KR20010106736A - Method to provide medical service by Internet - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a medical service method through the Internet.

The present invention provides a first procedure for requesting a medical appointment regarding a client to a server of a corresponding hospital when a medical appointment request is requested from a terminal of a client, and notifying the client when receiving a reservation result information from a server of the hospital; A second procedure of transmitting the information to the server of the hospital when the server of the hospital is requested to deliver the information necessary for the treatment of the client; And a third procedure of receiving the treatment result information on the customer from the server of the hospital and recording the result of the treatment on the customer in a database of the customer.

By using the present invention, the appointment can be easily and quickly made to the hospital, and the patient's medical history information is integrated and managed on the Internet site, so that the patient's information can be obtained accurately and promptly at any hospital, thereby providing more faithful medical care. It becomes possible. In addition, a patient can prepare a prescription medicine at any pharmacy without carrying a difficult prescription, so a very convenient and desirable medical service can be achieved.

Description

Method to provide medical service by Internet}

The present invention relates to a medical service method through the Internet, and in particular, the management-related information of each customer through the Internet site integrated management, and also to make the appointment to the hospital immediately on-line, more faithful and convenient medical care The present invention relates to a method for providing a service.

Nowadays, the Internet is widely used to be a part of daily life, and various services are provided through the Internet. These Internet services can be used without limitations of time and space, and have the advantage of being able to simultaneously service an unspecified number of people. By using these advantages, most of the services that have been conventionally performed on-line have tended to be moved on-line using the Internet.

On the other hand, in the conventional medical services performed offline, each hospital independently performs medical services, and thus medical related information such as medical history information of a patient is not efficiently managed.

For example, the patient's past history (symptoms, history, prescriptions, etc.) plays a very important role in the patient's current treatment, and these data are managed only in the hospital where the patient is treated. However, patients cannot be treated only at the same hospital at all times depending on the area of residence or personal circumstances. Also, patients cannot use specialists for all medical subjects.

In this case, in the hospital where the patient is currently being treated, the patient must be able to obtain the existing medical records promptly, so that faithful and complete treatment can be performed. However, in the related art, it is very difficult to quickly obtain the existing medical history records of the patients. This problem can have fatal consequences for patients, especially in emergency patients.

In addition, patients use medical services not only in hospitals but also in pharmacies, but it is more difficult to share information with hospitals and pharmacies. Therefore, it is difficult for a patient to buy medicines for his symptoms at a pharmacy, and even if a specialist from a hospital gives a prescription, it is difficult for the patient to understand the prescription contents and to find a prescription when looking for a pharmacy. There was also the inconvenience to carry.

Besides these problems, one of the discomforts currently felt by patients is the appointment of hospital specialists. Currently, it takes a lot of time in the reservation process to make an appointment to the hospital, and it is inconvenient for the patients.In particular, where many patients are crowded, such as a university hospital, it takes more time to make an appointment. Even bigger.

In addition, since it is not easy for patients to access hospital information about which hospitals are located in which hospitals, etc., they have a great difficulty in selecting a hospital to be treated. This is also an important factor in attracting patients to large hospitals, such as university hospitals.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, integrated management related information of each customer (patient) through the Internet site, and also to make an appointment to the hospital immediately on-line, more The purpose is to disclose a method for providing convenient and faithful medical services.

In order to achieve the above object, the medical service method through the Internet according to the present invention, if there is a medical appointment request from the terminal of the customer, requests a medical appointment for the customer to the server of the hospital, the server of the hospital A first procedure of notifying the customer of receiving reservation result information on the request from the client; A second procedure of transmitting the information to the server of the hospital when the server of the hospital is requested to deliver the information necessary for medical treatment of the client; And a third procedure of receiving the treatment result information of the client from the server of the hospital and recording the result of the treatment in the database of the client.

In this case, the first procedure is preferably configured to include a procedure of receiving an electronic certificate from the terminal of the customer, and to receive the request for medical appointment only when identity verification is made through the certificate.

In addition, when the first procedure is to be performed only when the payment of the basic medical expenses is made, receiving information for payment of a predetermined basic medical expenses necessary for the medical treatment from the terminal of the client who requested the medical appointment; And on-line payment of the basic medical fee with the financial institution server using the payment information.

In the first procedure, the process of notifying the customer of the reservation result is performed through any one of the steps of transmitting via e-mail, posting on a site bulletin board, and informing via chat. Can be configured.

Meanwhile, the second and third procedures may further include receiving an electronic signature using an electronic certificate of a doctor from the server of the hospital, when the doctor is confirmed through the electronic signature. It is advisable to configure the procedure so that it only takes place. Unauthorized leakage of medical information can invade privacy to the patient.

At this time, the treatment result information of the third procedure is preferably configured to include information about the prescription given by the doctor in charge to the customer. Then, the pharmacy can use the prescription information to prepare the appropriate drug.

That is, the present invention may be more preferably implemented by further comprising the step of transmitting the prescription information about each patient to the server of the pharmacy, if requested to deliver the prescription information for each patient from the computer of the pharmacy. .

In addition, when receiving information of the medicine history of each patient from the computer of the pharmacy, it is configured to further store the information in the database related to the patient, so as to share the medicine history information of the drug made in each pharmacy To help.

1 is a service configuration diagram according to the present invention,

2 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart of one embodiment of a procedure performed between a hospital and FIG.

4 shows a flowchart of one embodiment of a procedure performed with a pharmacy.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

10: customer terminal 20: medical service site

21: first database 30: server of the hospital

31: Second database 40: Pharmacy's computer

50: server of financial institution

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

1 is a block diagram of a service according to the present invention, the Internet site 20 for performing a medical service according to the present invention is a terminal 10 of each customer, a server 30 of a hospital, and a server of a pharmacy through the Internet ( 40) to provide services. In addition, the Internet site 20 is connected to the server 50 of the financial institution, such as a bank via the Internet or a dedicated line to pay online for payment of medical services or to use electronic money.

Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, this Internet site 20 will be referred to as a "medical service site".

At this time, the medical service site 20 records various information necessary for providing the medical service according to the present invention in a database 21 (first database) which is configured to interwork with itself. This information includes each client's personal information, each hospital's information, and each pharmacy's information.

Here, examples of personal information for each customer include name, address, social security number, gender, customer ID (ID), password, e-mail address, medical record, and the like. In addition, the server may include a telephone number or a web address for connection with the server, and the pharmacy-specific information may include a name, an address of each pharmacy, a telephone number for a computer, or a web address. The medical history of each patient or the medical history of the pharmacy for each patient are received from the server 30 of the hospital or the computer 40 of the pharmacy and recorded in the first database 21.

Through this system, the patient's medical information is integrated and managed, and upon request from each hospital or pharmacy, the patient's information is provided to the server 30 of the hospital or the computer 40 of the pharmacy to provide prompt and faithful medical services. Service to make it happen.

In addition, the medical service site 20 pays the costs incurred in the process of providing the service, such as the service usage fee provided by the client or the basic medical expenses required for the medical appointment, online with the financial institution server 50. In addition, it is preferable to configure the medical and dispensing costs incurred at the hospital and pharmacy to be settled online with the financial institution server 50 through the server 30 of the hospital or the computer 40 of the pharmacy.

2 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention, with reference to this will be described in detail the procedure in which the present invention is implemented.

Each customer may request a medical appointment after accessing the medical service site 20 using his terminal 10. If the medical service site 20 requests a medical appointment from the customer (S221), the customer finds the most suitable hospital by referring to the address, medical history, medical subject, etc., and makes an online reservation with the corresponding hospital. Deliver the result message to the customer (S222) (first procedure: S220). At this time, the search of the hospital is automatically performed according to a predetermined rule by a computer program implemented in the medical service site 20.

On the other hand, if the customer who made a medical appointment through the medical service site 20 in the first procedure (S220) to go to the hospital to receive medical care, the doctor in charge of the patient needs to know the history of the patient. have.

Therefore, if the medical service site 20 is requested to deliver the information necessary for the patient's care from the server 30 of the hospital (S231), and transmits the information of the customer (patient) to the server (30) of the hospital ( S232) (second procedure: S230). Of course, since the medical service site 20 records not only the customer who is treated through the reservation process in the first procedure (S220) but also the medical information related to all the customers who have subscribed to the medical service site 20, the request from the hospital is required. Send according to.

In addition, the hospital that treated the patient transmits the result of the treatment to the medical service site 20 so that all the doctors who will treat the patient can share the treatment process for the patient. That is, if the medical service site 20 receives the treatment result information about the customer from the server 30 of the hospital (S241), and stores it in the database of the customer (S242) (third procedure: S240). These information becomes a key element of the patient's care-related information transmitted to the hospital in the second procedure (S230).

3 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a procedure performed between the hospital and with reference to this will be described in more detail an example of the process of the present invention performed with the hospital.

First, the medical service site 20 receives predetermined customer information from the terminal 10 of the client connected via the Internet (S211) according to the customer's request to register (S212-1), and the first database ( 21) by registering as a member (S212-2).

This procedure is necessary when the medical service site 20 is configured to provide the service according to the present invention only to the customers who have registered as members, and from the customer's point of view, the medical service is provided through the Internet using his terminal 10. The process of accessing the site 20 and requesting membership as a member. The customer who requested the membership transmits the customer information to the medical service site 20 by inputting his basic personal information into the customer information input box appearing on the screen of the terminal 10.

At this time, the Internet network is used as a meaning including both wired and wireless Internet network, in the case of wired Internet, personal computer, etc. will be used as the customer terminal 10, in the case of wireless Internet, PCS, PDA, IMT- Mobile terminals such as 2000 terminals will be used.

On the other hand, the customer who wants to make a medical appointment requests a reservation to the hospital after accessing the medical service site 20 through the Internet using his terminal 10 (S221).

The medical service site 20, which has been requested to make a medical appointment from the customer, instructs the first database 21 to search for a related hospital (S222-1). Searching related hospitals can be done arbitrarily by a computer program, referring to related information such as customer information such as address, medical treatment, past medical history, and special orders for specialists. For example, a client may designate a hospital that has recently been treated, or a hospital located closest to the client's address.

When the medical service site 20 receives the hospital information from the first database 21 (S222-2), the medical service site 20 automatically connects to the server 30 of the hospital and sends a reservation related information to request the reservation (S222). -3).

The server 30 of the hospital requested to make a reservation from the medical service site 20 inquires the current reservation status of each specialist in the second database 31 configured to interwork with itself (S222-4). Receive reservation status information for each specialist (S222-5). In addition, the current free consultation time of the specialist for the subject of study is selected as the appointment time for the patient. At this time, the selection of reservation time is automatically made by computer program according to the prescribed rule, and time information from each specialist is input from time to time so that reservation time can be determined by referring to it.

The server 30 of the hospital transmits the reservation result information to the medical service site 30 (S222-6), and the medical service site 20 notifies the customer of the reservation result information (S222-7). . Here, the reservation result notification can be made arbitrarily, but it can be sent via e-mail, posted on a site bulletin board, or informed by chatting.

At this time, step S222 is configured to include a step of receiving a certificate confirming that the customer is the customer from the terminal 10 of the customer, it is configured to proceed with the reservation process only if it is confirmed that the customer through this certificate. Can be.

In order to make an appointment, it may be necessary to prepay the basic balance. In this case, the terminal 10 of the client requesting the appointment is provided with a step of receiving information for payment of a predetermined basic fee required for medical treatment. do. Then, the payment information (for example, credit card information, on-line banking information, electronic money information, etc.) using the financial institution server 50 with the payment of the basic medical expenses automatically.

On the other hand, the customer who has been informed of the reservation result in step S222-7 will visit the hospital directly at the time of reservation, at this point the specialist of the hospital will require the past history or medical records of the patient. That is, the specialist or office representative requests to access the medical service site 20 through the server 30 of the hospital to send a record of the patient's care (S231).

Then, the medical service site 20 instructs the first database 21 to search for the patient-related information of the patient (S232-1), and the first database 21 provides the patient-related information of the patient. It delivers to the medical service site 20 (S232-2). Now, the medical service site 20 transmits the medical care-related information to the server 30 of the hospital (S232-3), and the specialist who receives it refers to this information to treat the patient.

At this time, since the care-related information of each customer (patient) can have a significant impact on the privacy of the customer, step S232 is to further include the step of receiving a certificate of the specialist in charge from the server 30 of the hospital, It is preferable to configure it to be performed only when identity verification is made through a specialist certificate.

When the patient's treatment is terminated, the specialist or office representative transmits the information regarding the treatment result to the medical service site 20 through the server 30 of the hospital (S241), and the medical service site 20 transmits the information. Is stored in the first database 21 (S242). These information becomes a key element of the patient's care-related information transmitted to the hospital in the second procedure (S230).

At this time, the treatment result information transmitted from the server 30 of the hospital to the medical service site 20 in step S241 is preferably configured to include information about the prescription given by the specialist in charge.

On the other hand, medical services are provided not only in the hospital but also in the pharmacy, and the prescription given by the specialist in the hospital is necessary for proper medicine preparation in the pharmacy. However, it is difficult for the patient to understand the prescription of the prescription, and it is inconvenient to carry the prescription.

Therefore, when the medical service site 20 is requested to deliver prescription information about each patient from the computer 40 of the pharmacy, the medical service site 20 transmits the prescription information about the patient to the server 40 of the pharmacy (S410). This procedure S410 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 4.

When the medical service site 20 receives the prescription number about the customer from the computer 40 of the pharmacy, the medical service site 20 instructs the first database 21 to retrieve the prescription information about the prescription number (S412). Receive the corresponding prescription information from the base 21 (S413). Then, the prescription information is transmitted to the computer 40 of the pharmacy (S414).

Then, the pharmacist of the pharmacy can use the prescription information to prepare the drug, so that it is possible to dispense properly, and the patient does not have to carry a prescription if he knows only the prescription number. This prescription information is the information transmitted by the hospital in step S241.

In addition, it is preferable that the pharmacy also transmits the information about the preparation of the medicine to the medical service site 20 so that the pharmaceutical information at the pharmacy can also be integrated and managed through the medical service site 20 (S420).

Referring to FIG. 4, the pharmacy transmits information about the dispensing history to the medical service site 20 after dispensing the medicine to the patient (S421), and the medical service site 20 transmits the information about the dispensing history to the first. By storing in the database 21 (S422), this information can be later shared in a hospital or pharmacy. In this case, it is preferable that the procedure is performed only when the electronic signature using the electronic certificate of the pharmacist is received from the computer of the pharmacy and the pharmacist's identity is confirmed through the electronic signature.

The present invention may be configured to further include a procedure for sending a prescription to the terminal of the customer through the medical information about the customer at the medical service site 20 itself at the request of the customer.

In other words, as a concept of cyber pharmacy, the process of prescription is prescribed by referring to all the information necessary for prescription, such as personal information (eg, age, gender, etc.), past medical treatment information, current status, etc. It can be performed by a computer program that prescribes according to prescribed rules.

In addition, it may be configured to give a prescription in conjunction with a professional medical site operated by a specialist, hospital, or pharmacy. That is, when a customer wants a cyber prescription, the medical service site 20 provides the customer related information and the medical information related to the customer stored in the first database 21 to the medical site to prescribe the prescription at the medical site. Allow to get off. The client is then notified of the prescription message from the medical site.

Meanwhile, according to the development of card technology, a card having a built-in memory has been developed, which is called a smart card. Unlike a conventional magnetic card, this card is an electronic card composed of a memory for reading external information and an IC for managing the memory. The present invention can be implemented more conveniently using this smart card, an example thereof will be described.

First, when the doctor in charge of the treatment in the third procedure (S240) and transmits the result to the medical service site 20, the prescription information to be recorded on the smart card of the patient. Then, the patient has to visit the pharmacy with a smart card recorded prescription information, the pharmacist of the pharmacy can read the patient's smart card to dispense the medicine as prescribed by the doctor.

In addition, the patient's smart card may include user information, electronic money, and information for on-line payment with a bank. Therefore, when a user enters an electronic signature or password, the user's smart card may be used for on-line payment or electronic money. Payment can be made. To do this, of course, hospitals and pharmacies would have to be equipped with a smart card reader.

Using the present invention, since the appointment is automatically made to the hospital through the Internet site can be very convenient and quick to make an appointment. In addition, since the patient-specific treatment-related information is collectively managed, it is possible to obtain the patient's information quickly in any hospital, thereby enabling more faithful and appropriate treatment.

On the other hand, the hospital where the patient is treated automatically transmits the medical information such as prescriptions to the medical service site, so the patient does not need to understand or possess a difficult prescription, and can fill the prescription medicine at any pharmacy. As a result, more convenient and appropriate medical services can be provided.

Claims (9)

A first procedure of requesting a medical appointment for the client from the server of the hospital when the medical appointment request is received from the terminal of the client, and notifying the customer of the reservation result information of the request from the server of the hospital; A second procedure of transmitting the information to the server of the hospital when the server of the hospital is requested to deliver the information necessary for medical treatment of the client; And And receiving a treatment result information of the client from the server of the hospital, and recording the result of the treatment in the database of the client. The method of claim 1, wherein the first procedure comprises: And a procedure for receiving an electronic certificate from the terminal of the customer, wherein the medical service method is configured to accept the request for medical appointment only when the identification is made through the certificate. The method of claim 1, wherein the first procedure comprises: Receiving information for payment of a predetermined basic medical fee required for the medical treatment from a terminal of the client who has requested the medical treatment; And And providing on-line payment of the basic medical fee with the financial institution server using the payment information. The method of claim 1, wherein the informing of the reservation result to the customer in the first procedure comprises one of a step of transmitting via e-mail, posting on a site bulletin board, and informing via chat. Medical service method through the Internet, characterized in that configured to be made through. The method of claim 1, wherein the second procedure and the third procedure, The method may further include receiving an electronic signature using an electronic certificate of a doctor from the server of the hospital, and the procedure may be performed only when the doctor is verified through the electronic signature. How to get medical care over the Internet. The medical service method of claim 1, wherein the medical treatment result information of the third procedure is configured to include information about a prescription given by the doctor to the client. According to claim 6, The medical service method through the Internet, And receiving a prescription information about each patient from the computer of the pharmacy, the method further comprising the step of transmitting the prescription information about the patient to the server of the pharmacy. According to claim 1, The medical service method through the Internet, Receiving information on the history of medicines for each patient from the computer of the pharmacy, and further comprising the step of storing in a database relating to the patient, the medical service method via the Internet. The method of claim 1, wherein the medical service method through the Internet further includes a procedure of making a prescription using medical information about the customer at the request of the customer, and then transmitting the prescription information to the terminal of the customer. Medical service method through the Internet, characterized in that configured.