JP2009061236A - Small terminal with functions of reading and inputting multi-data on personal medical information, of data management, analysis, and display, and of entertainment, game, and communication to facilitate self-management for health, having strong bio-feedback effect on life-style related disease, which allows unified management of measured personal data at first when developing medical information database at medical institute, or local/national government - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that a continuous and appropriate display, management, and keeping of measured personal data is so difficult that developing medical database could be difficult though it is essential to keep personal motivation, to grasp a plurality of data transitions such as a blood sugar level, blood pressure or the like, and to improve a personal self-management ability so as to overcome a life-style related disease. <P>SOLUTION: A terminal such as a game apparatus or the like as a handy tool is equipped with functions of reading and inputting multi-data on medical information, and of data management, analysis, and display, which a user to obtain/manage data with an instinctive operation and to check the data at real time so as to improve the self-management ability with a strong bio-feedback effect. The terminal is also equipped with a communication function, which allows the user to exchange information with friends sharing a problem, to be advised by a doctor of a medical institute, and to transfer data to the medical institute, or local/national government as a database. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  Data communication and management method for medical information. Technology for preventing and improving lifestyle-related diseases through biofeedback effects. Entertainment game function to improve the quality of health self-management.

  It is desirable that data related to lifestyle-related diseases such as blood glucose level and blood pressure should be measured and recorded and managed frequently at home. There are also variations.

  At present, there is a system for performing health management by combining a special device capable of measuring some data such as body weight, body fat, blood pressure, blood sugar and a computer, but not well known. The problem with this system is that the measurement device is special, so if the data you want to measure changes, you must purchase a new measurement device, and you must prepare another method for data management. Above all, to see the measurement data, it is necessary to start a personal computer, which is complicated.

  Along with the digitalization of medical records by medical institutions, there is a movement to create a database of personal medical information, but there are many problems that should be unified, such as data collection methods and collection data management methods.

  Although many lifestyle-related diseases can be improved by self-management of lifestyle habits, not everyone can continue appropriate self-management. Many people are in a situation where they know they are vaguely bad, but cannot change their current lifestyle and cannot escape from further vicious circles such as metabolic syndrome.

  What is most necessary to fight off lifestyle-related diseases is to involve motivation for patient health self-management. To that end, there is a need for a system that eliminates the complexity of data collection and management, and that makes it even more enjoyable to collect data. Furthermore, there is a need for a system that can find peers with the same trouble through the terminal and can hone their self-management skills together with their peers without feeling alienated.

  One of the problems that many clinicians have is control after discharge of chronic diseases such as diabetes. For example, blood glucose levels that could be grasped by regular and frequent measurements at the time of hospitalization are lacking in terms of quantitative and reliability after discharge, and it is doubtful that they are being controlled properly. I will be disappointed with the situation.

  Life-style related diseases are expected to severely squeeze the national medical economy in the near future, and since fiscal 2008, personal health information has been made into a database by the efforts of the three ministries of welfare labor, economic industry and general affairs. A model business that can save and view the history and blood pressure measurement results at home in a database is started. However, this business requires the premise that an individual goes to a medical institution to measure blood pressure, etc., or to record blood pressure securely at home and store the data. Furthermore, in order to be meaningful as a database, it is essential to collect a variety of data. In order for this project to have an immediate effect on the prevention of individual lifestyle-related diseases and, in turn, the improvement of the medical economy, individuals must collect various data on their own. Management is easy, and for medical institutions, local governments, and national institutions, the entry part of the database, that is, when data is collected, no matter who collects the data, the data is processed and stored in the same way. A system is essential.

  For self-management of lifestyle habits, it is indispensable to develop a terminal that has a function to read and input personal medical information and can manage, analyze and display such data collectively. Furthermore, for comprehensive health management, not only items essential for lifestyle-related diseases such as blood glucose level, blood pressure, neutral fat, and cholesterol, but also the number of measurement objects cannot be denied. Therefore, if the software is replaced depending on the measurement target, the terminal needs to be compatible with any measurement target, and all data needs to be centrally stored and managed.

  In order for individuals to collect and manage health data easily and happily and continuously, the terminal needs to be a terminal that is very familiar to everyone and does not feel like a medical device. It is necessary to be a terminal with a powerful biofeedback effect that can immediately collect data or check the data history when the power is turned on, and can intuitively see the growth of self-management ability. . Furthermore, in order to continue data collection and management, it is necessary for the terminal to have entertainment and game characteristics, such as characters growing and changing as data improves.

  A terminal having a communication function capable of transmitting medical data collected and managed by an individual to a medical institution, a local government, or a national institution is required. Furthermore, it is necessary to use the communication function to connect with the doctor in charge of the medical institution through the terminal, or to search for a fellow who has the same trouble, and a terminal that can exchange data and e-mails is required.

  Individuals can happily and continuously collect and manage medical data for their own health management, and by checking the data visually and intuitively, a powerful biofeedback action occurs, improving self-management ability, Can maintain health. You can get advice from the doctor in charge at the medical institution through the terminal. Through the terminal, you can find friends with the same troubles and encourage each other. Even if you have some kind of disease, if there is data that can be collected at home about the disease, if you change the software and perform similar data collection and management, you can overcome that disease with the self-management ability you have acquired. be able to.

  Data collected by an individual is read into the terminal or input to the terminal, and is managed and transmitted in a form that can be used as a database at the medical institution level, local government level, or national level. It is easy to evaluate disease control, and it is very efficient in creating a database, and a very reliable database can be created.

  Improving personal self-management capabilities reduces medical costs, and a reliable medical database provides a view of future medical care.

Suppose a middle-aged woman with diabetes has a terminal and is acquainted with a boy with type I diabetes through the terminal. Type I diabetes is a disease that genetically lacks insulin or is markedly hyperglycemic due to a small amount of insulin. It develops at a young age, and blood glucose level measurement and insulin treatment must be performed throughout life. There are about 10,000 patients in Japan.
There are various possibilities for the terminal as long as it satisfies the functions of the present invention, but it is a small game machine that is familiar to everyone at the very beginning and is highly entertaining and gaming.

  Hereinafter, how the present invention works efficiently will be described with reference to FIG.

  A middle-aged woman measures blood glucose using 2a. The data is transferred to 1a and read, and is combined with the previous data and displayed as a graph. If the measured value is satisfactory, the character displayed on the graph screen (a middle-aged female character representing yourself or an animal of your choice depending on the settings) may become slim or smile. . On the other hand, if you are unsatisfied, your character may become fat or grumpy, but in this case, another character will appear and encourage you.

  When data is transferred by operating 1a, data is transmitted to 6 and 7 through 5, and is stored as a database in computers of medical institutions and local governments or national institutions. Comments on this data can be received from doctors in charge of medical institutions. The doctor's face photo can also be captured with the terminal camera.

  When 1a is operated to contact a boy with type 1 diabetes, the state of the boy is displayed as a photograph or a character set by the boy in 1a. In 1b, the state of a middle-aged woman is displayed as a photograph or a character. If you allow each other, the state of the day will be public, so if you are not feeling well, you can encourage the boy, or you can get encouragement at an unexpected time. You can also access the community of people suffering from the same illness using a game console.

  When a middle-aged woman measures blood pressure, the software is changed, the blood pressure is measured at 3a, and the data is transferred to 1a. Like the blood glucose level, it is displayed in a graph, and the state of the day can be known in real time compared to the previous time. It is transferred to the database and can receive advice from a doctor. Also, when the user forgets to carry the terminal and measures with an acquaintance's sphygmomanometer, the numerical value can be input to 1a to obtain data.

Flow of data reading / management / display, biofeedback effect, communication effect with doctors / companies, and collective data management centering on the game machine of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

1a Terminal of a middle-aged woman suffering from diabetes 1b Terminal of a boy suffering from type I diabetes 2a Blood glucose meter of a middle-aged woman suffering from diabetes 2b Blood glucose meter of a boy suffering from type I diabetes 3 Blood pressure meter of a middle-aged woman suffering from diabetes 4a Computers for middle-aged women with diabetes 4b Computers for boys with type I diabetes 5 Public communication network 6 Computers for medical institutions 7 Computers for local governments or national institutions

Claims (4)

  Data can be read from various devices that measure and shoot various medical information of individuals, or data can be input. A small terminal that promotes the improvement of management quality and can exchange data with medical institutions, local governments / national institutions, or the same data measurer, or the accompanying information, through communication functions. The terminal according to claim 1, corresponding to various medical information measuring devices by changing software as necessary,
Height meter, weight scale, thermometer, body fat meter, body composition meter, blood pressure monitor, heart rate measuring device, electrocardiogram measuring device, electroencephalogram measuring device, pedometer,
Erythrocyte count measurement device, hemoglobin measurement device, hematocrit measurement device, MCV / MCH / MCHC measurement device, leukocyte count measurement device, platelet count measurement device, CRP measurement device, HBs antigen measurement device, HCV antibody measurement device,
Blood glucose measurement device, blood ketone body measurement device, HbA1c measurement device, fructosamine measurement device, total cholesterol measurement device, neutral fat measurement device, albumin measurement device, total protein measurement device, AST measurement device, ALT measurement device, gamma GTP measurement Device, ALP measuring device, LDH measuring device, ZTT / TTT measuring device, total bilirubin measuring device, cholinesterase measuring device, LAP measuring device, BUN measuring device, creatinine measuring device, uric acid measuring device, serum amylase measuring device, various tumor marker measuring devices apparatus,
Urine protein measuring device, urine sugar measuring device, urine occult blood measuring device, urine sediment measuring device, urine specific gravity measuring device, urine urobilinogen measuring device, fecal occult blood measuring device,
pH measuring device,
Ladies thermometer, urine hCG measuring device,
Muscle strength measuring device, muscle static potential measuring device,
Spirometer, electronic peak flow meter, pulse oximeter,
Breath carbon monoxide measuring device, blood nicotine measuring device,
Echo device, CCD camera,
Bad breath measuring device,
A small terminal that can read or input such data. 3. A small game machine, a small music player, a PDA, a mobile phone having a display screen for data and graphs, a cross key for operation, a selection button, or a keyboard, etc., in the terminal according to claim 1 or 2 , Etc.
Identify individuals by PIN or fingerprint authentication,
Read or input data is time identified by the internal clock,
It has a built-in camera and can capture image data.
Data changes over time can be displayed as a graph, and the graph can be displayed with your preferred settings such as hourly, daily, weekly,
Amplify and display minute differences in data,
Has an alarm function to prevent forgetting to measure,
Even if you forget to measure, you can predict and correct from the transition of the data before and after, and display it as a graph. It also has a character display function that grows and changes with improved numerical values, a screen and character customization function, a diary function, etc. Small terminal. The terminal according to claim 1, claim 2, or claim 3,
It is possible to communicate with a person who performs the same numerical measurement or a medical institution or national institution that manages data, and has a function to mutually transmit and receive data or its accompanying information,
In close range, data can be exchanged between small terminals of the same type,
USB, IEEE connection, Bluetooth connection, WiFi connection, infrared connection, or other connection methods, or other terminals that can connect a terminal to a computer or between terminals.

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