JP2012110593A - Health management supporting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a health management support system which can collect biological information of a user by remote operation and provide the solution according to the health state of the user.SOLUTION: The health management supporting system includes: a terminal device including collection means to collect biological information from a biological information collecting device to acquire the biological information of a user, and transmission means to transmit the biological information collected by the collecting means to outside; and a server device including reception means to receive the biological information transmitted from the terminal device, health state determination means to determine the health state of the user from the biological information received by the reception means and to derive the solution according to the health state, and providing means to provide the solution derived by the health state determination means to the terminal device.

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to a health management support system.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a system for managing the health status of a user by storing biological information transmitted from the user in a server device has been proposed. In such a system, the user can be alerted when the value of the received biometric information exceeds a preset upper limit value.

  However, in the conventional system, although a warning is notified when the biological information exceeds a predetermined upper limit value, the user does not know how to deal with this warning and performs health care. There was a problem of lack of convenience.

  The health management support system according to the embodiment includes a terminal device having a collection unit and a transmission unit, and a server device having a reception unit, a health condition determination unit, and a provision unit. The collecting means collects biological information from a biological information acquisition device that acquires the biological information of the user. The transmitting means transmits the biological information collected by the collecting means to the outside. The receiving means receives the biological information transmitted from the terminal device. The health condition determining means determines the user's health condition from the biological information received by the receiving means, and derives a coping method corresponding to the health condition. The providing means provides the terminal device with the coping method derived by the health condition determining means.

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing an overall configuration of a health management support system according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the biological information acquisition apparatus. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the user terminal. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the server apparatus. FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the data configuration of the electronic medical record repository. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the procedure of the biometric information registration process. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the procedure of the health condition determination process. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the procedure of the health management support information provision process.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a health management support system will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, this invention is not limited by embodiment described below.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing an overall configuration of a health management support system 100 according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the health management support system 100 includes a biological information acquisition device 10, a user terminal 20, and a server device 30. Here, the biometric information acquisition apparatus 10 and the user terminal 20 are connected by a small-scale network PAN such as Bluetooth (registered trademark), and are installed in a user's house or the like that uses this system. The server device 30 is connected to the user terminal 20 via a network WAN such as the Internet, and is managed by a medical institution such as a hospital. Note that the number of biometric information acquisition apparatuses 10 connected to the small-scale network PAN and the number of user terminals 20 connected to the network WAN are not limited to the example in FIG.

  The biometric information acquisition apparatus 10 acquires biometric information such as body weight, body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, electrocardiogram, and blood glucose level from a user. The biometric information acquisition device 10 is composed of, for example, one or a plurality of sensor devices that measure various types of biometric information, and the biometric information acquired (measured) by the sensor device is transmitted to the user terminal via the small-scale network PAN. 20 to send.

  The user terminal 20 is a terminal device such as a PC (Personal Computer). The user terminal 20 collects the biological information acquired by the biological information acquisition device 10 and transmits it to the server device 30 via the network WAN. In addition, when the user terminal 20 receives later-described health management support information transmitted from the server device 30, the user terminal 20 presents the information to the user.

  The server device 30 is a server device having functions such as a Web server and an application server, and stores and manages biometric information of each user transmitted from the user terminal 20. Further, the server device 30 provides (transmits) the health management support information for supporting the health management of the user to the user terminal 20 in response to a request from the user terminal 20.

  Hereinafter, with reference to FIGS. 2-5, the structure of each apparatus which comprises the health-care assistance system 100 is demonstrated.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the biological information acquisition apparatus 10. As shown in the figure, the biological information acquisition apparatus 10 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 11, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12, and a RAM (Random Access Memory) 13 as microcomputers for executing information processing. .

  The CPU 11 comprehensively controls the biological information acquisition apparatus 10 by executing various programs stored in the ROM 12. The ROM 12 stores a program for performing basic operations. The RAM 13 is a main storage device of the biological information acquisition apparatus 10 and functions as a work area for the CPU 11.

  Further, the biometric information acquisition unit 14 and the communication I / F 15 are connected to the CPU 11 via various input / output circuits (not shown). Here, the biological information acquisition unit 14 is a sensor device that acquires various types of biological information from the user of the user terminal 20. The communication I / F 15 is an interface for performing data communication with the user terminal 20 via the small-scale network PAN. The CPU 11 transmits the biological information acquired by the biological information acquisition unit 14 to the user terminal 20 using the communication I / F 15.

  The biological information acquisition unit 14 may be one sensor device or a plurality of sensor device groups that can acquire a plurality of types of biological information, or one sensor that can acquire a single type of biological information. It may be a device. Also, a plurality of biological information acquisition devices 10 including a biological information acquisition unit 14 specialized for acquiring different types of biological information are prepared, and the biological information acquired by the plurality of biological information acquisition devices 10 is used. It is good also as a form which each transmits to the person terminal 20.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the user terminal 20. As shown in the figure, the user terminal 20 includes a CPU 21, a ROM 22, and a RAM 23 as a microcomputer that executes information processing.

  The CPU 21 comprehensively controls the user terminal 20 by executing various programs stored in the ROM 22 or a storage unit 26 described later. The ROM 22 stores a program for performing basic operations. The RAM 23 is a main storage device of the user terminal 20 and functions as a work area for the CPU 21.

  The CPU 21 is connected to an input unit 24 and a display unit 25 via various input / output circuits (not shown). The input unit 24 includes an input device such as a keyboard and a pointing device, and notifies the CPU 21 of the operation content input from the operator of the user terminal 20. The display unit 25 has a display device such as an LCD and displays various types of information in accordance with instructions from the CPU 21.

  The CPU 21 is connected to a storage unit 26, a first communication I / F 27, and a second communication I / F 28 through various input / output circuits (not shown).

  The storage unit 26 is a storage medium such as an HDD or a flash memory, and stores various programs and various files for realizing each functional unit described later. The first communication I / F 27 is a network interface for performing data communication with the biological information acquisition apparatus 10. The second communication I / F 28 is a network interface for performing data communication with the server device 30. The CPU 21 receives biological information from the biological information acquisition device 10 via the first communication I / F 27. Further, the CPU 21 transmits and receives various data to and from the server device 30 via the second communication I / F 28.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the server device 30. As shown in the figure, the server device 30 includes a CPU 31, a ROM 32, and a RAM 33 as a microcomputer that executes information processing.

  The CPU 31 comprehensively controls the server device 30 by executing various programs stored in the ROM 32 and the storage unit 36 described later. The ROM 32 stores a program for performing basic operations. The RAM 33 is a main storage device of the server device 30 and functions as a work area for the CPU 31.

  In addition, an input unit 34 and a display unit 35 are connected to the CPU 31 via various input / output circuits (not shown). The input unit 34 is a keyboard, a pointing device, or the like, and notifies the CPU 31 of key information input from the operator of the server device 30. The display unit 35 has a display device such as an LCD, and displays various types of information in accordance with instructions from the CPU 31.

  The CPU 31 is connected to a storage unit 36 and a communication I / F 37 via various input / output circuits (not shown).

  The storage unit 36 is a storage medium such as an HDD or a flash memory, and stores various programs and various files for realizing each functional unit described later. Examples of the file stored in the storage unit 36 include an electronic medical record repository 361 that stores and manages biometric information transmitted from each user, a coping method according to the health condition of the user, and the like.

  Here, FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of the data configuration of the electronic medical record repository 361. As shown in the figure, the electronic medical record repository 361 includes a user ID as identification information for identifying each user (or user terminal 20), the gender, height, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar level, etc. of each user. Is stored in association with the body feature information in which the body features are recorded, the biological information for each date, and the supplementary information. It should be noted that the supplementary information stores a coping method derived by a health condition determination unit 313 described later.

  Returning to FIG. 4, the communication I / F 37 is an interface for performing data communication with the user terminal 20. The CPU 31 receives biological information from the user terminal 20 via the communication I / F 37. In addition, the CPU 31 transmits health management support information to the user terminal 20 via the communication I / F 37. Although not shown, the server device 30 includes a time measuring device such as an RTC (Real Time Clock), and the CPU 31 can acquire the current date and time (year / month / day) based on time information timed by the time measuring device. To do.

  Next, characteristic functions of the user terminal 20 and the server device 30 will be described with reference to FIGS.

  As illustrated in FIG. 3, the CPU 21 of the user terminal 20 cooperates with a program stored in the ROM 22 or the storage unit 26 to communicate with the communication control unit 211, the biological information collection unit 212, the operation reception unit 213, and the display control unit. 214 is realized.

  The communication control unit 211 controls data communication with the biological information acquisition apparatus 10 by controlling the operation of the first communication I / F 27. In addition, the communication control unit 211 controls data communication with the server device 30 by controlling the operation of the second communication I / F 28. It is assumed that the communication control unit 211 notifies the server device 30 of a user ID that can identify the user who operates the user terminal 20 when accessing the server device 30.

  Here, the user ID may be each user's name or unique information (for example, a membership number), or unique information assigned to the user terminal 20 (for example, a computer name or an IP address). ). When the user name or membership number is used as the user ID, the user ID may be input via the input unit 24 prior to access to the server device 30 or stored in the storage unit 26 in advance. It is good also as a form using the user ID memorize | stored.

  The biological information collection unit 212 collects the user's biological information transmitted from the biological information acquisition apparatus 10 via the communication control unit 211. In addition, the biological information collection unit 212 transmits the collected biological information to the server device 30 via the communication control unit 211. Here, the biometric information collection unit 212 holds the time series of the biometric information acquired by collecting the biometric information in the order received, and transmits the biometric information to the server device 30 while holding this time series. The timing at which the biological information is transmitted to the server device 30 is not particularly limited. For example, it is good also as a form which transmits every predetermined time, such as 3 hours, and it is good also as a form which transmits to the server apparatus 30 whenever biometric information is collected.

  The operation accepting unit 213 accepts the operation content input via the input unit 24 and executes processing according to the operation content. Specifically, when receiving an operation for requesting acquisition of health management support information from a user who operates the user terminal 20 through the input unit 24, the operation reception unit 213 requests the health management support information. Request information is generated and transmitted to the server device 30 via the communication control unit 211.

  In addition, the display control unit 214 displays a screen representing various information such as health management support information transmitted (provided) from the server device 30 on the display unit 25.

  On the other hand, the CPU 31 of the server device 30 cooperates with a program stored in the ROM 32 or the storage unit 36, as shown in FIG. 4, the communication control unit 311, the biological information registration unit 312, the health condition determination unit 313, and the information. The providing unit 314 is realized.

  The communication control unit 311 controls communication with the user terminal 20 by controlling the operation of the communication I / F 37. Specifically, the communication control unit 311 receives biometric information, request information, and the like transmitted from the user terminal 20 using the communication I / F 37. Further, the communication control unit 311 transmits the health management support information provided from the information providing unit 314 to the user terminal 20 using the communication I / F 37.

  Each time the communication control unit 311 receives biometric information, the biometric information registration unit 312 associates the biometric information and the received date with the user ID of the user terminal 20 that is the transmission source, and registers the biometric information in the electronic medical record repository 361. . Here, the biometric information registered in the electronic medical record repository 361 is registered in chronological order.

  The health condition determination unit 313 determines a user's health condition related to the user ID from the biometric information of each user ID registered in the electronic medical record repository 361, and derives a coping method corresponding to the health condition Part. Specifically, the health state determination unit 313 calculates a difference value for each user ID registered in the electronic medical record repository 361 by comparing the biometric information for each type with a predetermined reference value. It is determined whether or not the user's health is normal based on the value. Note that the biometric information to be compared is not limited to one, and the biometric information for a predetermined time (for example, three hours before the latest registration time, etc.) is targeted, and the change amount and average value thereof are taken into consideration. It is good.

  Here, a reference value to be compared with various types of biological information and a threshold value that is an index for determining whether normal or abnormal are the body of each user ID registered in the electronic medical record repository 361, such as gender, age, height, and weight. It is assumed that each user ID is set based on the feature information condition. The reference value and threshold value for each user may be stored in advance in the electronic medical record repository 361 or the like in association with the corresponding user ID, or may be calculated from a predetermined relational expression based on the physical feature information of each user. It is good also as a form to produce | generate automatically.

  In addition, when the health condition determination unit 313 derives a countermeasure method for improving the health condition based on the determination result of the health condition and the amount of change in the biological information, the countermeasure method is registered in the electronic medical record repository 361. Stored in the additional information of the user ID. Here, the handling method is derived with reference to a database (not shown) in which each condition of the health state corresponding to the difference value of the biological information and the handling method are associated with each other. Moreover, it is good also as a form which notifies the determination result of a health state and the variation | change_quantity of biometric information to medical workers, such as a doctor, and uses the information input (transmitted) from the said medical worker as a coping method. In addition, the notification method to a medical worker is not particularly limited, and for example, a form of sending to a medical worker's e-mail may be used, or when the medical worker's terminal is connected to the server device 30 online. May be configured to display on the terminal a message to confirm the corresponding biological information. The notification to the medical staff may be performed when it is determined that the health condition is abnormal.

  When the communication control unit 311 receives the request information, the information providing unit 314 reads the additional information associated with the user ID of the user terminal 20 that is the transmission source from the electronic medical record repository 361 and communicates it as health management support information The data is provided to the user terminal 20 that is the transmission source via the control unit 311. Note that the information to be provided is not limited to the supplementary information, and the determination result by the health condition determination unit 313, the amount of change in the biological information, and the biological information stored in the electronic medical record repository 361 may be provided in a referable manner.

  Hereinafter, the operation of the health management support system 100 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of biometric information registration processing performed among the biometric information acquisition apparatus 10, the user terminal 20, and the server apparatus 30.

  First, when the user of the health care support system 100 operates the biometric information acquisition device 10, the biometric information acquisition unit 14 of the biometric information acquisition device 10 acquires the biometric information of the user (step S11). . Then, CPU11 of the biometric information acquisition apparatus 10 transmits the biometric information acquired by step S11 to the user terminal 20 (step S12).

  On the other hand, in the user terminal 20, every time the communication control unit 211 receives the biological information from the biological information acquisition device 10 (step S21), the biological information collection unit 212 collects this biological information (step S22) and collects it. The biometric information thus transmitted is transmitted to the server device 30 at a predetermined timing (step S23). As described above, the user ID of the user who operates the user terminal 20 is transmitted to the server device 30 when accessing the server device 30.

  In the server device 30, when the communication control unit 311 receives the biometric information transmitted from the user terminal 20 (step S31), the biometric information registration unit 312 displays the biometric information and the reception date and time on the user terminal 20 that is the transmission source. Are registered in the electronic medical record repository 361 (step S32), and this process is terminated.

  Thus, by executing the biometric information registration process, the biometric information of the user acquired by the biometric information acquisition device 10 is stored and managed in the server device 30 in association with the user ID of the user. Thereby, it is possible to remotely collect, store and manage the biometric information of each user.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of health condition determination processing performed by the server device 30. The timing for executing this process is not particularly limited. For example, the biological information for the previous day of each user (user ID) may be processed and the process may be executed once a day. Alternatively, it may be executed each time according to the request information from the user terminal 20.

  First, the health state determination unit 313 of the server device 30 refers to the electronic medical record repository 361 and selects one user ID to be determined (step S41). For example, when a health management support information request is transmitted from a specific user terminal 20, the health condition determination unit 313 sets the user ID of the user terminal 20 as a determination target.

  Subsequently, the health condition determination unit 313 extracts the biological information on the date to be determined from the daily biological information associated with the identification information selected in Step S41 (Step S42). Here, it is preferable that the determination target date be biometric information of the latest date such as the previous day or the date of the current day. Further, a plurality of dates may be set as the determination target. For example, the biometric information from the previous day to today may be set as the determination target.

  Next, the health condition determination unit 313 calculates the difference value by classifying the extracted biological information for each type and comparing it with each reference value for the user ID selected in step S41 (step S43). Subsequently, the health condition determination unit 313 determines whether or not the user's health condition is normal based on the calculated difference value of each piece of biological information (step S44).

  When it determines with it being normal in step S44 (step S44; Yes), it transfers to step S46 immediately. Moreover, when it determines with it being abnormal in step S44 (step S44; No), the health condition determination part 313 notifies the medical worker of the biometric information used as the basis of determination, and its determination result (step S45), step. The process proceeds to S46. In this process, the health care worker is notified when it is determined that there is an abnormality in the health condition. However, the present invention is not limited to this.

  In step S46, the health condition determination unit 313 derives a coping method according to the user's health condition based on the determination result in step S44 (step S46). In addition, when information is input from a medical worker, the health condition determination unit 313 derives this information as a coping method and proceeds with processing. Subsequently, the health condition determination unit 313 stores the derived coping method in the additional information of the corresponding user ID registered in the electronic medical record repository 361 (step S47), and ends this process.

  As described above, the server device 30 determines the health state of the user based on the user's biological information transmitted from the user terminal 20, and derives a coping method according to the determination result at a predetermined timing. To do.

  Next, a health management support information provision process performed between the user terminal 20 and the server device 30 will be described with reference to FIG. Here, FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a procedure of health management support information provision processing performed between the user terminal 20 and the server device 30.

  First, in the user terminal 20, when receiving an instruction operation for requesting acquisition of health management support information via the input unit 24 (step S51), the operation reception unit 213 receives request information for requesting this health management support information. It transmits to the server device 30 (step S52). As described above, the user ID of the user who operates the user terminal 20 is transmitted to the server device 30 when accessing the server device 30.

  In the server device 30, when the communication control unit 311 receives the request information from the user terminal 20 (step S61), the information providing unit 314 sends the biometrics associated with the user ID of the user terminal 20 that has transmitted the request information. Information, additional information, etc. are read from the electronic medical record repository 361 (step S62). Next, the information providing unit 314 uses the information read in step S62 as health management support information, and transmits (provides) the request information to the user terminal 20 that transmitted the request information (step S63).

  In the user terminal 20, when the communication control unit 211 receives the health management support information from the server device 30 (step S53), the display control unit 214 displays a screen based on the health management support information on the display unit 25 ( Step S54), the process is terminated.

  As a result, the user who operates the user terminal 20 can refer to the health management support information (such as a coping method) according to his / her health condition, and therefore, the user will handle based on the content of the health management support information. Thus, it becomes possible to maintain or improve the health condition.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the biological information of each user can be easily accumulated, and the health state of the user is determined from the biological information, and a coping method according to the determination result is provided. Provide to users. Thereby, since the coping method according to each user's health condition can be provided remotely, the convenience in performing health management for each user can be improved.

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described above, but the present invention is not limited to this, and various modifications, substitutions, additions, and the like are possible without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the server apparatus 30 includes the electronic medical record repository 361. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the electronic medical record repository 361 is stored in an external device (for example, a database server) accessible by the server apparatus 30. It is good also as the form currently made.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although it was set as the form which determines a health state based on the biometric information accumulate | stored in the electronic medical record repository 361, it is not restricted to this, Comparing the biometric information received from the user terminal 20, and a reference value. Thus, the health state may be directly determined from the received biological information.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the server apparatus 30 was set as the form which provides health-care support information according to the request information from the user terminal 20, it is not restricted to this but toward the user terminal 20 from the server apparatus 30 The health management support information may be transmitted unilaterally. In the case of this form, it is preferable to transmit the health management support information when it is determined that the health condition is abnormal.

  In addition, the program executed by each device of the above embodiment is provided by being incorporated in advance in a storage medium (ROM or storage unit) included in each device, but is not limited thereto, and can be installed in a form or executable. Various types of files may be recorded and provided on a computer-readable recording medium such as a CD-ROM, a flexible disk (FD), a CD-R, or a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk). Furthermore, the storage medium is not limited to a medium independent of a computer or an embedded system, but also includes a storage medium in which a program transmitted via a LAN, the Internet, or the like is downloaded and stored or temporarily stored.

  Further, the program executed by each device of the above embodiment may be stored on a computer connected to a network such as the Internet and provided by being downloaded via the network, or via a network such as the Internet. It may be configured to be provided or distributed.

100 Health Management Support System 10 Biological Information Acquisition Device 11 CPU
12 ROM
13 RAM
14 Biometric information acquisition unit 15 Communication I / F
20 User terminal 21 CPU
211 Communication Control Unit 212 Biological Information Collection Unit 213 Operation Accepting Unit 214 Display Control Unit 22 ROM
23 RAM
24 input unit 25 display unit 26 storage unit 27 first communication I / F
28 Second communication I / F
30 Server device 31 CPU
311 Communication control unit 312 Biological information registration unit 313 Health condition determination unit 314 Information providing unit 32 ROM
33 RAM
34 Input unit 35 Display unit 36 Storage unit 361 Electronic medical record repository 37 Communication I / F

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Claims (6)

A terminal device comprising: a collection unit that collects the biological information from a biological information acquisition device that acquires biological information of a user; and a transmission unit that transmits the biological information collected by the collection unit to the outside.
Receiving means for receiving biometric information transmitted from the terminal device, and health condition determining means for determining a health condition of the user from the biometric information received by the receiving means and deriving a coping method according to the health condition And a providing unit that provides the terminal device with a coping method derived by the health condition determining unit,
A health management support system characterized by comprising   The health management according to claim 1, wherein the health condition determination unit notifies a health care worker of a health condition of the user and derives information input from the health care worker as the coping method. Support system.   2. The health condition determining means determines whether or not the user's health condition is normal based on a difference between the biological information received by the receiving means and a predetermined reference value. Or the health management support system of 2.   The health management support system according to claim 3, wherein the health condition determination unit determines whether or not the health condition is normal using the reference value corresponding to the physical characteristics of the user. . The server device stores the identification information of the user, the biological information received by the receiving unit from the terminal device of the user, and the coping method derived by the health condition determining unit for the biological information. A storage means,
The said health condition determination means determines the said user's health condition by tracing the variation | change_quantity of the biometric information memorize | stored in the said memory | storage means in time series order. The health management support system described in 1. The terminal device further includes coping method request means for transmitting request information for requesting the coping method to the server device together with the identification information of the user in response to an input operation from the user,
In response to the request information transmitted from the terminal device, the providing unit of the server device reads a handling method corresponding to the identification information transmitted together with the request information from the storage unit, and provides the information to the terminal device The health management support system according to claim 5, wherein:

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