KR102216148B1 - Infectious disease management method and apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an infectious disease management method for rapidly and accurately identifying the movement line of a person confirmed to be infected with an infectious disease and a contact person, whose movement line overlaps the movement line of the confirmed person, to maximize quarantine efficiency while dramatically reducing costs, wherein the infectious disease management method is performed in a user terminal and comprises the steps of: (a) broadcasting unique identification code information of a user through a short-range wireless communication method (so as to be received by a terminal of a nearby user); (b) receiving unique identification code information of the nearby user, which is broadcast from the nearby user′s terminal through the short-range wireless communication method; and (c) storing the received unique identification code information of the nearby user together with the current location information of the user into a storage in real time.

Description

Infectious disease management method and apparatus TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a technology for managing infectious diseases, and more particularly, to maximize quarantine efficiency by enabling rapid and accurate epidemiological investigations on infectious diseases caused by viruses, etc., infectious disease management method and apparatus It is about.

Respiratory-related infectious viruses such as swine flu, MERS, and Corona 19 are diseases that cause a large number of victims because of their excellent transmission power.

Recently, as the number of corona 19 confirmed cases is increasing at home and abroad, regional spread is becoming a reality, and if the number spreads further, it may be difficult for hospitals to accommodate all of the confirmed cases.In this case, above all, only confirmed patients so that the corona 19 virus does not spread. In addition, suspicions such as contacts need to be quarantined.

In particular, rapid epidemiological investigations are very important to block the spread of infectious viruses.Epidemiological investigations are in the case of infectious disease patients/suspicious patients or pathogen holders, in order to block and prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Etc. Epidemiology is to find out that a symptom is a new disease through various investigations/tests on the population, or to find a new cause of the disease and to suggest a prevention/treatment method.Epidemiology includes identifying the path of epidemic occurrence and blocking it.

Currently, as part of an epidemiological investigation, a method of relying on the statement of an infectious virus confirmed person to determine the movement path of the person in question and posting the identified movement path on the homepage, etc. is used.

However, this method takes a long time, about 1-4 days, and if the number of confirmed patients increases, it takes a lot of investigating manpower, and it is very cumbersome because the general public must individually check the movement of the confirmed person on the corresponding website, etc. Even if it is checked, it is actually very difficult to accurately grasp whether there was a confirmed person overlapping with one's own path, especially whether I was a contact person.

In addition, when a large-scale infectious/infectious disease occurs, a lot of time and money are consumed for epidemiological investigations and infection control management.In particular, it is expensive and takes a long time to identify the movement and contact of the infected person. There is a problem that often fails.

Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-2017-0119448 (October 27, 2017)

The present invention is to solve the above-described conventional problem, the object of which is to quickly and accurately identify the movement of a confirmed person with an infectious disease and a contact who overlaps the movement of the confirmed person, thereby dramatically reducing the cost and maximizing the quarantine efficiency. It is to provide a disease management method and device.

In order to achieve the above object, an infectious disease management method according to an aspect of the present invention is a method for managing an infectious disease performed in a user terminal, comprising: (a) broadcasting the user's unique identification code information through a short-range wireless communication method. Allowing other user terminals in the vicinity to receive it; (b) receiving unique identification code information of another user (hereinafter referred to as a neighboring user) broadcasted from another user terminal in the vicinity through a short-range wireless communication method; And (c) storing the received unique identification code information of the nearby user together with the current location information of the user in a storage of the user terminal in real time, and (d) a specific user among information stored in the storage Determining whether to contact a specific user according to whether or not there is information matching the unique identification code information of; (e) determining whether to contact a specific user according to whether there is a match with the unique identification code information of the specific user among the unique identification code information of nearby users received in real time in step (b); And (f) collectively transmitting the information stored in the storage to the server (to identify the user's movements and contacts), wherein the specific user is a confirmed person for an infectious disease or It may include an isolator, and the unique identification code information of the specific user may be provided from the server, and when determining contact with the specific user, a warning message may be displayed (visual screen display, audible alarm display, etc.), The short-range wireless communication method may include a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication method.

In order to achieve the above object, according to another aspect of the present invention, an infectious disease management apparatus for performing the infectious disease management method may be provided.

In order to achieve the above object, according to another aspect of the present invention, a computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the infectious disease management method on a computer is recorded may be provided.

In order to achieve the above object, according to another aspect of the present invention, an application stored in a computer-readable recording medium may be provided to execute the infectious disease management method in combination with hardware.

In order to achieve the above object, according to another aspect of the present invention, a computer program stored in a computer-readable recording medium may be provided to execute the infectious disease management method on a computer.

According to various aspects of the present invention as described above, it is possible to maximize the quarantine efficiency by quickly and accurately grasping the movement of a confirmed infectious disease and a contact overlapping the movement of the confirmed.

That is, according to the present invention, it is possible to track contact information without giving up an epidemiological investigation even in a pandemic situation in which public transport is also open for infectious diseases, and according to the existing manual method, it takes 1-4 days to track or investigate movements. It maximizes the efficiency of N+ primary infection prevention by notifying contacts immediately without confirmation, and providing accurate information (such as the path of the confirmed person and contact information) to dramatically reduce epidemiological investigation costs and efficiently focus on quarantine. It works.

Based on the information voluntarily stored and shared by each user, it is possible to check the movement line and contact information for a certain period of time when a confirmed person emerges from among the users, enabling contact control and management in a short time and minimizing the cost of epidemiological investigations. I can.

1 is a configuration diagram of an infectious disease management system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a flowchart for user authentication in a method for managing infectious diseases according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a flow chart for storing a location in a method for managing an infectious disease according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a flowchart for a safety check in a method for managing infectious diseases according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
5 to 8 are exemplary screen views of a user terminal implemented according to the infectious disease management method of FIGS. 2-4 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, each embodiment according to the present invention is merely an example for aiding understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to this embodiment. In particular, the present invention may be configured with a combination of at least one or more of individual configurations, individual functions, or individual steps included in each embodiment. In particular, for convenience, some claims in the claims include alphabets such as'(a)' for convenience, but these alphabets do not prescribe the order of each step. In addition, each signal mentioned in each embodiment according to the present invention may mean one signal transmitted by one connection or the like, but may also mean a series of signal groups transmitted for the purpose of performing a specific function to be described later. . That is, in each embodiment, a plurality of signals transmitted at a predetermined time interval or transmitted after receiving a response signal from a counterpart device may be expressed as one signal name for convenience.

1 is a block diagram of an infectious disease management system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the drawing, a communication network 1, a user terminal 2, and a disease management server 3 may be included. .

The communication network 1 may be any single or complex network that enables communication between the user terminal 2 and the disease management server 3 by wired, wireless and/or Internet connection.

The user terminal 1 according to the present embodiment represents a user's mobile terminal device, for example, a smart phone capable of voice communication, data communication, and Internet communication, a mobile communication terminal, a PDA, a tablet PC, etc. It may include.

The user terminal 1 according to the present embodiment may include a disease management app (APP), and the disease management app may include the following functions.

1-1) When installing the app, a user's unique ID (unique identification code) may be generated and transmitted to the server 3, or a unique ID generated from the server 3 may be received and stored.

1-2) Periodically, an ID for broadcasting may be generated and transmitted to the server 3 along with a unique ID. Randomly changing the ID for broadcasting is to prevent external machines from specifying individuals.

1-3) At the same time, it periodically collects the broadcasting id information transmitted from the nearby user terminal (1) and stores it in the internal storage together with the GPS information or transmits it to the server (3), and at the same time, it is randomly generated broadcasting. You can broadcast the dragon id to the surroundings. In other words, I sprinkle my id around and at the same time collect ids sprinkled from around me.

1-4) The app can transmit the collected information to the server 3 while continuing to run in the background.

1-5) The contents stored in the internal storage may include a discovering b, sensitivity of b felt by a, time when a discovers b, and time when a separates from b.

1-6) As another example, there is a method of sending only the basic ID and sending relevant information to the server 3 only when it is confirmed, rather than sending the collected information to the server 3 by all people.

1-7) As another example, there is a method of storing the subscriber's MAC address in a database, and collecting only the data of the subscribed user in the server 3 when the client sends all collected MAC addresses and information.

1-8) In addition, it is possible to determine whether or not the user is in contact with the confirmed person based on the confirmed person ID (the confirmed person's broadcasting ID) received from the server 3.

The disease management server 3 according to the present embodiment represents, for example, a server device used in a control center for disease management, and may include the following functions.

3-1) The disease management server 3 retrieves from the data received from the user terminal 1 and extracts all the contact candidates, and then selects a certain standard (for example, how long they were together, how much sensitivity, when The contact person can be selected according to the comprehensive criteria for judgment on the surrounding situation at the time of recognition).

3-2) Final contact candidates can be classified by risk level and the information is notified to the contact, so that the contact candidates can take appropriate measures (self-isolation, inspection request, etc.) based on the information.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for user authentication in a method for managing infectious diseases according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Since it is applied to the devices 2 and 3 of FIG. 1, it will be described in parallel with the operation of the device.

First, when user information including the user's mobile phone number and name is input through the disease management app of the user terminal 2 and transmitted to the disease management server 3 (S201), the disease management server 3 It is determined whether or not the user is in the disease management DB by checking the user information (S203).

The user information in step S201 may be, for example, user information input to perform user authentication through the app installation mobile phone authentication screen displayed as shown in FIG. 5.

Subsequently, if the user does not exist in the DB as a result of the determination in step S203, the disease management server 3 generates a unique (identification) code for the user (S205), and assigns the generated user-specific (identification) code to the mobile phone number. , And stored in the disease management DB along with the name (S207).

As a result of the determination in step S203, the disease management server 3 transmits the user's unique (identification) code to the user terminal 2 whether the user exists in the DB and has been previously stored or is currently generated and stored through steps S205-S207 (S209). ).

The user terminal 2 receives and stores the user-specific code transmitted from the disease management server 3 in step S209 (S211), and moves to the main page screen (for example, the screen of FIG. 6) of the disease management app. .

3 is a flowchart for storing a location in a method for managing an infectious disease according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Since it is applied to the user terminal 2 of FIG. 1, it will be described in parallel with the operation of the corresponding device.

First, when the service start button (⑤) is clicked on the main page screen of the disease management app as shown in FIG. 6, that is, the service start screen, GPS (location) information is extracted in real time (S301), and a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) broadcast method is performed. In addition to transmitting user-specific identification information to the surroundings through a short-range wireless communication method including (S303), it is determined whether or not a BLE broadcasting signal received from the surroundings exists by checking the surrounding information (S305).

Subsequently, as a result of the determination of step S305, if the surrounding BLE broadcasting signal exists, the surrounding user-specific identification code is extracted from the signal (S307), and the extracted surrounding user-specific identification code is matched with the current GPS information (S309) It is stored in real time (S311).

On the other hand, if there is no change BLE broadcasting signal as a result of the determination in step S305, the process of steps S307-S309 is omitted and the user's current GPS information is stored in real time in the user app DB (or storage) (S311).

On the other hand, if any of the unique identification code information of nearby users received and extracted in real time in steps S305-S307 matches the unique identification code information of a specific user including a confirmed person or isolator, it means that there is a confirmed person or isolator currently around me. It is determined as (that is, there is a contact), and the visual/audible warning message can be output/displayed, and information on the unique identification code of the confirmed person or the isolated person can be provided from the quality management server 3.

On the other hand, in step S311, by collectively transmitting the information stored in the user app DB to the disease management server 3, it is possible to quickly identify the user's movement line and contact person. Therefore, when the user is determined to be a confirmed case, it is possible to take quarantine measures afterward, such as promptly and accurately identifying the movement of the confirmed person and the contact person and notifying the contact person.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart for safety check among a method for managing infectious diseases according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Since it is applied to the devices 2 and 3 of FIG. 1, it will be described in parallel with the operation of the device.

First, the user terminal 2 starts the safety check process when the check start button (①) is clicked on the contact check screen of the disease management app as shown in FIG. 7 (S401), and the confirmed person and quarantine in the disease management server 3 Request information on the person (S403).

Subsequently, the disease management server 3 extracts a user-specific identification code for the confirmed person and the isolated person from the disease management DB (S405), and transmits the extracted information to the user terminal 2 (S407).

Subsequently, when the user terminal 2 receives the user-specific identification code for the confirmed person and/or the isolated person from the disease management server 3 (S409), the unique identification code information received in step S409 and step S311 of FIG. In step S411, the unique identification code information stored in the user app DB is compared to determine whether there is matching code information (S411).

Finally, the user terminal 2 determines that there is no contact with the confirmed person/quarantine if there is no matching code information as a result of the determination in step S411, and visually/audibly outputs and displays a safety message (S413). , If there is matching code information, it is determined that there is a contact with the confirmed person/quarantine, and a suspicious/warning message is visually/aurally output and displayed (S415).

Therefore, it is possible to accurately and quickly check whether the user himself or herself is in contact with the confirmed person/quarantine.

5 to 8 are exemplary screen views implemented by executing a disease management app of the user terminal 3 according to the infectious disease management method of FIGS. 2-4 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

5 shows a screen for authenticating a mobile phone installation of a disease management app according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and may include the following functions.

When clicking the Get Authentication Number button (①), it checks whether to enter the name/mobile phone. At this time, only numbers can be entered for the mobile phone number. If there is no problem with the input content, request the authentication number from the server (3) based on the input information. And, when the authentication number input window (②) and the authentication number confirmation button (③) are exposed, deactivate the receive authentication number button (①) so that it is not selected.

When receiving the authentication number (①) is completed, the authentication number input window (②) and the authentication number confirmation button (③) are exposed, and the authentication number received from the server (3) is entered in the authentication number input window (②), and the authentication number is checked. If the button (③) is selected and authentication is successful at the server (3), a pop-up window (④) containing a message such as '000's authentication has been completed.' is displayed. When the confirmation button is clicked on the pop-up window (④), the next page It moves to the screen, for example, the service start screen of FIG. 6.

The screen of FIG. 5 can be made to display the screen unconditionally when the disease management app is initially installed or when the user runs the app without installation authentication, and all input values must be processed as required input values, and authentication processing In preparation for the delay of the program, you can display the loading window when checking the authentication number.

6 illustrates a service start screen (ie, a main screen) of a disease management app according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and may include the following functions.

The green box usage time window (①) exposes the usage time of the green box (disease management app) service, increases the value in real time by minute, and shows the sum of the total service usage time.

The current location window (②) can show the user's current GPS location in the same unit, the BLE status window (③) can show the BLE status as two distinct values, good/bad, and the GPS status window (④) GPS status can be displayed as two distinct values: good/bad.

When the green box service start button (⑤) is pressed, GPS information (i.e., current location information) and BLE information (i.e., a nearby user's unique identification code included in the surrounding BLE broadcasting information) starts to be collected, and the green box service end button It is changed to (⑧), and the usage time is accumulated.

When the contact check button (⑥) is selected, it moves to the contact check page screen of FIG. 7.

When the environment setting button (⑦) is selected, it moves to the environment setting page screen of FIG. 8.

When the green box service end button (⑧) is clicked, it is changed to the green box service start button (⑤), and a unique identification code for nearby users included in GPS information (ie, current location information) and BLE information (ie, surrounding BLE broadcasting information) ) Is terminated, and the accumulated usage time is terminated.

7 is a view showing a contact check (test) screen of a disease management app according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and may include the following functions.

When the inspection start button (①) is clicked, the button (①) is deactivated, and when the inspection is completed, the button (①) is activated again.

When the inspection start button (①) is clicked, the code of the confirmed person and self-isolator (unique identification code) is requested from the server 3, and the corresponding information is received from the server 3 and shown in Fig. 3 in the user app DB (repository). It compares with the identification code unique to nearby users stored through step S311, and if there is the same code as a result of the comparison, the count is accumulated and displayed as '00 contacts exist' on the result screen.

8 is a diagram illustrating an environment setting screen of a disease management app according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and may include the following functions.

The location value storage time item (①) can set and expose the period of storing information in the user app DB (ie, storage) in minutes, and the default selection value can be set to 5 minutes, for example.

The automatic service shutdown time item (②) allows the user to set and expose the time that the service is automatically terminated on a daily basis even if the user does not select the (green box) service shutdown button (8 in Fig. 6), and the default selection value is For example, it can be set to 15 days.

My information server transmission item includes a transmission button (③) to collectively deliver the information stored in the user app DB (storage) to the server (3), and a confirmation window (⑤) when the transmission button (③) is clicked. ) Is displayed.

The delete button (④) of the delete my information item is a button to collectively delete the information stored in the user app DB. Clicking the delete button (④) displays a confirmation window (⑥).

The confirmation window (⑤) is a window for the user to once again confirm whether to send the information to the server (3), such as'Would you like to send 000's information'. If you select the confirmation button, the saved information is saved to the disease management server (3). It is delivered in a batch in JSON format.

The confirmation window (⑥) is a window for the user to reconfirm whether or not to delete information stored in the user app DB, such as'Would you like to delete 000's information', and when the confirmation button is pressed, the location stored in the user app DB and nearby user's unique identification code information Is deleted.

Meanwhile, it goes without saying that the process of performing each of the above-described embodiments may be performed by a program or an application stored in a predetermined recording medium (eg, a computer-readable recording medium). Here, the recording medium includes all of an electronic recording medium such as a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic recording medium such as a hard disk, and an optical recording medium such as a compact disk (CD).

In this case, the program stored in the recording medium may be executed on hardware such as a computer or a smartphone to perform each of the above-described embodiments. In particular, the method according to the invention described above can be implemented by such a program or application.

In addition, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, but can be implemented with various modifications and modifications without departing from the gist of the present invention. It will be apparent that such modifications and modifications are included in the present invention if they fall within the appended claims.

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Claims (13)

As an infectious disease management method performed by a user terminal,
(a) broadcasting the user's unique identification code information through a short-range wireless communication method so that it can be received by another user terminal nearby;
(b) receiving unique identification code information of another user (hereinafter referred to as a neighboring user) broadcasted from another user terminal in the vicinity through a short-range wireless communication method; And
(c) storing the received unique identification code information of the nearby user together with the current location information of the user in a storage of the user terminal in real time;
Infectious disease management method comprising a. The method of claim 1,
(d) further comprising the step of determining whether to contact a specific user according to whether there is information corresponding to the unique identification code information of the specific user obtained from the outside among the information stored in the storage of the user terminal. How to manage infectious diseases. The method of claim 2,
The specific user includes a confirmed person or an isolated person for an infectious disease, and the specific identification code information of the specific user is provided from a server. The method of claim 3,
When determining contact with the specific user, a warning message is displayed. The method of claim 1,
(e) for determining whether to contact a specific user according to whether there is a match with the unique identification code information of a specific user obtained from the outside among the unique identification code information of nearby users received in real time in step (b) Infectious disease management method, characterized in that it further comprises the step. The method of claim 5,
The specific user includes a confirmed person or an isolated person for an infectious disease, and the specific identification code information of the specific user is provided from a server. The method of claim 5,
When determining contact with the specific user, a warning message is displayed. The method of claim 1,
(f) collectively transmitting the information stored in the storage to the server to identify the user's movements and contacts. The method of claim 1,
The short-range wireless communication method is an infectious disease management method comprising a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) communication method. An infectious disease management apparatus for performing the infectious disease management method of any one of claims 1 to 9. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for executing the infectious disease management method according to any one of claims 1 to 9 on a computer. An application stored in a computer-readable recording medium to execute the infectious disease management method according to any one of claims 1 to 9 in combination with hardware. A computer program stored in a computer-readable recording medium to execute the infectious disease management method according to any one of claims 1 to 9 on a computer.

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