JPH0877257A - Clinical chart system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To record a clinical chart on a recording medium in the form of image data, to read patient identification information out of a consultation ticket, and to retrieve the clinical chart of the patient to display it on a terminal equipment in a consultation room. CONSTITUTION: The consultation ticket 1 is mounted on a terminal machine at a reception part and a read part 2 reads the out the identification information recorded on the consultation ticket. Its signal is sent to a clinical chart management part and compared by a decision part 4 with data from a storage part 3 to decide the clinical chart number, and the clinical chart having the number is read out of a clinical chart storage part 5, sent to a consultation room, and written temporarily in a memory part 7. With a signal from an input part 9, the clinical chart is read out through a control part 11 and displayed on the screen of a display part 8. Doctor's view, etc., is inputted from the input part 9 and added to the clinical chart data in the memory part or rewritten. The data in the memory part are sent to the clinical chart management part and stored in the clinical chart storage part.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a patient chart system provided in a hospital or the like, in which the chart of a patient is recorded as image data, the number of a medical examination ticket is read, and the corresponding chart data is retrieved and displayed. Regarding

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a means for improving the efficiency of medical work, there is, for example, one in which a bar code is printed on a medical examination ticket given to a patient and the patient can be managed by using a bar code reader. There is a system in which a patient's chart is converted into image data and recorded on a magneto-optical disk to make it paperless, so that the space required when storing it in a paper chart can be compressed. However, there is no link between reading the medical examination ticket and extracting / displaying the medical chart, and the current situation is that this aspect is inefficient.

[0003]

In view of such a point, the present invention converts a patient's chart into image data and stores it.
At the same time, record the patient's identification information on the ticket,
The purpose is to equip a terminal at a reception desk of a hospital to read identification information of a medical examination ticket, take out a patient's chart, transmit it to an examination room, and display it on a screen of the terminal by a doctor's operation.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is provided at a reception desk or the like of a hospital, and is provided at a reading section for reading patient identification information recorded on a medical examination ticket and a chart management section. A storage unit that stores patient identification information in association with a patient chart number; a determination unit that determines the chart number that matches the patient identification information from the reading unit based on the data read from the storage unit; A medical record system that includes a medical record storage unit that stores a medical record and outputs a medical record corresponding to a signal from a determination unit, and a display unit that is provided in an examination room and is displayed on the screen based on the data from the medical record storage unit. To do.

[0005]

With the above construction, in the medical chart system according to the present invention, the consultation ticket presented by the patient is attached to the terminal of the reception desk, and the patient identification information recorded on the consultation ticket is read. The read data is transmitted to the chart management unit, the chart corresponding to the identification information is taken out, and this data is transmitted to the terminal in the examination room. This data is displayed on the screen of the terminal by the operation of the doctor. Then, when the findings and the like are written on the tablet arranged on the display screen, the patient's medical record is replaced with the one to which the findings and the like are added, and is transmitted to the medical record management unit and recorded in the medical record storage unit.

[0006]

Embodiments of the medical chart system according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of essential parts of an embodiment of a medical chart system according to the present invention. In the figure, (a) is a reception section, (b) is a chart management section, and (c) is an examination room.

The reception unit (1) 1 is a medical examination ticket, on which the patient's name and the like are recorded, and the identification information of the patient is recorded by a bar code or magnetism. 2 is a reading unit,
The identification information of the examination ticket 1 is read by a bar code reader or a magnetic reader.

The medical record management unit (b) 3 is a storage unit which stores the medical record number of the patient in association with the patient identification information. Four
The discriminating unit collates the patient identification information from the receiving unit (a) with the data read from the storage unit 3 to discriminate the chart number of the corresponding patient. A medical record storage unit 5 stores image data of a patient's medical record by using, for example, a magneto-optical disk. A control unit 6 controls each unit of the chart management unit.

Reference numeral 7 in the examination room (c) is a memory section for recording the data extracted from the chart storage section 5 and transmitted by the chart management section (b). A display unit 8 is composed of an LCD (liquid crystal panel) or the like, and displays the chart read from the memory unit 7 on the screen. An input unit 9 is composed of a transparent tablet or the like arranged on the surface of the display unit 8 and is used to manually input the items to be written on the chart. The input characters and the like are processed as so-called image data in which the pressed portion of the transparent tablet is directly processed as input data to generate image data, which is added to the data in the memory unit 7. A character identification unit 10 identifies a handwritten character from the input unit 9 when the items to be written in the chart are stored as a character code, converts the handwritten character into a character code, and records the character code in the memory unit 7. A control unit 11 controls each unit of the examination room (C).

Next, the operation of the medical chart system according to the present invention will be described. The examination ticket 1 is attached to the terminal of the reception section (a). Patient identification information is recorded on the medical examination ticket 1 in the form of a bar code or magnetism, which is read by the reading unit 2 of the terminal. The read data is transmitted to the chart management unit (b), is input to the determination unit 4 via the control unit 6, and is compared with the data read from the storage unit 3 via the control unit 6 in the determination unit 4. The chart number corresponding to the identification information from the reading unit 2 is determined. Based on this determination, the chart recorded in the magneto-optical disk or the like of the chart storage unit 5 is read out via the control unit 6.

The data read from the chart storage unit 5 is transmitted to the terminal in the examination room (c) and is temporarily written in the memory unit 7 via the control unit 11. Then, it is read by a signal from the input unit 9 by a doctor's operation, input to the display unit 8 via the control unit 11, and displayed on the screen. If the doctor's findings are added to the chart screen, these findings are input from the input unit 9 to the control unit.
Image data is generated via image data processing via 11, written in the memory unit 7, read out, and displayed on the display unit 8. Alternatively, a signal from the input unit 9 may be input to the character identification unit 10, a handwritten character may be identified, converted into a character code, and written in the memory unit 7. And
The data of the memory unit 7 is read by a required operation, transmitted to the medical chart management unit (b), and stored in the medical chart storage unit 5.

The terminal in the medical office (C) is, for example, as shown in FIG.
As shown in (a), the display unit 21 is configured by integrating the display unit 8 and the input unit 9 and is placed on the doctor's examination desk. The image of the chart read out from the memory unit 7 by the required operation is displayed on the display unit. 8
To display. This display / input integrated device 21 is, for example,
As shown in the cross-sectional view in FIG. 2B, a transparent tablet 23 is provided on the LCD 24, and the pen 22 is used to write the findings.
This writing is detected by the transparent tablet 23.
In addition, a "cancel" button or the like is provided in the input section 9, and when the writing is corrected, the "cancel" button or the like is clicked with the pen 22 to fill and erase the range to be erased.

[0013]

As described above, according to the medical chart system of the present invention, when the patient's medical examination ticket is attached to the reception terminal, the identification information of the medical examination ticket is read to determine the medical chart number, The corresponding medical chart is sent to the terminal in the examination room and displayed on the screen by the doctor's operation.There is no need for space to store a paper medical chart, and the medical chart is taken out in conjunction with reading the examination ticket. This eliminates the need for searching and helps streamline medical operations.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of essential parts of an embodiment of a medical record system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an example of a terminal in an examination room of a medical chart system according to the present invention, in which (a) is a perspective view of a main part and (b) is a side view of the main part.

[Explanation of symbols]

 B. Reception section: Medical chart management section C Examination room 1 Examination ticket 2 Reading section 3 Storage section 4 Discrimination section 5 Medical chart storage section 6 Control section 7 Memory section 8 Display section 9 Input section 10 Character identification section 11 Control section 21 Display / input one Body type display 22 Input pen

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A reading unit which is provided at a reception desk or the like of a hospital and which reads patient identification information recorded on a medical examination ticket, and a medical record management unit which stores the patient identification information in association with the medical record number of the patient. A storage unit, a determination unit that determines a medical record number that matches the patient identification information from the reading unit based on the data read from the storage unit, and stores the patient's medical record and outputs a medical record corresponding to the signal from the determination unit. A medical record system comprising a medical record storage unit and a display unit which is provided in an examination room and displays on a screen based on data from the medical record storage unit. 2. The display unit is provided with an input unit for inputting handwritten description of a medical record, data from the input unit is added to the medical record, and is stored in the medical record storage unit. Medical record system. 3. The chart system according to claim 2, further comprising a character identification section for identifying a code of a character input by the input section, and adding the character code from the character identification section to the chart. 4. The medical chart system according to claim 2, wherein the display unit uses a liquid crystal panel as a display body, and the input unit includes a transparent tablet arranged on the liquid crystal panel. . 5. The medical record storage unit is configured to store medical record information as image data.
The medical chart system according to claim 3 or 4. 6. The medical record storage unit uses a magneto-optical disk as a recording medium and records medical record information as image data, according to claim 1, claim 2, claim 3 or claim 4. Medical record system.