JP6078570B2 - Method, apparatus, and recording medium on which program for confirming consistency of transmitted health data is recorded - Google Patents

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  The present invention relates to a recording medium on which a method, an apparatus, and a program for confirming the integrity of transmitted health data are recorded, and in particular, health data collected by a device for the purpose of health management and health promotion, The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a recording medium on which a program is recorded for confirming whether or not the transmission is performed correctly when transmitted to a server.

  Recently, personal health data such as blood pressure and steps (also called “vital data”) is acquired from health care devices such as blood pressure monitors and pedometers and sent to the server for the purpose of promoting health and preventing long-term care. However, it is registered in a database by a server, and doctors, public health nurses, and the like are used for personal health management using the registered health data.

  In this type of technology, in order to centrally manage personal health data in the server, the standard specification for registering health data in the server via a public network such as the Internet is used as a standard WAN-IF (Non-Patent Document 1). ) Is used.

  The basic configuration of the WAN-IF includes a transmission device, a reception device such as a server, and a database.

  In WAN-IF, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is used for the session layer, and HL7, which is a standard for health information exchange, is used for the presentation layer.

  In the transmission device, health data such as blood pressure and the number of steps is acquired from the healthcare device and converted into the HL7 format. Next, the SOAP message is created, and the health data converted into the HL7 format is incorporated into the body (Body) of the SOAP message and transmitted to the receiving apparatus.

  In the receiving device, the SOAP message is received, and the health data in the HL7 format incorporated in the main body (Body) is parsed and acquired. The health data acquired in this way is stored in the database after it is confirmed that it has been transmitted correctly.

  The confirmation method will be described below.

  The health data M in the HL7 format has a hierarchical structure as shown in FIG.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of handling blood pressure data as health data. In FIG. 3, each data line starting from OBX is data acquired from the healthcare device, and each other data line indicates data such as authentication data.

  Each data starting from OBX is composed of OBX-1, OBX-2, OBX-3, OBX-4, OBX-5,. Since these data items are defined in the HL7 protocol, detailed description is omitted, but OBX | 2 shown in the data line a has OBX-4 (1) and is in the first layer. It is specified to be data. In addition, OBX | 3 shown in the data line b has OBX-4 of (1.0.1) and is defined as data in the third layer. Similarly, in OBX | 4 shown in the data rows c, d, e, and f, OBX-4 is (1.0.1.1), (1.0.1.2), (1.0.1), respectively. .3) and (1.0.0.1), it is specified that the data is in the fourth layer.

  Conventionally, when the receiving apparatus receives the health data M in the HL7 format as shown in FIG. 3, it checks whether OBX-3 and OBX-4 are the correct combination, thereby matching the transmitted data. The sex is being confirmed. As shown in FIG. 9, the receiving apparatus prepares a consistency check table T in which the correspondence between OBX-3 and OBX-4 is specified in advance for this consistency check.

  When the receiving device receives the health data M in the HL7 format as illustrated in FIG. 3, OBX-3 and OBX-4 are respectively displayed in the data rows a, b, c, d, e, and f. Then, it is confirmed whether or not it matches the contents described in the consistency confirmation table T illustrated in FIG. If there is no mismatch, the transmitted health data is determined to be correct health data and registered in the database.

  As described above, conventionally, by performing consistency confirmation using the consistency confirmation table T, unauthorized data is prevented from being stored in the database.

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H.810 Interoperability design guidelines for personal health systems Version Endorphin plus Errata (CDG 2014)

  However, such a conventional consistency check method has the following problems.

  That is, in the conventional consistency check method, the consistency check table T illustrated in FIG. 9 is used.

  The consistency check table T has a problem that it requires a lot of memory. If the number of data rows requiring consistency check (hereinafter referred to as “OBX segment number”) is n, a memory for the consistency check table T for storing 2n pieces of data is required. For example, when the number of OBX segments is 6, as shown in FIG. 9, a memory for the consistency check table T for storing 12 pieces of data is required.

  Therefore, it may be necessary to increase the memory of the receiving device. This leads to an increase in cost.

  The present invention has been made paying attention to the above circumstances, and the object of the present invention is to provide a method, apparatus, and program capable of checking the consistency of transmitted health data with as little memory usage as possible. Is to provide a recording medium on which is recorded.

  In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention includes the following components.

  That is, a first aspect of the present invention is a recording medium on which an apparatus, a method, and a program for confirming the consistency of transmitted health data are recorded. Here, the health data includes a plurality of segments belonging to any one of a plurality of hierarchies having a hierarchical relationship with each other, and each segment associated with the same hierarchical relationship is common to the hierarchy information indicating the hierarchy to which it belongs. Contains information.

  Of the plurality of segments associated with the same vertical relationship, the same top and bottom as the first map in which the hierarchical information indicating the hierarchy to which the highest segment belongs and the name information of the highest segment are associated with each other A second map in which the name information of each of the plurality of segments associated with the relationship is associated with the name information of the highest segment is provided in advance.

  When the transmitted health data is received, the name information associated with the hierarchy information indicating the hierarchy to which the highest segment belongs among the plurality of segments included in the received health data A plurality of segments acquired from the second map and acquired from the second map, each of the plurality of segments obtained from the map and associated with the name information acquired from the first map If the name information of each matches the name information of each segment associated with the same hierarchical relationship included in the received health data, it is determined that the transmitted health data is consistent If they do not match, it is determined that the transmitted health data is not consistent.

  If it is determined that they match, the transmitted health data is written into the database.

  The first aspect of the present invention is characterized by comprising the following aspects.

  That is, if the transmitted health data is HL7 format health data, the segment is an OBX segment, the name information is defined in OBX-3, and the common information is a numerical value defined in OBX-4. Information.

  Thus, efficient transmission of health data using additional data is not performed by any of Patent Documents 1 to 8.

  That is, according to the present invention, by reducing the amount of data required for the consistency check, a method, an apparatus, and an apparatus capable of performing the consistency check of transmitted health data with as little memory usage as possible. A recording medium on which the program is recorded can be provided.

  As described above, none of the above-mentioned Patent Documents 1 to 8 discloses a technique for confirming the consistency of health data with a small amount of memory usage by using the first map and the second map.

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a configuration example of the entire system to which the health data receiving device 10 according to the present embodiment is applied. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the health data transmission device 34. FIG. 3 is an example of the HL7 data M created by the message creation unit 38. FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the health data receiving apparatus 10. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the OBX map P1. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the identification map P2. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the health data receiving apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment. It is a list which shows the relationship between the kind of health data, and the number (n) of OBX segments. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the table T for a consistency confirmation used for the consistency confirmation in the prior art.

  Hereinafter, a health data receiving apparatus 10 to which a method for confirming consistency of transmitted health data according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a configuration example of the entire system to which the health data receiving device 10 according to the present embodiment is applied.

  In FIG. 1, the health data transmission device 34 includes health data acquired by a health device 32 such as a Continua sphygmomanometer (if the health device 32 is a sphygmomanometer, blood pressure, and the health device 32 is a pedometer. In this case, the number of steps, etc.) is transmitted to the health data receiving apparatus 10 so as to be stored in the database 22 provided on the server 20 side.

  The health data transmission device 34 and the health device 32 are provided in the user's home 30, for example, and the server 20 can communicate with the health data transmission device 34 via a communication network such as the WAN 40, for example. Located remotely from 30.

  In such a network configuration using the WAN 40, a firewall or the like for connecting to a public line may be provided as appropriate, but illustration and detailed description thereof are omitted here.

  FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the health data transmission device 34.

  The health data transmission device 34 includes a CPU 35 that controls the overall operation of the health data transmission device 34, a health data acquisition unit 37, a message creation unit 38, and a message connected via a communication bus 36 connected to the CPU 35, respectively. And a communication unit 39.

  The health data acquisition unit 37 acquires the health data acquired by the health device 32 (blood pressure when the health device 32 is a sphygmomanometer, number of steps when the health device 32 is a pedometer, etc.) from the health device 32. To do.

  The message creation unit 38 creates HL7 data including the health data acquired by the health data acquisition unit 37.

  FIG. 3 is an example of the HL7 data M created by the message creation unit 38.

  The message communication unit 39 creates a SOAP message, and incorporates the HL7 data M created by the message creation unit 38 as shown in FIG. 3, for example, into the main body (Body) of the SOAP message. Then, this SOAP message is transmitted to the server 20 side via the WAN 40.

  The health data receiving device 10 of the server 20 receives the SOAP message transmitted to the server 20 in this way.

  FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the health data receiving apparatus 10.

  The health data receiving device 10 includes a CPU 11 that controls the overall operation of the health data receiving device 10, a communication unit 13 that is connected to each other via a communication bus 12 connected to the CPU 11, a consistency check map storage unit 14, A health data consistency checking unit 15 and a health data writing unit 16 are provided.

  Upon receiving the SOAP message, the communication unit 13 passes the received SOAP message to the health data consistency confirmation unit 15 and returns a response message to the health data transmission device 34 via the WAN 40.

  When the SOAP message is passed from the communication unit 13, the health data consistency check unit 15 acquires the HL7 data M incorporated in the main body (Body) of the SOAP message. Then, whether or not the health data included in the HL7 data M is correctly transmitted from the health data transmitting device 34 is determined based on the two maps stored in the consistency check map storage unit 14, that is, the OBX map P1. And the identification map P2.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the OBX map P <b> 1 indicates the highest numerical value (left column) of OBX-4 in the HL7 data M and the corresponding OBX-3 (right column). . In the example of the HL7 data M shown in FIG. 3, the highest level of OBX-4 is the first layer that is OBX | 2 as the data row a, and its value is “1”, so the OBX map P1 "1" is written in the left column. Since the corresponding OBX-3 is “528391 ^ MDC_DEV_SPEC_PROFILE_BP ^ MDC”, it is described in the right column of the OBX map P1.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the identification map P2 includes OBX-3 (left column) in the HL7 data M and OBX-3 (right column) corresponding to the top of OBX-4. Show. In the example of the HL7 data M shown in FIG. 3, there are OBXs having six hierarchical structures such as data rows a, b, c, d, e, and f. Note that the data row g with OBX | 1 is also OBX, but OBX-4 of OBX | 1 is (0.0.0.1). In the HL7 data M, OBX associated with the same vertical relationship has the same initial numerical value. Therefore, the data rows a, b, c, d, e, and f whose OBX-4 has a leading numerical value “1” are all associated with the same vertical relationship, while the leading numerical value of OBX-4 has Since the data row g that is “0” is not associated with the same hierarchical relationship, it is not a target described in FIG.

  Therefore, in the example of the HL7 data M shown in FIG. 3, OBX-3 described in the data rows a, b, c, d, e, and f is described in the left column of the identification map P2 shown in FIG. . In the right column of the identification map P2 shown in FIG. 6, OBX-3 corresponding to the highest level of OBX-4 is described. In the example of the HL7 data M illustrated in FIG. 3, the highest level of OBX-4 is the first layer that is OBX | 2 as in the data row a, and the corresponding OBX-3 is “528391 ^ MDC_DEV_SPEC_PROFILE_BP ^. Since it is “MDC”, it is described in the right column of the OBX map P1. That is, the right column of the identification map P2 is the same as the right column of the corresponding OBX map P1.

  When the health data consistency check unit 15 acquires the HL7 data M, the health data consistency check unit 15 acquires the highest numerical value information of OBX-4 from the HL7 data M. In the case of the HL7 data M shown in FIG. 3, the highest numerical value of OBX-4 is “1” because it is the first layer that is OBX | 2 shown in the data row b.

  Next, the health data consistency check unit 15 refers to the OBX map P1 stored in the consistency check map storage unit 14. Then, using the OBX map P1, OBX-3 (right column) corresponding to “1” (left column), which is the highest numerical value of OBX-4 acquired as described above, is acquired. In the example shown in FIG. 5, OBX-3 corresponding to “1” (left column) which is the highest numerical value of OBX-4 is “528391 ^ MDC_DEV_SPEC_PROFILE_BP ^ MDC” (right column).

  Next, the health data consistency check unit 15 refers to the identification map P2 stored in the consistency check map storage unit 14. Then, using the identification map P2, OBX-3 (right column) belonging to OBX-3 (left column) corresponding to the highest numerical value of OBX-4 acquired as described above is acquired.

  And, OBX-3 of each OBX segment (that is, data rows a, b, c, d, e, f) included in the HL7 data M is described in OBX-3 (left column) of the identification map P2. It is determined whether or not it matches.

  If they match, it is determined that the health data included in the HL7 data M has been correctly transmitted from the health data transmitter 34, and the health data is written in the database 22.

  On the other hand, if there is a mismatch, it is determined that the health data included in the HL7 data M has not been correctly transmitted from the health data transmitting device 34, and the health data is not written to the database 22.

  Next, the operation of the health data receiving apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  The health data acquired by the health device 32 is sent to the health data transmitting device 34, where it is converted into HL7 data M, and the HL7 data M is further incorporated into the main body (Body) of the SOAP message. Then, this SOAP message is transmitted to the server 20 side via the WAN 40.

  The SOAP message transmitted in this way is received by the communication unit 13 of the health data receiving apparatus 10, and is transferred from the communication unit 13 to the health data consistency checking unit 15 (S1). In response to this, a response message is returned from the communication unit 13 to the health data transmitter 34 (S2).

  The health data consistency check unit 15 acquires the HL7 data M from the body (Body) of the SOAP message (S3). Whether or not the health data included in the HL7 data M is correctly transmitted from the health data transmitting device 34 is determined by the two maps stored in the consistency check map storage unit 14, that is, the OBX map P1. And the identification map P2 are used by the health data consistency check unit 15. The consistency checking process performed by the health data consistency checking unit 15 will be described below.

  First, the health data consistency check unit 15 acquires the highest numerical value of OBX-4 from the HL7 data M (S4). In the case of the HL7 data M shown in FIG. 3, the highest numerical value of OBX-4 is “1”, which is the first layer that is OBX | 2 shown in the data row b.

  Next, the health data consistency confirmation unit 15 refers to the OBX map P1 stored in the consistency confirmation map storage unit 14 (S5). Then, using the OBX map P1, OBX-3 (right column) corresponding to “1” (left column) which is the highest numerical value of OBX-4 acquired in step S4 is acquired (S6). In the example shown in FIG. 5, OBX-3 corresponding to “1” (left column) which is the highest numerical value of OBX-4 is “528391 ^ MDC_DEV_SPEC_PROFILE_BP ^ MDC” (right column).

  Furthermore, the identification map P2 stored in the consistency check map storage unit 14 is referred to by the health data consistency check unit 15 (S7). Then, using the identification map P2, OBX-3 (right column) belonging to OBX-3 (left column) corresponding to the highest rank of OBX-4 acquired in step S6 is acquired (S8).

  Then, the health data consistency check unit 15 adds the OBX-3 of each OBX segment (that is, the data rows a, b, c, d, e, and f) included in the HL7 data M to the (left column of the identification map P2). It is determined whether or not it matches that described in () (S9).

  If they match (S9: Yes), it is determined that the health data included in the HL7 data M is correctly transmitted from the health data transmitting device 34 (S10), and this health data is the health data. The data is written in the database 22 by the writing unit 16 (S11).

  On the other hand, if they do not match (S9: No), it is determined that the health data included in the HL7 data M has not been correctly transmitted from the health data transmission device 34 (S12), It is not written in the database 22.

  As described above, according to the health data receiving apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment, in order to confirm the consistency of the transmitted health data, instead of the consistency confirmation table T illustrated in FIG. 5 and an OBX map P1 and an identification map P2 as shown in FIG. If the number of OBX segments included in the HL7 data M is n, the conventional technique using the consistency check table T requires a memory amount for storing 2n pieces of data. On the other hand, in the present embodiment using the OBX map P1 and the identification map P2, an amount of memory for storing n + 3 data is required. That is, if n, which is the number of OBX segments, is larger than 4, the present embodiment can reduce the amount of memory required for checking the consistency of health data.

  In the present embodiment, an example of n = 6 where the health data is blood pressure is described, but as shown in FIG. 8, n is 5 or more for most types of health data. For example, in the glucose measurement, since n = 20, the conventional technique requires a memory amount for storing 120 data, whereas according to the present embodiment, only the memory amount for storing 23 data is required. That's it.

  That is, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to check the consistency of the transmitted health data while reducing the amount of memory required for the consistency check, thereby reducing the load on the memory of the receiving apparatus. .

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, in the flowchart of FIG. 7, for the sake of simplicity, for the sake of convenience, an example in which the consistency check process after step S4 is performed once for all OBX segments is illustrated. The subsequent consistency check process may be repeated for each OBX segment.

  Of course, the present invention can be implemented by various modifications as long as they do not depart from the gist of the present invention.

  In short, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. Further, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine suitably the component covering different embodiment.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Health data receiver, 12 Communication bus, 13 Communication part, 14 Consistency confirmation map storage part, 15 Health data consistency confirmation part, 16 Health data writing part, 20 Server, 22 Database, 30 Home, 32 Health device, 34 health data transmitter, 36 communication bus, 37 health data acquisition unit, 38 message creation unit, 39 message communication unit

Claims (8)

A device for confirming the integrity of transmitted health data,
The health data includes a plurality of segments belonging to any one of a plurality of hierarchies having a vertical relationship with each other,
Each segment associated with the same hierarchical relationship includes common information in the hierarchy information indicating the hierarchy to which it belongs,
The device is
Among the plurality of segments associated with the same vertical relationship, a first map that associates the hierarchy information indicating the hierarchy to which the highest segment belongs, and the name information of the highest segment,
A second map in which the name information of each of the plurality of segments associated with the same vertical relationship is associated with the name information of the highest segment;
Receiving means for receiving the transmitted health data;
Of the plurality of segments included in the received health data, the name information associated with the hierarchy information indicating the hierarchy to which the highest segment belongs is obtained from the first map, and the first map The name information of each of the plurality of segments associated with the name information acquired from the map is acquired from the second map, and the name information of each of the plurality of segments acquired from the second map is If the received health data matches the name information of each segment associated with the same hierarchical relationship, it is determined that the transmitted health data is consistent, If not, a determination means for determining that the transmitted health data is not consistent;
A device comprising:   The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising storage means for storing the first map and the second map.   The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a writing unit that writes the transmitted health data in a database when the determination unit determines that they match.   The transmitted health data is HL7 format health data, the segment is an OBX segment, the name information is defined in OBX-3, and the common information is defined in OBX-4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is numerical information. A method implemented by a device to verify the integrity of transmitted health data,
The health data includes a plurality of segments belonging to any one of a plurality of hierarchies having a vertical relationship with each other,
Each segment associated with the same hierarchical relationship includes common information in the hierarchy information indicating the hierarchy to which it belongs,
The apparatus includes: a first map formed by associating hierarchical information indicating a hierarchy to which a highest segment belongs among a plurality of segments associated with the same hierarchical relationship with name information of the highest segment. When,
A second map in which the name information of each of the plurality of segments associated with the same vertical relationship and the name information of the highest segment are associated in advance;
The apparatus further comprises receiving means and determining means,
The receiving means receives the transmitted health data;
The determination means is
Among the plurality of segments included in the received health data, the name information associated with the hierarchy information indicating the hierarchy to which the highest segment belongs is acquired from the first map,
Obtaining name information of each of a plurality of segments associated with the name information obtained from the first map from the second map;
The name information of each of the plurality of segments acquired from the second map matches the name information of each segment associated with the same hierarchical relationship included in the received health data. And determining that the transmitted health data is consistent, and if not, determines that the transmitted health data is not consistent.   The transmitted health data is HL7 format health data, the segment is an OBX segment, the name information is defined in OBX-3, and the common information is defined in OBX-4. The method of claim 5, wherein the method is numerical information. A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for confirming the integrity of transmitted health data,
The health data includes a plurality of segments belonging to any one of a plurality of hierarchies having a vertical relationship with each other,
Each segment associated with the same hierarchical relationship includes common information in the hierarchy information indicating the hierarchy to which it belongs,
A first map formed by associating hierarchical information indicating a hierarchy to which a highest segment belongs among a plurality of segments associated with the same hierarchical relationship with name information of the highest segment, and the same Recording in advance a second map formed by associating the name information of each of the plurality of segments associated with the hierarchical relationship and the name information of the highest segment,
In the computer,
Receiving the transmitted health data; and
A procedure for acquiring, from the first map, name information associated with hierarchy information indicating a hierarchy to which a highest segment belongs among a plurality of segments included in the received health data;
A procedure for acquiring, from the second map, name information of each of a plurality of segments associated with the name information acquired from the first map;
The name information of each of the plurality of segments acquired from the second map matches the name information of each segment associated with the same hierarchical relationship included in the received health data. A computer that records a program for determining that the transmitted health data is consistent, and if the transmitted health data is not consistent, determining that the transmitted health data is not consistent A readable recording medium.   The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 7, wherein the program further causes the computer to execute a procedure for writing the transmitted health data in a database when it is determined that the programs match.