KR101192842B1 - System and method for providing standard health information - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing standard medical information, and standardized from a health measurement device in order to automatically use the health data measured by the ISO / IEEE 11073-based health measurement device to provide various healthcare services. The present invention relates to a system and method for providing standard medical information, which collects personalized biometric data and converts the data into HL7 data, which is a medical information standard, and provides the user and the medical staff.
The system for providing standard medical information according to an embodiment of the present invention measures at least one health condition of the user to generate at least one health data based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073) A health measurement device, an information collection terminal for collecting and transmitting the health data generated by the health measurement device, and a data conversion gateway for receiving the health data and converting the health data into a HL7 standard. The information collecting terminal that transmits data to the data conversion gateway is one determined in consideration of a specific condition set in advance among a plurality of information collecting terminals using different communication schemes.

Description

System and method for providing standard health information

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing standard medical information, and more particularly, to allow health data measured by an ISO / IEEE 11073 based health measurement device to be automatically used to provide various healthcare services. The present invention relates to a system and method for providing standard medical information, which collects standardized personal biometric data from a measurement device and converts the data into HL7 data, which is a standard for medical information.

Recently, with the development of ubiquitous computing technology, there is an increasing demand for Ubiquitous Heathcare service that can monitor and manage biometric information anytime and anywhere in real time. Accordingly, studies on blood glucose management, blood pressure management, and transmission of biological information such as ECG (Electrocardiograph) have been actively conducted.

However, since portable personal health measurement equipment and monitoring equipment have different implementation systems and display methods for each manufacturer, it is difficult to accurately identify biometric information by users and medical staff. In addition, when a problem occurs in a part of the body due to the characteristics of the personal health measurement equipment may be fatal to the health, there is a need for a technology for managing the integrated information on the various personal health measurement devices.

The ISO / IEEE 11073 standard is a standard for personal health measurement equipment, especially for the communication of various medical devices for use in point-of-care (POC), which requires communication between external systems. The main purpose of this standard is to ensure that biological signals and medical device data obtained in any healthcare environment can be seamlessly exchanged with the transmission format of the information profile for health measurement devices connected to the user.

The HL7 (Health Level 7) standard is a message delivery protocol included in the application layer, the highest layer of the Open Systems Interconnection 7 (OSI 7) layer, and is used for medical clinical and medical / administrative data used by hospitals, medical equipment, and doctors. It is defined to uniformize all messages used in the medical field.

The main purpose of the HL7 standard is to provide information regardless of the interface or format of devices (health measurement equipment, computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs, etc.)) that transmit and receive data between objects related to medical activities such as patients, doctors and hospitals. It is to be able to exchange. Because of this, the HL7 standard is being used worldwide to coordinate the coordination of independent systems of various healthcare organizations.

On the other hand, the information collection terminal for collecting the measured data, and transmits it to the service server is arranged in the user's daily living space, due to the spatial constraints of the information collection terminal may not be smoothly collected and stored.

For example, the information collection terminal may be located in a home or office, etc. If the user leaves the home or office, data collection may not be performed and the data may be missing.

Therefore, the emergence of the invention to relax the spatial constraints of the information collection terminal so that seamless data collection can be performed.

The present invention delivers the data measured by each health measurement device to a service server that manages a plurality of services, and to support services that can be integrated and managed by configuring the data measured from the plurality of health measurement devices for each user The purpose is to provide a method.

In addition, the present invention is a healthcare system that can maintain the compatibility of various services and data by applying the technology to convert the data collected according to the international standards related to health measurement devices to the HL7 (Health Level 7) standard, which is an international standard for medical information And to provide a method.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, the system for providing standard medical information according to an embodiment of the present invention measures the health of the user based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073) At least one health measurement device for generating data, an information collection terminal for collecting and transmitting the health data generated by the health measurement device, and data conversion for receiving and converting the health data into a HL7 standard. And a gateway, wherein the information collection terminal that transmits the health data to the data conversion gateway is one determined in consideration of a specific condition set in advance among a plurality of information collection terminals using different communication schemes.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of providing standard medical information is measured based on at least one health measuring device of a user and based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073). Generating health data, collecting and transmitting the generated health data, and receiving and converting the health data into a Health Level 7 (HL7) standard, wherein transmitting the health data includes And transmitting the health data in one communication method determined in consideration of a predetermined predetermined condition among other plurality of communication methods.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and the drawings.

According to the system and method for providing standard medical information of the present invention as described above, there are one or more of the following effects.

First, the health-related data of the ISO / IEEE 11073-based health measuring device is collected and converted into standardized information by using a personal living space or an information collection terminal possessed by the individual, and the user is integrated and stored and managed. It has the advantage of providing the necessary services.

Second, there is an advantage of facilitating the linkage between the health measurement device according to the ISO / IEEE 11073 standard and the service according to the HL7 standard.

Third, since the user's owned and mobile terminal is used as the information collection terminal for collecting the measured data, the spatial constraints are alleviated, and the data conversion is performed outside the information collection terminal, thereby enabling the mobile terminal by the information collection terminal. It also has the advantage of reducing the burden on the operation.

1 is a diagram showing a system for providing standard medical information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing an information collecting terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram illustrating a data conversion gateway according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a block diagram illustrating an information collection database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view showing a system for providing standard medical information according to an embodiment of the present invention, the system is a health measurement device (101, 102, 103), the first network 110, the first information collecting terminal 201 , A second information collection terminal 202, an information collection database 400, a service server 500, a second network 120, a mobile communication network 130, and a data conversion gateway 300.

The health measuring devices 101, 102 and 103 measure health status of a user and generate health data based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073).

The health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 may measure health data of an individual in a home or mobile environment. The health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 may include a blood pressure monitor, a blood glucose meter, an electrocardiograph (ECG) meter, and an oxygen saturation level. And personal health equipment such as a treadmill for exercising, a body fat scale, and a weight scale.

The health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 operate based on the International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073 (ISO / IEEE) international standard.

In addition, the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 may transmit the health data collected through the first network 110 to the information collection terminals 201, 202, and the first network 110 may be Zigbee. ), A wireless communication protocol such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or a wired communication protocol such as Universal Serial Bus (USB).

The information collection terminals 201 and 202 collect and transmit the health data generated by the health measurement devices 101, 102 and 103 to the data conversion gateway 300.

Here, the information collection terminal for transmitting the health data to the data conversion gateway 300 may be one determined in consideration of a predetermined specific condition among the plurality of information collection terminals 201 and 202 using different communication schemes. .

That is, a plurality of information collection terminals 201 and 202 that receive health data from the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 and transmit the health data to the data conversion gateway 300 may be provided instead of one. Health data can be relayed.

The information collecting terminals 201 and 202 may be installed in a personal living area where a user lives, or may be in a form that an individual carries.

That is, the information collecting terminal may be a fixed type (hereinafter referred to as a first information collecting terminal) 201 fixedly installed at one location, and may be a mobile type (hereinafter, referred to as a second information collecting terminal) which can be carried by the user. 202).

Here, the first information collecting terminal 201 may be understood to relay health data through a transmission control protocol / internet protocol (TCP / IP) communication scheme provided by the first network 110. That is, the first information collecting terminal 201 transmits the health data to the data conversion gateway 300 in a wired or wireless TCP / IP communication method.

On the other hand, the second information collecting terminal 202 may be understood as relaying data using the mobile communication network 130, for example, a device using a mobile communication network 130, such as a mobile phone or a smart phone second information It may serve as the collection terminal 202.

As such, the communication scheme supported by the information collection terminal includes at least one of TCP / IP and the mobile communication network 130. As a plurality of information collection terminals 201 and 202 using different communication schemes are provided, Among them, the information collection terminal that should actually relay the health data should be determined. At this time, the determination condition of the information collecting terminal may be whether or not TCP / IP communication is possible.

That is, the information collection terminal for transmitting the health data to the data conversion gateway 300 is the first information collection terminal 201 supporting the communication method of TCP / IP when the communication of TCP / IP is possible, the communication of TCP / IP If this is impossible, it may be the second information collecting terminal 202 supporting the communication scheme of the mobile communication network 130.

In order to designate the information collection terminal for relaying the health data, the health data transmitted by the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 may be specified with an identifier of the information collection terminal indicating the relay target.

That is, the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 transmit the health data by including the identifier of the information collection terminal to which the health data are to be relayed in the health data. For example, when the TCP / IP communication is possible, the first information collection terminal 201 ) Is included in the health data and transmitted, and when TCP / IP communication is impossible, the identifier of the second information collecting terminal 202 is included in the health data and transmitted.

As the identifier is included in the health data and thus received, the information collection terminals 201 and 202 may check whether the health data is relayed to the health data.

In order to confirm whether TCP / IP communication is possible, the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 may receive a response message from the first information collecting terminal 201. That is, initially, the health data is transmitted to the first information collecting terminal 201. If the response message is received from the first information collecting terminal 201, the health measuring devices 101, 102, and 103 are sent to the information collecting terminal. It is determined that TCP / IP communication is possible, and when the response message is not received from the first information collecting terminal 201, the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 are not capable of TCP / IP communication by the information collecting terminal. To judge.

The data conversion gateway 300 converts ISO / IEEE 11073 based health data received from the information collection terminals 201 and 202 into HL7 format, and transmits the converted health data to the information collection database 400. do.

Here, HL7 is a medical information exchange standard protocol certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for exchanging information between various medical information systems. The HL7 is an XML for displaying the encoding, structure and contents of medical information in detail. It can be understood as a markup standard based on Extensible Markup Language.

The information collection database 400 stores and manages HL7-based health data received from the data transformation gateway 300. In this case, the information collection database 400 may configure and store health data using data for each user or data for each device. For example, the information collection database 400 may extract health data of a specific user from the collected health data converted to the HL7 standard, and generate and store personal health data of the user.

Here, the personal health data includes at least one of a type of the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 that measure the health state of a specific user and a history of the user.

Through the stored data, appropriate health related information can be provided to the user as a service.

The service server 500 stores various services provided to the user based on the health data, and serves to provide the corresponding service to the user when a service request is received.

The service may be provided to a user according to a request of a user who accesses the information collection database 400 or a selection of a service provider.

Services may include remote fantasy care, safe environment monitoring, emergency patient management, medication guidance, self-care and senior rehabilitation programs.

In addition, although FIG. 1 shows one first information collecting terminal 201 and one second information collecting terminal 202, a plurality of first information collecting terminals and a plurality of second information collecting terminals are provided in the system. It may be. In this case, the plurality of first information collecting terminals may be connected to the first network 110 shown in FIG. 1 or may be connected to a separate first network (not shown). Similarly, the plurality of second information collecting terminals may also be connected to each other. It may be connected to the mobile communication network 130 shown in 1 or to a separate mobile communication network (not shown).

In addition, although not shown in Figure 1, there may be a management server (not shown) that can manage the entire system, the system administrator can check the error occurrence state of the system through the management server, the continuous update for each device Through this, the stabilization of the system can be realized.

2 is a block diagram illustrating an information collecting terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, wherein the information collecting terminal 200 includes a device signal transceiver 210, a data manager 220, a controller 230, and a device controller 240. And a data transmission / reception unit 250.

The device signal transceiver 210 receives a signal from the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 and transmits a signal to the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103. Here, the received signal is a signal for health data measured by the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103, and the transmitted signal is a status check request for confirming the state of the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103. Signal or a control signal for controlling the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103.

In addition, as described above, the first information collecting terminal 201 that has received the health data may transmit a response message to the received health message. Accordingly, the signal transmitted by the device signal transceiver 210 may respond. It may also be a signal containing a message.

The device controller 240 generates a signal for confirming the abnormality of the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 and a signal for controlling. The generated signal is transmitted to the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 through the device signal transceiver 210.

The data manager 220 generates a health data signal collected through the device signal transceiver 210 as one unified data. The generated data is transmitted through the data transceiver 250.

In addition, the data manager 220 manages the use of the health data according to the request of the service provider received through the data transceiver 250 or the user's request received through the information collection database 400. . Here, the use of health data refers to the act of verifying the data or enabling the user to receive the service through the service provider.

The data transceiver 250 serves to transmit data received from the data manager 220 to the outside, and receives and receives information received from the outside to the data manager 220.

That is, the data transmitting and receiving unit 250 may be connected to the second network 120 or the mobile communication network 130 to perform data transmission and reception, the data to be transmitted may be health data, the data received is the information collection terminal 200 may be control data for itself. That is, the manager's management server (not shown) may transmit control data to the information collection terminal 200 by accessing the second network 120 or the mobile communication network 130.

The controller 230 generates a response message when health data is received from the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103. The generated message is transmitted to the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 through the device signal transceiver 210.

In addition, the controller 230 performs overall control of the device signal transceiver 210, the data manager 220, the device controller 240, and the data transceiver 250.

3 is a block diagram illustrating a data conversion gateway according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, in which the data conversion gateway 300 includes a data receiver 310, a message processor 320, a storage 330, and a message converter 340. And a data transmitter 350.

The data receiver 310 serves to receive ISO / IEEE 11073 based health data transmitted by the information collection terminal 200. The communication method by the data receiver 310 may be a communication method of the second network 120 or a communication method by the mobile communication network 130. That is, when the information collection terminal 200 that transmits the health data is the first information collection terminal 201, the data receiver 310 receives the health data through the second network 120 and transmits the health data. When the collection terminal 200 is the second information collection terminal 202, the data receiving unit 310 receives health data through the mobile communication network 130.

To this end, the data receiver 310 preferably includes both the communication method of the second network 120 and the communication method of the mobile communication network 130.

The message processor 320 classifies the health data received by the data receiver 310 for each health measurement device and transmits the health data to the message converter 340. That is, one information collection terminal 200 may receive health data from a plurality of health measurement devices, and the plurality of collected health data may be received through the data receiver 310, and the message processor 320 ) Classifies randomly received health data for each health measurement device and transmits the health data to the message conversion unit 340.

In order to classify the health data for each health measurement device, the message processor 320 may refer to an identifier of the health measurement device included in the health message.

The storage unit 330 stores a code mapping table. Here, the code mapping table may be understood as a table including mapping information between the ISO / IEEE 10073 format and the HL7 format. The storage unit 330 may include a hard disk, a flash memory, a compact flash card (CF), a secure digital card (SD), a smart card (SM), a multimedia card (MMC), or a memory stick. May be provided inside the data conversion gateway 300 as a module capable of inputting and outputting the data, or may be provided in a separate device.

The message converter 340 converts the ISO / IEEE 11073-based health data received from the message processor 320 into HL7 standard data. In performing data conversion, the message converter 340 may refer to a code mapping table stored in the storage 330. The message converter 340 converts the ISO / IEEE 11073-based health data into HL7 standard data by referring to the mapping information specified in the code mapping table.

The data transmitter 350 transmits the health data converted by the message converter 340 to the information collection database 400. In this case, the data transmitter 350 may transmit the converted health data through the second network 120.

4 is a block diagram illustrating an information collection database according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, wherein the information collection database 400 includes a user information manager 410, a communication manager 420, a storage 430, a controller 440, The composite information manager 450 and the information request manager 460 are configured.

The communication manager 420 receives HL7 based health data from the data conversion gateway 300 and transmits the requested health data when requested by the service provider or the user.

The information request manager 460 extracts the health data when the service provider or the user requests the health data. In extracting the health data, the information request management unit 460 may first check whether the corresponding data exists and perform authentication for security. For example, if the service provider or user who requested the health data is not an authorized service provider or user, the corresponding health data extraction process may not be performed.

The user information manager 410 configures health data for each user. That is, the health data received from a specific user may be generated by the plurality of health measurement devices 101, 102, 103, or may be received at random time intervals, and thus the user information manager 410. Is to organize the received health data by user. In order to classify the health data, the user information manager 410 may temporarily use the storage space of the storage 430.

Health data configured for each user may be transmitted to the complex information manager 450 along with the user's personal information, an identifier of the health measurement device, a model name, and software information.

The complex information manager 450 generates personal health data with reference to the health data received from the user information manager 410. Here, the personal health data may be understood to include detailed health data classified by the user's health measurement device, health history, or time. For example, the complex information manager 450 may generate a list of health measurement devices assigned to a specific user or generate a list of the health history of the corresponding user and store the list in the storage 430.

The storage unit 430 stores the personal health data generated by the complex information manager 450.

The controller 440 performs overall control of the user information manager 410, the communication manager 420, the storage 430, the complex information manager 450, and the information request manager 460.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, It will be understood. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive.

101, 102, 103: health measurement device
110: first network 120: second network
130: mobile communication network 200, 201, 202: information collection terminal
300: Data Transformation Gateway 400: Information Collection Database
500: service server

Claims (16)

At least one health measurement device for measuring health status of a user to generate health data based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073);
An information collection terminal for collecting and transmitting the health data generated by the health measurement device; And
A data conversion gateway for receiving the health data and converting it to a Health Level 7 (HL7) standard,
The information collection terminal for transmitting the health data to the data conversion gateway is characterized in that one of the information collection terminal determined in consideration of a specific condition set in advance among a plurality of information collection terminal using a different communication scheme,
The plurality of information collecting terminal is fixed to a fixed location is installed in one location and the mobile type that the user can move and move, providing a standard medical information. The method of claim 1,
The communication method is a system for providing standard medical information including at least one of Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) and a mobile communication network. The method of claim 2,
The condition provides a standard medical information including whether or not the TCP / IP communication. The method of claim 3, wherein
The information collection terminal that transmits the health data to the data conversion gateway is an information collection terminal that supports the communication method of TCP / IP when the communication of the TCP / IP is possible, and the mobile terminal when the communication of the TCP / IP is impossible A system for providing standard medical information, which is an information collection terminal supporting a communication scheme of a communication network. The method of claim 1,
An information collection database for storing and managing health data converted to the HL7 standard; And
And a service server for managing a service provided based on the stored health data. 6. The method of claim 5,
The information collection database extracts health data for a specific user from the collected health data converted into the HL7 standard, and provides standard medical information for generating and storing personal health data for the specific user. The method according to claim 6,
And wherein said personal health data includes at least one of a type of health measurement device that has measured the health status of said particular user and a history of said particular user. 6. The method of claim 5,
The service provides standard medical information provided to the user at the request of the user accessing the information collection database or at the choice of a service provider. Generating health data based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073) by measuring the health state of the user;
Collecting and transmitting the generated health data by an information collecting terminal; And
A data conversion gateway receiving and converting the health data into a Health Level 7 (HL7) standard,
The transmitting of the health data includes the step of transmitting the health data by one information collection terminal determined in consideration of a predetermined condition among a plurality of information collection terminals using different communication methods.
The plurality of information collecting terminal is a fixed type is fixed to one location and a method for providing standard medical information comprising a mobile type that the user can carry and move. The method of claim 9,
The communication method includes at least one of Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) and a mobile communication network. The method of claim 10,
And the condition includes standard medical information including whether the TCP / IP can be communicated. 12. The method of claim 11,
The transmitting of the health data is a step of transmitting the health data by the TCP / IP communication method when the communication of the TCP / IP is possible, and by the communication method of the mobile communication network when the communication of the TCP / IP is impossible. Transmitting the health data. The method of claim 9,
Storing and managing health data converted by the information collection database into the HL7 standard; And
The service server further comprises the step of managing the service provided based on the stored health data. The method of claim 13,
The storing and managing of the health data converted into the HL7 standard may include extracting health data of a specific user from the health data collected and converted into the HL7 standard; And
Generating and storing personal health data for the particular user using the extracted health data. The method of claim 14,
And wherein said personal health data includes at least one of a type of health measurement device that has measured the health status of said particular user and a history of said particular user. The method of claim 13,
The service provides standard medical information provided to the user at the request of the user accessing the information collection database or at the choice of a service provider.

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