KR20030023001A - Cyber-diagnosis method using internet auscultation system and cyber-diagnosis system using franchise management - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A cyber diagnosis method and system is provided to enable a patient to access a cyber diagnosis service site, and to diagnose the patient by using a visual examination or an interview examination via an image communication or an e-mail and by using an electronic stethoscope. CONSTITUTION: The method comprises several steps. A client accesses a service home page, selects a medical department, and links to a wanted cyber hospital. The client reads a guidance and a method of a cyber diagnosis offered by the selected cyber hospital, and inputs personal data for a patient registration. Then, the client fills in a medical examination table by marking items corresponding to symptoms of the client, himself or herself. The client determines whether the stethoscopic data is attached to the medical examination table. In a case that the client determines the stethoscopic data to be attached, the client operates the stethoscope according to a direction of a doctor displayed on a monitor, then the stethoscopic sound is automatically converted into a file, and the stethoscopic file is attached to the medical examination table. The medical examination table and the attached stethoscopic file are transmitted to the doctor.

Description

CYBER-DIAGNOSIS METHOD USING INTERNET AUSCULTATION SYSTEM AND CYBER-DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM USING FRANCHISE MANAGEMENT}

According to the present invention, after a patient visits a cyber hospital and a doctor who is provided with a cyber medical service installed on a server of a parent company without visiting a hospital, an internet auscultation system using a medical questionnaire and an electronic stethoscope through video communication or e-mail is provided. As a means, a cyber medical treatment method using the Internet auscultation system that allows simple medical treatment and prescriptions to be issued at actual cost, and a franchise that can manage and operate each member company that conducts cyber medical treatment online in the form of a franchise. It relates to a cyber medical system operated in a form.

At present, medical treatments carried out through the Internet are carried out only through basic questions through the appeal of patients' spontaneous symptoms. However, this is a form of very inaccurate and insecure medical treatment, and even in an actual hospital, doctors can not diagnose enough information to prescribe to patients, so diagnosis of examinations, problems and symptoms through video communication through the Internet. It is using the assistive tools necessary for various diagnostics.

Therefore, various diagnostic tools in this regard have been developed. However, the systems currently being developed can usually be used only by patients having to purchase expensive modules, and thus many of the economic burdens on the user are offsetting the convenience that can be obtained from cyber care.

In addition, the method promotes real-time medical treatment through image transmission, which results in an increase in burden in terms of time and economy compared to viewing a patient offline from the point of view of a physician who is a core member of cyber medical care. In effect, there is no real motivation for the physicians to participate.

At the same time, if you want cyber medical care, the client (patient) needs to know which hospital is actually where the cyber medical care is possible, and check whether the cyber medical care that you may be doing in the future will be possible at your current hospital. There is.

In addition, from a physician's point of view, if you want to have a cyber medical treatment, a program suitable for it should be prepared, and there is a burden of installing and operating a cyber hospital. Moreover, the doctor himself is conducting cyber clinics at certain times of the day, and the doctor himself uses an internet stethoscope system using an electronic stethoscope and the accompanying software, as well as a questionnaire, even if not through video communications. It is necessary to inform clients (patients) that there is a difference in this respect. However, it is not easy to publicize this from the standpoint of individual hospitals by the pharmacist law which restricts advertisements of hospitals and clinics to a certain number of times.

The present invention has been invented in view of the above, and the patient has not visited a hospital, but has been connected to a cyber hospital and a doctor who is provided with cyber medical services provided on a server of a parent company via the Internet, The purpose of the present invention is to provide a cyber medical treatment method using the internet stethoscope system, which allows a simple medical examination and prescriptions to be issued at actual cost by means of a medical questionnaire or an electronic stethoscope using an electronic stethoscope.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a cyber medical care system operating in a franchise form in which each member recruited as a member of a parent company is operated in the form of a franchise according to a cyber medical care method using an internet auscultation system.

1 is a view schematically showing a cyber medical care system operated by a franchise system,

Figure 2a is a flow chart showing the process of the client (patient) receiving medical care in the cyber hospital,

2b is a flowchart illustrating a process in which a doctor accesses a cyber hospital and checks information of a client requesting medical treatment and then transmits a prescription;

2c is a flowchart illustrating a process of receiving a prescription in a cyber hospital where a client applies for medical treatment;

FIG. 2D is a flowchart illustrating a process in which a doctor accesses a cyber hospital to check a medical care DB, receives a DB analysis data from a parent company, or pays a medical bill.

In the cyber medical treatment method using the Internet stethoscope system according to the present invention for achieving the above object, the client is connected to the cyber hospital / clinic of the member via the Internet to provide personal information and apply for medical examination, and through the video communication Steps to create a questionnaire by selecting the questionnaire corresponding to the symptom according to the instructions provided on the screen or the questionnaire and creating it; Determining whether to attach a stethoscope file to an already prepared questionnaire file using an electronic stethoscope; A client directly using the electronic stethoscope provided at actual cost to perform a stethoscope directly according to the instructions on the screen, and creating a stethoscope file which is automatically attached to the already prepared questionnaire; Transmitting the questionnaire file to the cyber hospital / clinic using the stethoscope file as an attachment file; Reviewing the transmitted questionnaire file by a doctor in charge, releasing the accompanying stethoscope file and listening to diagnose the client's disease; After diagnosing the disease, prescribing according to the condition and transmitting the prescription to the client or sending a message instructing other necessary measures to the client; The client selects one of the presented payment methods and pays the fee online; The parent company continuously manages the DB of the clients who have been treated, and periodically provides the analysis data according to the above, and at the same time it is characterized in that it comprises the step of paying the medical expenses for a certain period of time excluding the fee to the doctor members.

In addition, the cyber medical care system operating in the form of a franchise according to the present invention recruits hospitals and clinics (2A, 2B, 2C, ---, 2N) who are actually engaged in offline work to each member company. Parent company that provides the homepage on the Internet, provides hardware and software that accompany cyber medical treatment, continuously promotes each member company, manages and analyzes the database on behalf of the member companies, and provides online payment for medical expenses. (1 )Wow; The cyber company is established for each member company by the parent company 1, and the client 4 connects via the Internet, and then uses the Internet stethoscope system provided by the parent company 1 to receive medical treatment and prescription for simple diseases. Hospital 3 and; A DB management server 5 which manages data of the client 4 and provides this data to the parent company 1; Each member company recruited as a member of the parent company is operated in the form of a franchise.

According to the present invention, the parent company recruits hospitals and clinics whose members actually do offline work as members, and makes each member a cyber hospital and a clinics capable of cyber medical treatment on a server operated by the parent company. The company provides hardware and software for cyber medical services, video communication system, and internet auscultation system, and continuously repairs and handles online payments to clients who have been treated at each cyber hospital and clinic. DB management and analysis are performed for clients, and the medical expenses paid by clients are periodically paid to member companies along with DB analysis data.

At the same time, the parent company promotes corporate identity as a group that carries out the common purpose of cyber care, such as notifying the general public of the image of the parent company and each member company and arranging mutual medical consultations among the member companies. Establish and operate a corporate identity.

It also provides real-time electronic stethoscopes to clients, and doctors to provide software that can be used for cyber medical treatment on the Internet, enabling them to use stethoscopes, an important diagnostic tool that doctors use in practice, online. In addition, only the examination and questionnaire are applied through video communication, or the medical consultation currently being conducted at the questionnaire level is promoted to the level of primary medical care, so that a simple disease can be prescribed and the client's questionnaire and stethoscope data are available. Is the biggest difficulty in conducting real-time medical treatment through images from the point of view of doctors who are actually offline, by sending and storing the file in the form of a file and allowing the doctor to check it at a fixed time. To overcome of jeyakseong, it is a cyber-care to be in the real world.

This is a problem caused by the rapidly changing medical environment, such as the division of medicine. In other words, 1) a mild illness must be prescribed by a doctor to take medicine, and 2) a doctor must visit a hospital for prescription. The number of patients complained by the majority of the people, and 3) the excessive number of patients in hospitals and clinics, 4) the change in the number of medical insurances caused by the division of medicine, and the new prescriptions, subsidies, etc. The rapid increase will eventually lead to alternatives to the already faced national health and financial problems, such as exhaustion of health care finances.

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

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a cyber medical system operated as a franchise system.

The parent company (1) recruits hospitals and clinics (2A, 2B, 2C, ---, 2N) who are actually doing medical work offline, and builds a homepage on the Internet for each member company recruited in this way. It also provides the hardware and software that accompany cyber medical care. In addition, it will continue to promote each member company, manage and analyze the database on behalf of the member companies, and act on behalf of online payment.

Cyber hospital (3) established for each member company by the parent company (1) after the client (4) is connected through the Internet, medical treatment for simple diseases using the Internet stethoscope system provided by the parent company (1) And prescriptions.

In addition, the DB management server 5 manages the data of the client 4 and provides this data to the parent company 1.

As the cyber care system is configured as described above, each member company recruited as a member of the parent company 1 can be operated in a franchise form.

In other words, the cyber medical system shown in FIG. 1 provides an internet auscultation system to a member company, and a parent company 1 which conducts cyber medical treatment by DB data provided from a DB management server 5, actually conducts offline medical treatment. Recruiting hospitals and clinics (2A, 2B, 2C, ---, 2N) as members, constructing each cyber hospital (3) on a server operated by itself, and installing an internet stethoscope system for cyber medical treatment By doing so, the client 4 (patient) can access the cyber hospital 3 online to receive medical treatment and prescription for a simple disease.

FIG. 2A is a flowchart illustrating a process in which a client is treated at a cyber hospital. Hereinafter, a process in which the client is treated at a cyber hospital will be described with reference to FIG. 2A.

First, the client selects the desired medical department via the homepage of the parent company, and then accesses the cyber hospital to receive the medical treatment, or directly connects to the cyber hospital of the hospital which was actually offline (step 1).

Next, the client connected to the cyber hospital knows the description and method of the cyber medical treatment through the access screen, reads and agrees to the description of the cyber medical treatment, and provides his / her personal information to register the patient. 2).

At this stage 2, the client may cancel the cybercare.

Next, select one from the presented questionnaire according to your symptoms and fill it out (step 3).

Subsequently, the client determines whether to write the stethoscope information as an attachment file to the questionnaire to be transmitted to the doctor using the electronic stethoscope purchased at actual cost (step 4).

If the client decides to write the stethoscope information as an attachment to the questionnaire to be sent to the doctor, he agrees to send the stethoscope information, and then uses the electronic stethoscope to follow the instructions on the monitor screen. At this time, the input stethoscope sound is automatically made into a file by the program, and the generated stethoscope file is automatically formed as a file attached to the questionnaire that has already been created by the program (step 5).

Subsequently, it is determined whether or not a stethoscope file prepared as a file attached to the questionnaire is transmitted to the doctor (step 7). If it is determined in step 7 that the stethoscope file created as a file attached to the questionnaire is sent to the doctor, it is transmitted to the medical care DB bank and stored. If it is determined in step 7, that the stethoscope file is not transmitted to the doctor, it is decided whether to return to the previous medical procedure and to perform the medical treatment again (step 8).

If it is determined in step 8 that the treatment is to be repeated, proceed to step 3 to perform the treatment again. If you do not want to go back to step 8, the procedure is canceled.

On the other hand, when the client does not want to have a stethoscope in step 4, it is determined whether to send only the questionnaire file to the doctor (step 6). Here, if it is determined that only the questionnaire file is to be transmitted to the doctor, the created file is transferred to the medical care DB bank and stored.

If it is determined in step 6 that the questionnaire file is not transmitted to the doctor, as described above, it is determined whether to return to the previous medical procedure in step 8 and resume the medical treatment.

If it is determined in step 8 that the treatment is to be repeated, proceed to step 3 to perform the treatment again. And, if you do not want to go back to the treatment in step 8, all processes are canceled.

Through this process, the client can receive medical care at the cyber hospital.

2B is a flowchart illustrating a process in which a doctor accesses a cyber hospital and checks information of a client requesting medical treatment and then transmits a prescription.

First, the doctor accesses his cyber hospital through the Internet (step 11), requests user approval from the parent company's server to obtain user approval (step 12), and then lists and data of clients stored in the medical care DB bank. Check the questionnaire (step 13).

After checking the questionnaire of each client, the file with the listening file among them is selected and downloaded to his computer, and then stored by location according to the instructions of the program of the Internet stethoscope system installed in his computer. The client listens to the client's listening file and checks it (step 14).

After checking the questionnaire and the stethoscope file, the doctor prepares a prescription for each client's symptoms, or transmits a message to be directed to the medical DB bank of the cyber hospital (step 15).

Figure 2c is a flowchart showing the process of receiving a prescription in the cyber hospital where the client applied for medical care.

First, the client selects the desired medical department via the homepage of the parent company and accesses the cyber hospital to receive the medical treatment, or directly connects to the cyber hospital of the hospital which was actually offline (step 21).

Next, in order to confirm the result of the cyber medical treatment through the access screen, the user logs in by calling the identity verification procedure (step 22).

The client's own medical records are then checked to confirm that there is a prescription (step 23), and then a decision is made whether to receive a doctor's prescription or message (step 24).

If you decide to get a prescription in step 24, choose how you will pay the bill (step 25). And, if you do not want to receive a prescription in step 24, all processes are canceled. Here, the payment method may be selected by various methods such as credit card, cyber money, and telephone bill.

After selecting a payment method in step 25, it is determined whether to pay the fee (step 26). If it is decided to pay the medical bill, it is determined whether to pay the medical bill, access the medical care DB bank and receive a prescription file (step 28).

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 26 not to pay the medical bill, go back to the previous prescription transmission process to determine whether to receive the payment and prescription again (step 27). If it is determined in step 27 that the previous process is to be repeated, the process proceeds to step 23 to repeat the process of payment and prescription transfer. And, if you do not want to receive a prescription in step 27, all processes are canceled.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 28 that the prescription file is to be received, the client receives the prescription file, and then prints to the printer (step 29), the drug can be prepared by the pharmacy using the printed prescription.

On the other hand, if you do not want to receive the prescription file in step 28, you can cancel the entire process.

2d is a flowchart illustrating a process in which a doctor accesses a cyber hospital to check a medical care DB, receives a DB analysis data from a parent company, or pays a medical bill.

First, the doctor accesses the parent company's cyber hospital through the Internet (step 31), confirms the user approval request of the cyber care (step 32), and then accesses the treatment DB bank. The doctor in charge accessing the medical care DB bank can check the DB of the client who is being managed through the server of the parent company, and can manage his own information as well as the client. After receiving the analysis data, the medical bills are settled and paid online (step 33).

Accordingly, the client does not visit the hospital, but connects to the cyber hospitals and clinics that can be provided with cyber medical treatments installed on the server of the parent company. Thus, a simple medical treatment and prescription can be issued at actual cost.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to utilize a stethoscope, which is an essential diagnostic tool used by a doctor, for a medical service through the Internet, which is currently operated to communicate with a doctor. Improve health care to primary care.

Therefore, through the cyber clinic system using the Internet auscultation system, the client can receive the prescription after receiving the medical treatment online through the Internet without going to the hospital for the mild illness he perceives.

Claims (2)

Clients access the member's cyber hospitals and clinics via the Internet, provide personal information, apply for medical treatment, and select a questionnaire that matches their symptoms according to the visual examination and questionnaire or instructions provided on the screen. Creating a questionnaire; Determining whether to attach a stethoscope file to an already prepared questionnaire file using an electronic stethoscope; A client directly using the electronic stethoscope provided at actual cost to perform a stethoscope directly according to the instructions on the screen, and creating a stethoscope file which is automatically attached to the already prepared questionnaire; Transmitting the questionnaire file to the cyber hospital / clinic using the stethoscope file as an attachment file; Reviewing the transmitted questionnaire file by a doctor in charge, releasing the accompanying stethoscope file and listening to diagnose the client's disease; After diagnosing the disease, prescribing according to the condition and transmitting the prescription to the client or sending a message instructing other necessary measures to the client; The client selects one of the presented payment methods and pays the fee online; Internet auscultation system comprising the step of continuously managing the DB of the clients treated by the parent company, and periodically provide the analysis data according to the treatment and payment of medical expenses for a certain period excluding the fee to the doctor members Cyber medical treatment method using. After recruiting hospitals and clinics (2A, 2B, 2C, ---, 2N) who are actually doing offline work as members, we provide each member company with the homepage on the Internet and the hardware and software that accompany cyber medical treatment. A parent company (1) that continuously promotes each member company, manages and analyzes a DB on behalf of the member company, and performs online payment of medical expenses; The cyber company is established for each member company by the parent company 1, and the client 4 connects via the Internet, and then uses the Internet stethoscope system provided by the parent company 1 to receive medical treatment and prescription for simple diseases. Hospital 3 and; A DB management server 5 which manages data of the client 4 and provides this data to the parent company 1; Cyber care system operated in the form of a franchise, characterized in that each member recruited as a member of the parent company is operated in the form of a franchise.