KR20120076500A - System and method for converting standard health information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system for converting standard medical information and a method are provided to convert individual health related information into batch information without additional software installation or configuration and integrally manage the converted information and supply a necessary service to a user. CONSTITUTION: One or more health measurement devices(101~103) generates health data based on ISO/IEEE 11073(International Organization for Standardization/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073) by measuring a health condition of a user. An information collecting terminal(301,302) collects the health data. A data conversion gateway(200) converts the health data into HL7(Health Level 7) standard or CDA(Clinical Document Architecture) standard.

Description

System and method for converting standard health information

The present invention relates to a system and method for converting standard medical information, and more particularly, HL7-based data in order to use the health data measured by the ISO / IEEE 11073-based health measurement device to provide a variety of health care services The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for converting standard medical information, or converting HL7 based data into ISO / IEEE 11073 based data.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is an object of the present invention to provide a conversion method that delivers data measured at each health measurement device to a user and a medical staff and makes the user and medical staff easily recognizable.

In addition, the present invention constitutes a gateway for converting information provided according to the relevant international standard of the health measurement device into Health Level 7 (HL7), an international standard for medical information, and additionally supports the conversion to the CDA (Clinical Document Architecture). The purpose is to provide a method.

It is also an object of the present invention to enable a user or a medical staff to be provided with a service without adding a special procedure or software.

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

In order to achieve the above object, the system for providing standard medical information according to an embodiment of the present invention measures the health of the user based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073) At least one health measurement device for generating data, an information collection terminal for collecting and transmitting the health data generated by the health measurement device, and the health level 7 (HL7) standard according to the requested version for receiving and receiving the health data. Or a data conversion gateway that translates to the CDA standard.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of providing standard medical information is measured based on at least one health measuring device of a user and based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073). Generating health data, collecting and transmitting the generated health data, and receiving and converting the health data into a Health Level 7 (HL7) standard or a Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standard according to the requested version. It includes.

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

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

Firstly, the health-related data of the ISO / IEEE 11073-based health measurement device is collected by using a living space of an individual or an information collection terminal possessed by an individual and automatically converted into a form suitable for use by a user or a medical staff. There is an advantage that can provide information to the necessary services while converting the personal health-related information into a batch of information without the installation or setting of software, and storing the integrated information integrated management.

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

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

1 is a diagram showing a system for providing standard medical information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a data conversion gateway according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the data manager shown in FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the first converter illustrated in FIG. 2.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the second converter illustrated in FIG. 2.

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

1 is a view showing a system for providing standard medical information according to an embodiment of the present invention, the system is a health measurement device (101, 102, 103), the first network 110, the first information collecting terminal 301 , A second information collection terminal 302, an information collection database 400, a service server 500, a second network 120, a mobile communication network 130, and a data conversion gateway 200.

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

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

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

In addition, the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 may transmit health data collected through the first network 110 to the information collection terminals 301 and 302, and the first network 110 may be Zigbee. ), A wireless communication protocol such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or a wired communication protocol such as Universal Serial Bus (USB).

The information collection terminals 301 and 302 collect and transmit the health data generated by the health measurement devices 101, 102 and 103 to the data conversion gateway 200.

Here, the information collection terminal for transmitting the health data to the data conversion gateway 200 may be one determined in consideration of specific conditions set in advance among the plurality of information collection terminals 301 and 302 using different communication schemes. .

That is, a plurality of information collection terminals 301 and 302 that receive health data from the health measurement devices 101, 102 and 103 and transmit the health data to the data conversion gateway 200 may be provided instead of one, and one of them may be provided. Health data can be relayed.

The information collecting terminals 301 and 302 may be installed in a personal living area where a user lives, or may be in a form that an individual carries.

That is, the information collecting terminal may be a fixed type (hereinafter referred to as a first information collecting terminal) 301 fixedly installed at one location, and a mobile type (hereinafter, referred to as a second information collecting terminal) which can be carried by a user. 302).

Here, the first information collecting terminal 301 may be understood to relay health data through a transmission control protocol / internet protocol (TCP / IP) communication scheme provided by the first network 110. That is, the first information collecting terminal 301 transmits the health data to the data conversion gateway 200 in a wired or wireless TCP / IP communication method.

On the other hand, the second information collecting terminal 302 may be understood as relaying data using the mobile communication network 130, for example, a device using a mobile communication network 130, such as a mobile phone or a smart phone, the second information It may serve as a collection terminal 302.

As such, the communication scheme supported by the information collection terminal includes at least one of TCP / IP and the mobile communication network 130. As a plurality of information collection terminals 301 and 302 using different communication schemes are provided, Among them, the information collection terminal that should actually relay the health data should be determined. At this time, the determination condition of the information collecting terminal may be whether or not TCP / IP communication is possible.

That is, the information collection terminal for transmitting the health data to the data conversion gateway 200 is the first information collection terminal 301 supporting the communication method of TCP / IP when the communication of TCP / IP is possible, the communication of TCP / IP If this is impossible, it may be the second information collecting terminal 302 supporting the communication scheme of the mobile communication network 130.

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

That is, the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 include an identifier of the information collection terminal to which the health data are to be relayed in the health data and transmit the health data. For example, when the TCP / IP communication is possible, the first information collection terminal 301 ) Is included in the health data and transmitted, and when TCP / IP communication is impossible, the identifier of the second information collecting terminal 302 is included in the health data and transmitted.

As the identifier is included in the health data and thus received, the information collection terminals 301 and 302 may check whether the health data relayer is a subject that relays the health data.

In order to confirm whether TCP / IP communication is possible, the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 may receive a response message from the first information collecting terminal 301. That is, the health data is initially transmitted to the first information collecting terminal 301. If the response message is received from the first information collecting terminal 301, the health measuring devices 101, 102, and 103 are sent to the information collecting terminal. It is determined that TCP / IP communication is possible, and when the response message is not received from the first information collecting terminal 301, the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 are not capable of TCP / IP communication by the information collecting terminal. To judge.

The data conversion gateway 200 converts the ISO / IEEE 11073 based health data received from the information collection terminals 301 and 302 into a Health Level 7 (HL7) format or a Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) format according to the requested version. , Transmits the converted health data to the information collection database 400.

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

The information collection database 400 stores and manages HL7-based or CDA-based health data received from the data transformation gateway 200. In this case, the information collection database 400 may configure and store health data using data for each user or data for each device. For example, the information collection database 400 may extract health data of a specific user from the collected health data converted to the HL7 standard or the CDA standard, and generate and store personal health data of the user.

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

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

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

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

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

In addition, although FIG. 1 illustrates one first information collecting terminal 301 and one second information collecting terminal 302, a plurality of first information collecting terminals and a plurality of second information collecting terminals are provided in the system. It may be. In this case, the plurality of first information collecting terminals may be connected to the first network 110 shown in FIG. 1 or may be connected to a separate first network (not shown). Similarly, the plurality of second information collecting terminals may also be connected to each other. It may be connected to the mobile communication network 130 shown in 1 or to a separate mobile communication network (not shown).

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

2 is a block diagram illustrating a data conversion gateway according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, wherein the data conversion gateway 200 includes a first converter 210, a data manager 220, a storage 230, and a controller 240. The second converter 250 and the data transceiver 260 are included.

The data manager 220 manages the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 and the information collection terminals 301 and 302. For example, the data manager 220 performs a role of searching for the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 or the information collection terminals 301, 302 or generating a message to be sent to a standard. A detailed description of the data manager 220 will be described later with reference to FIG. 3.

The storage 230 stores a code mapping table. Here, the code mapping table may be understood as a table including mapping information between ISO / IEEE 10073 format and HL7 format and mapping information between ISO / IEEE 10073 format and CDA format. The storage unit 230 may include a hard disk, a flash memory, a compact flash card (CF), a secure digital card (SD), a smart card (SM), a multimedia card (MMC), or a memory stick. May be provided inside the data conversion gateway 200 or may be provided in a separate device.

The first converter 210 converts the received ISO / IEEE 11073 based health data into HL7 based health data. In performing the data conversion, the first converter 210 may refer to a code mapping table stored in the storage 230. Here, HL7 means version 2.X, and the first converter 210 may convert health data according to the requested version. A detailed description of the first converter 210 will be described later with reference to FIG. 4.

The second conversion unit 250 converts the received ISO / IEEE 11073 based health data into CDA based health data. In performing the data conversion, the second converter 250 may refer to the code mapping table stored in the storage 230. A detailed description of the second converter 250 will be described later with reference to FIG. 5.

The data transmission / reception unit 260 receives ISO / IEEE 11073-based health data transmitted by the information collection terminals 301 and 302 and converts the health converted by the first conversion unit 210 or the second conversion unit 250. It serves to transmit data to the information collection database (400).

The communication method by the data transceiver 260 may be a communication method of the second network 120 or a communication method by the mobile communication network 130. That is, when the information collection terminal for transmitting the health data is the first information collection terminal 301, the data transmission / reception unit 260 receives the health data through the second network 120, and the information collection terminal for transmitting the health data In the case of the second information collecting terminal 302, the data transmitting / receiving unit 260 receives health data through the mobile communication network 130.

To this end, the data transceiver 260 preferably includes both the communication method of the second network 120 and the communication method of the mobile communication network 130.

Meanwhile, in transmitting the converted health data, the data transceiver 260 may access the second network 120 and transmit the health data.

In addition, as described above, the data management unit 220 transmits a message to the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 or the information collection terminals 301, 302 or the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 or the information collection terminal. Messages 301 and 302 may be received, and accordingly, the data transceiver 260 may also perform a role of transmitting and receiving the message.

The controller 240 determines whether the received conversion request is a conversion to the HL7 format or the CDA format, and transmits a control command to the first conversion unit 210 or the second conversion unit 250 according to the result. Play a role. That is, the received conversion request may be to request conversion of health data based on ISO / IEEE 11073 to HL7 based health data, or to request conversion to health data based on CDA. The control command is transmitted to the first transform unit 210 or the second transform unit 250 according to the request format specified in the transform request message.

In addition, the controller 240 performs overall control of the first converter 210, the data manager 220, the storage 230, the second converter 250, and the data transceiver 260.

3 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the data manager illustrated in FIG. 2, and the data manager 220 includes an analyzer 310, a message synthesizer 320, and a transmission manager 330.

The analyzer 310 searches for the health measuring devices 101, 102, and 103 and the information collecting terminals 301 and 302, and generates a message for requesting information from each device. When the request message generated by the analysis unit 310 is delivered to the health measurement device (101, 102, 103) or the information collection terminal (301, 302), each device transmits a response message containing the requested information .

For example, when a message requesting health data based on ISO / IEEE 11073 is generated by the analysis unit 310 and delivered to the information collection terminals 301 and 302, the information collection terminals 301 and 302 access themselves. The request message is transmitted to a health measurement device (101, 102, 103) to transmit a response message including the ISO / IEEE 11073-based health data, and the information collection terminal (301, 302) receiving the data conversion gateway To 200.

The message synthesizing unit 320 plays a role of modifying a message generated by the analyzing unit 310 to meet the standards used in the health measuring devices 101, 102, and 103 and the information collecting terminals 301 and 302. . For example, the health measurement devices 101, 102, 103 and the information collection terminals 301, 302 may recognize only messages in ISO / IEEE 11073 format, and the message synthesizer 320 may modify the message accordingly. It is.

In addition, the message synthesizing unit 320 converts the message received from the information collecting terminals 301 and 302 into the HL7 or CDA format recognized by the analyzing unit 310.

The transmission manager 330 performs a connection between the health measurement devices 101, 102, and 103 and the information collection terminals 301 and 302, and delivers the received message to the message synthesizer 320.

4 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the first converter illustrated in FIG. 2, and the first converter 210 includes a metafile processor 410 and a message converter 420.

The metafile processor 410 manages the metafile of the HL7 message. For example, the metafile processor 410 generates a metafile and provides the metafile to the message converter 420. In the present invention, the metafile is used to control the operation of the message converter 420 in detail. Can be understood as information.

The message converter 420 parses the message with reference to the metafile received from the metafile processor 410 and adds data to generate a completed HL7 message. As described above, the first converter 210 may convert the health data according to the requested version, and the message converter 420 may generate the HL7 message of the requested version. For example, if the requested version is HL7 V2.4, the message conversion unit 420 generates a version of the HL7 message corresponding thereto.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the second transform unit illustrated in FIG. 2. The second transform unit 250 includes a profile constructing unit 510, an information mapping unit 520, and a data generating unit 530. It is configured to include.

The profile configuration unit 510 configures the format of the CDA with reference to the reference CDA schema. In general, CDAs can be written in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and can be defined in schemas such as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML, Document Type Definition (DTD), or RELAX-NG (REgular LAnguage for XML Next Generation). There is a profile configuration unit 510 configures the format of the CDA with reference to this.

The information mapping unit 520 maps the ISO / IEEE 11073-based health data to the CDA format configured in the profile configuration unit 510. That is, the information mapping unit 520 extracts mapping information corresponding to ISO / IEEE 11073 based health data.

The extracted mapping information is transmitted to the data generator 530, and the data generator 530 generates a CDA message using the received mapping information.

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

101, 102, 103: health measurement device
110: first network 120: second network
130: mobile communication network 200: data conversion gateway
301 and 302: information collection terminal 400: information collection database
500: service server

Claims (16)

At least one health measurement device for measuring health status of a user to generate health data based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073);
An information collection terminal for collecting and transmitting the health data generated by the health measurement device; And
And a data conversion gateway that receives the health data and converts it into a Health Level 7 (HL7) standard or a Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standard according to the requested version. The method of claim 1,
The information collection terminal for transmitting the health data to the data conversion gateway is one of a plurality of information collection terminals using different communication schemes, which is determined in consideration of a predetermined predetermined condition, providing a standard medical information. The method of claim 2,
The communication method is a system for providing standard medical information including at least one of Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) and a mobile communication network. The method of claim 3,
The condition provides a standard medical information including whether or not the TCP / IP communication. The method of claim 4, wherein
The information collection terminal that transmits the health data to the data conversion gateway is an information collection terminal that supports the communication method of TCP / IP when the communication of the TCP / IP is possible, and the mobile terminal when the communication of the TCP / IP is impossible A system for providing standard medical information, which is an information collection terminal supporting a communication scheme of a communication network. The method of claim 1,
An information collection database for storing and managing health data converted into the HL7 standard or the CDA standard; And
And a service server for managing a service provided based on the stored health data. The method according to claim 6,
The information collection database is a system that provides standard medical information for generating and storing personal health data for the specific user by extracting the health data for a specific user from the collected health data converted to the HL7 standard or the CDA standard. . 8. The method of claim 7,
And wherein said personal health data includes at least one of a type of health measurement device that has measured the health status of said particular user and a history of said particular user. Generating health data based on ISO / IEEE 11073 (International Organization for Standardization / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11073) by measuring the health status of the user by at least one health measurement device;
Collecting and transmitting the generated health data; And
Receiving the health data and converting the health data into a Health Level 7 (HL7) standard or a Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standard according to the requested version. The method of claim 9,
The transmitting of the health data includes the step of transmitting the health data in one communication method determined in consideration of a predetermined specific condition among a plurality of different communication methods. The method of claim 10,
The communication method includes at least one of Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) and a mobile communication network. 12. The method of claim 11,
And the condition includes standard medical information including whether the TCP / IP can be communicated. 13. The method of claim 12,
The transmitting of the health data is a step of transmitting the health data by the TCP / IP communication method when the communication of the TCP / IP is possible, and by the communication method of the mobile communication network when the communication of the TCP / IP is impossible. Transmitting the health data. The method of claim 9,
Storing and managing health data converted into the HL7 standard or the CDA standard; And
And managing a service provided based on the stored health data. The method of claim 14,
The storing and managing of the health data converted into the HL7 standard or the CDA standard may include extracting health data for a specific user from the health data converted into the HL7 standard or the CDA standard and collected; And
Generating and storing personal health data for the particular user using the extracted health data. 16. The method of claim 15,
And wherein said personal health data includes at least one of a type of health measurement device that has measured the health status of said particular user and a history of said particular user.

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