JP2006255007A - Nurse call system and nurse call slave set - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nurse call system and a nurse call slave set by which vital check is carried out efficiently. <P>SOLUTION: The vital information of a patient is measured by the nurse call slave set 100 and displayed on the nurse call slave set 100 according to a request through an operation part 101. The measured vital information is also transmitted to a nurse call master set 300, which totals the vital information and shows a totaling result to each patient. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

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

  As is well known, the conventional nurse call cordless handset used in the nurse call system is wired to a wall near the bed in a hospital room, and when a patient operates the nurse call cordless handset, the operation signal is transmitted to the nurse via the wire. The call is transmitted to a nurse call parent device such as a station, and the occurrence of a call is notified to a medical staff (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  Recently, a technology has been developed to make a nurse call slave unit a wireless terminal and communicate with the nurse call master unit. In this case, by associating the identification information of the nurse call slave unit and the name of the patient to be used in advance, when the patient calls from a specific nurse call slave unit that has been lent, the nurse call master unit side To identify who made the call.

  However, when a call is made by borrowing a nurse call cordless handset between patients, there is a problem that a medical worker cannot identify who is the patient who made the call. In addition, even when a call is connected from the nurse call slave unit to the nurse call master unit, or when a call is made from the nurse call slave unit installed in a common space such as a toilet, the health care professional identifies the patient who made the call. I couldn't do it, so I needed to talk.

By the way, in hospitals and nursing care facilities with hospitalized facilities, medical workers regularly perform vital checks such as temperature measurement and pulse measurement for facility users, but the work is a heavy burden, Development of technology to reduce these burdens is desired.
JP2003-126183A.

  When a nurse call slave unit that performs wireless communication is lent and borrowed between patients, or when a call is made from a nurse call slave unit installed in a common space such as a toilet, a medical worker calls There was a problem that the patient could not be identified.

  This invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problem, when a nurse call cordless handset was lent and borrowed between patients or called from a nurse call cordless handset installed in a common space such as a toilet However, it is an object of the present invention to provide a nurse call system and a nurse call cordless handset that can identify a patient who has made a call.

  Conventionally, the work of medical staff regularly performing vital checks such as temperature measurement and pulse measurement on facility users has been a heavy burden, and it is desirable to develop a system for efficient work. It was.

  The present invention has been made to meet the above-described demand, and an object thereof is to provide a nurse call system and a nurse call slave that can efficiently perform a vital check.

  To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a nurse call system for calling a medical worker when a nurse call parent device receives a call signal from a nurse call child device possessed by a user through a network. The nurse call cordless handset includes a reception unit that receives a call request from a user, an acquisition unit that acquires biometric information of the user, and a call that includes biometric information acquired by the acquisition unit when the reception unit receives the request. The nurse call master unit includes a transmission unit that transmits a signal to the nurse call master unit. The nurse call master unit stores storage information that associates user identification information with user biometric information, and a call signal from the nurse call slave unit. Receiving means, and biometric information included in the call signal received by the receiving means. Detecting means for detecting the corresponding user identification information from the information stored in the storage means, and notifying the health care worker of the user identification information detected by the detecting means, indicating that a call request from the user has occurred. An informing means for informing is provided and configured.

  In the present invention, when the nurse call master unit receives a call signal from the slave unit possessed by the user through the network, in the nurse call system that makes a call to a medical worker, the slave unit stores the biometric information of the user. Acquisition means for acquiring, measurement means for measuring user vital data, biometric information acquired by the acquisition means, and transmission means for transmitting the vital measurement results measured by the measurement means to the nurse call master unit in association with each other The nurse call master unit includes a first storage unit that stores information in which the user identification information is associated with the biometric information of the user, a reception unit that receives data from the slave unit, and data received by the reception unit The user identification information corresponding to the biometric information included in the information is detected from the information stored in the first storage means Detection means that, in association with the identification information of the user detection means detects the receiving means has to be configured and a second storage means for storing the vital measurement results included in the received data.

  As described above, in the present invention, when a call request is made from the nurse call slave unit, the biometric information of the operated user is transmitted to the nurse call master unit together with the call signal. Then, the nurse call master unit that has received the call signal identifies the user who has made the call from the information stored in the storage means based on the biometric information, and informs the medical staff of this. ing.

  Therefore, according to the invention of the above configuration, it is possible to specify the person who has made a call based on the biometric information of the user without registering the ID of the nurse call slave unit or the like in the nurse call master unit. This provides a nurse call system that can identify which user has made a call even if a nurse call handset is lent or borrowed between multiple users or called from a nurse call handset installed in a common space. it can.

  In the present invention, the vital information of the user is measured in the nurse call slave unit, and this is transmitted to the nurse call master unit together with the biometric information of the user. The nurse call master unit receives the biometric information received from the nurse call slave unit. Based on this, vital information is aggregated.

  Therefore, according to the invention of the above configuration, even if the medical staff does not go to the patient, the vital information of the user can be acquired by the nurse call slave unit and can be totaled by the nurse call master unit, so that the efficiency Thus, it is possible to provide a nurse call system capable of acquiring vital information.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows the configuration of the nurse call system. This system includes a nurse call slave device 100, radio base stations 201 to 20m, a nurse call master device 300, radio base stations 401 to 40n, and a radio terminal 500. In FIG. 1, one nurse call slave device 100 and one wireless terminal 500 are shown, but in an actually operated system, numbers corresponding to the number of patients and the number of medical workers are prepared.

  The nurse call handset 100 is a wireless terminal device carried by a patient, and includes an operation unit 101, a fingerprint scanner 102, a vital sensor 103, a camera unit 104, a display unit 105, a wireless communication unit 106, and a telephone call. Unit 107, storage unit 108, and control unit 109. In FIG. 2, an example of the external appearance of the said nurse call subunit | mobile_unit 100 is shown. The hole 110 is a guide hole for attaching the strap ST.

The operation unit 101 receives a call request from a user with a simple operation using a finger such as a push button. When the operation unit 101 receives a request, the operation unit 101 notifies the control unit 109 accordingly.
The fingerprint scanner 102 is a scanner that reads a fingerprint of a finger that has been pressed by the push button of the operation unit 101, obtains a biometric value from the read fingerprint, converts it into data, and outputs it as fingerprint data to the control unit 109.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the vital sensor 103 has two electrodes arranged on the side surface of the nurse call slave device 100, and when the patient who is the user holds the nurse call slave device 100 in his / her hand. In addition, the vital information (body temperature, pulse, blood pressure, etc.) of the patient is measured through the two electrodes, and data obtained by this measurement is output to the control unit 109 as vital information.

  The camera unit 104 is a digital camera using an image sensor such as a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) or a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor). The camera unit 104 is controlled by the control unit 109 and can image a patient's face and the like. The processed image data is output to the control unit 109.

  The display unit 105 is a display unit using an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or the like. The display unit 105 displays an image captured by the camera unit 104, an image based on a measurement result by the vital sensor 103, text information, and the like. It is displayed by controlling the above.

The wireless communication unit 106 wirelessly communicates with wireless base stations 201 to 20m described later, and performs voice communication and data communication with the nurse call parent device 300 through this.
The call unit 107 includes a speaker and a microphone, and performs voice input / output when performing voice communication with the nurse call parent device 300 and the wireless terminal 500 through communication through the wireless communication unit 106. .

  In addition to storing the control program and control data of the control unit 109, the storage unit 108 stores image data captured by the camera unit 104, fingerprint data obtained by the fingerprint scanner 102, vital information acquired by the vital sensor 103, and the like. To do.

  The control unit 109 controls each unit of the nurse call slave device 100 and has a function of measuring time, and also includes imaged image data from the camera unit 104, a fingerprint scanner 102, a vital sensor 103, and the like. The acquired data and the call request from the patient are transmitted to the nurse call parent device 300, and voice communication control with the nurse call parent device 300 and the wireless terminal 500 is performed.

  The radio base stations 201 to 20m are distributed in the facility where the nurse call system is installed, wirelessly communicate with the radio communication unit 106 of the nurse call slave unit 100, and a nurse call master unit 300 and a wired line which will be described later. The nurse call slave device 100 and the nurse call master device 300 are connected to each other.

  The nurse call parent device 300 is installed in the nurse center, and includes a communication unit 301, a communication unit 302, an operation unit 303, a display unit 304, a call unit 305, a storage unit 306, and a control unit 307. Is provided.

The communication unit 301 communicates with the nurse call slave device 100 through the radio base stations 201 to 20m.
The communication unit 302 communicates with the wireless terminal 500 through the wireless base stations 401 to 40n described later.

The operation unit 303 receives a request from a medical worker who is a user, and includes a plurality of key switches, a touch panel provided on a display unit 304 described later, and the like.
The display unit 304 is a display unit using an LCD or the like, and provides maintenance information such as notification of the occurrence of a call, display of vital information of the patient, images sent from the above-described nurse call slave unit 100, and the operation status of the system. Is displayed.

  The call unit 305 includes a speaker and a microphone, and performs voice input / output when performing voice communication with the nurse call slave device 100 and the wireless terminal 500 by communication through the communication unit 301 and the communication unit 302. Is.

  In addition to storing the control program and control data of the control unit 307, the storage unit 306 is a patient name / fingerprint data table in which biometric data based on a fingerprint read from a patient in advance is associated with a patient name and a bed number, The communication unit 301 stores a patient name / vital information totaling table in which vital information received from the nurse call slave unit 100 is associated with a patient name and totaled for each patient. The storage unit 306 stores image data received from the nurse call slave device 100 by the communication unit 301.

  The control unit 307 controls the respective units of the nurse call master device 300 in an integrated manner. From the nurse call slave device 100, an authentication process for identifying a patient based on the fingerprint data received from the nurse call slave device 100. When a call request is received, a process for calling a medical worker, a process for displaying an image acquired at that time on the display unit 304, a process for counting vital information received from the nurse call slave unit 100, and a nurse call slave unit 100 And voice communication control with the wireless terminal 500.

The wireless base stations 401 to 40m are distributed and installed in the facility where the nurse call system is installed, and wirelessly communicate with the wireless terminal 500 and also communicate with the nurse call parent device 300 through a wired line. This connects the base unit 300.
The wireless terminal 500 is carried by a medical worker and has a function of displaying character information in addition to a voice communication function.

Next, the operation of the nurse call system configured as described above will be described.
First, the operation when the patient calls the medical staff by operating the nurse call slave unit 100 will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the nurse call slave device 100 at that time. A control program for this processing is stored in the storage unit 108 and executed by the control unit 109 according to the control program. This process is started when the patient presses the push button of the operation unit 101 with a finger.

  First, in step 3a, the control unit 109 controls the fingerprint scanner 102 to read the fingerprint of the finger that has pressed the push button of the operation unit 101, and proceeds to step 3b. As a result, the fingerprint scanner 102 reads a patient's fingerprint, obtains a biometric value from the read fingerprint, and generates fingerprint data.

In step 3b, the control unit 109 acquires fingerprint data from the fingerprint scanner 102, and proceeds to step 3c.
In step 3c, the control unit 109 generates a call signal including the fingerprint data acquired in step 3b, controls the wireless communication unit 106, transmits the call signal, and ends the process.

  On the other hand, of the radio base stations 201 to 20m, the nearest radio base station receives the call signal from the nurse call slave unit 100 and transmits it to the nurse call master unit 300. On the other hand, in nurse call parent device 300, communication unit 301 receives the call signal from the radio base station and outputs the call signal to control unit 307.

  Then, based on the fingerprint data included in the received call signal and the information of the patient name / fingerprint data table stored in the storage unit 306, the control unit 307 transmits the call signal from which patient. To identify. Specifically, the patient name / fingerprint data table stored in the storage unit 306 is referred to, biometric data matching the fingerprint data included in the received call signal is detected, and the patient name associated with this is detected. Detect the bed number.

  Then, the control unit 307 controls the display unit 304 to display the detected patient name and bed number on the display unit 304 to notify the medical staff that a call has occurred. Further, the control unit 307 outputs text data indicating the patient name and the bed number to the communication unit 302, and controls the communication unit 302 to transmit a call signal including the text data.

  In response to this, the communication unit 302 transmits a calling signal including the text data to the radio base stations 401 to 40n. On the other hand, the radio base stations 401 to 40n wirelessly transmit the call signal received from the communication unit 302 to the radio terminal 500. On the other hand, when receiving the call signal, the wireless terminal 500 acquires text data included therein, and displays a patient name and a bed number based on the text data on a built-in display unit.

  Next, an operation when the patient operates the nurse call slave device 100 and transmits vital information to the nurse call parent device 300 will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the nurse call slave device 100 at that time. A control program for this processing is stored in the storage unit 108 and executed by the control unit 109 according to the control program. This process is started when the patient installs a vital measurement mode through the operation unit 101 and then presses the push button of the operation unit 101 with a finger.

  First, in step 4a, the control unit 109 controls the fingerprint scanner 102 to read the fingerprint of the finger that has pressed the push button of the operation unit 101, and proceeds to step 4b. As a result, the fingerprint scanner 102 reads a patient's fingerprint, obtains a biometric value from the read fingerprint, and generates fingerprint data.

In step 4b, the control unit 109 acquires fingerprint data from the fingerprint scanner 102, and proceeds to step 4c.
In step 4c, the control unit 109 controls the vital sensor 103 to measure the vital information (body temperature, pulse, blood pressure, etc.) of the patient, and acquires data obtained by this measurement from the vital sensor 103 as vital information. Then, the control unit 109 detects the current time, associates this time with the vital information, records it in the storage unit 108, and proceeds to step 4d.

In step 4d, the control unit 109 acquires fingerprint data from the fingerprint scanner 102, and then generates the vital data by adding the acquired fingerprint data to the vital information and time information recorded in the storage unit 108 in step 4c. Then, the process proceeds to step 4e.
In step 4e, the control unit 109 controls the wireless communication unit 106, transmits the vital data generated in step 4d, and ends the process.

  On the other hand, of the radio base stations 201 to 20m, the nearest radio base station receives vital data transmitted from the nurse call slave device 100 and transmits it to the nurse call master device 300. On the other hand, in the nurse call parent device 300, the communication unit 301 receives the vital data from the radio base station and outputs it to the control unit 307.

  Then, the control unit 307 identifies which patient the vital data belongs to based on the fingerprint data included in the received vital data and the information in the patient name / fingerprint data table stored in the storage unit 306. To do. Specifically, biometric data that matches the fingerprint data included in the received vital data is detected, and the patient name associated therewith is detected.

  Then, the control unit 307 aggregates and records the vital information and time data included in the vital data in the patient name / vital information totaling table stored in the storage unit 306 as vital information of the detected patient name.

  Thereafter, when a vital information output request is received from a medical staff through the operation unit 303, the control unit 307 stores the patient name / vital stored in the storage unit 306 with the vital information of the patient specified through the operation unit 303. The information is read from the information totaling table and displayed on the display unit 304 as shown in FIG. 5, for example. In the example of FIG. 5, changes in body temperature and changes in pulse are displayed in time series.

  In the nurse call slave device 100, the vital information recorded in the storage unit 108 in step 4c is read out from the storage unit 108 by the control unit 109 in response to a request through the operation unit 101 later, and the control unit 109 Vital information is displayed on the display unit 105 together with information indicating the time at which is measured.

  As described above, in the nurse call system configured as described above, when a call request is made from the nurse call slave device 100, the fingerprint of the operated patient is scanned, and the fingerprint data is transmitted to the nurse call master device 300 together with the call signal. The The nurse call master device 300 that has received the call signal identifies the calling patient and the bed number to be used from the patient name / fingerprint data table stored in the storage unit 306 based on the fingerprint data. This is reported to the medical staff through the display unit 304 and the wireless terminal 500.

  Therefore, according to the nurse call system having the above configuration, it is possible to identify the person who has called the patient based on the biometric data of the patient without registering the ID of the nurse call slave unit 100 or the like in the nurse call master unit 300. Can do. Thereby, even if the nurse call cordless handset 100 is lent or borrowed between patients, it can be specified which patient has called.

  In the nurse call system configured as described above, the vital information of the patient is measured by the nurse call slave unit 100 and displayed on the nurse call slave unit 100 in response to a request through the operation unit 101, or the measured vital information is measured. Is transmitted to the nurse call master device 300 together with the fingerprint data. The nurse call master device 300 counts vital information for each patient based on the fingerprint data, and shows the count result for each patient.

  Therefore, according to the nurse call system having the above-described configuration, even if the medical staff does not go to the patient, a vital check is performed by the nurse call slave device 100 by the patient's operation, and the nurse call master device 300 performs the aggregation / Since it can be referred to, vital information can be acquired efficiently.

  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.

  As an example, in the above embodiment, the nurse call slave device 100 has been described as a wireless terminal. However, the nurse call slave device 100 is installed in a common space such as a hospital bed or a toilet and communicates with the nurse call master device 300 through a wired line. Also, the effects as described above can be exhibited.

Further, in the above embodiment, the fingerprint data is transmitted to the nurse call parent device 300 in order to identify the patient who has called and the patient who is the transmission source of the vital information. Other biometric information such as vein patterns, retina and iris patterns, voice recognition, and the like may be transmitted as identification information.
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 figure which shows an example of the external appearance of the nurse call subunit | mobile_unit shown in FIG. The flowchart for demonstrating the process by the control part of the nurse call subunit | mobile_unit shown in FIG. The flowchart for demonstrating the process by the control part of the nurse call subunit | mobile_unit shown in FIG. The figure which shows an example of the total result of the vital information displayed on the display part of the nurse call main | base station shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Nurse call cordless handset, 101 ... Operation part, 102 ... Fingerprint scanner, 103 ... Vital sensor, 104 ... Camera part, 105 ... Display part, 106 ... Wireless communication part, 107 ... Call part, 108 ... Memory | storage part, 109 ... Control unit, 110 ... hole, 201 to 20m ... radio base station, 300 ... nurse call master, 301 ... communication unit, 302 ... communication unit, 303 ... operation unit, 304 ... display unit, 305 ... call unit, 306 ... memory Unit, 307 ... control unit, 401 to 40n ... radio base station, 500 ... radio terminal, ST ... strap.

Claims (4)

In a nurse call system that calls a medical worker when a nurse call parent device receives a call signal from a nurse call child device possessed by a user through a network,
The nurse call cordless handset
A receiving means for receiving a call request from a user;
Obtaining means for obtaining biometric information of the user;
When the accepting means accepts a request, the sending means includes a sending means for sending a call signal including biometric information obtained by the obtaining means to the nurse call master unit,
The nurse call master is
Storage means for storing information relating user identification information and user biometric information;
Receiving means for receiving a call signal from the nurse call slave unit;
Detecting means for detecting user identification information corresponding to biometric information included in the paging signal received by the receiving means from information stored in the storage means;
A nurse call system comprising notification means for notifying a medical staff of user identification information detected by the detection means and notifying that a call request from the user has occurred. In the nurse call cordless handset used in the nurse call system that calls medical personnel,
A receiving means for receiving a call request from a user;
Obtaining means for obtaining biometric information of the user;
A nurse call slave unit comprising: a transmission unit configured to transmit a call signal including biometric information acquired by the acquisition unit to the nurse call parent unit when the reception unit receives a request. In a nurse call system that calls a medical worker when a nurse call parent device receives a call signal from a child device owned by a user through a network,
The slave is
Obtaining means for obtaining biometric information of the user;
Measuring means for measuring the user's vital data;
The biometric information acquired by the acquisition means and the transmission means for associating the vital measurement result measured by the measurement means with the nurse call master unit,
The nurse call master is
First storage means for storing information that associates user identification information with user biometric information;
Receiving means for receiving data from the slave unit;
Detecting means for detecting user identification information corresponding to biometric information included in the data received by the receiving means from information stored in the first storage means;
A nurse call system comprising: second storage means for storing vital measurement results included in the data received by the receiving means in association with user identification information detected by the detecting means. In a nurse call cordless handset used in a nurse call system comprising a nurse call master device having a function of storing user vital information,
Obtaining means for obtaining biometric information of the user;
Measuring means for measuring the user's vital data;
A nurse call slave unit comprising: a transmission unit that associates the biometric information acquired by the acquisition unit with the vital measurement result measured by the measurement unit and transmits the result to the nurse call master unit.

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