KR20110116626A - Real-time medical information management system and method using led - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, in a management system for transmitting medical information wirelessly in real time, measuring biometric information of an examinee using LEDs at regular intervals and measuring medical information transmitting measurement information using an IEEE802.15.4 wireless communication method. Sudan
Medical information collection means for receiving wireless data from the medical information measuring device by IEEE802.15.4 wireless communication method, converting the wireless data into wired data, and transmitting the biometric information of the examinee and environmental information for each space of medical information to the central manager and the plurality of medical services. Provided is a real-time medical information management system and method using an LED comprising a medical information transmission means for receiving data from the information collecting means and converting the data into HL7 standard data and transmitting it to the medical relation system.

Description

Real-time medical information management system and method using LED {REAL-TIME MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING LED}

The present invention relates to a biological information delivery system using a wireless sensor network, and more particularly, based on the user's biometric information measured through the wireless sensor network to monitor the user's situation data in real time, and needs the situation data. The present invention relates to a biometric information transmission system using a wireless sensor network that converts and transmits user's context data to suit other systems.

Recently, with the development of wireless communication environment and the development of wireless sensor network (USN) technology based thereon, it is entering the ubiquitous society. Accordingly, various ubiquitous services using wireless sensor network technology are being developed throughout the society such as home network and sensor-based safety industry. In particular, as health concerns and aging society have recently increased, health-related services have been gradually increasing. Growing.

Accordingly, there is a need to enhance convenience and customization of health, medical services and related systems by diversifying customer demands and improving expectations according to changing consumer consciousness. In general, when a variety of patients are accommodated or resident in a building such as a hospital, and personal management of such patient-specific personal information or biometric information is not properly and timely and promptly performed, problems such as human injury and medical accidents may occur. Can be. In addition, when the patient's biometric information is not detected in real time, there is a problem that can not respond quickly to an emergency.

In addition, such biometric information may be transferred to and used by other systems, which may use biometric information as-is if it does not meet the file standards on other systems (e.g., electronic medical record systems, prescription delivery systems, etc.). There is a problem that there is no.

The present invention was created in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the biometric information measured by the medical information measuring apparatus using the LED light source is received in real time by the IEEE802.15.4 gateway for collecting medical information through the IEEE802.15.4 wireless wireless communication method. As it is transmitted to the medical information server through wired and wireless environment, it is possible to detect and manage the biometric information for each user on the server side, and convert the biometric information into HL7 standard data and transmit it to the medical relation system using the corresponding biometric information. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a biometric information transmission system using a wireless sensor network that can improve data utilization efficiency in a related medical system without additional data processing.

Real-time medical information management system and method using the LED of the present invention for achieving the above object is a management system for wirelessly transmitting medical information in real time, by measuring the biometric information of the subject using the LED at regular intervals Medical information measuring means for transmitting measurement information using IEEE 802.15.4 wireless communication method and wireless data received from IEEE 802.15.4 wireless communication method from the medical information measuring device and converted into wired data to the central manager for biometric information and Medical information collecting means for transmitting the environmental information for each space by medical information and medical information delivery means for receiving the data from the plurality of medical information collecting means to convert the HL7 standard data to transmit to the medical relationship system.

According to the biometric information delivery system using the LED according to the present invention, the biometric information measured by the medical information measuring device is received in real time to the IEEE802.15.4 gateway through the IEEE802.15.4 wireless wireless communication method and the medical information management server through the wired and wireless environment again It is possible to detect and manage the biometric information for each user on the server side as it is transmitted to the server, and convert the biometric information into HL7 standard data and transmit it to the medical relation system using the biometric information. Improve data usage efficiency.

In addition, the IEEE802.15.4 gateway has an advantage of easy management and history inquiry such as registration, modification, inquiry, discard, and return of measurement information of each subject.

1 is a block diagram of a medical information management system according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a sensor management unit of the medical information delivery server
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10.Medical Relationship System 20..Network
100.Bio information transmission system using wireless sensor network
110 ... medical information measuring device 111 ... IEEE 802.15.4 module
120 ... Medical Information Collector 121 ... IEEE 802.15.4 Module
130 ... Medical information transmission device 131 ... DB part
Sensor management section ...
138 Search section 139 Sensor information display section

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as being limited to the common or dictionary meanings, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that it can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 is a block diagram of a medical information management system using the LED according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in Figure 1 or 2, the biological information delivery system 100 using a wireless sensor network according to an embodiment of the present invention, medical information measuring device 110, medical information collecting device 120 and medical information And a delivery device 130.
The medical information measuring device 110 is a portable sensor device for each user of a predetermined space in a building. The medical information measuring device 110 detects biometric information including a user's body temperature, pulse rate, and blood pressure at a predetermined cycle, and detects the detected biometric information of the user through a portable sensor identification code. In connection with, it is possible to transmit to the medical information collecting device 120 by the IEEE802.15.4 wireless communication method using the IEEE802.15.4 module 111. Here, the building may mean various centers not listed or accommodated by general patients or special patients requiring special protection or monitoring, such as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, etc., and the predetermined space means each room within the building ( It is obvious that any space such as a hospital room, a room, a corridor, or the like may correspond to this.
On the other hand, the advantages of the IEEE802.15.4 communication protocol has the advantages of easy development, installation and maintenance, low cost, long battery life, easy data stability and security, and excellent interoperability with other devices. . Here, the medical information measuring device 110 may be subdivided into a body temperature sensing unit (not shown), a pulse sensing unit (not shown), and a blood pressure detecting unit (not shown), each of which is known in various ways. Since the description is omitted.
The medical information measuring device 110 may be worn on a user's body or clothing, for example, and there may be various modifications of the wearing example.
Meanwhile, the medical information collecting device 120 may be installed in a predetermined space in a building, and may detect environmental information including temperature, humidity, and illuminance in each space. The environmental information is not necessarily limited to the above-mentioned various elements. Of course, more may be added.
In addition, the medical information collecting device 120 receives the biometric information measured by the medical information measuring device 110 through the IEEE802.15.4 module 121 in an IEEE802.15.4 wireless communication method. Of course, since the biometric information is received in association with the portable sensor identification code, it is possible to distinguish whether the biometric information received by the medical information collecting device 120 is the information received by the medical information measuring device 110.
Such a medical information collection device 120 may be installed in each room (ward) where a patient is accommodated, and may be installed in a plurality of rooms (wards), as well as a corridor, a lobby, It can be installed in any space on the building such as outdoor or rooftop.
Meanwhile, the medical information collecting device 120 connects the environmental information measured for each space and the biometric information for each user with a fixed sensor identification code to the medical information transmitting device 130 via a wired / wireless wireless communication method. Can be sent. Here, it is a matter of course that the user-specific biometric information transmitted is a concept in which the corresponding portable sensor identification code is embedded.
Meanwhile, referring to FIG. 1, the biometric information of one medical information measuring apparatus 110 may be transmitted to the plurality of medical information collecting apparatuses 120. In this case, the maximum access is possible regardless of the reception sensitivity of the corresponding biometric information. The medical information collecting device 120 may be connected to transmit data. The medical information collecting device 120 may communicate with another medical information collecting device 120. For example, the biological information received by the medical information collecting device 120 may be any other medical information collecting device 120. It can be transmitted to the medical information delivery device 130 via this configuration, which is also associated with the IEEE802.15.4 protocol characteristics.
On the other hand, the medical information delivery device 130 is connected to the medical information collection device 120 installed in each space in the wired and wireless manner described above, and stores the biological information and environmental information received from the medical information collection device 130 , Management is possible, and includes a DB unit 131, an information collecting unit 132, a monitor unit 133, an HL7 conversion unit 134, a notification unit 135, and a sensor management unit 136.
The medical information delivery device 130 may be managed by an administrator who has been separately authenticated, and when a user or a guardian associated with the user accesses a server through an ID / password, the biometric information about the user and the space location where the user is located. And personal monitoring by providing environmental information in the space.
Meanwhile, each element constituting the medical information transmitting device 130 will be described below.
The DB unit 131 is a portion in which user information of the medical information measuring device 110 and position information of the medical information collecting device 120 respectively correspond to the portable sensor identification code and the fixed sensor identification code, respectively.
The user information includes information on personal information, hospitalization room, doctor, medical history, guardian, contact information, email, etc. of a user wearing the corresponding medical information measuring device 110 corresponding to the portable sensor identification code. It may be information stored as.
The location information is stored in advance so as to correspond to each fixed sensor identification code as location information of a space where the medical information collecting device 120 is located. Accordingly, if only the fixed sensor identification code is known, the medical information collecting device 120 corresponding to the fixed sensor identification code may be easily identified. In addition, when the location information of the medical information collecting device 120 is known, the location information of the medical information measuring device 110 which transmits the information to the medical information collecting device 120 may be known.
When the above-mentioned biometric information is directly transmitted from the medical relation system 10 using or utilizing such biometric information, a time and material burden may be generated as well as a problem such as a need for a separate data processing procedure. Ordinary medical relationship systems 10 do not have such data processing elements. Here, the present invention improves the convenience of data utilization by converting the biometric information into HL7 standard data suitable for the medical relation system 10 without any additional data processing, and the biological information without the addition of all systems in the medical relation system 10. There is an advantage that can facilitate the use and utilization of the reception and analysis.
As described above, the medical information delivery device 130 of the present invention may be linked with the existing medical relationship system 10. In addition, the medical information delivery device 130 selects the biological information as a desired system from the above-described various medical relationship systems
Can be sent as In addition, only the biometric information of a specific user may be selected and transmitted to the corresponding medical relation system 10 among the biometric information received by the medical information delivery device 130, in which part or all of the biometric information may be transmitted, and at a specific time. It is also possible to sample and transmit only the biometric information within. Such a method of transmitting biometric information may have various embodiments by those skilled in the art.
The setting unit 137 is a portable sensor identification code, a fixed sensor identification code, the sensor registration date, the sensor basic information corresponding to the sensor type information for distinguishing between the medical information measuring device 110 and the medical information collection device 120 Input is possible.
For example, a portable sensor identification code or a fixed sensor identification code is input in a sensor number column, a sensor registration date is input in a registration date column, and sensor type information can be selected from a fixed type or a portable type in a sensor classification column.
In addition, the setting unit 137 may be a type of each sensing target that can be detected by the medical information measuring apparatus 110 and the medical information collecting apparatus 120 (in the case of the medical information measuring apparatus, blood pressure, pulse rate, body temperature, etc.). In this case, temperature, illuminance, humidity, etc.), and the measurement unit (blood pressure: mmHg, body temperature: ℃, etc.) for each sensing object can be input.
The type of sensing object may be deleted or added at any time, and the unit of measurement may be changed and added at any time in a unit suitable for the new item.
In addition, the setting unit 137 may set an input of a warning range or a dangerous range for each sensing object of the biological information or the environmental information. For example, when the warning lower limit value and the warning upper limit value are input, the warning range is automatically automatic. Of course, after selecting a specific user (subject) or a specific sensor number (sensor identification number), it may be possible to set different warning ranges and risk ranges for each user or sensor.
On the other hand, the setting unit 137 is possible to set the input of the corresponding state information during the use, waiting, and discarded state for each of the registered medical information measuring device 110 and medical information collecting device 120, the set information is Registration sensors appearing during the sensor lookup may be provided in various items displayed in a tree view.
The setting unit 137 may input the corresponding state correction information during failure, disposal, exchange, and return of the medical information measuring apparatus 110 or the medical information collecting apparatus 120. After clicking, select the desired item through the select box on the right of the 'program name' and press the open button or double-click the sensor to execute the desired program. For example, when the fault registration of the sensor is selected, fault registration is possible by inputting information such as fault details and fault measures. Of course, in the case of sensor revocation registration, revocation information may be stored by searching for or selecting a sensor to be discarded on the revocation registration screen and inputting a return date and return contents according to the revocation of the sensor as text.
In the case of sensor exchange registration, after searching or selecting the sensor to be exchanged in the exchange registration screen, searching for and selecting another sensor device to be used for exchange, and entering and saving the exchange as text, the exchange registration such as saving the history before and after exchange is performed. It becomes possible.
In the case of returning the sensor, the return information can be saved by searching or selecting the returnable sensor on the returning sensor screen, entering the return date of the sensor and returning information as text, in which case it is used for the purpose of simple return in addition to the disposal purpose. Can be.
Meanwhile, the search unit 138 may receive a portable sensor identification code, a fixed sensor identification code, or the sensor registration date, and search and provide a medical information measuring device or a medical information collecting device corresponding to the received information. This is a frequently used part in various setting operations through the setting unit 137 and corresponds to a function of a search field, for example. On the other hand, the sensor information display unit 139 is a portable sensor identification code or a fixed sensor identification code, sensor registration date, sensor type for each of the medical information measuring device 110 or medical information collection device 120 retrieved by the search unit 138 It is possible to display, and the status information about each of the medical information measuring device 110 or the medical information collecting device 120 and the history information about the state correction information can be displayed respectively.
On the other hand, with respect to the history information, for example, in a separate history query menu by querying the sensor number (00001) through the search unit 138, the history that the sensor is exchanged with the previous sensor (00002) to be displayed Can be.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It is to be understood that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (1)

In the management system for transmitting medical information wirelessly in real time,
Medical information measuring means for measuring biometric information of a subject by using a LED at a predetermined period and transmitting the measurement information by using an IEEE802.15.4 wireless communication method;
Medical information collecting means for receiving wireless data from the medical information measuring apparatus in an IEEE802.15.4 wireless communication method and converting the wireless data into wired data to transmit the subject biometric information to the central manager and environmental information for each medical information space;
And receiving medical information from the plurality of medical information collecting means, converting the data into HL7 standard data, and transmitting the medical information to the medical relationship system.

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