JP6200813B2 - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a nurse call system, and more particularly to a nurse call system provided with a portable terminal carried by a nurse.

  An nurse call system in which each nurse carries a portable terminal and a nurse call is called from a patient is notified to the portable terminal and can be answered using the portable terminal. In this way, the nurse can carry the mobile terminal and respond without waiting for the patient, and the nurse can respond on the spot, making it a convenient system for both the patient and the nurse (for example, , See Patent Document 1).

JP 2005-79857 A

However, it is not preferable to call a nurse who is in a meeting even in a hospital, and use of a portable terminal in an operating room is usually prohibited. Therefore, power-off operation is indispensable in areas where the use of mobile terminals is not preferred.
However, it is good to turn off the power, but if you forget to turn it on even after returning to the callable area, you will not be able to call it for a long time and there will be no point in carrying your mobile device. .

  Therefore, in view of such problems, the present invention does not make a call in an area where a call cannot be made even if the mobile terminal is not turned off. The purpose is to provide a system.

In order to solve the above problems, the invention of claim 1 is directed to a nurse call cordless handset for a patient to call a nurse, a corridor lamp for notifying the occurrence of a call, and a nurse call parent for answering a call from the patient. And a portable terminal and a controller for controlling communication between these devices, and a nurse call system in which the corridor lamp, the nurse call master unit, and the controller are connected via a communication network In
The portable terminal communicates with the controller via an access point and an IP exchange,
The controller or the IP exchange includes a terminal belonging storage unit that stores an access point to which the mobile terminal currently belongs,
The controller includes a nurse priority storage unit that stores nurses that are set with priority;
A call availability table storage unit for storing whether or not each of the mobile terminals can be called for each access point , and whether or not the priority nurse call is allowed ;
A call destination storage unit that stores the association between the nurse call cordless handset and the nurse and the association between the nurse and the mobile terminal ;
When a call is made from any one of the nurse call slave unit, the nurse call master unit, and the mobile terminal to the mobile terminal, information on the terminal affiliation storage unit, information on the nurse priority storage unit And a portable call control unit that performs call control on the portable terminal based on the information in the call availability table storage unit and the information in the call destination storage unit .
According to this configuration, when a calling portable terminal belongs to an access point installed in an operating room where calling is prohibited, for example, calling is not performed. Therefore, even if it enters into the area where the power supply of a portable terminal needs to be turned off, it will not generate a bad situation. In addition, it is possible to prevent a situation in which calling cannot be performed in an area where communication is possible due to forgetting to turn on the power, which can be performed, and nursing care can be performed smoothly.
Furthermore, since the area of the calling area is set according to the nurse carrying the portable terminal, the calling can be smoothly performed even if the carrying portable terminal is changed. For example, the nurse chief is compared with other nurses. The callable area can be widened for convenience.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the configuration according to the first aspect , in the call availability table storage unit, the availability of call execution according to the call type is registered for each access point.
According to this configuration, even for an access point that prohibits calls from patients, for example, a staff call that calls for support from a nurse with high urgency can be called. A wide area can be set to improve convenience.
The call type refers to a type such as a normal call or an emergency call. For example, a call by pressing a nurse call slave by a patient is a normal call, and a staff provided in the nurse call slave for a nurse to call for support. A call when the call button is operated corresponds to an emergency call.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the configuration according to the first or second aspect , the controller switches the IP switch from the access point periodically or whenever the information on the mobile terminal belonging to the access point is changed. And a rewrite control unit for rewriting the terminal affiliation storage unit.
According to this configuration, since the current position of the portable terminal is always registered in the controller, a situation where a call is made in the call prohibition area does not occur.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the configuration according to any one of the first to third aspects, even if the portable call control unit is a portable terminal belonging to an access point where calling is prohibited, the portable terminal When a call is made to a nurse call slave unit, a nurse call master unit, and another portable terminal, call control is performed.
According to this configuration, even a mobile terminal belonging to an access point set to call prohibition can call other devices. Therefore, there is no need to bother moving and changing the access point to which the user belongs when a call operation is desired.

  According to the present invention, for example, when a mobile terminal as a call destination belongs to an access point installed in a conference room where calling is prohibited, the calling is not performed. Therefore, even if it enters into the area where the power supply of a portable terminal needs to be turned off, it will not generate an inconvenient situation. Furthermore, it is possible to prevent a situation in which a call cannot be made in an area where communication is possible due to forgetting to turn on the power.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of the nurse call system which concerns on this invention. It is a principal part circuit block diagram of a controller. It is a table figure which shows an example of correlation with the nurse and portable terminal which a callee memory | storage part memorize | stores. It is a table figure which shows an example of the memory information of a terminal affiliation memory | storage part. It is a table figure which shows an example of the availability information which a call availability table memory | storage part memorize | stores. It is a principal part circuit block diagram of the controller which shows the other example of the nurse call system of this invention. It is a table figure which shows the other example of the availability information which a call availability table memory | storage part memorize | stores. It is a table figure which shows an example of the priority information which a nurse priority memory | storage part memorize | stores.

  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. Reference numeral 1 denotes a nurse call slave set (hereinafter simply referred to as “slave set”) installed in each bed for a patient to call a nurse. ) 2 is a corridor lamp that is installed at the entrance of a hospital room to notify the occurrence of a call, and 3 is a nurse call master unit (hereinafter simply referred to as “master unit”) that is installed in a nurse station and responds to a call from a patient. 4) a mobile terminal carried by the nurse, 5 a controller for controlling communication between devices, 6 a nurse call server for storing patient information, and 8 an IP for connecting the mobile terminal 4 for a call. An exchange 9 is an access point that relays communication between the portable terminal 4 and the controller 5.

  The corridor lamp 2, the main unit 3, the control unit 5, the nurse call server 6, the IP exchange 8, and the access point 9 are connected via a LAN 13, and these devices communicate with each other using the Internet protocol. Moreover, the subunit | mobile_unit 1 is connected to the corridor lamp 2 via the transmission line L1, and 14 is a router.

  The handset 1 is connected to a call grip button 1a for performing a nurse call for a patient to call a nurse, a call grip button 1a, a staff call button 11 for the nurse to call for support, and a call to the nurse. It is comprised with the plate subunit | mobile_unit 1b provided with the microphone and speaker for performing, and is connected to the corridor lamp 2 for every hospital room.

  The corridor lamp 2 has a notification lamp 2a that flashes or lights up when a call occurs to notify the occurrence of the call, and a patient information display unit 2b that displays patient information of the installed hospital room. Then, a call signal is transmitted to the controller 5 via the LAN 13.

  The base unit 3 includes a handset 31 for responding to a call, a desktop base unit 3a having a display unit 32 for displaying patient information and various information, and a PC base unit 3b for inputting and displaying patient information. It consists of and.

  The portable terminal 4 is an IP communication terminal that communicates with the controller 5 by the Internet protocol via the access point 9, and a terminal called a smartphone having a display 4a that displays various information is used.

  FIG. 2 shows the main part of the controller 5 as a circuit block. As shown in FIG. 2, the controller 5 includes a call destination storage unit 51 that stores a call destination for each slave unit 1, and a call availability table storage unit 52 that stores whether the mobile terminal 4 can be called for each access point 9. In order to communicate with other devices via the terminal affiliation storage unit 53 that stores the association between the portable terminal 4 and the access point 9, the controller CPU 54 that controls communication between devices and controls each circuit of the controller 5, and the LAN 13. Controller IF55 and the like. The call destination storage unit 51 stores the association between the slave unit 1 and the nurse, that is, the nurse information in charge, the association between the nurse and the portable terminal 4, and the like.

  The operation of the nurse call system configured as described above is as follows. First, the controller 5 is notified of the terminal ID information of the mobile terminal 4 belonging to the access point 9 periodically or when there is a change, via the IP exchange 8, and based on the information received by the controller CPU 54 The callability table storage unit 52 is rewritten. In this way, the current position of the mobile terminal 4, that is, the access point 9 to which it belongs is grasped.

When the patient operates the handset 1 to make a call (nurse call call), a call signal is received by the controller 5 via the corridor lamp 2. Receiving this call signal, the controller 5 transmits a call signal to the base unit 3 and a specific portable terminal 4 to be described later, and a ringing tone is generated at the call destination device.
Here, the calling of the portable terminal 4 will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. 3 shows the relationship between the nurse and the portable terminal 4 stored in the call destination storage unit 51 (relationship between the nurse ID and the portable terminal ID), and FIG. 4 shows that the portable terminal 4 stored in the terminal affiliation storage unit 53 belongs. FIG. 5 shows an example of a table stored in the call availability table storage unit 52. FIG. 5 shows a table of access points 9 (relationship between portable terminal IDs and access point IDs).

  Note that the relationship between the nurse and the portable terminal 4 shown in FIG. 3 is fixed in this embodiment. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the call area is set to be different depending on the call type such as normal call and emergency call. A nurse call or a call from another mobile terminal 4 is a normal call, and an emergency call occurs when an operation of the staff call button 11 or an emergency call button (not shown) is operated.

  The controller 5 that has received the call signal specifies the portable terminal 4 corresponding to the caller slave 1 from the callee storage unit 51 under the control of the controller CPU 54. The controller 5 separately stores a table in which the patient and the nurse are associated with each other, and reads the nurse (mobile terminal 4 carried by the nurse) who is in charge of the calling patient (child device 1). Here, explanation will be made assuming that three nurses B, C, and G are the nurses in charge and are associated with the calling slave unit 1.

  When the called mobile terminal 4 is read from the table in which the patient and the nurse are associated, the access point 9 to which the mobile terminal 4 belongs is read from the terminal affiliation storage unit 53. From FIG. 4, the portable terminal 4 (ID “002”) carried by the nurse B belongs to the access point 9 with the ID “111”, and the portable terminal 4 carried by the nurse C (ID “003”). Belongs to the access point 9 with ID “116”, and the mobile terminal 4 (ID “007”) carried by the nurse G knows that it belongs to the access point 9 with ID “114”.

Next, the call availability status of the access point 9 to which the mobile terminal 4 belongs is read from the information in the call availability table storage unit 52 shown in FIG. FIG. 5 shows that nurse B is in the nurse station, nurse C is in the conference room, and nurse G is in the operating room. Further, it is understood from FIG. 5 that the nurse station can be called, the conference room cannot be called if it is a normal call, can be called if it is an emergency call, and cannot be called if it is an operating room.
Since the current call type is a nurse call call and a normal call, the controller 5 recognizes that the call can be made to the ID “002” of the portable terminal 4 carried by the nurse B and makes a call. To do. On the other hand, the IDs “003” and “007” of the portable terminals 4 carried by the nurses C and G are recognized as being uncallable and are not called.

If it is an emergency call, since the portable terminal 4 of the nurse C in addition to the nurse B can be called from FIG. On the other hand, when answering with the main | base station 3 in which a ringing tone rings, the nurse in a nurse station will respond.
Further, the call availability table storage unit 52 and the terminal affiliation storage unit 53 may be provided in the IP exchange 8, and the controller 5 only needs to read from the IP exchange 8 whenever a call occurs.

In this way, since it is possible to determine whether or not the call can be made based on the position of the access point 9 to which the mobile terminal 4 belongs and the call type, the call destination is set to the access point 9 installed in the operating room where the call is prohibited. When the mobile terminal 4 belongs, it can be controlled not to call. Therefore, there is no inconvenience even if the mobile terminal 4 is turned on in an area where the power must be turned off, and there is a situation in which calling cannot be performed in an area where communication is possible due to forgetting to turn on the power that has occurred conventionally Can also prevent nursing work smoothly.
Moreover, the area where the portable terminal 4 can receive the emergency call that the nurse calls for support can be set wider than the area where the portable terminal 4 can receive the call from the patient, and the convenience is improved.
Furthermore, since the current position of the portable terminal 4 is always registered in the controller 5, a situation where a call is made in a call prohibition area does not occur.

Next, another embodiment of the nurse call system of the present invention will be described. Although the said embodiment implements call control according to the portable terminal 4, the form which implements call control according to the nurse who carries the portable terminal 4 is demonstrated. This control is applied when the person carrying the mobile terminal 4 is not fixed. The overall system configuration is the same as that shown in FIG. Further, the same constituent elements will be described with the same reference numerals.
FIG. 6 shows a main part of the controller 5 in a circuit block diagram. As shown in FIG. 6, in addition to the call destination storage unit 51 that stores the call destination for each slave unit 1, the terminal affiliation storage unit 53 that stores the association between the portable terminal 4 and the access point 9, the controller CPU 54, and the controller IF 55 In addition, a call permission / rejection table storage unit 52a that stores whether or not the mobile terminal 4 can be called for each access point 9 and a nurse priority storage unit 57 that stores the priority of each nurse are provided.

  However, the association between the nurse and the portable terminal 4 is set and updated from the parent device 3 or the nurse call server 6, for example. The set and updated information is stored in the callee storage unit 51, and the table shown in FIG. 3 is stored. The terminal affiliation storage unit 53 stores the table shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a call availability table stored in the call availability table storage unit 52a, and FIG. 8 shows an example of priority information stored in the nurse priority level storage unit 57. As shown in FIG. 8, here, only nurse A with nurse ID “1259” is prioritized, and other nurses are normally set. Nurse A with ID “1259” corresponds to, for example, the nurse head.
And as shown in FIG. 7, the call to the nurse with priority set is set to be callable even in the conference room where the normal call is prohibited.

  The operation of the nurse call system configured as described above is as follows. Similar to the above embodiment, the terminal affiliation storage unit 53 obtains the terminal ID information of the mobile terminal 4 belonging from the access point 9 by the controller 5 and uses it as the latest data. When the patient operates the handset 1 to make a nurse call, the following operation is performed.

A call signal for calling the nurse call is transmitted to the controller 5 via the corridor lamp 2, and the controller 5 sounds a ringing tone in the master unit 3 and a specific portable terminal 4 described later.
The calling of the portable terminal 4 at this time will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. The controller 5 that has received the call signal specifies the portable terminal 4 corresponding to the caller slave 1 from the callee storage unit 51 under the control of the controller CPU 54. The controller 5 separately stores a responsible nurse table in which the patient and the nurse are associated with each other, and reads the nurse (the portable terminal 4 carried by the nurse) who is in charge of the calling source patient (child device 1). Here, it is assumed that three nurses A, C, and G are nurses in charge, and are associated with the caller handset 1.

  The controller CPU 54 reads from the information (FIG. 3) in the call destination storage unit 51 that the call destination portable terminal 4 is the portable terminal 4 having the IDs “001”, “003”, and “007”. The access point 9 being read is read from the terminal affiliation storage unit 53. Here, it is understood from FIG. 4 that nurse A and nurse C belong to access point 9 with ID “116” and nurse G belongs to access point 9 with ID “114”.

  Next, the call availability status of the access point 9 to which the mobile terminal 4 belongs is read from the information (FIG. 7) in the call availability table storage unit 52a. Since the current call type is a nurse call, the access point 9 with ID “114” cannot be called from FIG. 7, and only the nurse with priority set can access the access point 9 with ID “116”. Read that. In this way, the controller CPU 54 grasps that the call can be made only to the nurse A set with priority, and performs the call. On the other hand, the mobile terminal 4 with the IDs “003” and “007” carried by the nurses C and G recognizes that it cannot be called and does not make a call.

  The terminal affiliation storage unit 53 may be provided in the IP exchange 8, and the controller 5 may read from the IP exchange 8 every time a call is generated.

In this way, when a nurse is selected and a call is made, and the call destination nurse belongs to the access point 9 installed in a conference room or the like where normal calls are prohibited and only priority calls are allowed Call only if the nurse is prioritized. Therefore, since the area of the area to be called can be set according to the nurse carrying the mobile terminal 4, a smooth call can be performed even if the mobile terminal 4 to be carried is changed. Compared to nurses, the callable area can be expanded and it is convenient.
In addition, when the access point 9 to which the called mobile terminal 4 belongs is in the calling prohibited area, since the calling is not performed, the mobile terminal 4 enters the area where the power of the mobile terminal 4 must be turned off. Even inconvenient situation does not occur. Furthermore, it is possible to prevent a situation in which calls cannot be made in an area where communication is possible due to forgetting to turn on the power, which can be performed smoothly.

In the above-described embodiment, the configuration in which whether or not calling is possible is determined according to the access point 9 to which the mobile terminal 4 to be called belongs, but the status belongs to the access point 9 set to call prohibition. Even so, it is possible to call other devices (slave unit 1, base unit 3, and other portable terminal 4) from the spot, and the controller CPU 54 that has received the paging signal performs paging control as usual. . For this reason, it is not necessary to move and change the access point 9 to which the user belongs, in order to perform a call operation, which is useful for the smooth execution of nursing work.
In addition, the explanation has been made centering on the nurse call using the handset 1, but the same call control is performed when the mobile terminal 4 is called from the base unit 3 and when another mobile terminal 4 is called from the mobile terminal 4. Is done.
Furthermore, although the call types are two types of normal calls and emergency calls, the types may be further increased, and the priority setting of the nurse is not limited to two types.

  1 ・ Nurse call cordless handset 2 ・ ・ Corridor light 3 ・ ・ Nurse call master unit 4 ・ ・ Mobile terminal 5 ・ ・ Control device 9 ・ ・ Access point 51 ・ ・ Called storage (Nurse Terminal storage unit), 52, 52a .. Callability table storage unit, 53... Terminal affiliation storage unit, 54 .. Controller CPU (portable call control unit), 57 .. Nurse priority storage unit.

Claims (4)

Controls the communication between these devices, the nurse call cordless device for the patient to call the nurse, the corridor lamp for notifying the occurrence of the call, the nurse call parent device and the portable terminal for responding to the call from the patient In a nurse call system comprising a controller, and the corridor lamp, the nurse call master unit, and the controller are connected via a communication network.
The portable terminal communicates with the controller via an access point and an IP exchange,
The controller or the IP exchange includes a terminal belonging storage unit that stores an access point to which the mobile terminal currently belongs,
The controller includes a nurse priority storage unit that stores nurses that are set with priority;
A call availability table storage unit for storing whether or not each of the mobile terminals can be called for each access point , and whether or not the priority nurse call is allowed ;
A call destination storage unit for storing the association between the nurse call cordless handset and the nurse and the association between the nurse and the mobile terminal ;
When a call is made from any one of the nurse call slave unit, the nurse call master unit, and the mobile terminal to the mobile terminal, information on the terminal affiliation storage unit, information on the nurse priority storage unit , nurse call system, comprising a mobile call controller the call permission table storage unit of the information, and that based on the information of the call destination storage unit, carrying out the call control for the mobile terminal. The call to the permission table storage unit, according to claim 1 Symbol placement nurse call system, characterized in that the possibility of calling embodiments in accordance with the call type for each of the access point is registered. The controller obtains from the access point the information of the portable terminal belonging to the access point periodically or whenever it is changed, and rewrites the terminal belonging storage unit. claim 1 or 2 nurse call system according to wherein the control unit. The mobile call control unit may be the mobile terminal belonging to the access point that is prohibited from being called, from the mobile terminal to the nurse call slave, the nurse call master, and other nurse call system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 calls to the mobile terminals Once done, which comprises carrying out the call control.

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