JP2005115838A - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nurse call system capable of grasping the degree of busyness of a nurse. <P>SOLUTION: A CPU 20 is operated based on a control program and control data stored in a program memory 21, and used for integrating and controlling respective parts of a nurse call master 2, and is so structured as to generate nurse call information formed by correlating a calling time of the nurse call, a time until the nurse responds to the call, and a period used for conversation to display it on a touch panel/display unit 271 as a new control function. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a nurse call system in which a patient or a cared person calls a nurse in a facility such as a hospital.

  As is well known, a conventional nurse call system has a display panel in which a lamp such as an LED (Light Emitting Diode) is associated with a bed number and a patient name in a nurse center and can be called by a patient or a cared person. When this occurs, the lamp is lit to visually recognize the patient who made the call.

  Recently, the nurse call system can count the number of calls (see, for example, Patent Document 1). Then, by summing up the occurrences of calls for each time zone and displaying them on a television monitor, the degree of concentration of the call occurrences for each time zone can be known.

However, the conventional nurse call system having the above-described configuration has a problem that although the concentration of the occurrence of calls for each time period can be understood, it is impossible to accurately grasp the busyness of the nurse.
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The conventional nurse call system has a problem that although the concentration of the occurrence of calls for each time zone can be understood, it is not possible to accurately grasp the busyness of the nurse.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to provide a nurse call system that can accurately grasp the busyness of a nurse.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention notifies the second communication device of a call from the first communication device, and when the second communication device responds to the call, In a nurse call system that establishes a communication link with a second communication device and performs voice communication, time detection means for detecting a call time when the call has occurred, and until the second communication device responds to the call A call time measuring means for measuring a call time, a call time measuring means for measuring a call time from when the second communication device responds to the call until voice communication is terminated, and a call time detected by the time detecting means. The call time measured by the call time measuring means and the storage means for storing the call time measured by the call time measuring means in association with each other, and the call time, the call time and the call based on the information stored in the storage means Versus time By relating the to constitute comprises a display means for displaying.

As described above, according to the present invention, for each call, the call time when the call is generated, the call time until the call is answered, and the call time until the voice communication ends are stored in association with each other and displayed. Like to do.
Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to visually recognize the length of the calling time and the calling time, thereby providing a nurse call system capable of accurately grasping the busyness of the nurse.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a nurse call system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a nurse call system for nursing support installed in a ward will be described as an example.

  The nurse call system includes hospital room units 11 to 1n installed in each hospital room, and a nurse call parent device 2 as a center device installed in a nurse center. These hospital room units 11 to 1n and nurse call parent devices are provided. Are connected to each other via a communication line. The nurse call system includes, for example, a handin squall main device 3 and a private branch exchange (PBX) 4 installed in a communication center in a hospital, and a wireless unit 6 is connected to the handin squall main device 3. The PBX 4 is connected to the public network 5.

  Further, the nurse call parent device 2 is connected to a nursing support server 9 via, for example, a LAN (Local Area Network) 7. The nursing support server 9 stores and manages various information for nursing support. Reference numeral 10 denotes a printer used for printing out data stored in the nursing support server 9, and reference numeral 8 denotes a hub for connecting the nursing support server 9 and the printer 10 to the LAN 7.

  The hospital room units 11 to 1n include a microphone 101 and a speaker 102 installed on a ceiling of a hospital room, a toilet / bathroom push button 103, a representative corridor lamp 104, and a recovery button 105, which are I / O units. The individual information corridor lamp 107 is connected to the personal information via the 106. The hospital room units 11 to 1n include a hand-type slave unit 109 and a grip push button 110, which are connected to the individual information corridor lamp 107 through a wall-embedded slave unit 108 provided on the wall of the sickbed.

  Among them, the grip push button 110 and the toilet / bathroom push button 103 are used when a patient (or a cared person) calls a nurse, and the operation signals are respectively embedded in the wall-embedded handset 108 or I / O. The information is transmitted to the individual information corridor lamp 107 via the unit 106. In addition, when a push button provided on the wall-embedded child device 108 is pressed, an operation signal is transmitted to the individual information corridor lamp 107. When the individual information corridor lamp 107 receives the operation signal of each push button, the individual information corridor lamp 107 displays the occurrence of the call on its own display unit. At the same time, a call signal is generated and transmitted to the nurse call master unit 2. Address information uniquely allocated to the toilet / bathroom push button 103, the hand-type slave unit 109, and the grip push button 110 is inserted into the call signal.

  The microphone 101, the speaker 102, the hand type slave unit 109, and the wall-embedded type slave unit 108 are used by the patient to make a call with the nurse who has answered the call. It is transmitted to the call base unit 2. The communication path is established when the nurse responds to the patient's call in the nurse call master unit 2. The recovery button 105 is used when resetting the call.

  The Handan Scall main unit 3 is composed of, for example, a local PHS (Personal Handyphone System) compatible switching device. In addition to an exchange control unit and a time switch, a plurality of extension interfaces, a local line interface, and a maintenance interface are provided. Prepare. Wireless base stations 61 and 62 of the wireless unit 6 are connected to the extension interfaces. Each of the radio base stations 61 and 62 forms a radio area, and is connected to the mobile terminals 71 to 7m existing in the radio area via a radio line. A PBX 4 is connected to the office line interface.

By the way, the nurse call parent device 2 is configured as follows. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration. The nurse call parent device 2 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 20 that uses, for example, a microcomputer as a control unit.
A program memory 21 and a data memory 22 are connected to the CPU 20, and communication interfaces 23 and 24, a network interface 25, a call interface 26, an input display interface 27, and a timer 28 are connected to the CPU 20. .

  Among these, the communication interface 23 transmits signals to the above-described hospital room units 11 to 1n under the control of the CPU 20. Similarly, the communication interface 24 transmits / receives a signal to / from the Handan Scall main device 3 under the control of the CPU 20. The network interface 25 transmits and receives signals to and from the LAN 7 under the control of the CPU 20.

  Connected to the call interface 26 are a microphone 261 and a speaker 262 used by the nurse to make a call with the patient. The call interface 26 encodes a speaker's transmission signal output from the microphone 261 and outputs the signal to the CPU 20 in a state where a communication path is formed between the hospital room units 11 to 1n and is supplied from the CPU 20. The received data is decoded to reproduce the received signal, and this received signal is output from the speaker 262 as a loud voice. The speaker 262 is also used to output a sound and melody when a call is made from a patient.

A touch panel / display 271 is connected to the input display interface 27. The touch panel / display 271 has a transparent pressure sensitive sheet attached on a display screen of a display made of, for example, a CRT or LCD, and has both an information display function and an input function. The input display interface 27 displays the display information supplied from the CPU 20 on the touch panel / display 271 and supplies the operation information input on the touch panel / display 271 to the CPU 20.
The timer 28 has a function of measuring time and a function of measuring time according to an instruction from the CPU 20, and notifies the CPU 20 of the current time and the measured time.

  The program memory 21 stores a control program and control data for the CPU 20. The data memory 22 sets the toilet / bathroom number, the room number, and the patient name as a set in the address information uniquely assigned to the toilet / bathroom push button 103, the hand-type handset 109, and the grip push button 110, respectively. In addition to the call identification data associated with the information, image data visually shown to the nurse or caregiver through the touch panel / display 271, etc., the call time of the nurse call, the time to answer the call, Nurse call information associated with the time of the call is stored.

  The CPU 20 operates based on a control program and control data stored in the program memory 21 and controls each part of the nurse call master unit 2 as a new control function. Is generated and displayed on the touch panel / display 271.

  Next, the operation of the nurse call system configured as described above will be described. In the following description, in particular, the toilet / bathroom push button 103, the hand-type slave unit 109 or the grip push button 110 is operated by the patient, and a call is requested to the portable terminals 71-7m possessed by the nurse or caregiver. The operation in the case of failure will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining this operation, which is performed by the CPU 20 of the nurse call master unit 2, and the toilet / bathroom push button 103, the hand-type slave unit 109 or the grip push button 110 is operated, and the main handheld caller This is started when a call is made to the mobile terminals 71 to 7m through the device 3 and the radio base stations 61 and 62.

First, in step 3a, the CPU 20 detects the current time t from the output of the timer 28, controls the timer 28 to start the timer T1, and proceeds to step 3b.
In step 3b, the CPU 20 determines whether any of the portable terminals 71 to 7m has responded. Here, when any of the portable terminals 71 to 7m responds, the process proceeds to step 3c. On the other hand, when none of the portable terminals 71 to 7m responds, the response is monitored as it is in step 3b.

  In step 3c, the CPU 20 controls the handin squall main device 3 and the radio base stations 61 and 62 to establish a communication link between the responding portable terminals 71 to 7m and the equipment of the hospital room unit 11 that has made the call. Then, processing for making a voice call is started, and the process proceeds to step 3d.

  In step 3d, the CPU 20 detects the value of the timer T1 activated in step 3a, that is, the call time from when the call is generated until it responds, and then controls the timer 28 to stop the timer T1. To start the timer T2 and proceed to Step 3e.

  In step 3e, the CPU 20 monitors the call information given from the handinance call main device 3, and determines whether or not the call-ending operation for ending the call started in step 3c has been made by the responding portable terminals 71 to 7m. If it is detected that the end operation has been performed, the process proceeds to step 3f. On the other hand, if it is not detected that the end operation has been performed, the end operation is generated in step 3e. Monitor.

In step 3f, the CPU 20 controls the hand-in-hand call main device 3 to perform processing for ending the call started in step 3c, and then proceeds to step 3g.
In step 3g, the CPU 20 detects the value of the timer T2 started in step 3d, that is, the call duration of the call, and then controls the timer 28 to stop the timer T2 and proceeds to step 3e.

  In step 3h, the CPU 20 determines the current time (call generation time) t detected in step 3a, the value of the timer T1 (call time) detected in step 3d, and the value of the timer T2 (call time) detected in step 3g. Are recorded in the data memory 22 as nurse call information, and the process ends.

  Next, an operation when a medical staff such as a nurse or a caregiver makes a nurse call information output request to the nurse call parent device 2 via the touch panel / display 271 will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining this operation, which is performed by the CPU 20 of the nurse call parent device 2 and is started when the output request through the touch panel / display unit 271 is given.

In step 4a, the CPU 20 reads the nurse call information recorded in step 3h from the data memory 22, and proceeds to step 4b.
In step 4b, the CPU 20 graphs the nurse call information read out in step 4a as shown in FIG. 5, and displays the graph on the touch panel / display 271.
In other words, the display shown in FIG. 5 is a bar graph in which the horizontal axis is time and the vertical axis is the sum of call time and call time, and the call time and call time are displayed in different colors and patterns.

  As described above, in the nurse call system configured as described above, the call time required until a call is made is displayed in association with the time when the call is made. Therefore, according to the nurse call system having the above-described configuration, it is possible to accurately grasp the busyness of the nurse based on the length of the calling time.

  In the nurse call system, the time when a call is made is displayed in association with the time when the call occurs. Therefore, according to the nurse call system having the above configuration, it is possible to accurately grasp the busyness of the nurse based on the length of the call time.

  Further, in the nurse call system, the call time required until the call is made and the call time are displayed in a graph in association with the time when the call is made. Therefore, according to the nurse call system having the above-described configuration, the call time and the call time are displayed in a graph, so that the busyness of the nurse can be grasped visually and instantaneously.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the embodiment. Further, for example, a configuration in which some components are deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment is also conceivable. Furthermore, you may combine suitably the component described in different embodiment.
In addition, it goes without saying that the present invention can be similarly implemented even if various modifications are made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

The circuit block diagram which shows the structure of one Embodiment of the nurse call system concerning this invention. The circuit block diagram which shows the structure of the nurse call main | base station of the nurse call system shown in FIG. The flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement when the call of the nurse call main | base station shown in FIG. 2 arises. The flowchart for demonstrating the operation | movement at the time of the output request | requirement of the nurse call information of the nurse call main | base station shown in FIG. The figure which shows an example of the nurse call information displayed on the touch panel / display of the nurse call main | base station shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  11 to 1n: hospital unit, 101 ... microphone, 102 ... speaker, 103 ... toilet / bathroom push button, 104 ... representative corridor lamp, 105 ... recovery button, 106 ... I / O unit, 107 ... individual information corridor lamp, 108 ... Wall-embedded handset, 109 ... Hand-type handset, 110 ... Grip push button, 2 ... Nurse call master, 3 ... Handy squall main unit, 4 ... PBX, 5 ... Public network, 6 ... Wireless unit, 61 62 ... Wireless base station, 71-7m ... Portable terminal, 7 ... LAN, 8 ... Hub, 9 ... Nursing support server, 10 ... Printer, 20 ... CPU, 21 ... Program memory, 22 ... Data memory, 23, 24 ... Communication interface, 25 ... Network interface, 26 ... Call interface, 261 ... Microphone, 262 ... Speaker, 27 ... Input display Interface, 271 ... touch panel / display device, 28 ... timer.

Claims (6)

When a call from the first communication device is notified to the second communication device, and the second communication device responds to the call, communication is performed between the first communication device and the second communication device. In the nurse call system that establishes a link and performs voice communication,
Time detection means for detecting a call time when the call has occurred;
Call time measuring means for measuring a call time until the second communication device responds to the call;
Storage means for storing the call time detected by the time detection means and the call time measured by the call time measurement means in association with each other;
A nurse call system comprising display means for displaying the call time and the call time in association with each other based on information stored in the storage means.   The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the call time in a bar graph in association with the call time. When a call from the first communication device is notified to the second communication device and the second communication device responds to the call, communication is performed between the first communication device and the second communication device. In the nurse call system that establishes a link and performs voice communication,
Time detection means for detecting a call time when the call has occurred;
Call time measuring means for measuring a call time from when the second communication device responds to the call until voice communication is terminated;
Storage means for storing the call time detected by the time detection means and the call time measured by the call time measurement means in association with each other;
A nurse call system comprising display means for displaying the call time and the call time in association with each other based on information stored in the storage means.   The nurse call system according to claim 3, wherein the display means displays the call time in a bar graph in association with the call time. When a call from the first communication device is notified to the second communication device and the second communication device responds to the call, communication is performed between the first communication device and the second communication device. In the nurse call system that establishes a link and performs voice communication,
Time detection means for detecting a call time when the call has occurred;
Call time measuring means for measuring a call time until the second communication device responds to the call;
Call time measuring means for measuring a call time from when the second communication device responds to the call until voice communication is terminated;
Storage means for storing the call time detected by the time detection means, the call time measured by the call time measurement means, and the call time measured by the call time measurement means in association with each other;
A nurse call system comprising display means for displaying the call time, the call time, and the call time in association with each other based on information stored in the storage means.   The nurse call system according to claim 5, wherein the display means displays the call time and the call time in a bar graph in association with the call time.

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