JP6442859B2 - Medicinal remind system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a system for reminding a patient to take a medicine.

  Conventionally, some proposals have been made regarding a system for managing medication by prompting the medication so that a patient who has prescribed the medication does not forget to take the medication. For example, in Patent Document 1, there is a prescription operation management system for sending a notification email for taking medicine at the date and time when the medication is required, or sending a notification email for a visit regarding taking a medicine described in a prescription. It is disclosed.

JP 2007-122183 A

In the service of reminding patients to take drugs, it is preferable that people other than patients, such as family members and caregivers, can share information on the patient's medication status when the patient is an elderly person, for example. It is done. As a result, the convenience of the user is increased, and a sense of security for the family and the like can be obtained .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a medicine taking reminding system that allows a patient's family, a caregiver, etc. to easily share information about the medicine taking situation of a patient .

  In one aspect of the present invention, a medication medication reminding system for reminding a patient to take medication includes at least medication information identifying a medication and medication information identifying a dosage form, wherein the patient's prescription information includes the email of the patient. A registration database registered in association with the address, and a mail for registration of start of use including information on the URL address of the patient's My Page is added to the email address associated with the prescription information registered in the registration database. Send and receive use start registration information entered in the My Page, and set remind information to identify the medicines to be taken and the e-mail address to send the dosing notice mail in association with the prescription information , Generate mail delivery reservation data according to the remind information, and deliver the dosing notification mail The My Page can be configured to deliver a medication notification email to a second email address that is the email address of a person other than the patient, and the medication remind system can be set to the second email address on the My Page. When it is set to deliver a dose notification email, a usage confirmation email is sent to the second email address, and when a usage approval email is replied, the second email address is used as an email address for sending a dose notification email. Register in the remind information.

  According to this aspect, the medication medication remind system transmits a use start registration guide mail including information on the URL address of the patient's My Page to the mail address associated with the prescription information registered in the registration database. Then, upon receiving the use start registration information entered in My Page, the remind information for specifying the medicine to be taken and the mail address for sending the notice mail is set in association with the prescription information, and the remind information is set. The mail delivery reservation data is generated according to the above, and the dose notification mail is delivered. In addition, when the medication remind system is set to deliver a medication notification email to the second email address of a person other than the patient on My Page, a usage confirmation email is sent to this second email address, and a usage approval email is returned. When this is done, this second email address is registered in the remind information as the email address for sending the medication notification email. As a result, a notification e-mail for taking a drug is also sent to a person other than the patient permitted by the patient himself / herself. It becomes easy to share information.

  In addition, when the medication remind system receives a notification of completion of medication from a patient who has delivered a medication notification email, the medication remind system may deliver a medication completion notification email to the second email address.

  As a result, the patient is notified that the patient has taken the medicine to a person other than the patient permitted by the patient himself, so the patient's family and caregivers are informed about the patient's medication use status while protecting the privacy. Easy to share.

  Further, in the medicine medication remind system, the My Page is configured to select medicines that do not want to be notified of medication notification emails out of the medicines included in the prescription information, and the medicine medication remind system includes: The medicine selected as the one that does not wish to receive the medication notification mail in the My Page may be excluded from the medicine targeted for medication notification in the remind information.

Thereby, since the medicine which uses a remind service can be selected, the convenience of the patient is high .

According to the present invention, since the medication notification email is also notified to a person other than the patient permitted by the patient himself / herself, the patient's family and caregiver information on the medication usage status of the patient while protecting the privacy Easy to share .

Overall configuration diagram including a medication medication remind system according to an embodiment Flow chart showing the flow of registration process for prescription information An example of prescription information registered in the registration DB Flow diagram showing the flow of the remind process for taking medication Sample screen of My Page for registering start of use (A), (b) are examples of remind information set in the medication medication remind system. (A) is an example of a registration completion email sent to a patient, (b) is an example of a usage start email sent to a patient's family, etc. An example of mail delivery reservation data (A) is an example of a dose notification email sent to the patient, (b) is an example of a dose notification email sent to the patient's family, and (c) is an example of a dose completion email sent to the patient's family, etc.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is an image diagram of an overall configuration including a medication medication remind system according to an embodiment. In FIG. 1, a medication taking remind system 10 is configured to be able to communicate with a terminal device 20 in a dispensing pharmacy via a network 1 such as the Internet. In addition, the information device 22 such as a feature phone or a smartphone possessed by the patient (user) or the information device 24 such as a feature phone or a smartphone possessed by the patient's family or caregiver can be communicated via the network 1. Has been.

  The medication medication remind system 10 includes a remind management device 11 and a mail issuing device 13. The remind management device 11 is a device for managing a remind process related to medication for each patient, and includes a registration database (DB) 12 in which prescription information for each patient is registered. The prescription information registered in the registration DB 12 includes at least drug information specifying a drug taken by the patient and dosing information specifying a dosage form (eg, 3 tablets after each meal). The prescription information is registered in the registration DB 12 in association with the email address of the patient. The mail issuing device 13 receives an instruction from the remind management device 11 and distributes a dose notification mail to each patient. The reason why the mail issuing device 13 is provided separately from the remind management device 11 is because it is assumed that a large amount of mail is delivered, and the remind management device 11 itself issues a notification mail etc. It doesn't matter.

<Registration of prescription information>
The prescription information registration process will be described with reference to the flow of FIG.

  The patient visits the dispensing pharmacy with the prescription issued at the hospital (S11). The dispensing pharmacy prescribes the drug according to the prescription presented by the patient (S12). At this time, the staff of the dispensing pharmacy inputs the patient's prescription information to the terminal device 20 and transmits it to the medication medication remind system 10. For example, when a QR code (registered trademark) including prescription information is printed on the prescription, the prescription information is input to the terminal device 20 by reading the QR code with a scanner (S13). Then, the input prescription information is transmitted from the terminal device 20 to the medication medication remind system 10 (S14). The QR code is an example of an information code, and other information codes may be used.

  In this case, the transmitted prescription information includes personal information that is not necessary for reminding medication, such as an insurance card number. For this reason, as will be described later, the remind management device 11 preferably performs a process of discarding unnecessary personal information from the transmitted prescription information. Alternatively, the terminal device 20 may send prescription information to the medication medication remind system 10 after removing personal information that is not necessary for medication medication reminding.

  Further, instead of using the information code, for example, the prescription information described in the prescription by the staff of the dispensing pharmacy may be manually input to the terminal device 20. In this case, if unnecessary personal information is not input to the terminal device 20 in advance, the process of discarding the personal information later becomes unnecessary.

  In the medication medication remind system 10, the remind management device 11 receives the prescription information transmitted from the terminal device 20 (S15). The remind management apparatus 11 discards all or a part of personal information, for example, an insurance card number unnecessary for reminding medication, from the prescription information received (S16). Then, a temporary key is randomly generated (S17), and the prescription information is provisionally registered in association with the temporary key (S18). In this temporary registration, for example, the remind management apparatus 11 creates a text file in which prescription information including medicine information and medication information is written using the temporary key as a file name, and temporarily stores it in a non-public area.

  After temporarily registering the prescription information, the remind management apparatus 11 issues a QR code (S19). This QR code includes a temporary key and an address for sending an e-mail to the medication medication remind system 10. The issued QR code is transmitted to the terminal device 20 via the network 1. The QR code is an example of an information code, and other information codes may be used. The terminal device 20 receives the QR code issued from the remind management device 11 (S20), and prints or displays the QR code on the screen (S21). The patient reads the QR code printed or displayed on the screen using his / her information device 22 (S22), and transmits a blank mail including a temporary key (S23).

  In the medication medication remind system 10, the remind management device 11 receives an empty mail transmitted from the patient information device 22 (S24). Then, the sender mail address of the empty mail is associated with the prescription information temporarily registered in association with the temporary key (S25). Then, the temporary key is discarded (S26), and the prescription information is registered in the registration DB 12 in association with the sender mail address of the empty mail (S27).

  FIG. 3 is an example of prescription information registered in the registration DB 12. As shown in FIG. 3, prescription information is registered in the registration DB 12 in association with the patient's email address. This patient's mail address is the above-mentioned empty mail sender mail address. In the example of FIG. 3, for four types of prescribed medicines, a medicine code as medicine information for specifying the medicine and a dosage as dosage information are registered. Registration No. Is a number that uniquely identifies the registered prescription information. As described above, in this embodiment, personal information other than the mail address is not registered in the registration DB 12, so that even if the information in the registration DB 12 leaks to the outside, the problem of personal information leakage hardly occurs.

<Remind treatment for medications>
The medicine taking remind process will be described with reference to the flow of FIG.

  After the prescription information is registered in the registration DB 12, the medication medication remind system 10 transmits an email for guiding the registration of the start of use of the remind service to the email address of the patient associated with the prescription information (S31). This guidance mail includes information on the URL address of the patient's My Page. When the patient receives the guide mail (S32), the patient accesses the URL address included in the guide mail, opens the My Page screen, and registers the start of use (S33).

  FIG. 5 is a screen example of My Page. First, the <My Page> main screen shown in the upper left of FIG. 5 is displayed. On this screen, a list of prescription drug names, quantities to be taken and timing to take are displayed. Here, the medicine 1 to the medicine 4 in the prescription information of FIG. 3 respectively correspond to the medicine names “Troterol”, “Loxoberine”, “Mikudo Keat”, and “Cuttertens” (all are fictitious names). In addition, since the medicine 3 “Mikudo Keto” is a medicine to be taken when fever occurs, it is displayed as “medicine that cannot be notified of time” on the screen of My Page.

  When the patient wants to change the medicine that uses the remind service, the patient opens the <Used Drug Selection> screen in the upper right of FIG. 5 and appropriately changes whether or not to take a dose for each drug. When the remind service is started, as shown in the screen shown in the lower left of FIG. 5, it is possible to set whether or not to send a notification mail to a person other than the patient himself. When sending a notification mail to a person other than the patient himself, the <multi-user setting> screen shown in the lower right of FIG. 5 is opened, and a mail address desired to send the notification mail is newly registered. Here, it is assumed that the mail address of the family is registered.

  When the patient use start registration is completed, the remind management device 11 sets the remind information in the medication medication remind system 10. At that time, when a mail address other than the patient is registered in the patient use start registration, a use confirmation mail is transmitted to the mail address (S34). When the family member whose e-mail address is registered in the start of use registration receives the use confirmation e-mail with his / her information device 24, he / she sends a use approval e-mail to the medication medication remind system 10 in a form of replying to the e-mail (S35). The remind management device 11 sets the remind information (S37) after receiving the use approval mail (S36). The remind information includes information for specifying a medicine to be notified of taking, an e-mail address to which a dosing notice mail is transmitted, and the like.

  6 (a) and 6 (b) are examples of the remind information. Is associated with the registered prescription information in FIG. FIG. 6 (a) is information for specifying whether or not to take medication for each medicine 1-4 included in the prescription information of FIG. In the example of FIG. 6A, the medicine 1 “Troterol” and the medicine 4 “Cuttertens” are specified as the subject of the notification of taking. FIG. 6B is information for specifying the mail address of the destination of the notification mail regarding the prescription information of FIG. Email address 1 is the patient's own email address, and email address 2 is the email address of the family registered by the patient on the My Page screen. The notifications 1 and 2 are information for setting whether to enable or disable the transmission of the dosing notification mail to the mail addresses 1 and 2.

  When the setting of the remind information is completed, the remind management apparatus 11 transmits a registration completion mail to the patient information device 22 (S38). When the patient receives the registration completion mail (S39), for example, by clicking on the URL address displayed in the mail, the patient approves the use of the remind service (S40). In response to this approval, the medication taking remind system 10 starts a medication taking reminding service for the patient (S41). At this time, if the mail address of a person other than the patient is registered, a use start mail is transmitted to that person (S42).

  FIG. 7A shows an example of a registration completion mail transmitted to the patient. “Troterol” and “Cuttertens” are clearly indicated as medicines for notifying a dose, and a URL address for approving the start of use is displayed. Moreover, FIG.7 (b) is an example of the use start mail transmitted to people other than a patient.

  When the remind service is started for the patient, the remind management device 11 creates mail delivery reservation data related to the patient based on the prescription information as shown in FIG. 3 and the remind information as shown in FIG. The created mail delivery reservation data is sent to the mail issuing device 13.

  FIG. 8 shows an example of data items of the mail delivery reservation data. In the example of FIG. 8, text data including medicine information and medication information is generated as email delivery reservation data for each medication notification date and time and for each email address. As the incidental information, for example, information such as how to take medicine and precautions are described. In addition, the file name here is the date and time for notifying of taking. The date and time for notifying the dose may be set in advance, for example, 6 am after breakfast, 12 am after lunch, 6 pm after dinner, and 9 pm before going to bed. Alternatively, the notification notification time may be set from the My Page screen, and the remind management device 11 may manage the notification notification time after setting as one of the remind information.

  The mail issuing device 13 distributes a dose notification mail to each patient according to the mail distribution reservation data (S51). In addition, a notification mail is distributed to a person other than the patient whose e-mail address is registered (S52). When the patient receives the medication notification email (S53), the patient takes the medication and, for example, clicks on the URL address displayed in the email to notify that the medication has been completed (S54). When the remind management device 11 confirms the completion of the medication, the remind management device 11 delivers the medication completion email to a person other than the patient whose email address is registered (S55). By receiving the dose completion mail (S56), the family and the like can confirm that the patient has completed taking the medicine. Such a process is repeatedly executed according to the registered prescription information and remind information.

  FIG. 9A is an example of a dose notification mail transmitted to a patient. It is shown that 3 tablets of “Troterol” are taken after lunch, and a URL address for notifying completion of the administration is displayed. FIG. 9B is an example of a dose notification mail transmitted to a person other than the patient, and FIG. 9C is an example of a dose completion mail transmitted to a person other than the patient.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the medication medication remind system 10 performs the process of registering the prescription information in the registration DB 12 in association with the patient's email address using the temporary key as a medium. Therefore, even if prescription information leaks during the registration process, there is no possibility that an individual related to the prescription information is specified, and the security of the prescription information is maintained.

  Furthermore, even when the prescription information is read from the QR code printed on the prescription, the personal information is discarded and temporarily registered in the medication medication remind system 10, so the security of the prescription information is maintained.

  Also, according to the present embodiment, when the medication remind system 10 is set to deliver a medication notification email to the email address of a person other than the patient on the My Page, a usage confirmation email is sent to the email address and used. When the approval email is replied, it is registered in the remind information as the email address to which the dose notification email is sent. As a result, a notification e-mail for taking a drug is also sent to a person other than the patient permitted by the patient himself / herself. It becomes easy to share information.

  In addition, since the patient is notified that the patient has taken the drug, the patient's family and caregivers can share information about the patient's drug use status while protecting privacy. It becomes easy. Moreover, since the medicine which uses the remind service can be selected, the convenience for the patient is high.

  The medication medication remind system 10 may record the medication medication performance as a log. Information about the patient's condition can be shared by referring to this medication use log by a patient, a family other than the patient, or a caregiver. In addition, for example, it may be possible to set whether or not to allow reference to the medicinal use result log for a family member or caregiver who has registered an e-mail address at the start of use registration.

In the present invention, since it becomes easy to share information between the patient's family and caregivers while protecting the privacy regarding the patient's medication use status, for example, the user's convenience and safety It is effective for providing remind service.

10 Medication Remind System 11 Remind Management Device 12 Registration Database 13 Mail Issuing Device 20 Terminal Device 22 Patient Information Device 24 Family / Caregiver Information Device

Claims (3)

A medication remind system for reminding patients to take medication,
Including a registration database in which patient prescription information including at least drug information for specifying a drug and dose information for specifying a dosage form is registered in association with the email address of the patient;
Sending a use start registration guidance email containing information on the URL address of the patient's My Page to the email address associated with the prescription information registered in the registration database,
Receiving the use start registration information entered in the My Page, setting remind information for specifying a medicine to be taken and a mail address for sending a take notice mail in association with the prescription information,
Generate mail delivery reservation data according to the remind information, and deliver a dosing notification mail,
The My Page can be configured to deliver a dose notification email to a second email address that is the email address of a person other than the patient,
When the medicine medication remind system is set to deliver a medication notification email to the second email address on the My Page, a usage confirmation email is sent to the second email address, and a usage approval email is returned The medication remind system is characterized in that the second email address is registered in the remind information as an email address for sending a medication notification email. The medicine medication remind system according to claim 1,
A medication reminding system, wherein when a notification of completion of medication is received from a patient who has delivered a medication notification email, a medication notification email is delivered to the second email address. The medicine medication remind system according to claim 1,
The My Page is configured so that, among the medicines included in the prescription information, a medicine that does not wish to receive a notification email may be selected.
The medicine medication reminding system is characterized in that medicines selected as those not desiring to receive delivery notice mails on the My Page are excluded from medicines subject to medication notification in the remind information. .

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