JP2018068488A - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nurse call system which notifies an inpatient who has made a reservation by using a ceiling speaker or the like when examination reservation time approaches or the examination reservation time comes.SOLUTION: A nurse call system includes: an ordering device 15 for storing a name of a patient who has made an examination reservation and reservation time and date; a message generation part 142 which generates a message to announce to the patient who has made the examination reservation based on information of the ordering device 15; and an examination reservation display terminal 14 which informs of the arrival of the examination time by sending the message generated by the message generation part 142 from one of a speaker of a nurse call slave unit 1 associated with the patient as a subject of the examination reservation and a ceiling speaker 8 installed in a common part of a hospital when prescribed time before the examination reservation time of the patient as the subject of the examination reservation comes.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a nurse call system having a function of notifying a ceiling speaker or a nurse call cordless handset by a speaker that an examination time is approaching an inpatient who has made an appointment for examination.

  As a system for reserving an examination room or the like provided in a ward for examining a patient, there is an examination reservation management system disclosed in Patent Document 1, for example. In Patent Document 1, an unscheduled time is confirmed, an examination room or an inspection apparatus is reserved, and after that, when a change or cancellation occurs, the registration contents are changed each time, thereby efficiently operating the examination room or the inspection apparatus. Made possible.

  On the other hand, there is an IMES (Indoor MEssaging System) technology that can apply the GPS positioning technology even indoors where GPS satellite radio waves do not reach. By using this technique, a person to be managed wears a terminal equipped with a GPS positioning function even indoors, so that the position of the person can be grasped even indoors (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

JP 2012-93843 A JP 2011-145873 A

  Inpatients regularly check their progress in the laboratory, etc., but may forget the scheduled appointment or leave the hospital room because of a sudden visitor, and may not appear in the laboratory at the scheduled time. It was. In such a case, the nurse searches for a patient, but even if it is found, the scheduled time has passed and the schedule has been changed later. If it is not found, the reservation is canceled. Therefore, the task of searching for a patient and changing the time is a burden on the nurse.

  Therefore, in view of such problems, the present invention provides a nurse call system that notifies a reserved inpatient using a ceiling speaker or the like when an examination appointment time approaches or when an examination appointment time comes. It is an object.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention of claim 1 is directed to a nurse call slave set installed in each bed for an inpatient to call a nurse, and a nurse responding to a call from the nurse call slave set. In the nurse call system, which has a nurse call master unit installed in the nurse station and a corridor lamp that displays the patient information of the corresponding patient room installed in each patient room and displays the call from the patient, the examination reservation An examination reservation storage unit for storing the patient name and appointment date, a message generation unit for generating a message to be announced to the patient who has reserved an examination based on information in the examination reservation storage unit, and an examination reservation time of the patient, the constant The nurse call slave unit speaker associated with the patient scheduled for examination reservation at at least one timing before and after a certain time, and A notification control device for reporting a message generated by the message generation unit from at least one of the ceiling speakers installed in the common section of the hospital and notifying that the examination time has come It is characterized by that.
According to this configuration, a predetermined message is sent from at least one of the speakers and the ceiling speaker of the nurse call cordless handset of the reserved patient at the time when the examination is scheduled, or at any timing before or after that. Is reported. Therefore, even if the corresponding patient has forgotten the appointment, the patient can recognize it by the sounded message, and the examination can be performed without the nurse searching for the patient. Therefore, the nurse does not have to bother searching for the patient.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the configuration according to the first aspect, a position information transmitter that is installed in an appropriate part including a common part, a corridor, and a hospital room in a hospital and transmits position information of an installation place; A position transmission terminal that generates and transmits its own position information based on the position information of the received position information transmitter, and receives a transmission signal of the position transmission terminal installed at an appropriate position in the hospital. Location information management device that stores the relationship between the receiver, the patient and the location information transmitter, grasps the patient's location from the signal of the location transmission terminal received by the receiver, and installation of individual ceiling speakers The notification control device has a patient location information acquisition unit for acquiring the location information of the patient who has reserved the examination from the location information management device, and the acquired location information of the patient. From the patient From the speaker of the nurse call slave unit when being in the chamber, if not stay in a hospital room from the ceiling speaker were selected based on information of the speaker position storage unit, characterized in that to sound notification message.
According to this configuration, since a speaker close to the patient's location is selected and a message is reported from the speaker, it is difficult to make noise even if the call is frequent.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the configuration of the second aspect, the nurse has a portable terminal for responding to a call from the patient, and a base station that communicates with the portable terminal is installed at an appropriate position in the hospital. The position information transmitter transmits its own position signal as an IMES signal, and the position information signal transmitted from the position transmitting terminal upon receiving the IMES signal is a GPS positioning signal based on IMES, It transmits with the signal which is common with the communication radio wave, and the receiver is a base station.
According to this configuration, since the position of the position transmission terminal, that is, the patient's location can be specified using the communication network of the portable terminal constructed in the hospital, it is not necessary to separately provide a communication network with the position transmission terminal.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the configuration according to any one of the first to third aspects, the notification control device is installed in the treatment room or the examination room, and obtains and displays the examination reservation status from the examination reservation storage unit. It is a reservation display terminal, and the examination reservation display terminal has a report sound stop button for prohibiting message sound notification.
According to this configuration, if the patient appears in the treatment room or examination room by the time when the message is reported, it is not necessary to report the message. Can be prevented.

  According to the present invention, a predetermined message is output from at least one of the speakers and the ceiling speaker of the nurse call cordless handset of the reserved patient at the time when the examination is scheduled, or at any timing before or after the scheduled appointment. Is reported. Therefore, even if the corresponding patient has forgotten the appointment, the patient can recognize it by the sounded message, and the examination can be performed without the nurse searching for the patient. Therefore, the nurse does not have to bother searching for the patient.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of the nurse call system which concerns on this invention. It is ward layout explanatory drawing which shows arrangement | positioning of an IMES transmitter. It is a functional block diagram of an IMES management device. It is a functional block diagram of a control device. It is a functional block diagram of an examination reservation display terminal. It is explanatory drawing which displayed the patient which the examination reservation display terminal is carrying out examination reservation.

  DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments embodying the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a nurse call system according to the present invention, wherein 1 is a nurse call slave set for each bed and a patient calls a nurse, and 2 is a patient information set for each hospital room. , A hallway lamp for notifying the occurrence of a call, and further relaying a call signal, 3 is installed in a nurse station to notify a call by the nurse call handset 1 and a nurse call for a nurse to answer the call A parent device 4 is a portable terminal composed of, for example, a smartphone carried by each nurse to respond to a call from the nurse call child device 1, 5 is a control device for controlling communication between devices, 6 is a portable terminal 4 and A base station such as an access point that communicates with a position transmission terminal 10 to be described later, 7 is a control of communication between the mobile terminal 4 and the base station 6, and An exchange composed of an IP-PBX that manages communication with the ground station 6, 8 is a ceiling speaker installed at an appropriate position in a common part such as a corridor or toilet, 13 is a management PC that manages the nurse call system, and 14 is An examination appointment display terminal installed in the examination room or treatment room for confirming the examination appointment status of the patient, 15 for patient medical information such as patient medication information and entrance / exit information, as well as appointments for examination rooms and treatment rooms, etc. It is an ordering device to be managed.

  Reference numeral 9 denotes an IMES transmitter as a position information transmitter that applies the IMES technology to transmit an IMES signal that is its own position signal, and 10 receives an IMES signal from the IMES transmitter 9 worn by the patient. A location transmission terminal 11 that transmits its own location information, 11 is an IMES management device as a location information management device that manages the transmission signals of individual IMES transmitters 9 and manages the location of the location transmission terminal 10. The machine 9, the position transmitting terminal 10, the IMES management device 11, and the base station 6 constitute a position specifying system that specifies the patient's whereabouts. The position transmitting terminal 10 is configured to transmit its own position information (GPS positioning signal) using a signal that can be received by the base station 6, that is, a communication radio wave common to the mobile terminal 4.

  FIG. 2 is a ward layout diagram showing an arrangement example of the IMES transmitters 9. As shown in FIG. 2, the IMES transmitters 9 are appropriately arranged in individual hospital rooms E1, staff stations E2 which are nurse stations, and corridors E3. It is installed in a place, a bathroom E4, a toilet E5, an operating room E6, an examination room E7, a common part, a waiting room, etc., and is arranged so that the position transmitting terminal 10 can transmit its own detailed position information. Although FIG. 2 shows the arrangement in the ward, the IMES transmitter 9 is arranged in the entire hospital including other wards.

The corridor lamp 2, the nurse call parent device 3, the control device 5, the management PC 13, and the examination reservation display terminal 14 are connected to each other by a LAN wiring L1 via the HUB 12. Moreover, the nurse call cordless handset 1 is connected to the corridor lamp 2 via the transmission line L2 for every hospital room. On the other hand, the IMES transmitter 9 and the IMES management apparatus 11 are connected by a communication line L4, and the management PC 13 and the IMES management apparatus 11 are connected by a communication line L5 and are configured to cooperate.
The ceiling speaker 8 is connected to the control device 5 via the corridor lamp 2, a speaker control unit (not shown) is provided in the corridor lamp 2, and the LAN wiring is shared with the corridor lamp 2.
The communication line L4 is arranged independently of the LAN line L1 to which the nurse call master unit 3 is connected. However, the communication line L4 can also be integrated with the LAN line L1 using a LAN. It is.

Hereinafter, main devices will be described in order. The nurse call handset 1 includes a call grip button 1a disposed on the bed and a plate handset 1b installed on the wall surface and connected to the call grip button 1a. A microphone and a speaker 1c are incorporated.
The nurse call master unit 3 includes a first display unit 3a for displaying various information including a list of patient information, a second display unit 3b for displaying caller information, a handset 3c for answering the call, and the like. Yes.

The IMES transmitter 9 constituting the position specifying system constantly transmits an IMES signal (position signal) in a signal form common to a position information signal transmitted from a GPS satellite under the control of the IMES management device 11.
On the other hand, the position transmitting terminal 10 has a function of receiving GPS satellite radio waves and transmitting its own position information. Specifically, a GPS communication unit that receives GPS radio waves, identifies its own position, adds its own ID to the identified position information, and transmits the GPS communication unit is incorporated. With this function, a position information signal emitted from the IMES transmitter 9 is received indoors, and its own position information is transmitted based on this signal. The position transmission terminal 10 has a form that can be worn on the arm, such as a wristwatch, a pendant shape that hangs on the neck, or a shape that is easy for the patient to wear.

Further, the IMES management apparatus 11 is configured as shown in the functional block diagram of FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, a location transmission terminal location storage unit 111 that stores location information transmitted by the location transmission terminal 10, a location storage unit 112 that stores association between this location information and a location in a ward, and the location transmission terminal 10 A location transmission terminal table storage unit 113 that stores a relationship with a patient, an IMES management device CPU 114 that controls the IMES management device 11, an IMES transmitter 9 and an IMES management device IF 115 that communicates with the management PC 13 are provided.
Then, the IMES management device CPU 114 acquires the location information signal of the location transmission terminal 10 received by the base station 6 via the management PC 13, manages the location of each location transmission terminal 10, and transmits each IMES transmitter 9. Manage signals.

  FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram of the control device 5. The control device 5 includes a patient information storage unit 51 that stores patient information including a relationship between a patient and a nurse call slave (bed), a speaker position storage unit 52 that stores the position of each ceiling speaker 8, a corridor lamp 2, A control device communication IF 53 that communicates with the nurse call parent device 3, the exchange 7, the management PC 13, the examination reservation display terminal 14, a control device CPU 54 that controls the control device 5 in addition to controlling communication between devices, and the like.

FIG. 5 shows a functional block diagram of the examination reservation display terminal 14. As shown in FIG. 5, the examination reservation display terminal 14 includes a display unit 14a composed of a liquid crystal screen for displaying various information, an operation unit 141 composed of a touch panel provided on the display unit 14a, and a message generation for generating a message for reporting. 142, a reservation information storage unit 143 that periodically obtains and stores examination reservation information of inpatients from the ordering device 15, obtains location information of the patient who has made an examination reservation from the IMES management device 11, and displays the examination appointment display terminal 14 The inspection reservation display terminal CPU 144 to be controlled, the inspection reservation display terminal communication IF 145 to communicate with the control device 5 and the like are provided.
The examination reservation for the patient is made in the ordering apparatus, and the examination reservation information is stored in the examination reservation storage unit 15a of the ordering apparatus 15.

The operation of the nurse call system configured as described above is as follows. However, since the call from the patient and the response operation thereof are the same as those in the prior art, the description thereof will be omitted. Here, the description will be made focusing on the identification of the patient's location by the IMES management apparatus 11 and the operation of the examination reservation display terminal 14.
When the location transmitting terminal 10 receives the IMES signal from the IMES transmitter 9, the location transmitting terminal 10 transmits a location information signal with its own ID added thereto, and the nearest base station 6 receives it. The base station 6 that has received the location information signal transmitted from the location transmission terminal 10 transmits the location information of the location transmission terminal 10 received to the control device 5 via the exchange 7, and the control device 5 receives the IMES via the management PC 13. Transfer to the management device 11.

  In the IMES management apparatus 11 that has received the location information of the location transmission terminal 10, the IMES management device CPU 114 determines the current location of each location transmission terminal 10 with reference to the location storage unit 112, and stores it in the location transmission terminal location storage unit 111. save. Further, based on the ID information included in the location information signal, the patient wearing the position transmission terminal 10 is read from the position transmission terminal table storage unit 113 and stored in the position transmission terminal position storage unit 111. Thus, the patient location information is stored in the position transmission terminal position storage unit 111. Specifically, if the location information received from the location transmission terminal 10 matches the location of the bathroom, for example, the location transmission terminal 10 determines that the location transmission terminal 10 is currently in the bathroom, and the name information of the patient wearing it It is memorized together.

The examination reservation display terminal 14 periodically acquires patient examination reservation information from the examination reservation storage unit 15 a of the ordering apparatus 15 under the control of the examination reservation display terminal CPU 144, and stores it in the reservation information storage unit 143.
When the operation unit 141 is operated to receive a predetermined display operation for displaying the location of the reserved patient, the location information of the patient registered in the reservation information storage unit 143 is transmitted to the location transmission terminal location storage unit of the IMES management device 11. 111, and is displayed on the display unit 14a.

FIG. 6 shows a list of the same day of the patients who are scheduled for examination (scheduled examination patients). In FIG. 6, the location information of the reserved patient at 9:50 am is shown, and Mr. Abemoto Hiro who has reserved at 10:00 is currently in his / her room, and Mr. Harahirotsug who has reserved at 11:00 is in the common room Indicates that you are in
In addition, the patient who has made a reservation after 13:00 has not obtained the location information because the reservation time is not yet approaching. In addition to the current day list, a list of reserved dates and times is displayed by a predetermined operation (not shown).

The examination reservation display terminal CPU 144 further operates as follows. If the patient's whereabouts information is in the patient's room at a certain time before the appointment time, generate a message to announce and the nurse associated with the patient bed that the appointment time will soon be reached A sound is reported from the speaker 1c of the call handset 1.
Specifically, when it is recognized that the patient being booked is in his / her room at, for example, 5 minutes before the appointment time, “Sir Abemoto Hiro, the examination time has come. A message such as “I will do it” is generated and reported. However, since the patient has already appeared in the examination room a certain time ago, the nurse in charge etc. operates the report stop button (not shown) in the operation unit 141 of the examination reservation display terminal 14 to cancel the announcement. If you do, the message will not be reported.

  When the patient location information obtained from the location transmission terminal location storage unit 111 of the IMES management device 11 is a shared unit such as a common room at a certain time before the reservation time, The arranged ceiling speaker 8 is selected from the speaker position storage unit 52 of the control device 5, and a message similar to the notification sound from the nurse call slave unit 1 is reported from the selected one or a plurality of ceiling speakers 8. .

In this way, when the scheduled examination time approaches, a predetermined message is sounded from either the speaker 1c or the ceiling speaker 8 of the nurse call cordless handset 1 of the reserved patient. Even if it is forgotten, it can be recognized by the reported message, and the examination can be performed without the nurse searching for the patient. Therefore, the nurse does not have to bother searching for the patient.
In addition, since a speaker close to the patient's location is selected and a message is reported from the speaker, it is unlikely that it will be noisy even if calls are made frequently, and the communication network of the portable terminal 4 built in the hospital is used. Thus, since the position of the position transmitting terminal 10, that is, the location of the patient can be specified, there is no need to separately provide a communication network with the position transmitting terminal 10.
Furthermore, if the patient appears in the treatment room or examination room by the time when the message is reported, a reporting stop button that does not report the message is provided, so that unnecessary reporting can be prevented.

In the above embodiment, notification is made a certain time before the inspection reservation time, such as 5 minutes before, but it may be notified when the reservation time is reached, or after a certain time has elapsed from the reservation time. May be. Of course, if the patient does not appear in the laboratory or the like, the sound may be reported at all three timings.
Moreover, although the structure which announces using the speaker close | similar to the place where a patient exists by applying IMES technology was demonstrated, you may always report from the speaker 1c of the nurse call cordless handset 1 without applying IMES technology. In addition, sound may be reported using the ceiling speaker 8 of the entire ward.
Furthermore, the examination reservation display terminal 14 obtains the examination reservation information from the ordering device 15, but when the examination reservation is managed by another device such as the nurse call parent device 3, the examination reservation information is obtained from that device. .
Patient in hospital room

  1 ・ ・ Nurse call handset 2 ・ ・ Corridor light 3 ・ ・ Nurse call base unit 4 ・ ・ Mobile terminal 5 ・ ・ Control device 6 ・ ・ Base station (receiver) 7 ・ ・ Exchange ··· Ceiling speaker, ··· IMES transmitter (location information transmitter), 10 ·· Location transmission terminal, 11 · · IMES management device (location information management device), 14 · · Inspection reservation display terminal (notification control device) , 15 .. Ordering device, 15 a .. Examination reservation storage unit, 51 .. Patient information storage unit, 54 .. Control device CPU, 52 .. Speaker position storage unit, 141 .. Operation unit (reporting stop button), 142..Message generation unit, 144..Examination reservation display terminal CPU (patient location information acquisition unit).

Claims (4)

Nurse call slaves installed in each bed for inpatients to call nurses, nurse call masters installed in nurse stations for nurses to answer calls from nurse call slaves, and each room In a nurse call system having a corridor lamp that displays patient information of a corresponding hospital room that is installed in and displays a call from the patient,
An examination reservation storage unit for storing the name of the patient who made the examination reservation and the appointment date
A message generation unit that generates a message to be announced to a patient who has made an examination reservation based on information in the examination reservation storage unit;
The patient's examination appointment time, at least one time before, and after a certain time, the nurse call cord associated with the examination appointment patient and the ceiling installed in the common area of the hospital A nurse call system, comprising: a notification control device that reports a message generated by the message generation unit from at least one of the speakers and notifies that the examination time has come. A location information transmitter that is installed in appropriate parts including common areas, corridors, and hospital rooms in hospitals and transmits location information of the installation location;
Based on the positional information of the positional information transmitter received by the patient, a position transmitting terminal that generates and transmits its own positional information;
A receiver installed at an appropriate position in a hospital and receiving a transmission signal of the position transmitting terminal;
A location information management device that stores a relationship between a patient and the location information transmitter, grasps and stores the location of the patient from a signal of the location transmission terminal received by the receiver,
While having a speaker position storage unit that stores the installation location information of each of the ceiling speakers,
The notification control device includes a patient location information acquisition unit that acquires the location information of the patient who has reserved the examination from the location information management device, and if the patient is in a hospital room from the acquired location information of the patient, a nurse call The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein a message is reported from a speaker of a slave unit and from a ceiling speaker selected based on information in the speaker position storage unit when not in a hospital room. While having a portable terminal for a nurse to respond to a call from a patient, a base station that communicates with the portable terminal is installed at an appropriate position in a hospital,
The location information transmitter transmits its own location signal with an IMES signal,
The location information signal transmitted by the location transmission terminal upon receiving the IMES signal is a GPS positioning signal based on IMES, and is transmitted as a signal common to the communication radio wave of the mobile terminal,
The nurse call system according to claim 2, wherein the receiver is the base station. The notification control device is an examination reservation display terminal that is installed in a treatment room or an examination room and obtains and displays an examination reservation status from the examination reservation storage unit,
The nurse call system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the examination reservation display terminal includes a report sound stop button for prohibiting the sound notification of the message.

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