JP3461738B2 - Home health management system - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is useful for voluntary health management by centrally managing data relating to the health condition measured in a general household with a terminal device, and transmitting the data to a remote place via a communication network. The present invention relates to a home health management system that enables health management while receiving advice from a specialist at home or the like by sending it to a specialist such as a doctor or public health nurse.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Due to the rapid progress of aging in recent years, the medical finance of Japan is under pressure, and it is required to cope with it. It is important for the government to increase the burden of medical expenses on the people, and as a basic policy, shift from the conventional policy of "early detection and early treatment of disease" to "promoting health to prevent illness". I'm looking.

A "home health management system" has been proposed as one of the means for effectively carrying out the "prevention of illness". This is data about a health condition that can be measured in a general household (for example, a blood pressure value measured by an electronic sphygmomanometer, a body temperature measured by a thermometer, and the like, hereinafter referred to as health data), measured in each household, The data is transmitted to a medical institution or a health center through a communication network such as a public line or a CATV line by a dedicated terminal device, and data is analyzed / experienced by an expert.
It's about making decisions.

According to such a home health management system, daily health management at home can be carried out under the guidance of a specialist, and more reliable health management can be performed, which leads to hospital visit. We can expect a reduction in the number of times.

An example of such a system is Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 8-2.
Japanese Patent No. 75927 proposes a home health management system shown in FIG. In this system, the terminal device itself has a function of a health measuring device such as a blood pressure monitor or an electrocardiograph.

[0006] Generally, a terminal device used in a home health management system needs to transmit the input data relating to the health condition to a medical institution, a health center or the like via the communication network. It is installed where there are connection terminals. For example, when using a telephone line, the terminal device is installed near the modular terminal. Therefore, in the home health management system shown in FIG. 6, when the terminal device and the health measuring device are integrated, the user may bother to install the terminal device when measuring the health condition. You will have to go to where you are and you may find it inconvenient to use.

Therefore, in the home health management system described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-140748, the terminal device and the health measuring device are separately provided, and the infrared measuring function is provided to the health measuring device such as the sphygmomanometer and the thermometer for the measurement. There is one that allows data to be remotely input to a terminal device.

Normally, in a home health care system,
The more types of health measurement devices you can use, the more reliable your health management will be. However, in such a case, if you incorporate wireless communication functions such as infrared rays and radio waves into all the health measurement devices you use, you will be able to use a home health management system. This will lead to a significant increase in cost and eventually hinder the introduction of a home health management system.

Therefore, by providing one data transfer device equipped with means for reading data from the health measuring equipment and means for wirelessly transmitting the read data to the terminal device, the wireless communication to the terminal device can be achieved without increasing the cost. The in-home health management system that realizes the data input in the above has been studied by the present inventors.

[0010]

However, in the home health management system having the above-mentioned configuration, only the data of the health measuring device readable by the data transfer device can be input to the terminal device, which is inconvenient to use. There was a problem that there is.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide an easy-to-use and low-cost home health management system which cannot be read by a data transfer device. An object of the present invention is to provide a home health management system in which data of health measuring devices can be input to a terminal device.

[0012]

The invention according to claim 1 is
A plurality of health measuring devices provided with means for measuring health condition and means for transmitting measured data to a data transfer device;
A data transfer device having means for reading the data transmitted by the health measuring device and means for wirelessly transmitting the read data to the terminal device, a means for receiving the data wirelessly transmitted by the data transfer device, and a means for managing the received data And a home health management system comprising a terminal device having an operating means for a user to operate, a data transfer device is provided with a means for inputting numbers, characters, and graphics, and the data input by the inputting means. Is capable of being transmitted to the terminal device.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a plurality of health measuring devices having means for measuring a health condition and means for transmitting the measured data to the data transfer device, a means for reading the data transmitted by the health measuring device, and A data transfer device having means for wirelessly transmitting the read data to the terminal device, a means for receiving the data wirelessly transmitted by the data transfer device, a means for managing the received data, and an operating means for the user to operate. A home health management system comprising a terminal device provided with an input device equipped with means for inputting numbers, characters and figures and means for wirelessly transmitting the input data to the terminal device. is there.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a home health management system according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the health measuring device.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the data transfer device. FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing an example of connection between the health measuring device and the data transfer device. FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the terminal device.

The home health management system according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, is a home side system including health measuring devices 1a to 1n, a data transfer device 2, and a terminal device 3.
It is composed of a terminal device 3 of a home-side system and a center device 5 installed in an external hospital, a health center, a care center, or the like, which is connected via a communication infrastructure 4.

The health measuring devices 1a to 1n include a blood pressure monitor, a thermometer, a weight scale, a blood glucose meter, a pedometer, an electrocardiograph, etc., and are not particularly limited as long as they can measure the health condition at home. . Moreover, one of these devices may be used alone, or a plurality of devices may be used in combination depending on the situation of the user.

As shown in FIG. 2, the health measuring instruments 1a to 1n are means 10a to 10n for measuring health data.
n and means 12a-12n for storing the measured data
And transmission means 14a to 14n for inputting the stored data to the data transfer device 2 and control means 16a to 16n for controlling them.

Means 10a for measuring health data
-10n are means for measuring blood pressure in the case of a sphygmomanometer, and means for measuring body temperature in the case of a thermometer, and are completely different for each health measuring device 1a-1n. Further, means 12a-12n for storing measured data and control means 16a-1
6n is also different for each health measuring device 1a to 1n. Regarding the transmitting means 14a to 14n for inputting the stored data to the data transfer device 2, if the health measuring equipments 1a to 1n satisfy the common standard, any of the health measuring equipments 1a to 1n can be used. The data can be read by one commonly used data transfer device 2.

As shown in FIG. 3, the data transfer device 2 includes means 20 for reading data transmitted by the health measuring instruments 1a to 1n and means 22 for inputting numbers, characters and figures.
And a storage means 24 for storing the read data and the input numbers, characters, and graphic data, a means 26 for wirelessly transmitting the stored data to the terminal device, a transmission button 27, and control for controlling them. And means 28.

As shown in FIG. 5, the terminal device 3 has a microprocessor 30 for controlling the present device, a ROM 40 in which an OS and application software are stored, a RAM 42 as a work area, and data storage. Flash memory 44, means 50 for receiving data transmitted wirelessly by data transfer device 2, LCD monitor 60, operation buttons 70, 72, 74, and communication means 80 for performing data communication with the outside. It is configured.

The center device 5 is constructed by using an ordinary personal computer and an interface device for a communication network to be used. The health data stored in the terminal device 3 is automatically automatically transmitted through the communication network 4 at regular intervals. It can be collected.

Data transmission / reception between the health measuring instruments 1a-1n and the data transfer device 2 is performed, for example, as shown in FIG. 4, by the health measuring instruments 1a-1n (in FIG. 4, an electronic blood pressure monitor is used as the health measuring instrument). The electrical connection of the communication terminal such as via the female terminal provided in (use) and the male terminal provided in the data transfer device 2 is performed. The data transfer device 2 receives the data from the health measuring devices 1a to 1n at the same time when the health measuring devices 1a to 1n are connected, temporarily stores the data, and then, when the send button 27 is pressed, the terminal Wirelessly transmits to the device 3.

As described above, when data is transmitted and received between the health measuring instruments 1a to 1n and the data transfer device 2 by the electrical connection of the communication terminals of each other, the circuit required therefor is infrared or It can be realized at a much lower cost than a circuit for wireless communication using radio waves or the like.

As mentioned above, all health measuring devices 1a
If the wireless communication function is provided to the 1n to 1n, the cost of the home health management system is increased when there are many types of the health measurement devices 1a to 1n to be used. According to the health measuring device 1
By providing one data transfer device 2 that can be commonly used for a to 1n, it is possible to realize wireless data input to the terminal device 3 without inviting cost increase and to provide an easy-to-use home health management system. is there.

However, in the above-described home health management system, when data relating to health is measured by a device that is not supposed as a health measuring device of the system (for example, a weight scale originally owned at home), Cannot enter data transfer device. Therefore, the user first confirms the measurement data of the health measuring devices 1'a to 1'n that do not have such a transmission function of the measurement data by visual check, and inputs the result with numbers, characters, or figures. A numeric keypad corresponding to the means 22 is added to the data transfer device,
The numbers, characters, and figures may be input to the data transfer device 2 via the input means 22. The means 22 for inputting numbers, characters, and figures may be a numeric keypad, a pressure-sensitive pad, a touch panel, or the like, but is not particularly limited as long as numbers, characters, and figures can be input.

In the home health management system according to the present embodiment, the data relating to health measured by the health measuring devices 1'a to 1'n, which are not supposed to be used in the conventional home health management system, are used as terminals. It becomes possible to input to the device 2.

In addition to the data transfer device 2, an input device 6 having means for inputting numbers, characters and figures and means for wirelessly transmitting the input data to the terminal device may be provided. As for the method of inputting the measurement data of the health measuring devices 1'a to 1'n which do not have the transmitting function, the health measuring device 1'a is the same as the above-mentioned system.
~ 1'n measurement data can be visually confirmed by the user,
The result is input to the input device 6, and then the terminal device 3
Wirelessly.

According to the home health management system according to the present embodiment, the input device 6 is used, and even if the measurement data of the health measuring devices 1'a to 1'n having no transmission function is used, the terminal device 3 is used. Since it can be input to, it is possible to provide an easy-to-use home health management system. Further, since the input device 6 is provided separately from the data transfer device 2, it is possible to freely set the installation location of each device.

[0029]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a plurality of health measuring devices provided with means for measuring the health condition and means for transmitting the measured data to the data transfer device; A data transfer device having means for reading data transmitted by the measuring device and means for wirelessly transmitting the read data to the terminal device; means for receiving data wirelessly transmitted by the data transfer device; and means for managing the received data, and In a home health management system consisting of a terminal device provided with an operating means for a user to operate, a means for inputting numbers, characters, and figures is added to the data transfer device, and the data input by the input means is added. Since it is possible to send to the terminal device, by providing one data transfer device that can read the data of the health measuring device, There is no need to provide a means for wirelessly transmitting to the health measuring device, the data measured by the health measuring device can be wirelessly transmitted to the terminal device, and the data of the health measuring device that cannot be read by the data transfer device can be represented by numbers or numbers. It is an easy-to-use and low-cost home health management system because it can be input to the data transfer device using the means for inputting characters and figures, and the data of the health measurement device that cannot be read by the data transfer device is also input to the terminal device. It is possible to provide a home health management system that can be used.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a plurality of health measuring devices provided with means for measuring a health condition and means for transmitting the measured data to the data transfer device, and data transmitted by the health measuring device. A data transfer device including a reading unit and a unit that wirelessly transmits the read data to a terminal device, a unit that receives data wirelessly transmitted by the data transfer unit, a unit that manages the received data, and a user operation unit. In a home health management system consisting of a terminal device equipped with operation means, an input device equipped with means for inputting numbers, characters, and figures and means for wirelessly transmitting the input data to the terminal device was added. Wireless transmission to all health measurement devices by providing one data transfer device that can read device data It is possible to wirelessly transmit the data measured by the health measuring device to the terminal device without providing any means for operating the data, and wirelessly transmit the data of the health measuring device that cannot be read by the data transfer device to the terminal device using the input device. Since it is possible to send, it is possible to provide an easy-to-use and low-cost home health management system that can also input to the terminal device the data of the health measurement device that cannot be read by the data transfer device. Play.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a home health management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a health measuring device.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a data transfer device.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing a connection example of a health measuring device and a data transfer device.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a terminal device.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a conventional home health management system.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 health measuring device 2 data transfer device 3 terminal device 4 communication network 5 center device 6 input device 10 means for measuring health condition 12 means for storing measured data 14 means for transmitting measured data to a data transfer device 20 health measurement Means for reading the data transmitted by the device 22 Means for inputting numbers, characters, and figures 24 Accumulation means 26 Means for wirelessly transmitting the accumulated data to the terminal device 30 Microprocessors 40, 42, 44 Memory 50 Data transmission device wirelessly transmits To receive the collected data

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hitoshi Sakakibara 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. (72) Masaru Hashimoto, 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka, Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Keiichi Yoshida 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture, Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor, Kazuya Kitayama, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture 1048, Kadoma Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. (72) Masaki Koyama, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture Daiji Kadoma 1048 Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. (72) Osamu Nishimura Osamu Kadoma 1048 Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. (72) Keiko Suzuki Kadoma 1048 Kadoma City, Osaka Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. ( 56) References JP-A-8-275927 (JP, A) JP-A-4-15035 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A 61B 5/00 G06F 19/00

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A plurality of health measuring devices having means for measuring a health condition and means for transmitting measured data to a data transfer device, means for reading data transmitted by the health measuring device, and a terminal device for the read data. From a data transfer device having means for wirelessly transmitting, and a terminal device having means for receiving data wirelessly transmitted by the data transfer device, means for managing the received data, and operation means for the user to operate. In the home health management system, the data transfer device is provided with means for inputting numbers, characters, and figures, and the data input by the input means can be transmitted to the terminal device. . 2. A plurality of health measuring devices having means for measuring a health condition and means for transmitting measured data to a data transfer device, means for reading data transmitted by the health measuring device, and a terminal device for the read data. From a data transfer device having means for wirelessly transmitting, and a terminal device having means for receiving data wirelessly transmitted by the data transfer device, means for managing the received data, and operation means for the user to operate. The in-home health management system, further comprising an input device having means for inputting numbers, characters, and figures and means for wirelessly transmitting the input data to the terminal device.