JP5832025B2 - Mobile terminal with call function - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal with a calling function equipped with a function for a patient to call a medical worker.

  In general, a nurse call system is used in hospitals and the like. The nurse call system is connected to the nurse call slave by operating the call operation unit provided on the nurse call slave when the patient in the hospital needs the support of a doctor or nurse. This is a system in which notification is performed by a nurse call master unit, and a doctor or a nurse (hereinafter collectively referred to as a medical worker) can be called by this notification.

  Many nurse call systems are installed near the bed in the hospital room, the nurse call machine installed in the nurse station where medical staff are resident, and the corridor near the entrance of the hospital room. A corridor lamp, and a controller that performs control related to communication and data transmission / reception. In addition to the above-described configuration, a nurse call system including a portable terminal such as a PHS (Personal Handy phone System) terminal carried by a medical worker and a PBX (Private Branch Exchange) is also provided.

  By the way, when a patient carries a portable terminal and the patient performs a call operation with the portable terminal, a wireless call signal is transmitted from the portable terminal, and this wireless call signal is transmitted to the nurse call parent device via the base station. There is also known a nurse call system that performs notification on a nurse call parent device upon reception (for example, Patent Document 1). In the technique described in Patent Document 1, a patient can make a call wherever a base station is installed.

  In addition, a mobile terminal called a smartphone having a mobile terminal with a telephone function is known. In this smartphone, it is common to display a plurality of icons indicating various functions side by side on a display with a touch panel (for example, Patent Document 2). The smart phone described in Patent Document 2 is provided with a calling function for a patient to call a medical worker, and the calling function is displayed as a single icon on a display with a touch panel, so that the patient owns the smart phone that the patient owns. It can be used as a nurse call cordless handset as it is.

  As described above, when a calling function is mounted on a smartphone, a wireless calling signal transmitted from the smartphone may be transmitted to the nurse call parent device via a network. Therefore, in the above-described conventional technology, a radio call signal transmitted from the smartphone is transmitted to the nurse call parent device via the network. Therefore, if the patient is using his / her own personal smartphone, the smartphone remains equipped with a call function even after the patient is discharged from the hospital. When executed, there is a problem in that the nurse call parent device notifies the user and a false alarm occurs.

JP 2005-210173 A JP 2011-64030 A

  The present invention has been made to solve such a problem. When a patient uses his / her own personal smartphone as a nurse call child device, the nurse call child after the patient is discharged. The purpose is to prevent the nurse call parent device from informing even if the machine call function is executed.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention is a portable terminal that can be connected to a network inside and outside a hospital and has a function of calling a nurse call parent device via a network by performing a predetermined operation. The mobile terminal detects position information indicating the position of the mobile device, and only when the detected position information matches the hospital location information indicating the location of the hospital where the patient using the mobile terminal is hospitalized. The function to call the call master is activated.

  According to the present invention configured as described above, the nurse call parent only when the position information detected by the mobile terminal matches the hospital location information indicating the location of the hospital where the patient using the mobile terminal is hospitalized. Since the function to call the machine works, even if the patient executes the function to call the nurse call parent machine outside the hospital, the nurse call parent machine is not notified and the occurrence of false alarms can be prevented.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the nurse call system containing the portable terminal with a calling function by this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the display screen of the portable terminal with a calling function by this embodiment.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a nurse call system including a mobile terminal 1 with a calling function according to the present embodiment. This nurse call system includes a mobile terminal 1 with a calling function and a nurse call parent device 10. Here, the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function is configured by a mobile terminal to which each application for executing various functions such as a smartphone can be added. Moreover, the portable terminal 1 with a calling function is a personal property of the patient who is admitted to the hospital, and the patient continues to use it after leaving the hospital. The mobile terminal 1 with a calling function includes a control unit 2, an operation unit 3, a storage unit 4, a position detection unit 5, and a transmission / reception unit 6.

  The nurse call parent device 10 is installed in a nurse station or the like where a medical worker is resident, and is used by the medical worker. Here, the nurse call parent device 10 includes a parent device control unit 11, a parent device transmission / reception unit 12, a parent device storage unit 13, and a notification unit 14, as shown in FIG.

  First, each component of the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function will be described. The control unit 2 is for controlling each component of the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function as described later, and is configured by a CPU (Central Processing Unit) or the like. The operation unit 3 is for performing a predetermined operation for a patient to call a medical worker, and is configured by a display with a touch panel, for example. As shown in FIG. 2, the display with the touch panel displays a plurality of icons 101 for selecting each application on the display screen 100. Further, the display with a touch panel displays a call icon 102 corresponding to the call function on the display screen 100.

  The storage unit 4 stores hospital location information indicating the location of the hospital where the patient is hospitalized. Here, the hospital location information may be received by a transmission / reception unit 6 described later, or may be input by an input unit (not shown) of the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function.

  The position detection unit 5 is for detecting the current position of the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function, and detects the position using, for example, GPS (Global Positioning System). Here, the position detection unit 5 outputs the detected current position to the control unit 2 as position information.

  The transmission / reception unit 6 is used for wireless communication between the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function and the nurse call parent device 10 via a network. Here, the transmission / reception unit 6 transmits a call signal described later to the nurse call parent device 10. When a call can be made between the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function and the nurse call parent device 10, the transmission / reception unit 6 uses the voice signal input from the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function as a nurse call parent device. 10 and also has a function of receiving a voice signal transmitted from the nurse call master unit 10.

  When the operation unit 3 is operated on the mobile terminal 1 with the call function configured as described above (in other words, when the call icon 102 in FIG. 2 is operated), the control unit 2 refers to the storage unit 4. The position information input from the position detection unit 5 is compared with the hospital location information stored in the storage unit 4, and it is determined whether or not they match.

  Then, only when the control unit 2 determines that the two match, the control unit 2 generates a call signal. The calling signal generated by the control unit 2 is transmitted to the nurse call parent device 10 by the transmission / reception unit 6. Here, since the portable terminal 1 with a calling function is a personal belonging of each patient, the calling signal includes identification information for identifying each portable terminal 1 with a calling function.

  Next, each component of the nurse call parent machine 10 will be described. The base unit control unit 2 is for controlling each component of the nurse call base unit 10 as will be described later, and includes a CPU and the like.

  The base unit transmitting / receiving unit 12 is for performing wireless communication between the nurse call base unit 10 and the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function via a network. Here, the base transceiver unit 12 receives a call signal transmitted from the mobile terminal 1 with a call function. Further, when a call can be made between the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function and the nurse call parent device 10, the parent device transmitting / receiving unit 12 has a calling function with a voice signal input from the nurse call parent device 10. It also has a function of transmitting to the mobile terminal 1 and receiving an audio signal transmitted from the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function.

  The parent device storage unit 13 identifies the identification information of each mobile terminal 1 with a calling function, and patient identification information for identifying a patient who uses the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function specified by this identification information from other patients (for example, , Patient name, etc.) in association with each other. The alerting | reporting part 14 is comprised by the speaker, the display display, the lamp | ramp, etc., and alert | reports that the patient performed operation which calls a medical worker by the portable terminal 1 with a call function.

  In the nurse call base unit 10 configured as described above, when the base unit control unit 11 determines that the base unit transmission / reception unit 12 has input a call signal, the base unit control unit 11 operates the notification unit 14. Further, the base unit control unit 11 refers to the base unit storage unit 13 and extracts patient identification information stored in association with the identification information included in the call signal received by the base unit transmission / reception unit 12. The notification unit 14 performs notification by outputting a notification sound from a speaker, performing a notification display including patient identification information on a display display, or blinking (or lighting) a lamp.

  As described above in detail, according to the present embodiment, when the operation unit 3 of the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function that can be connected to the network is operated inside or outside the hospital, the current detection detected by the position detection unit 5 The control unit 2 determines whether or not the position information matches the hospital location information of the hospital where the patient stored in the storage unit 4 is hospitalized. Is generated.

  As a result, when the patient operates the operation unit 3 of the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function in the hospital, the nurse call master unit 10 is notified, and the patient operates the mobile terminal 1 with the calling function outside the hospital. When the unit 3 is operated, the nurse call parent device 10 is not notified. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a false alarm when the patient operates the operation unit 3 of the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function outside the hospital.

  In the above-described embodiment, the function of the operation unit 3 is realized by the call icon 102 displayed on the display with a touch panel, but is not limited thereto. For example, you may make it implement | achieve the function of the operation part 3 with the button etc. which were provided in the portable terminal.

  In the above-described embodiment, only the mobile terminal 1 with a calling function has a function of calling the nurse call parent device 10, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the nurse call parent device 10 may be called by coexisting known nurse call child devices.

  In addition, the said embodiment is only what showed the example in implementation in implementing this invention, and, as a result, the technical scope of this invention should not be interpreted limitedly. In other words, the present invention can be implemented in various forms without departing from the spirit or main features thereof.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mobile terminal with calling function 2 Control part 3 Operation part 4 Storage part 5 Position detection part 6 Transmission / reception part 10 Nurse call main | base station 11 Parent | base station control part 12 Parent | base station transmission / reception part 13 Parent | base station storage part 14 Notification part

Claims (1)

A mobile terminal with a calling function that can be connected to a network inside and outside a hospital and has a function to call a nurse call parent machine via the network by performing a predetermined operation,
An operation unit for performing the predetermined operation;
A position detector that detects the position of the device and outputs the position information;
A storage unit that stores hospital location information indicating the location of the hospital where the patient using the device is hospitalized;
When a predetermined operation is performed on the operation unit, it is determined whether or not the position information detected by the position detection unit matches the hospital location information stored in the storage unit. A control unit that operates a function to call a nurse call parent machine only when the two match,
A mobile terminal with a calling function, characterized by comprising:

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