KR20150124422A - Virtual experience apparatus for curing disease and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a virtual treatment experience providing device which enables a user to understand the need for treatment while teaching the user to cope with side effects thereof and a method thereof. The device includes: a patient information management unit obtaining treatment information including medical information which includes the name of a patient′s disease and the patient′s blood level, treatment program information, and prescription information; a virtual activity providing unit which executes a virtual activity according to a control command from the patient′s user terminal and applies adds points or subtracts points according to the virtual activity execution result; and a control unit which calculates the health value information by quantifying the current health condition of the patient based on the blood levels thereof, selects a first display image of an avatar corresponding to the calculated health value information, recalculates the health value information of the patient by using the health value information set according to the number of days elapsed in the treatment program and the applied addition and subtraction points, and changes the first display image of the avatar to a second display image according to the recalculated health value information of the patient.

Description

Technical Field [0001] The present invention relates to a virtual experience apparatus for curing disease,

The present invention relates to a virtual experience service, and more particularly, to a virtual therapy experience providing apparatus capable of understanding a necessity of a treatment for a user and acquiring a plan for coping with a side effect of the treatment.

In the case of patient treatment, even if the medical staff proposes an optimal treatment method suitable for the patient, if the treatment does not proceed according to the plan or if the patient can not follow the treatment plan, optimal treatment is not performed. This compliance is called compliance. Patient adherence is one of the important factors determining the therapeutic effect, especially in chronic diseases requiring long-term treatment.

That is, even if the patient gives up the treatment, the treatment fails even if it is the optimal treatment method. In particular, patients undergoing chemotherapy experience inevitably experience side effects such as nausea and vomiting, and many patients refuse or abandon treatment because of these side effects and worsen the condition.

The Patent Documents 1 and 2 described in the following prior art relate to a virtual reality based treatment system, and the same problem still exists.

Therefore, there is a need for measures to increase patient compliance and participation in treatment programs and to maximize the effectiveness of treatment programs.

1. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2004-0037608 2. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2002-0076829

According to the above-mentioned necessity, the present invention provides a virtual treatment experience so that a drug is prescribed and treated for each treatment day for the same period as the actual treatment program period, And to provide a virtual therapy experience providing apparatus and a method for acquiring correct treatment information and countermeasures against side effects.

In addition, the present invention provides a virtual therapy experience providing apparatus that reflects a change in body appearing as a treatment program progresses to an avatar and reflects the compliance of the treatment program to a user, There is another purpose in providing that method.

In addition, the present invention reflects the synergy of treatment through virtual activities such as cooking, cultivation (crop cultivation), walking, and exercise in the game to reflect the state of the avatar in the state of the avatar, thereby further inducing the virtual activity of the patient, The present invention also provides a virtual therapy experience providing apparatus and method for inducing actual physical activity of a patient or acquiring self-care information.

In addition, the present invention provides a virtual therapy which can relieve the anxiety of the treatment and obtain emotional stability by supporting the chatting with other users in the virtual space in the game to obtain emotional support such as information exchange and bond feeling There is another purpose of providing an experience providing apparatus and a method thereof.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing method comprising the steps of: obtaining medical information including a disease name and blood level of a patient, treatment information including treatment program information and prescription information; A second step of calculating health value information in which the current health state of the patient is quantified based on the health information of the patient and selecting a display image of the avatar corresponding to the calculated health value information; Performing virtual activity according to an operation command from the user terminal of the patient and providing an additive point and a subtraction point according to a progress result of the virtual activity; Calculating a health value of the patient using the health value information set according to the elapsed days of the treatment program, the provided addition and subtraction points; And changing the display image of the avatar according to the calculated health value of the patient.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a patient information management system comprising: a patient information management unit for obtaining treatment information including medical information including a disease name and blood level of a patient, treatment program information, and prescription information; A virtual activity providing unit for carrying out a virtual activity according to an operation command from the user terminal of the patient and giving an additive point and a subtraction point according to the progress result of the virtual activity; And a second display image of the avatar corresponding to the calculated health number information is selected based on the blood level of the patient and the current health state of the patient is quantified, The health numerical information of the patient is re-calculated by using the health numerical information set according to the health information, the added and subtracted points, and the first display image of the avatar is changed to the second display image according to the re- A virtual therapy experience providing apparatus including the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus.

According to the present invention, the patient experiences a virtual treatment experience with the treatment program, thereby eliminating the anxiety of the treatment program and improving the understanding of the treatment process, thereby improving the therapeutic effect. It is possible to naturally accept the changes that occur in the body of the user.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to improve the patient's compliance by having a positive attitude as well as a psychological stability feeling that the avatar of the virtual treatment experience service can be improved while seeing the improvement of the avatar of the service, The posture can be induced.

In addition, according to the present invention, a virtual activity corresponding to an activity that is helpful for the treatment is provided, and a positive effect corresponding to the treatment is reflected in the avatar, thereby recognizing a positive effect that the activity becomes crazy, It can induce a positive attitude toward the process.

According to the present invention, as the experience data of the virtual therapy experience service and the hospital care data accumulate, the user's experience can be estimated by analyzing the experience data of the user, thereby helping to grasp the state of the patient have.

In addition, according to the present invention, people who suffer from the same disease can share information through the community, thereby helping to find a positive direction for improvement of quality of life.

1 is a diagram showing an overall network relationship of a virtual therapy experience providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus shown in FIG.
3 is a diagram illustrating a current status display screen provided when a user logs in according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a display state of an avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating a prescription information generation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating prescription information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a diagram illustrating a virtual village according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a diagram illustrating crop cultivation during a virtual activity according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a diagram illustrating cooking during virtual activity according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an avatar in a virtual activity according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
11 is a diagram illustrating a virtual therapy experience providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
12 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the virtual activity selection and control request input process shown in FIG.
FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a virtual activity scenario according to the medication shown in FIG. 12. FIG.
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the health numeric value re-calculation process and the avatar display state changing process shown in FIG.

The foregoing objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and similarities.

In the description of the present invention, the user and the patient are used in combination, but the user and the patient are used in the same sense.

1 is a diagram showing an overall network relationship of a virtual therapy experience providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 according to the present invention may be connected to a plurality of user terminals 10 through a network communication network.

In addition, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 according to the present invention may be connected to at least one medical care terminal 30. At this time, the medical care terminal 30 may be directly connected to the virtual therapy experience providing device 20, but may be connected through a network communication network.

The user terminal 10 may be a terminal equipped with a display unit (not shown) for displaying information processed by the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20. [ The display unit may display various provision screens related to the virtual therapy experience service. For example, a UI (User Interface) or a GUI (Graphic User Interface) associated with the virtual therapy experience provider 20 may be displayed .

The user terminal 10 may be implemented by various types of electronic devices such as a personal computer (PC), a tablet, a smart phone, a mobile phone, a notebook, and a TV and at least one electronic device of the television.

The medical terminal 30 is a terminal for a medical staff in a hospital to connect to the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 and input medical information and treatment information of the patient. The medical terminal 30 includes a PC (personal computer), a tablet, a smart phone phone, a mobile phone, and a notebook.

The virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 according to the present invention can provide the virtual therapy experience service applied in the same manner as the actual treatment program of the user based on the treatment information of the user. Here, the treatment information may include at least treatment program information and prescription information.

To this end, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can receive or receive treatment information of the patient in association with the medical treatment terminal 30.

That is, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 is configured to provide the patient's medical information including the patient's name, sex, disease name, blood level and progress status, and the treatment information of the patient including the treatment program information and prescription information, An avatar that reflects the current health state of the user based on the provided medical information of the patient and received from the terminal 30 and generates an avatar according to the elapsed days of the treatment program And to provide a virtual therapy experience service that reflects and changes.

At this time, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can calculate the health value information in which the current health status of the patient is quantified using the blood level information of the patient, and calculate the corresponding avatar display image Lt; / RTI > For example, leukocytes, absolute neutrophils, hemoglobin, platelets, and AST / ALT levels can be used as the key indicators in the case of chemotherapy.

To this end, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 sets a health value for each of the elapsed days and days of the treatment period of the treatment program, prepares a display image of the avatar in which the physical side effects generated by the progress of the treatment program are applied stepwise , The display image of the generated avatar can be set differently according to the health value range and stored.

The virtual therapy experience providing device 20 constitutes a virtual village including a gym, a house, a garden, a park, a shop, a hospital, a pharmacy, etc., displays the avatar of the user in the virtual village, And can support the virtual activity in the virtual village of the avatar according to the operation command of the avatar.

For example, the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 can be implemented to support virtual activities such as walking in a park, exercising in a gym, and cultivating crops in a garden using an avatar. The additive point and the subtraction point are paid out to be reflected in the health state and applied to the state change of the avatar.

In other words, the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 is configured to provide the virtual treatment experience providing device 20 with a basic body change set in accordance with the treatment cycle of the treatment program, and to allow the additional body change by the add- Or to accelerate more. Accordingly, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can induce the virtual activity of the patient in a direction to delay the change of the body of the avatar, that is, to give a positive change.

In addition, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can link a plurality of user terminals connected through a network communication network, display avatars and village residents NPCs of other user terminals connected thereto in a virtual village, It can be implemented to support community activities such as greeting and conversation with avatars and village residents NPCs.

For example, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can obtain information exchange and emotional support through communication with avatars of other users through a message and chat transmission function.

As described above, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus according to the present invention displays the physical change of the treatment program of the patient so as to reflect the physical change in the avatar, and further displays the avatar display image by further applying the virtual activity information . Accordingly, the present invention can provide a patient with an indirect experience of a treatment process, thereby enhancing the understanding of the necessity of treatment and the treatment process, allowing the patient to naturally accept the body changes and side effects occurring in the treatment process, In addition, when an activity that helps in the treatment is given, a positive change in the display image of the avatar can induce a positive attitude toward treatment.

2 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus shown in FIG.

2, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 includes a patient information managing unit 21, a virtual activity providing unit 22, a network managing unit 23, a control unit 24, and a database 25, As shown in FIG.

The patient information management unit 21 processes the member registration of the user to store membership information (for example, basic person information such as name, age, date of birth), and stores and manages the corresponding ID and password for each member have.

In addition, the patient information management unit 21 can integrate and manage the patient's medical information inputted from the medical terminal 30 with the membership subscription information. Here, the medical information of the member may include the patient's name, sex, age, disease name, blood test result information (blood value information), and elapsed status information.

Also, the patient information management unit 21 can acquire and store the treatment program information, prescription information, and cautions information of the patient inputted from the medical terminal 30.

Then, the virtual activity providing unit 22 can proceed with the virtual activity according to the operation command from the user terminal 10 of the patient, and can give the addition point and the subtraction point according to the progress result of the virtual activity. Here, the virtual activity can be one of medication, cooking, walking, crop cultivation, exercise, shopping and community activities.

That is, the virtual activity providing unit 22 constitutes a virtual village including a gym, a house, a garden, a park, a shop, a hospital, a pharmacy, etc., displays an avatar of the user in a virtual village, May be implemented to support virtual activities in the virtual village of the avatar (e.g., cooking healing food, taking a walk, exercising at the gym, etc.) according to the manipulation command. At this time, the virtual activity providing unit 22 may be implemented to dispense the addition point and the subtraction point reflected in the health value by varying the weight for each virtual activity.

Here, when performing virtual activities such as cooking, walking, exercise, etc. using the avatar, the virtual activity providing unit 22 determines how the virtual activities performed are more effective in helping the avatar's health condition and how it is more effective And can be implemented to provide help for each user ' s self-treatment.

 For example, when purchasing a cooking material from a store, the virtual activity providing unit 22 divides the cooking material to be avoided from other cooking materials using the medical information of the user, Can be provided. At this time, each ingredient may be implemented to provide some help on what ingredients are helpful.

As another example, the virtual activity offer 22 may allow the user to select a crop to be cultivated when providing a virtual activity, such as crop cultivation, . ≪ / RTI > At this time, when the crop to be cultivated is selected, the virtual activity providing unit 22 can be implemented so that the growing process of the crop is displayed in the garden field.

In addition, the virtual activity providing unit 22 can be configured to pay a contribution point so as to be reflected in the health value when the user cooks and consumes the health food using the cooking material helpful for the treatment and health. On the contrary, the virtual activity providing unit 22 can be configured to pay a reduction point so as to be reflected in the health value when the harmful food that does not help the treatment is ingested.

For example, when providing virtual activities such as walking and exercise, the virtual activity providing unit 22 is configured to provide a recommendation for recommending walking, exercise time, kind of exercise, etc., . At this time, the virtual activity providing unit 22 may be configured to pay a contribution point so as to be reflected in the health value when the user performs a virtual activity that is helpful for the treatment, such as walking and exercise.

For example, the virtual activity provider 22 may provide information about a treatment program related to all disease treatments, and may be implemented so that drugs to be taken during the treatment period are automatically prescribed according to the selection of the treatment program have. Here, the treatment program and the prescription drug provided by the virtual activity providing unit 22 are the same as the actual treatment program and the prescription drug, and the prescription drug according to the treatment program is designed to be taken at a time and at a designated time in the hospital. To induce the user to take the medicine at the correct time.

At this time, the virtual activity providing unit 22 can apply the corresponding subtraction point to the health value when the prescription drug is not used on time, so that the health value can be applied to the expression and the state change of the avatar .

In addition, the virtual activity providing unit 22 may generate a non-player character (NPC) in the virtual village to provide greeting to the user's avatar or to provide information useful for the treatment. Here, villager NPCs can be neighborhood residents, shop staff, police, hospital staff, pharmacy staff, and so on.

At this time, the virtual activity providing unit 22 can be configured to perform a friend invitation and a friend addition function, a message transmission function, a gift sending function, and the like in a community activity. This allows information exchange and mental bonding with other users who have the same or similar disease as the user.

The network management unit 23 can communicate with an external terminal through a network communication network.

Then, the control unit 24 controls the virtual activity providing unit 22 to proceed with the virtual treatment experience and the virtual activity according to the programmed virtual treatment experience scenario, and generates and provides the result of the GUI screen.

In addition, the control unit 24 calculates the health value information obtained by digitizing the current health status of the patient based on the blood level included in the patient's health information, and selects and displays the display image of the avatar corresponding to the calculated health value information can do.

At this time, the control unit 24 may generate a GUI screen including at least the avatar display image of the user, the current health value, and the elapsed days of the treatment program, and then provide the GUI screen to the user terminal 10. For example, when a user is on chemotherapy, the health value can be a percentage of white blood cells, absolute neutrophils, hemoglobin, platelets, and AST / ALT levels as key indicators of chemotherapy. At this time, the health figure may be one of factors that can change the appearance of the avatar in addition to the elapsed days of the treatment program.

As described above, the control unit 24 can provide a display image of the basic avatar to the registered user. Thereafter, the control unit 24 can provide an avatar editing tool such as decorating an avatar such as a props, a costume, etc., but does not apply the change of the basic display image.

In addition, the control unit 24 can change the display image of the avatar by applying the change of the body, which changes with the treatment period of the treatment program, to the display image of the basic avatar. For example, the control unit 24 can change the facial expression and physical condition of the avatar so that adverse effects that appear as the treatment period of the treatment program is displayed are displayed in the expression of the avatar and the body condition.

That is, when the user is in the course of chemotherapy, the control unit 24 can implement the change in the expression of the avatar according to the blood health level and the side effects appearing according to the chemotherapy treatment directly applied to the expression and the physical condition of the avatar.

Further, the control unit 24 recalculates the health number information of the patient using the health number information set according to the elapsed days of the treatment period of the treatment program, the added and subtracted points provided, The basic display image of the avatar can be changed to another display image according to the numerical information.

That is, the control unit 24 can display the avatar display state differently according to the health value change of the avatar for the user. Here, the health value of the avatar can be changed according to the progress of the virtual therapy experience scenario. For example, an avatar's health level may be increased or decreased as the duration of the treatment program elapses, as the virtual activity increases and subtract points are acquired.

Thus, the user can confirm his / her health condition through the appearance of the avatar and encourage the will to improve it.

Then, the database 25 can store various information related to the virtual therapy experience service. For example, the database 25 may store the membership information of the user, medical information and treatment information, virtual activity information, health numerical value information, etc. separately for each user.

Thus, the virtual therapy experience according to the present invention enables the user to confirm the change of his / her health state, and he / she is motivated to improve surplus satisfaction when the health state is good and to improve the health state of the avatar when the health state is deteriorated .

In addition, through the virtual therapy experience according to the present invention, the treatment period of the treatment program is warned, and it is possible to predict the state change of the avatar while observing the state of the avatar applying the change of the health value according to the virtual activity, .

Hereinafter, a case where the virtual therapy experience service according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied to the chemotherapy treatment service will be described as an example. However, it is obvious that the present invention is not limited to the anticancer therapy service but can be applied to other disease treatments.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a current status display screen provided when a user logs in according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 (a) And a status display screen, respectively.

Referring to FIG. 3 (a), the default value of the health value may be preset according to the elapsed days of the treatment program in the present embodiment. By using default values of the preset health values, the avatar can be displayed differently over the treatment period.

For example, when the elapsed days of the treatment program is on the eighth day, the health value becomes 42, and as shown in Fig. 3 (b), the health status of the avatar's current status display screen is displayed .

3B, the current status display screen of the avatar according to the present embodiment includes an area for displaying the elapsed days of the treatment program, an area for displaying basic information of the user, An area for displaying the state of health of the user, and the like.

The area for displaying basic information of the user may include name, age, weight, disease name, medicine name, specificity, and the like.

The area for displaying the avatar may be configured such that only the face of the avatar is displayed or the whole body is displayed. And when the whole body is displayed, the change in body weight can be reflected.

The area indicating the health status may include a health value and a blood test value, which are expressed by quantifying the current state of health of the avatar. For example, health levels can be calculated by converting percentages of leukocytes, absolute neutrophils, hemoglobin, platelets, and AST / ALT levels, which are key indicators of chemotherapy. Blood test values can be white blood cells, hemoglobin, platelets, absolute neutrophils, AST / ALT levels.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a display state of an avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 (a) shows a case where the display state of the avatar is largely divided into three stages, FIG. 4 And the display state of the avatar is subdivided for each step.

4 (a) and 4 (b), the display state of the avatar can be largely divided into Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. The level of the avatar can be divided into Level 1, Level 2, , Hand syndrome, vomiting (zone sensation, stomatitis), hair loss 1, hair loss 2, hair loss 3.

The display state of such an avatar reflects the adverse effects that occur depending on the progress of the treatment program.

5 is a diagram illustrating a prescription information generation screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can provide a GUI screen implemented to display and select an anticancer agent to be used in chemotherapy. To this end, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 collects and stores all the treatment program information of various chemotherapy therapies.

That is, the medical staff of the hospital can access the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 through the medical terminal 30, and enter the treatment program information and prescription information for the patient.

At this time, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 provides a GUI screen for inputting patient information (not shown), and then displays the GUI screen to be used for the treatment program so that the treatment program information can be input as shown in FIG. A GUI screen for selecting drugs can be provided.

6 is a diagram illustrating prescription information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 6, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 according to the present invention can provide a GUI screen displaying a user's prescription information when a user generates an avatar. At this time, the prescription information may be inputted and stored in advance from the medical terminal, provided through inquiry and search using the login information of the user, or may be acquired after requesting to the medical terminal.

* The GUI screen showing the prescription information can be implemented so as to display the name of the prescribed medicine, the symptom to take the medicine, the number of days that can be taken, and confirmation of receipt. For example, when the recipient icon is clicked, the medicine is received and displayed in the medicine box (not shown), and the receipt icon can be changed to the receipt completion icon. Here, the prescription medicines can be prescribed in the same manner as the medicines taken during the actual treatment program.

7 is a diagram illustrating a virtual village according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 7, in this embodiment, a virtual environment in which an avatar is active can be implemented in a virtual village form, and a GUI screen constituted of a virtual village including a hospital, a pharmacy, a shop, .

This allows the user to use avatars to perform virtual activities such as purchasing ingredients in the store, walking the park or exercising at the gym.

For example, when an avatar moves in front of each building, an icon for entering is created to enable entrance, or when the avatar is moved toward the inside of the building using the movement key, the entrance is automatically performed. A moved GUI screen can be provided.

8 is a diagram illustrating crop cultivation during a virtual activity according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 8, in this embodiment, a GUI screen for selecting a crop to be cultivated in a garden can be provided, and the GUI screen displays images and names of crops, time required for growing the crops, Icons, and the like. Selecting the detailed description icon may display tips on the characteristics of the crop and how it can help you with your disease.

A crop image can be provided in the form of a thumbnail on the GUI screen, and when a specific crop is selected and a cultivation icon is selected, a process of planting and cultivating a specific crop selected in a garden can be seen. Thereafter, when the cultivation of the crop is completed, the user can be informed through the notification, and the crop can be harvested through the harvesting (harvesting) icon. The crops thus harvested can be registered and managed as a holding crop, and can be implemented to be subtracted from the use of the holding crop through cooking and presenting.

9 is a diagram illustrating cooking during virtual activity according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9, in the present embodiment, a GUI screen for selecting a food to be cooked may be provided, and the GUI screen may include a food name, required materials and possessed materials, a cooking start icon, An icon and a recipe icon may also be included that provide instructions on how to help the user when treating the food.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an avatar in a virtual activity according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 10, in the present invention, when a user performs a virtual activity such as cooking, reading, walking, or exercising using his avatar, the avatar may be implemented so that the avatar is reflected in the virtual activity.

For example, in the case of cooking, a kitchen is used to prepare dishes using cooking utensils. In reading, a book is read. In the case of exercise, a player uses a fitness apparatus and a body to perform exercises. You can display the appearance.

11 is a diagram illustrating a virtual therapy experience providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 11, a method of providing a virtual therapy experience according to the present invention includes: first, a medical staff of a hospital accesses a virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 through a medical terminal 30 (S1101) The avatar of the patient can be generated (S1102).

When the medical treatment terminal 30 is connected to the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can perform the login procedure for the medical staff. If the medical treatment experience providing apparatus 20 is a non-member, You can proceed with the membership process. In addition, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can provide a GUI screen for entering medical information of a patient and a GUI screen for generating an avatar, respectively. At this time, the medical care terminal 30 displays the provided GUI screen, and inputs the medical information of the speaker or generates the avatar according to the displayed GUI screen.

Then, the medical staff can input the treatment program information and prescription information of the patient through the medical care terminal 30, and set the current state of the patient by setting the health value and the degree of vomiting (S1103).

A plurality of user terminals 10 may be connected to the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 at step S1104 and the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 may be connected to a plurality of user terminals 10 and virtual therapy experience providing apparatuses 20) (step S1105).

Then, the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 can store and manage the membership information of the user and the medical information, the avatar generation information, the treatment program information, the prescription information, and various setting information for each patient inputted by the medical staff ( S1106). At this time, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can inquire the matching medical information of the patient using the membership information of the user. If there is medical information of the matching patient, the avatar, the treatment program information, and the prescription information of the patient can be inquired.

Then, the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 can start the treatment program of the patient corresponding to the user and display the set avatar of the user (S1107). At this time, the displayed avatar may be set by the medical staff to display the current state of the user.

Subsequently, when the virtual activity selection information and the control request therefor are inputted through the user terminal 10 (S1108), the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 provides the virtual activity according to the virtual activity selection information (S1109) The user terminal 10 may display a GUI screen according to the provided virtual activity (S1110).

Then, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can assign the added and subtracted points according to the virtual activity, and apply the added and subtracted points to the virtual health care experience providing apparatus 20 (S1111).

Then, the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 can display the avatar by changing the display state of the avatar according to the re-calculated health value (S1112).

In other words, according to the present invention, when a user performs a virtual activity that is helpful for a treatment, a positive point is given to a positive change in the display form of the avatar, thereby naturally inducing a positive attitude toward the patient's treatment. Conversely, when a user performs a virtual activity that is not helpful in the treatment, a subtraction point is given to make a negative change in the display form of the avatar, thereby reminding the importance of compliance to the treatment program and inducing an accurate treatment process.

12 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the virtual activity selection and control request input process shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 12, a virtual activity selection and control request input step (S1109) may display a GUI screen displaying an avatar in a virtual village provided from the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 (S1201).

Then, the user can select the virtual activity menu (S1202 to S1209) and request control according to the selected virtual activity (S1210). Fictitious activities may be at least one or more of the following actions: taking medication, cooking, walking, growing crops, exercising, shopping and communities.

Then, a GUI screen according to the selected virtual activity may be provided from the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 and displayed (S1211). Here, the GUI screen according to the virtual activity may be displayed, for example, drug information to be taken if the selected virtual activity is a drug, and if the selected virtual activity is cooking, the avatar may be displayed as shown in FIG. 10 And an avatar of the action to be performed may be displayed. That is, the GUI screen according to the virtual activity can display the state in which the avatar executes the virtual activity.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a virtual activity scenario according to the medication shown in FIG. 12. FIG.

13, in the present embodiment, if the virtual activity selected by the user terminal 10 is a medication, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 inquires the prescription information of the user and includes prescription information of the inquired user To the user terminal 10 (S1301).

Then, the user terminal 10 displays a GUI screen including prescription information (S1302), and may request the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 to receive the prescription drug (S1303).

Then, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can process the receipt of the prescription drug, store the received medication in the user's medicine box (S1304), and provide the drug taking alarm to the user terminal 10 in accordance with the dosing time (S1305).

Then, when the drug is taken in response to the drug taking alarm at the user terminal 10 (S1306, Y), the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 can record the drug taking information of the user (S1307).

On the other hand, if the user does not take the medication by the user terminal 10 (S 1306, N), the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can deduct the health value by giving the user a reduction point (S 1111 ).

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the health numeric value re-calculation process and the avatar display state changing process shown in FIG.

14, the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 can acquire the virtual therapy experience using the virtual therapy experience providing apparatus 20 by using the treatment program progress date information S1401, the drug taking information S1402, the food intake information S1403 and the exercise information S1404, The addition and subtraction points for each activity can be inquired (S1405).

Then, the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 can apply the searched added and subtracted points to the health values set according to the elapsed time of the treatment program, so as to calculate the health values (S1406).

Subsequently, the virtual therapy experience providing device 20 inquires the display state of the avatar corresponding to the re-calculated health value (S1407), and displays the current avatar display state by changing the displayed state of the avatar displayed (S1408). Here, the display state of the avatar is set so as to change with the duration of the treatment program, and the display state of the avatar can be determined by the default value of the health value set for each date.

The present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Accordingly, the disclosed embodiments are to be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense, and all differences within the scope of equivalents thereof should be construed as being included in the present invention.

Further, the apparatus and method according to the present invention can be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of the recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like, and a carrier wave (for example, transmission via the Internet). The computer-readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

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A first step of obtaining treatment information including medical information including a patient's disease name and blood level, treatment program information, and prescription information;
A second step of calculating health value information in which the current health state of the patient is quantified based on the health information of the patient and selecting a display image of the avatar corresponding to the calculated health value information;
Performing virtual activity according to an operation command from the user terminal of the patient and providing an additive point and a subtraction point according to a progress result of the virtual activity;
Calculating a health value of the patient using the health value information set according to the elapsed days of the treatment program, the provided addition and subtraction points;
Changing the display image of the avatar according to the calculated health value of the patient; And
Displaying the avatar of the other user terminal in a virtual space and providing a community activity with the other user terminal,
Providing a GUI screen capable of receiving the medical information to the medical care terminal and a GUI screen capable of receiving the treatment information;
Receiving the medical information according to a GUI screen capable of receiving the medical information from the medical service terminal, receiving the treatment information according to a GUI screen capable of receiving the treatment information, And
Inquiring the medical information of the patient and the treatment information based on the membership information of the patient
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Wherein the prescription information includes information on the type and time of the prescription medicine prescribed by the actual hospital and provides an alarm function to take the prescription medicine when a preset time is reached according to the dose time information, And if the prescription drug is not used, re-calculating the health value of the patient to change the avatar display image. The method according to claim 1,
Setting a health value for each of the elapsed days of the treatment period of the treatment program before the first step, generating a display image of the avatar applying the physical side effects generated by the progress of the treatment program stepwise, And setting an image differently according to a health value range. The method according to claim 1,
And the step (2) further comprises setting a virtual therapy experience service period in the same manner as the treatment period of the treatment program based on the treatment information of the patient, and then starting the treatment program Delivery method. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the step (c) further comprises the step of providing a help for explaining the effect of the virtual activity on the treatment in the course of the virtual activity. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the virtual activity is one of drug taking, cooking, walking, crop cultivation, exercise, shopping and community activities. A patient information management unit for obtaining treatment information including medical information including a patient's disease name and blood level, treatment program information, and prescription information;
A virtual activity providing unit for carrying out a virtual activity according to an operation command from the user terminal of the patient and giving an additive point and a subtraction point according to the progress result of the virtual activity; And
Calculating a health numerical value in which the current health state of the patient is quantified based on the blood level of the patient, selecting a first display image of the avatar corresponding to the calculated health numerical value information, The health value information of the patient is re-calculated using the set health value information, the added and subtracted points, and the first display image of the avatar is changed to the second display image according to the health value information of the re-calculated patient And a control unit,
The prescription information includes information on the type and the time of taking the prescription medicine prescribed in the actual hospital,
Wherein the control unit provides an alarm function to take the prescribed medicine when a predetermined time according to the dose time information arrives and re-calculates the health value of the patient when the prescription drug is not taken according to the preset time, The display image of the second avatar is changed to the third display image,
The virtual activity providing unit may be configured to link other user terminals connected through a network communication network, display an avatar of the other user terminal in a virtual space, provide a community activity with the other user terminal,
The patient information management unit,
A GUI screen for inputting the medical information to a medical care terminal and a GUI screen for receiving the medical treatment information, and receiving the medical information according to a GUI screen capable of receiving the medical information from the medical service terminal And receiving the treatment information according to a GUI screen capable of receiving the treatment information, and inquiring the medical information and the treatment information of the patient based on membership information of the patient. The method of claim 6,
A display image of an avatar generated by stepwise applying the obtained health information and treatment information, health numerical value information set for the elapsed days of the treatment period of the treatment program, and a physical side effect caused by the progress of the treatment program, And a database for storing matching information matching the display image of the avatar generated for each numerical range. The method of claim 7,
The virtual activity is one of drug taking, cooking, walking, crop cultivation, exercise, shopping and community activities,
Wherein the virtual activity providing unit gives each of the points of addition at the time of ingesting the prescribed food which is helpful for the treatment, the walking and the exercise, respectively. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the virtual activity providing unit provides a message transmission function and a chat function to an avatar of another user terminal existing in the virtual space when providing the community activity. The method of claim 7,
The control unit sets a virtual therapy experience service period in the same manner as the treatment period of the treatment program based on the treatment information of the patient, selects the first display image of the avatar of the patient, And counting the elapsed days of the therapy program.

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