JP7049859B2 - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a nurse call system, and more particularly to a nurse call system capable of calling a nurse even from outside the hospital room.

In the nurse call system, when a call is made using the nurse call slave unit installed in each bed, the nurse call master unit installed in the nurse station is notified, and the responding nurse and the patient who called are notified. You can make a call between.
In such a nurse call system, a nurse call slave unit is made wireless so that a nurse call (call) can be made from the place even if the patient moves out of the hospital room (see, for example, Patent Document 1). ).

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2005-236437

With the nurse call system of Patent Document 1, even if the patient moves out of the hospital room, the nurse can be called by operating the nurse call handset that is carried. However, in order to make the nurse call slave unit wireless, it is necessary not only to make the nurse call slave unit wireless, but also to make the plate slave unit etc. wireless, and in order to enable calls, the nurse to carry It was necessary to provide a call function to the call slave unit or to provide a call function to the corridor lights, etc., and a major system change was required.
On the other hand, nurses carry mobile phones to answer calls, and base stations for sending and receiving signals to and from mobile phones are installed at appropriate intervals in the ward. Therefore, if the patient can call the nurse using this base station without making the nurse call slave unit wireless, the nurse call can be performed no matter where the patient is.

Therefore, in view of such problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a nurse call system capable of calling a nurse from anywhere in the ward without making the nurse call slave unit wireless.

In order to solve the above problems, the invention of claim 1 is to answer a call from a nurse call slave unit provided for each bed in a hospital room for an inpatient to call a nurse and a call from the nurse call slave unit. For the nurse call master unit installed in the nurse station, the plate slave unit installed near the bed in the hospital room to which the nurse call slave unit is connected, and the controller and controller that control calls and communications between the devices. , PBX with mobile phone exchange connection function, and multiple nurse mobile phones carried by nurses to answer calls from nurse call slaves connected via a base station with mobile phone wireless transmission / reception function. A nurse call system equipped with a telephone, which is carried by an inpatient and has multiple patient mobile phones that are connected to a controller via a base station, PBX, similar to a nurse mobile phone. A location information transmitter that wirelessly transmits a location signal is installed at an appropriate location in the hospital, and a location management server that manages the location information of each patient's mobile phone is provided. A position information communication unit is provided that receives a position signal transmitted by a position information transmitter and adds an ID of a patient's mobile phone to the position signal to transmit the position signal, while the patient's mobile phone carries a patient. The hospital room ID and the nurse call slave unit ID are registered in order to specify, and it is possible to execute a nurse call to send a call signal with the hospital room ID and the nurse call slave unit ID attached by a predetermined operation, and further, a location management server . Is provided with a corridor light position storage unit that stores the position of each corridor light and a corridor light identification unit that identifies the corridor light closest to the patient's mobile phone, and the controller is a nurse from the patient's mobile phone. When the call is made, the location information of the patient's mobile phone is acquired from the location management server, a call signal including the location information is generated, and the nurse call master unit and at least one nurse's mobile phone are notified. At the same time as transmitting , the corridor light information closest to the patient's mobile phone operated by the nurse call is obtained from the location management server, and a call generation signal is transmitted to the corridor light to execute the nurse call generation notification operation. And.
According to this configuration, a nurse can be called using a mobile phone, so that a nurse call can be made even from outside the hospital room. Information for grasping the caller is attached to the call signal, and in addition, the position information of the caller is also included, so that the responding nurse can grasp the caller and its position and respond easily. .. Therefore, it is possible to make a nurse call from outside the hospital room without making the nurse call slave unit wireless.
Furthermore , when a nurse call is made from a patient's mobile phone, the nearest corridor light operates to notify the occurrence of the nurse call, so the nurse who rushes to receive the call can easily recognize the patient who operated the nurse call and is smooth. It will be possible to respond.

In the invention of claim 2, in the configuration according to claim 1, a camera is installed at an appropriate position in a ward room and a common area, and a position management server is a camera position storage unit that stores the position of the camera. And has a camera identification unit that identifies the camera closest to the patient's mobile phone, and the controller is closest to the patient's mobile phone that operated the nurse call from the location management server when the patient's mobile phone was operated by the nurse call. It is characterized in that information on a camera is obtained and the captured image of the camera is transmitted together with a call signal transmitted by a nurse call operation.
According to this configuration, when a nurse call is made from a patient's mobile phone, the image captured by the nearest camera is sent to the callee, so the nurse who answers the call can grasp the patient's condition from the image and deal with it. easy.

According to the invention of claim 3 , in the configuration according to claim 1 or 2 , the corridor light has a corridor light monitor for displaying an image of patient information, while the controller is used for a call signal transmitted from a patient's mobile phone. The corridor light that receives the call generation signal by attaching the hospital room number information and bed number information read from the included hospital room ID and slave unit ID information to the call generation signal, and the corridor light that receives the call generation signal displays the hospital room information and the bed number information in the corridor light monitor. It is characterized by displaying in.
According to this configuration, by looking at the corridor light that notifies the occurrence of a nurse call, it is possible to know who the patient is and to smoothly carry out nursing work.

According to the invention of claim 4 , in the configuration according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , the hospital store is provided with a store terminal for managing orders from inpatients, and the patient mobile phone is a store. It has a function to access the terminal and order the product, and by the order operation, the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID are sent to the store terminal together with the product information ordered from the patient's mobile phone, and the store terminal can grasp the order source. It is characterized by.
According to this configuration, it is possible to order products without going to the shop, which is convenient for inpatients, and since the shop side can grasp the patient who ordered, it is easy to manage sales.

The invention of claim 5 has the function of accessing the accounting server for managing the expenses incurred in the hospital for each inpatient in the configuration according to any one of claims 1 to 4 . It is characterized in that the cost information incurred by the patient, which is linked to the patient's mobile phone, can be obtained from the accounting server.
According to this configuration, the hospitalization cost can be grasped from the patient's mobile phone, so that the inpatient can reduce anxiety about payment of the hospitalization cost.

In the invention of claim 6 , in the configuration according to any one of claims 1 to 5 , the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID registered in the patient's mobile phone are registered by software having an expiration date set. It is characterized by.
According to this configuration, the function that the nurse can call is terminated after a certain period of time, so it is possible to prevent the situation of forgetting to erase and causing confusion, and the patient's own mobile phone is used as the patient's mobile phone. It becomes possible to do.

According to the present invention, since the nurse can be called using a mobile phone, the patient can make a nurse call even outside the hospital room. Since information for grasping the caller is attached to the call signal, the responding nurse can grasp the caller and respond easily in the same manner as the call by the nurse call slave unit. Therefore, it is possible to call a nurse from outside the hospital room without making the nurse call slave unit wireless. In addition, the patient can leave the hospital room with peace of mind.

It is a figure which shows the whole structure of a nurse call system A. It is a figure which shows the nurse call handset 1 and the plate handset 2 of a nurse call system A. It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the plate slave unit 2 of a nurse call system A. It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the corridor light 6 of the nurse call system A. It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the nurse call master unit 7 of the nurse call system A. It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the controller 8 of a nurse call system A. It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the nurse call server 13 of the nurse call system A. It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the position management server 14 of a nurse call system A. It is a figure which shows the display screen of the patient mobile phone 10.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the nurse call system of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a nurse call system A according to the present invention. As shown in this figure, in the nurse call system A, a nurse call slave unit 1 provided for each bed in the hospital room for an inpatient to call a nurse is connected to the nurse call slave unit 1 in the hospital room. A plate slave unit 2 installed on the wall surface near the bed, a bedside monitor 3 provided for each bed in the hospital room and capable of displaying patient-related information, a hospital room camera 5 capable of capturing an image of an inpatient on the bed, and the vicinity of the hospital room. The corridor light 6 installed on the wall surface of the corridor, the nurse call master unit 7 installed at the nurse station to answer the call from the nurse call slave unit 1, the nurse call slave unit 1, the corridor light 6, and the nurse call. It includes a controller 8 for controlling each device such as a master unit 7, a nurse mobile phone 9 carried by a nurse, and a patient mobile phone 10 carried by an inpatient.

Further, the nurse call system A is an IP-PBX (hereinafter, simply "PBX") which is connected to the controller 8 and has a mobile phone exchange connection function for managing communication with the nurse mobile phone 9 and the patient mobile phone 10. A base station 12 having a mobile phone wireless transmission / reception function for wireless communication between the nurse mobile phone 9 or the patient mobile phone 10 and the PBX 11 and various data of inpatients. It is provided with a nurse call server 13 in which mobile phones are stored, a location management server 14 for managing the location information of a mobile phone, a common portion camera 15 installed in a common portion, and an IEMS (Indoor Messaging System) transmitter 16.
Further, the controller 8 of the nurse call system A is an ordering system 101 which is separately installed to manage information in the hospital, a store terminal 102 which is installed in a store to manage product orders and sales, and individual hospitalizations. It is possible to communicate with the accounting server 103 that manages incurred costs such as treatment costs for patients.

The plate slave unit 2 to which the nurse call slave unit 1 is connected is connected to the corridor light 6 via a transmission line, and is connected to the bedside monitor 3, the hospital room camera 5, the nurse call master unit 7, the controller 8, and the corridor light. 6. The PBX 11, the nurse call server 13, the location management server 14, the common area camera 15, the ordering system 101, the store terminal 102, and the accounting server 103 are each connected to the LAN 18 arranged in the hospital via the HUB 17. ing.
Further, the PBX 11 is connected to the base station 12 via a transmission line. A plurality of base stations 12 are installed at appropriate locations in the ward.

As shown in FIG. 2, the nurse call slave unit 1 has a call button 1a for calling a nurse and is connected to the plate slave unit 2.
As shown in FIG. 3, the plate slave unit 2 includes a nurse call slave unit connection unit 21 connected to the nurse call slave unit 1, a microphone 22 and a speaker 23 for talking, and a slave unit voice processing unit that processes voice signals. 24, it has a slave unit CPU 25 that controls the plate slave unit 2, a slave unit communication IF 26 that communicates with the corridor light 6, and a recovery button 27 that can stop the notification operation and the like.

As shown in FIG. 4, the corridor light 6 includes a call indicator light 41 that emits and displays the occurrence of a call from an inpatient, a corridor light monitor 42 composed of an LCD that displays patient information such as the name of a patient in a hospital room, and a corridor light. Corridor light CPU45 for controlling 6, corridor light first communication IF46 for communicating with nurse call master unit 7, recovery button 47 for stopping notification operation, and corridor light for communicating with plate slave unit 2. It has two communication IF48s.

As shown in FIG. 5, the nurse call master unit 7 processes a handset 61 for answering a call from the nurse call slave unit 1, a speaker 62 that sounds an alarm sound, and a voice signal, and also processes an alarm sound. Master unit sound processing unit 63, master unit monitor 64 that displays various information, master unit video processing unit 65 that processes video to be displayed on the master unit monitor 64, operation unit 66 consisting of a touch panel that performs various operations, nurse call parent It has a master unit CPU 67 that controls the entire unit 7, a master unit communication IF 68 that communicates with other devices such as the controller 8, and an information storage unit 69 that stores various information.

As shown in FIG. 6, the controller 8 is a nurse mobile phone / nurse-related table 71 that stores the association between the nurse mobile phone 9 and the nurse, and a nurse / hospitalization that stores the patient in charge of the nurse. It has a patient-related table 72, an information storage unit 73, a controller CPU 74 that controls the controller 8, and a controller communication IF 75 that communicates with other devices such as a corridor light 6.
The information storage unit 73 includes a patient-related information storage unit 73a that stores patient-related information.
In this patient-related information storage unit 73a, patient information such as the name and age of the inpatient, nursing information such as the nursing classification and medical treatment subject of the inpatient, the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID (nurse call slave unit ID) and the patient information The relationship with the patient, the mobile phone information of the patient's mobile phone 10 owned by the patient, and the like are stored. These information are input by operating the nurse call master unit 7.

The nurse mobile phone 9 and the patient mobile phone 10 are multifunctional terminals having a mobile phone function, and can be used by installing predetermined application software on a mobile phone called a smartphone, for example.
As a result, the nurse mobile phone 9 can answer the call from the nurse call slave unit 1, and the patient mobile phone 10 can call the nurse, that is, the nurse call as described later. However, depending on the settings, it is possible to place an order at a store and grasp the amount paid to a hospital.

Further, the patient mobile phone 10 constitutes a position identification system together with the IMES transmitter 16 and the position management server 14, which will be described later. Therefore, the patient mobile phone 10 receives GPS satellite radio waves, identifies its own position, adds its own ID to the specified position information, and transmits the GPS communication unit (position information communication unit) (not shown). ) Is built-in.

As shown in FIG. 7, the nurse call server 13 stores an electronic medical record information storage unit 91 that stores a patient's medical record input by a doctor, a patient information storage unit 92 that stores various patient information, and a nursing record input by a nurse. It includes a nursing record storage unit 93 for storing, a server CPU 94 for controlling a nurse call server 13, and a server communication IF 95 for communicating with other devices such as a controller 8.

As shown in FIG. 8, the position management server 14 includes a patient mobile phone position storage unit 82 that stores the position of each patient mobile phone 10, a corridor light position storage unit 83 that stores the location of the corridor light 6, and a hospital room camera. The camera position storage unit 84 that stores the positions of the 9 and the common area camera 10, updates and controls the position information of the patient mobile phone 10, determines the corridor light 6 closest to the patient mobile phone 10, and further determines the position management server. It has a position management server CPU 87 that controls the entire 14 and a position management server communication IF 88 that communicates with other devices such as the controller 8.

The IMES transmitter 16 is a position information transmitter, and is installed at an appropriate position in a ward or a hospital, for example, each room, a nurse station, an operating room, a waiting room, a discourse room, a corridor, etc., and can transmit its own position information. It always transmits using a radio signal of the same radio wave format as GPS radio waves.
Then, the GPS communication unit built in the patient's mobile phone 10 receives the position information transmitted by the nearby IMES transmitter 16 among the IMES transmitters 16, grasps its own position, and adds an ID. The location information grasped by the above is periodically transmitted to the location management server 14. The position information transmitted by the patient mobile phone 10 is received by the base station 12 as in the case of a normal call signal, transmitted to the position management server 14 via the PBX 11 and the LAN 18, and stored. In this way, a position specifying system for grasping the current position of the patient mobile phone 10 is constructed.

The common area camera 15 is appropriately provided in a common area in a ward or a hospital, for example, a common area such as a corridor, a waiting room, or a lounge on each floor. The image captured by the common unit camera 15 is configured to be displayed on the master unit monitor 64 by operating the operation unit 66 of the nurse call master unit 7.

The operation of the nurse call system A configured as described above will be described below. However, the call of the nurse from the nurse call slave unit 1, the ringing sound operation of the nurse call master unit 7 that received the call, and the nurse call phone 9 associated with the calling patient, the nurse call master unit 7 Alternatively, since the response operation by the nurse's mobile phone 9 is the same as the conventional one, the explanation is omitted. Here, the nurse call operation in which the patient calls the nurse using the patient's mobile phone 10 and further orders from a store or is hospitalized. The function to check the cost is explained.

As described above, the position information of each patient's mobile phone 10 is periodically transmitted to the position management server 14, and the data of the patient's mobile phone position storage unit 82 is the latest data under the control of the position management server CPU 87. It has been rewritten to and saved.
Further, a predetermined application software is installed in the patient mobile phone 10, and a hospital room ID and a slave unit ID of a patient carried by using this software are registered.

First, the nurse call operation by the patient mobile phone 10 will be described. A nurse call is made using the nurse call slave unit 1 in the hospital room, but a nurse call is made by the patient's mobile phone 10 carried by the patient outside the hospital room.
FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of the patient's mobile phone 10, which includes a display unit 51 provided with a touch panel, and a call button 51a is displayed on the display unit 51 as shown in FIG. 9 by a predetermined operation by the patient. To. When the call button 51a is touch-operated, a call signal is transmitted to the controller 8 via the nearest base station 12 and PBX 11. This call signal is the same as the call signal by operating the nurse call slave unit, and is transmitted with the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID attached.

In the controller 8 that has received the call signal, the controller CPU 74 first acquires the position information of the patient mobile phone 10 that is the source of the call signal from the position management server 14. Further, the patient is identified by referring to the patient-related information storage unit 73a from the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID information attached to the call signal. The location information and patient information thus obtained are carried by the nurse associated with the patient with reference to the nurse / inpatient-related table 72 and the nurse mobile phone / nurse-related table 71. It is transmitted to the mobile phone 9 together with the ringing signal.
The nurse's mobile phone 9 that received the call signal makes a call and displays the patient information and location information transmitted at the same time, for example, "Call from Mr. □□ in Room △△ near Room XX". do. Further, when the nurse call master unit 7 receives the call signal, the patient information and the position information, the ring tone is sounded, the patient information of the caller in the displayed patient information list is blinked, and the position is further increased. Display information separately (not detailed).

On the other hand, in the position management server 14, the nearest corridor light 6 is specified and specified with reference to the corridor light position storage unit 83 based on the position information of the patient's mobile phone 10 to which the position management server CPU 87 is called. Notify the controller 8 of the information of the corridor light 6. Upon receiving this information, the controller 8 performs display control on the specified corridor light 6.
Specifically, the controller 8 that has received the corridor light information transmits the call generation signal including the patient information of the caller to the specified corridor light 6. In the corridor light 6 that has received the call generation signal, the call indicator light 41 operates to display under the control of the corridor light CPU 45, reads patient information from the call generation signal, and displays the patient information on the corridor light monitor 42. As a result, for example, "Call from Mr. □□ in Room △△" is displayed on the corridor light monitor 42.

Further, the position management server 14 refers to the camera position storage unit 84 based on the position information of the patient mobile phone 10 to which the position management server CPU 87 has been called, and selects the common unit camera 10 close to the calling patient. , Notify the controller 8 of the information of the selected common area camera 15.
Upon receiving the information of the selected common area camera 15, the controller 8 activates the specified common area camera 15 and transmits the captured image to the nurse call master unit 7 and the called nurse mobile phone 9. do.
In the nurse call master unit 7 and the nurse's mobile phone 9 to which the call signal is transmitted in this way, the ring tone is sounded, patient information and position information are displayed, and the captured image of the common area camera 15 is displayed. Will be done.

In this way, since the nurse can be called using the mobile phone (patient's mobile phone 10), the patient can make a nurse call even outside the hospital room. Then, since the call signal is attached with information for grasping the caller and also includes the position information of the caller, the responding nurse calls in the same manner as the call by the nurse call slave unit 1. It is easy to grasp the origin and respond. Therefore, it is possible to call a nurse from outside the hospital room without making the nurse call slave unit 1 itself wireless. In addition, the patient can leave the hospital room with peace of mind.
Further, when a nurse call is made from the patient's mobile phone 10, the image captured by the nearest common area camera 15 is transmitted to the call destination, so that the nurse who answers the call can grasp the patient's condition from the image and can easily deal with it. ..
Further, when a nurse call is made from the patient's mobile phone 10, the nearest corridor light 6 performs an operation of notifying the occurrence of the nurse call, so that the nurse who rushes after receiving the call can easily recognize the patient who operated the nurse call. Smooth response is possible. In addition, by looking at the corridor light 6 that notifies the occurrence of the nurse call, it is possible to grasp who the patient is and to smoothly carry out the nursing work.

Next, an order for a product from a shop using the patient's mobile phone 10 will be described. When the software for accessing the shop terminal 102 is opened by operating the patient's mobile phone 10 in a predetermined manner, an order screen is displayed and a list of orderable products obtained from the shop terminal 102 is displayed on the display unit 51. If the desired product is touch-operated from this display, the order signal of the touched product is transmitted to the shop terminal 102 via the controller 8 to place an order.

On the shop terminal 102 that has received the order signal, the ordered product data is displayed on the display 102a, and the shop clerk or the like waits for processing. At this time, the ordering signal transmitted from the controller 8 to the store terminal 102 includes the patient information specified by the controller 8 by the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID transmitted from the patient's mobile phone 10, and the ordering source Information such as the hospital room number and patient name is also displayed.

When the order processing is performed by the clerk or the like who has confirmed this display, the order completion signal is returned and the order completion display is displayed on the patient mobile phone 10. At the same time, the price of the product (billing fee) is transmitted to the accounting server 103 and accumulated together with the patient information of the ordering source.
The ordered product may be picked up by the patient at the shop after that, or may be delivered to the patient ordered by the clerk.

In this way, products can be ordered without going to the shop, which is convenient for inpatients. In addition, since the shop side can grasp the patient who ordered, it is easy to manage the sales. Further, since the amount of the purchased product is managed by the accounting server 103, it is possible to make a lump sum payment at a later date.

In addition, it is possible to access the accounting server 103 in which the incurred costs related to the patient such as hospitalization costs are accumulated, and check the incurred costs (billing costs) related to the patient himself / herself. When the patient mobile phone 10 is operated in a predetermined manner, the software for accessing the accounting server 103 is opened, and the cost browsing operation is performed, the browsing signal to which the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID information are attached is transmitted via the controller 8. It is transmitted to the accounting server 103.
Upon receiving this browsing signal, the accounting server 103 reads and returns the incurred cost data such as the hospitalization cost and the payment cost to the shop associated with the requesting patient from the accumulated data. As a result, the patient mobile phone 10 displays a list of incurred costs such as hospitalization costs related to the patient.

In this way, the hospitalization cost and the like can be grasped by the patient's mobile phone 10, and the inpatient can reduce the anxiety about the hospitalization cost.

The application software that enables the patient's mobile phone 10 to be used as the nurse call slave unit 1 should be software that uses a one-time password with an expiration date, and a nurse can be called after a certain period of time. Since the function is terminated, it is possible to prevent a situation in which the patient forgets to erase and cause confusion, and the patient's own mobile phone can be used as the patient's mobile phone 10.
Further, although the configuration for transmitting the captured image of the common area camera 15 together with the call signal has been described, when the patient's mobile phone 10 is operated by a nurse call in the hospital room, the hospital room camera 5 is activated and the captured image is transmitted. ..

1 ... Nurse call slave unit, 5 ... Hospital room camera (camera), 6 ... Corridor light, 7 ... Nurse call master unit, 8 ... Controller, 9 ... Nurse's mobile phone, 10 ... Patient Mobile phone, 11 ... IP-PBX (PBX), 12 ... base station, 13 ... nurse call server, 14 ... location management server, 15 ... common area camera (camera), 16 ... IEMS transmitter (Location information transmitter), 18 ... LAN, 83 ... Corridor light position storage unit, 84 ... Camera position storage unit, 87 ... Position management server CPU (Camera identification unit, Corridor light identification unit) 102 ... Store Terminal, 103 ... Accounting server.

Claims (6)

A nurse call handset provided for each bed in the hospital room for inpatients to call a nurse,
The nurse call master unit installed in the nurse station to answer the call from the nurse call slave unit,
A plate slave unit installed near the bed in the hospital room and to which the nurse call slave unit is connected,
A controller that controls calls and communications between devices,
A plurality carried by a nurse to answer a call from the nurse call slave unit connected to the controller via a PBX having a mobile phone exchange connection function and a base station having a mobile phone wireless transmission / reception function. Mobile phone for nurses and
It is a nurse call system equipped with
While the inpatient carries a plurality of patient mobile phones that are connected to the controller via the base station and the PBX as well as the nurse mobile phone.
A location information transmitter that wirelessly transmits a location signal is installed at an appropriate location in the hospital, and a location management server that manages the location information of each of the patient's mobile phones is provided.
The patient mobile phone is provided with a position information communication unit that receives a position signal transmitted by the position information transmitter and adds an ID of the patient mobile phone to the position signal to transmit the position signal.
The patient's mobile phone has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave unit ID registered in order to identify the patient to be carried, and transmits a call signal to which the hospital room ID and the nurse call slave unit ID are attached by a predetermined operation. You can make a nurse call,
Further, the position management server is provided with a corridor light position storage unit that stores the position of each corridor light and a corridor light identification unit that identifies the corridor light closest to the patient's mobile phone.
When the nurse call is executed from the patient's mobile phone, the controller acquires the position information of the patient's mobile phone from the position management server, generates a call signal including the position information, and generates the nurse call. It is transmitted to the call master unit and at least one nurse's mobile phone , and the corridor light information closest to the patient's mobile phone operated by the nurse call is obtained from the location management server, and a call generation signal is sent to the corridor light. A nurse call system characterized by transmitting a nurse call to execute a nurse call occurrence notification operation . Cameras are installed at appropriate positions in the hospital rooms and common areas of the ward.
The position management server has a camera position storage unit that stores the position of the camera, and a camera identification unit that identifies the camera closest to the patient's mobile phone.
When the patient mobile phone is operated by the nurse call, the controller obtains information on the camera closest to the patient mobile phone operated by the nurse call from the position management server.
The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein the image captured by the camera is transmitted together with a call signal transmitted by a nurse call operation. The corridor light has a corridor light monitor that displays patient information as an image, while the corridor light has a corridor light monitor.
The controller attaches the hospital room number information and the bed number information read from the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID information included in the call signal transmitted from the patient's mobile phone to the call generation signal and transmits the information.
The nurse call system according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the corridor light that has received the call generation signal displays hospital room information and bed number information on the corridor light monitor. The hospital store is equipped with a store terminal for managing orders from inpatients, and the patient's mobile phone has a function of accessing the store terminal to order products.
By the order operation, the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID are transmitted to the shop terminal together with the product information ordered from the patient's mobile phone.
The nurse call system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the shop terminal can grasp the order source. The patient mobile phone has a function of accessing an accounting server that manages expenses incurred in the hospital for each inpatient.
The nurse call system according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , wherein the cost information incurred by the patient associated with the patient mobile phone can be obtained from the accounting server. The nurse call system according to any one of claims 1 to 5 , wherein the hospital room ID and the slave unit ID registered in the patient's mobile phone are registered by software having an expiration date set.

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