care terminals 3 of the plurality of care receiver homes 1 as a table for each care receiver, and when there is an abnormal value, an alarm is issued. Alternatively, the display of the abnormal value may be blinked to call the attention of the person concerned. In addition, if an abnormal value is found in the health data of the insured person, a voice call, a still image, a video, etc. can be made from the medical institution to the insured person via the Internet, which is always connected to the videophone, conference, chat, etc. Call one care-receiver by multimedia such as voice and image such as function, and prompt one care-receiver to respond to the call. At the medical institution 7, it becomes possible to grasp the status of the cared person based on the response status of the cared insured person, and according to the status, medical treatment is performed by using the TV image or the chat function, and further, the dispatch of a medical support person, etc. To do.

[0010] When the visiting caregiver performs a nursing work in the insured person's home 1, he / she inputs information from the nursing terminal 3 and sends a report of the work content. Data such as the physical condition of the insured person who is individually acquired is also transmitted to the medical institution 7. The long-term care business company 5 transmits the long-term care insurance implementation report to the department 9 under the jurisdiction of the municipality. The visiting caregiver sends a content report such as work hours to the related care business company 5.

In the department 9 under the jurisdiction of the municipality, from the care terminal 3 of the insured person, the insured person himself / herself, the visiting caregiver, and the medical institution 7
Based on the nursing care data transmitted from the related business companies such as the above and the nursing care product supplier 8 and the nursing care products used or provided by the insured person, calculation of the nursing care cost and the nursing care insurance premium and the billing work are performed. In addition, the departments in charge of municipalities will inform the insureds about the reduction of resident tax, contact regarding payment of insurance premiums, and the burden of municipalities on the amount paid.

The nursing care product provider 8 delivers the nursing care products and the like requested by the nursing care insurer in response to an order or request from the insured person or visiting caregiver, the medical institution 7, the nursing care business company 5, and the department 9 under the jurisdiction of the municipality. And make a bill. When a care insured person, a visiting caregiver requested by the care insured person, or a care business company 5 orders a care product to the care product provider 8 via the Internet 10, the care product is shipped. Further, payment can be made to a financial institution via the Internet 10.

At the financial institution 6, upon request from the municipality-controlled department 9, medical institution 7, nursing care business 5, nursing care product provider 8, advance notice and confirmation of charge deduction from the insured person's account, and 9 municipalities Perform the transfer procedure from the competent department to the insured person.

As described above, according to the present invention, the health condition of the insured person can be constantly grasped, and a medical institution can promptly respond to a sudden change in the health condition. Become. Further, since the visiting caregiver and the nursing care company can create and send the work report at the care terminal in the insured person home 1, the work other than the actual work such as the work report can be reduced. In the departments under the jurisdiction of the municipality, it will be possible to reduce administrative work such as usage fees and points calculation for the nursing care insurance system. The care product provider can promptly provide the insured person with an article. In addition, since it is possible to make payments to financial institutions via the Internet, care insureds can reduce the burden of paying nursing care premiums, municipalities in charge can reduce the collection of fees, and care product providers can reduce the collection of charges for provided goods. It

[0015]

[Effects of the Invention] Since it is possible to centralize and share nursing care work information with visiting caregivers and caregivers, municipalities under their jurisdiction, financial institutions and caregivers, it is possible to calculate care insurance burden charges, pay insurance premiums, and provide care products. It is possible to obtain a convenient care system for the insured and related persons involved in the care insurance system.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a care system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Nursing home for insured person, 2 ... Physical information transmitting device, 3 ... Nursing care terminal, 4 ... Home for visiting caregiver, 5 ... Nursing business company, 6 ... Financial institution, 7 ... Medical institution, 8 ... Nursing care product supplier, 9 … Municipal departments, 10… Always connected Internet.

Claims (3)

[Claims] [Claim 1] Homes for insured insured persons, departments under the jurisdiction of the insured persons, homes for caregivers or visiting caregivers, care product providers that provide care products to insured persons, and financial institutions are always connected. Connect with the Internet, manage long-term care insurance and long-term care insurance in municipalities under the control of long-term care insurers, work management of long-term care providers and visiting caregivers, and provide nursing care products to long-term care insurers A nursing care system characterized in that delivery of a nursing care item by a goods supplier, collection of a fee, and payment of a fee at a financial institution involved therewith are linked through the Internet. 2. The home of the insured person and the medical institution are connected to each other using the always-connected Internet, and the physical condition of the insured person is constantly monitored at a medical institution such as a hospital. A nursing care system characterized by conducting interviews and screenings for care insurers using the Internet. 3. The care system according to claim 2, wherein the insured person sends the physical condition to the medical institution such as the hospital by a physical information transmitting device.