JP7002095B1 - POS register - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a POS register capable of managing the withdrawal of change and the collection of payment in order to prepare change in advance and collect the copayment of medical expenses in home visit medical treatment. SOLUTION: This is a POS register 10 that is arranged in a medical institution and manages medical expenses of a patient who visits a medical institution, and is used for a predicted home-visit medical treatment before the registered patient's home-visit medical treatment. The estimated payment amount, which is the amount of payment, is set, the change amount of the patient's self-pay amount of the medical expenses in the home-visit medical treatment is calculated for the estimated payment amount, the change is taken out, and after the home-visit medical treatment, The payment paid in the home-visit medical treatment is input, and it is determined whether or not the amount of the input payment and the predicted payment amount match. [Selection diagram] Fig. 1

Description

The present invention relates to a POS register for managing medical expenses.

A POS (Points of Sales) register, which is arranged in a medical institution and manages medical expenses of a patient who visits a medical institution, is known (for example, Patent Document 1).

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2008-040978

By the way, insurance medical institutions (hospitals, clinics, dispensing pharmacies, etc.) may provide home-visit medical care. In home-visit medical care, doctors, nurses or pharmacists regularly visit patients' homes where it is difficult to visit medical institutions to provide treatment, nursing, health care, or explanations of prescribed drugs.

Home visits are regular home visits at hospitals, clinics or dispensing pharmacies. The frequency of home visits varies depending on the patient's symptoms, but is twice a week, once a week, once every two weeks, and the like. At home visits, multiple visits (3 to 5) per day are made at any hospital, clinic or dispensing pharmacy.

In home-visit medical care, the medical practice is almost fixed for regular visits, and the patient's out-of-pocket cost can be predicted. For example, when a dispensing pharmacy delivers, explains, or follows up a patient with a drug dispensed according to a doctor's prescription, the patient's out-of-pocket cost can be predicted.

In home-visit medical care, invoices, receipts, and changes are prepared in advance for the patients at each visited destination in order to collect the out-of-pocket expenses of the medical expenses before the home-visit medical care. As for the change prepared in advance in the home-visit medical treatment, the amount (change) prepared by subtracting the self-pay amount from the estimated payment amount assuming the expected payment amount (for example, 10,000 yen) at the time of the home-visit medical treatment. Will be done.

In the above-mentioned POS register, change and the like at the time of home-visit medical treatment are not managed. In home-visit medical care, although medical expenses are managed by the above-mentioned POS register in the same way as normal outpatients, problems such as imbalance in the amount of money may occur before and after home-visit medical care.

An object of the present invention is to provide a POS register capable of managing the change taken out in advance and the collected payment when the change is prepared in advance and the co-payment of the medical expenses is collected in the home-visit medical treatment. There is something in it.

The POS register according to the present invention is a POS register that is arranged in a medical institution and manages medical expenses of a patient who visits a medical institution, and is predicted to be a home-visit medical treatment before the registered patient's home-visit medical treatment. The estimated payment amount, which is the amount of payment at the time of , The payment paid in the home visit medical treatment is input, and it is determined whether or not the input payment and the predicted payment match.

In the POS register according to the present invention, after a plurality of home visit medical treatments, all the payments paid in the home visit medical treatment are input, and the total of the input payment and all the predicted payments match. It is preferable to determine whether or not.

According to the POS register according to the present invention, it is possible to manage the change taken out in advance and the collected payment when the change is prepared in advance and the co-payment of the medical expenses is collected in the home-visit medical treatment. As a result, it is possible to reduce troubles such as the balance amount not matching before and after the home-visit medical treatment.

It is a perspective view which shows the POS register which is an example of an embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of a control part. It is a table diagram which shows the information of the patient of the home-visit medical treatment. It is a flow showing the flow of taking out change and collecting payment in home visit medical treatment.

Hereinafter, an example of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail. In the following description, specific shapes, materials, directions, numerical values, etc. are examples for facilitating the understanding of the present disclosure, and can be appropriately changed according to the intended use, purpose, specifications, and the like.

The POS register 10 which is an example of the embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the POS register 10.

The POS (Points of Sales) register 10 is a device that is arranged in a medical institution and manages medical expenses of a patient who visits the medical institution. Further, the POS register 10 is a device that calculates medical expenses based on an electronic medical record and a receipt computer when a patient who visits a medical institution pays a consideration.

According to the POS register 10, the details will be described later, but when the change is prepared in advance in the home-visit medical treatment and the co-payment of the medical expenses is collected, the change taken out in advance and the collected payment are managed. Can be done. As a result, it is possible to reduce troubles such as the balance amount not matching before and after the home-visit medical treatment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the POS register 10 has a reading unit 11 that reads the description information of the patient's medical examination ticket, and the patient's personal information is registered, and the patient's personal information is called from the description information read by the reading unit 11. The control unit 12 (see FIG. 2), the display unit 13 that displays the patient's personal information called by the control unit 12, and the amount of change are calculated when coins, bills, etc. are inserted when the patient pays the consideration. It is equipped with an automatic change unit 14 from which change is automatically taken out.

As described above, the reading unit 11 is a device that reads the information written on the patient's medical examination ticket. The information described on the medical examination ticket may be magnetic card data, a barcode, a number, or the like. The reading unit 11 may be a magnetic card reader for reading magnetic card data, a barcode reader for reading barcodes, a numeric keypad input device for inputting numbers, and the like.

The control unit 12 is a device in which the personal information of the patient is registered as described above, and the personal information of the corresponding patient is called from the described information read by the reading unit 11. Further, the control unit 12 is a device for calculating medical expenses (compensation for medical treatment) based on an electronic medical record and a receipt computer. The details of the control unit 12 will be described later.

The display unit 13 is a device that displays information including the patient's personal information called by the control unit 12, the consideration in the medical treatment, and the price of the product purchase in the medical treatment as described above. Further, the display unit 13 is a device for inputting various data by touching the display on the screen. The display unit 13 may be a touch panel operated by combining a display device such as a liquid crystal panel and a position input device such as a touch pad and pressing a display on the screen.

As described above, the automatic change unit 14 is a device that calculates the amount of change and automatically takes out the change when coins, banknotes, etc. are inserted when the patient pays the consideration in the medical treatment. In the automatic change unit 14, for example, a coin slot into which coins are inserted when the patient pays the consideration, a coin withdrawal slot from which the coins are taken out from the change, and banknotes are inserted when the patient pays the consideration. It has a bill collection cassette from which coins are taken out from the change.

The control unit 12 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control unit 12. FIG. 3 is a table diagram showing information on patients in home-visit medical care.

The control unit 12 has a CPU (Central Processing Unit) which is an arithmetic processing unit, and a storage unit such as a RAM (Random Access Memory) and a ROM (Read Only Memory), and is stored in a ROM while using the temporary storage function of the RAM. Signal processing is performed according to a program stored in advance. The control unit 12 is connected to the reading unit 11, the display unit 13, and the automatic change unit 14. Further, the control unit 12 is connected to a file in which an electronic medical record is recorded, a receipt computer, or the like.

The control unit 12 has a predicted payment amount setting unit 15 in which the predicted payment amount, which is the predicted payment amount at the visit destination in the home-visit medical treatment, is set before the home-visit medical treatment, and the medical expenses in the home-visit medical treatment. The change amount for the change amount is taken out from the out-of-pocket amount calculation unit 16 for calculating the out-of-pocket amount of the patient, the change amount calculation unit 17 for calculating the change amount of the out-of-pocket amount for the predicted payment amount, and the automatic change unit 14. Includes a change take-out unit 18.

Further, the control unit 12 has a payment acquisition unit 19 that collects at the visited destination and acquires the payment collected from the automatic change unit 14, and the acquired payment and the predicted payment. It includes a determination unit 20 for determining whether or not they match.

Here, in home-visit medical care, a doctor, a nurse, or a pharmacist (hereinafter referred to as a medical worker) regularly visits a patient who has difficulty in visiting a medical institution, and the medical worker treats, cares, and health the patient. It is to explain the medicines that are managed or prescribed. As shown in FIG. 3, before and after the home-visit medical treatment, the display unit 13 displays the personal information of the patient who performs the home-visit medical treatment on that day as a table.

As described above, the predicted payment amount setting unit 15 has a function of setting the predicted payment amount, which is the amount of payment at the time of the predicted home-visit medical treatment, before the home-visit medical treatment. The estimated payment amount is one banknote that is expected to be paid at the visited place, and is, for example, 10,000 yen, 5000 yen, 2000 yen, or 1000 yen. The predicted payment amount setting unit 15 may set the predicted payment amount uniformly at 10,000 yen, or may be able to set it for each visited destination, for example.

As described above, the out-of-pocket amount calculation unit 16 has a function of calculating the out-of-pocket amount of the patient's medical expenses in home-visit medical care. The out-of-pocket amount is the amount actually collected from the patient in home-visit medical care. In this example, the patient's self-pay amount of medical expenses in home-visit medical care shall not be changed before and after the visit.

The change amount calculation unit 17 has a function of calculating the change amount of the self-pay amount calculated by the self-pay amount calculation unit 16 with respect to the predicted payment amount set by the predictive payment amount setting unit 15. It is preferable that the change amount calculation unit 17 calculates the change amount of each patient at the home visit medical treatment.

The change taking-out unit 18 has a function of taking out the change for the change amount calculated by the change amount calculation unit 17 from the automatic change unit 14. It is preferable that the change taking-out unit 18 picks up the change of the patient at each visited destination in the home-visit medical treatment.

The payment acquisition unit 19 has a function of acquiring the payment amount collected at the visited place and collected from the automatic change unit 14. It is preferable that the payment acquisition unit 19 collectively acquires the payments of all the visited patients in the home-visit medical treatment of the day.

The determination unit 20 has a function of determining whether or not the payment amount acquired by the payment acquisition unit 19 and the predicted payment amount match. The determination unit 20 determines whether or not the payment amount of all the visited patients in the home-visit medical treatment of the day and the total amount of the predicted payment amount of the visited patient in the home-visit medical treatment of the day match. Is preferable.

The flow of taking out change and collecting payment in home-visit medical care will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 4, in step S11, the personal information of the patients visiting on that day is displayed as a table on the display unit 13 before the home-visit medical treatment, and the predicted payment amount setting unit 15 displays the predicted payment of each patient. The amount is set. As described above, the estimated payment amount may be uniformly set at 10,000 yen, or the estimated payment amount may be set for each patient.

In step S12, the out-of-pocket amount calculation unit 16 calculates the out-of-pocket amount of the medical expenses of the patient in the home-visit medical treatment before the home-visit medical treatment.

In step S13, the change amount of the self-pay amount calculated in step S12 is calculated with respect to the predicted payment amount set in step S11 by the change amount calculation unit 17 before the home visit medical treatment.

In step S14, before the home-visit medical examination, the change for the change amount calculated in step S13 is taken out from the automatic change unit 14. When visiting a plurality of patients in the home visit medical treatment on that day, steps S11 to S14 are repeated for the number of patients.

Then, before the home-visit medical treatment, the medical staff divides the change taken out in step S14 into small portions for each patient to be visited and heads for the home-visit medical treatment. The medical staff collects the payment and pays the change prepared in advance at each visit.

At this time, if the payment is smaller than the predicted payment, the change is also smaller, so that the predicted payment and the payment are the same. For example, if the estimated payment is 10,000 yen for the self-pay amount of 3,500 yen, but the payment is 5,000 yen, only 1,500 yen of the prepared 6,500 yen change will be paid, and the remaining 5,000 yen will be paid. And the payment of 5,000 yen, the total payment is 10,000 yen.

In step S15, after the home-visit medical treatment, all the payments collected from the patients visited on that day are put into the automatic change unit 14, and all the payments are put into the automatic change unit 14 by the payment acquisition unit 19. Payment amount is obtained.

In step S16, after the home-visit medical treatment, it is determined by the determination unit 20 whether or not all the payment amounts acquired in step S15 and the total amount of the predicted payment amounts of the patients visited on that day match. ..

At this time, if all the payment amounts and the total amount of the predicted payment amounts match, it means that the collection of the home-visit medical treatment on that day was normally performed. If all payments do not match the total estimated payments, it means that there was a mistake in collecting payments or paying change at any of the home visits on that day.

According to the POS register 10, it is possible to manage the change taken out in advance and the collected payment when the change is prepared in advance and the self-payment of the medical expenses is collected in the home-visit medical treatment. More specifically, it manages predicted payments and payments for each home-visit medical treatment day, determines whether the predicted payments and payments match, and at any of the home-visit medical visits on that day. It is possible to immediately grasp that there was a mistake in collecting payment or paying change, and to reduce troubles such as the balance amount not matching before and after home visit medical treatment.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and modifications thereof, and it goes without saying that various changes and improvements can be made within the scope of the matters described in the claims of the present application. ..

10 POS register, 11 reading unit, 12 control unit, 13 display unit, 14 automatic change unit, 15 predicted payment amount setting unit, 16 self-pay amount calculation unit, 17 change amount calculation unit, 18 change extraction unit, 19 payment acquisition unit. Part, 20 Judgment part

Claims (1)

It is a POS register that is placed in a medical institution and manages the medical expenses of patients who visit the medical institution.
Prior to the registered home-visit medical treatment of the patient, a predicted payment amount, which is the predicted payment amount at the time of the home-visit medical treatment, is set, and the medical expenses in the home-visit medical treatment with respect to the predicted payment amount are set. The amount of change of the patient's self-pay amount is calculated, and the change is taken out.
After the home-visit medical treatment, the payment paid in the home-visit medical treatment is inserted, and it is determined whether or not the amount of the paid payment and the predicted payment amount match .
After the plurality of home-visit medical treatments, all the payments paid in the home-visit medical treatment are input, and whether or not the amount of the input payment and the total amount of all the predicted payments match. judge,
POS register.

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