JPH02118775A - Information control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain correctly and rapidly whole necessary informations even when an information quantity is enormous by dispersing the picture information of respective persons for respective persons, storing to a separate memory medium and executing the retrieval of the picture information for a memory medium. CONSTITUTION:The title system is the system which can retrieve desired picture information by plural retrieving devices from a single file 7 to register the picture information of respective persons, a memory medium 4 is assigned for a person, a part or all of the picture information registered in the personal file 7 to assign it to the memory medium 4 are stored and the picture information of the memory medium can be retrieved by a retrieving device 1. Thus, since the information is stored to the memory medium for the person, the enormous quantity of the information can be dispersed, the picture quantity, which becomes the retrieving object, can be drastically reduced and the retrieval can be rapidly executed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a system for managing personal information such as medical information.

[Prior art]

In recent years, the amount of information has increased enormously in many fields, and the need for efficient information management has increased. For example, in a hospital, it is not only necessary to maintain medical records for each patient, but also to store diagnostic photographs from X-ray diagnostic equipment and ultrasound diagnostic equipment, as well as CT (computer tomography) tomography images processed by computers. It is also necessary to save image information from diagnostic equipment such as The amount of such information increases as the number of patients increases, and if the past information of each patient is stored and the medical history of each patient can be known, the amount of information becomes extremely large.

For this reason, large hospitals have adopted a system in which this information is categorized by patient and centrally managed in a single file, and when the patient is specified, information for the specified patient can be searched. .

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, when the amount of information becomes extremely large, it takes a lot of time to search for information for the necessary patient.
Moreover, each time a patient is examined, information about the patient must be retrieved from this huge file over a long period of time.

Further, even if a patient is diagnosed with an X-ray diagnostic device at a certain hospital, the patient may be requested to undergo a more detailed examination at another hospital depending on the diagnosis result. In such a case, the other hospital may perform the same diagnosis on the patient again as at the previous hospital, and perform a detailed examination based on this diagnosis. in this way,
The same patient may undergo X-ray diagnosis multiple times for the same medical condition, which increases the amount of X-ray exposure, which is undesirable.

Furthermore, even if patients have the same disease, they may go to a different hospital than they have previously visited.

In such cases, the only way to find out about the patient's past medical history is directly from the patient at the new hospital.
The reliability of this medical history as diagnostic material is an issue.

The first object of the present invention is to provide an information management system that solves these problems and allows all necessary information to be obtained accurately and quickly even when the amount of information is enormous. It is in.

A second object of the present invention is to enable patients to accurately and quickly retrieve and utilize all necessary diagnostic information recorded in a computer by the hospital they previously visited through computer communication. Our goal is to provide an information management system with

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention allocates a recording medium to each individual in a system that allows multiple search devices to search for desired image information from a single file in which each individual's image information is registered. , A part or all of the image information registered in the file of the individual to whom the recording medium is assigned is recorded, and the image information on the recording medium can be searched by the search device.

[Effect]

Since information is recorded on a recording medium for each individual, a huge amount of information can be distributed, the amount of information to be searched can be significantly reduced, and searches can be executed quickly.

Additionally, each search device can share a single file, and information registered at other hospitals can also be used.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the information management system according to the present invention, in which 1 is a host computer, 2 is a buffer memory, 3 is a disk drive "AN, 4 is an optical disk, 5 is a display device, and 6 is a In the center system, 7 is a file.

Here, this embodiment will be explained using a medical institution such as a hospital as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this.

In FIG. 1, host computer 1. The buffer memory 2, disk drive device 3, and display device 5 are installed on the desk of each doctor in a hospital as a diagnostic device, and the optical disk 4 is owned by the patient. Each medical examination device is connected to a center system 6 having a file 7, in which all medical information (image information such as X-ray photographs and CT images) obtained so far for each patient is stored.

The optical disc 4 records image information such as X-ray photographs and CT scans (hereinafter referred to as personal medical information) based on the owner's past diagnosis. That is, in FIG. 2, the optical disc 4 is provided with a user area where the user can record and reproduce information, and personal medical information A and B are provided in this user area.

C1... and directory information a, b, c,... for each personal medical information are recorded, and the owner of this optical disc is indicated in a specific area of the user area. Information such as facial photos (hereinafter referred to as personal index information) is also recorded.

The directory information consists of information indicating the information name of the personal medical information, the recording position in the user area (start address, data length), date, etc. In Fig. 2,
Directory information a is for personal medical information A, and in the same manner, directory information S, c,...
・Respectively, personal medical information B.

This corresponds to C1... Here, the personal medical information is recorded in the order of A, B, C, .

b, c, .
Needless to say, the information is recorded in the direction from the inner circumferential side to the outer circumferential side.

Next, the operation of this embodiment when using the optical disc shown in FIG. 2 will be explained using the flowchart shown in FIG.

At the hospital, the doctor receives the optical disc 4 from the patient and inserts it into the disc drive device 3 (step 101).
, when a predetermined startup operation is performed, the host computer 1 sends predetermined information to the disk drive device 3 and performs initialization processing of the disk drive device 3 (step 102).
). After this initialization process is completed, the disk drive device 3
When the host computer 1 receives a response from the host computer 1, the host computer 1 activates the disk drive device 3 to read personal index information from a specific area of the user area (FIG. 2) on the optical disk 4. The read personal index information is processed by the host computer 1 using the buffer memory 2 and supplied to the display device 5 as an image signal. As a result, the display device 5 displays an image such as a facial photograph representing the true owner of the inserted optical disc 4 (step 103).

If the displayed image is a facial photograph, the doctor visually compares this with the patient who brought the optical disc 4 (step 10).
4). When the two match, it means that the medical information of the patient who brought the optical disc 4 has been recorded, and the user performs a predetermined operation to search for and reproduce the desired personal medical information.

This search is performed as follows. For example, in FIG. 2, if personal medical information A and C are X-ray photographs and personal medical information B is a CT scan, the host computer 1 can be The disk drive device 3 is controlled to read directory information from the optical disk 4. When directory information a is read, "XvA photo" with the information name specified and input is displayed.
Since it matches, the recording position information of personal medical information A in this directory information a is detected. Based on this, this personal medical information A is read from the optical disc 4. The personal medical information A obtained in this manner is processed by the host computer 1 in the same manner as the personal index information, and is supplied to the display device 5 as an image signal. Therefore, the display device 5 displays the X-ray photograph. By the doctor performing a predetermined operation without changing the information name designation, the personal medical information of each X-ray photograph is sequentially reproduced from the optical disk 4, and each x'la photograph is displayed on the display device 5 in sequence. . Of course, by specifying the date, it is also possible to search for and display X-ray photographs taken on the specified date, and personal medical information from the examination results on that day can also be recorded on the optical disk 4 at the time of diagnosis by the doctor. . In this way, the patient can be diagnosed based on the display screen of the display device 5 (step 105).
.

After the diagnosis, when the doctor performs a predetermined end processing operation, the host computer 1 performs the end processing (step 106) and ejects the optical disc 4 from the disc drive device 1f3.

Search for personal medical information in File 7 of Center System 6
The same can be done for.

When there is a large amount of personal medical information, it is not possible to record all of it on the optical disk 4, and the newest information is recorded on the optical disk 4 in order.If older personal medical information is needed, it can be searched. is performed on file 7.

As mentioned above, personal medical information is recorded on each optical disk for each individual, and the necessary personal medical information can be searched for on one optical disk. Therefore, the amount of information to be searched is extremely small. , the search time will be very short.

By the way, in the case of a 5.25-inch optical disc, the user area capacity is approximately 300 megabytes, while the image information is stored in 256 pixels at a resolution of 1024 dots x 1024 dots.
(=2”) for a black and white image with a tone of 1
The image information is approximately 1 megabyte. Therefore, approximately 300 pieces of personal medical information will be stored on one optical disc, and this will be the subject of the search. For this reason, compared to the conventional technology, which files the personal medical information of all patients in a hospital and searches for the desired personal medical information from there,
The search will be performed quickly.

In addition, the owner's personal index information is recorded on the optical disc, and by playing this and displaying the image, it is possible to visually confirm the true owner and bearer of the optical disc. Therefore, the personal medical information of the patient to be actually diagnosed can be obtained without error, and past personal medical information can also be obtained immediately and used as data for diagnosis. In addition, each optical disc is
Needless to say, any diagnostic device can be used.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing another specific example of the recorded information content of the user area on the optical disc 4 in FIG. 1.

In the specific example shown in FIG. 2, personal index information is recorded together with personal medical information in the user area of the optical disc 4, and this information is processed by the host computer 1 according to the processing program stored therein. However, in the specific example shown in FIG. 4, as shown in the figure, in addition to personal medical information and personal index information, a processing program for processing these is also recorded in the user area of the optical disc 4.

Therefore, in FIG. 1, for the optical disc in the user area shown in FIG. 4, the host computer 1 does not store a processing program for processing personal medical information and personal index information for image display. And the fifth
As shown in the figure, when the optical disc 4 is inserted into the disc drive device 3 (step 101), the disc drive device 3 is initialized (step 102).
Thereafter, the processing program is read from the user area of the optical disc 4 and stored in the host computer 1 (step 108). The subsequent processes are steps 103 and 104 in FIG. . . . Using the processing program read from the optical disc 4, the host computer 1 processes the directory information and personal medical information reproduced from the optical disc 4.

In this specific example as well, personal medical information older than the personal medical information recorded on the optical disc 4 can be searched from the file 7 of the center system 6. However, for this purpose, since the host computer 1 itself does not have a processing program, it is necessary to read the processing program from the optical disk 4 and store it in the host computer 1. Since personal medical information is obtained from the file 7 as necessary during a normal medical examination, the optical disc 4 is always inserted into the disc drive device 3.

In this specific example, the same effect as in the case of using the optical disk described in FIG. 2 can be obtained, and the capacity of the program memory of the host computer 1 can be further reduced. Further, even if the processing program is stored on the optical disc 4, the recording capacity of personal medical information is not particularly affected.

In the above-described embodiment, the explanation was given as being within a hospital; however, as shown in FIG.
．．・・・・・・・・・N is single center system 6
It is also possible for each hospital to process information in the same format. Test results of patients at each hospital are stored in the file 7 of the center system 6, and are also recorded together with directory information as personal medical information on an optical disc owned by the patient. Each hospital 1, 2.
The format of the optical disk 7 used in hospitals 1, 2, .・Old...
..., n process personal medical information and the like using the same processing program. The contents recorded in the user area of each optical disc are the same as those shown in FIG. 2 or 4.

According to this, the same optical disc is used at each hospital 1, 2...
.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited only to this embodiment. For example, as explained above, the present invention is applicable to other institutions other than medical institutions, such as financial institutions, and information recording media may be magnetic disks or magneto-optical disks other than optical disks. , IC memory, optical cards, etc. can be used. However, the size and weight must be such that it can be used in the present invention.

(2) Must be non-volatile memory.

(3) When recording image information, each recording medium must have a large recording capacity of 1 megabyte or more.

(4) The recording medium is inexpensive.

(5) The minimum storage life of information recorded on recording media is the minimum lifespan of medical information storage mandated by the country (for example, in the United States, it is 7 years;
(15 years in West Germany) or more.

etc. As for the size limit of the recording medium in condition (1), it is preferable that the external dimensions and thickness be such that it can fit into a clothes pocket. Furthermore, the method of recording personal medical information and directory information on a recording medium is not limited to those shown in FIGS. 2 and 4.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, a huge amount of image information of each individual is distributed and recorded on separate recording media, and the image information is searched for each recording medium. , the amount of information to be searched can be significantly reduced, and the search time can be significantly shortened.

Further, image information that cannot be recorded on the recording medium due to capacity limitations can be searched from the file, and all image information can be searched. Furthermore, if image information obtained at multiple hospitals is registered in the file, each hospital can utilize image information obtained at other hospitals.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the information management system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of recorded contents in the user area of the optical disc in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is the same as FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 using the optical disc shown in FIG. The first disc using the optical disc shown in
A flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment shown in the figure, and FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing another specific example of the information management system according to the present invention. 1...Host computer, 3...Disk drive device, 4...Optical disk, 5.
...Display 'AM, 6...Center system, 7...File. Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Broom Figure Figure

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) It is possible to search for desired image information using a display device that displays an image from a single file in which image information of each individual is registered, and multiple search devices equipped with the device, and the image of the searched desired image information is displayed on the display device. In an information management system configured to be displayed on a device, a recording medium is assigned to each individual whose image information is registered in the file, and the image information registered in the file of the individual to whom the recording medium is assigned is Some or all of the
An information management system characterized in that the search device is capable of searching for desired image information from the recording medium and displaying the image. (2) The information management system according to claim (1), wherein the recording medium is an optical disc. (3) In claim (1) or (2), the image information is medical information such as an X-ray photograph or CT, and the medical information is recorded in the recording medium in chronological order. information management system.