KR20160140109A - Hospital management system and method for managing patient information based on beacon - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a hospital management system and a beacon-based hospital management method, capable of accurately and precisely identifying a position of a patient based on a beacon and providing more various and efficient medical services based on the position of the patient. The method includes: a step of enabling a hospital server to recognize a patient terminal possessed by at least one patient; a step of calculating at least one among a patient treatment place, a waiting time and turn, a route from the current position of the patient to the place, and whether the patient enters the place or not based on a treatment condition of a medical team and the current position and treatment reception records of each patient, and then guiding the information through each patient terminal; a step of tracking the current position of the patient terminal of the patient to be treated, and then confirming whether the patient enters the treatment place or not; and a step of searching for and obtaining a treatment chart of the patient and then automatically providing the chart to a terminal of the medical team in the treatment place which the patient enters.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a hospital management system and a beacon-based patient information management method,

The present invention relates to a hospital management system, and more particularly, to a hospital management system and a beacon management system that enable a more precise and accurate identification of a patient's location in a hospital based on a beacon, Based patient information management method.

The patients who come to the hospital today are suffering from the complex system and structure of the hospital. However, most of the information provided by the hospital staff is provided by the kiosk (kiosk), which provides a simple introduction and guidance to the hospital, which limits the difficulties faced by the patients.

In order to solve the above problems, researches are actively conducted to provide detailed medical information to patients using mobile computing. The existing methods of providing medical information using mobile computing include a context-aware system that recognizes the patient's situation and provides information, a location-based system that provides information based on the patient's location, And a general hospital guide service provided. However, the existing research has a problem that the initial construction cost is increased because a separate device must be used to recognize the patient's situation, location, and the like.

On the other hand, prior art references cited below provide a way for the patient to be aware of the waiting time and situation. However, the cited prior art document lists the medical treatment items and the waiting time sequentially according to the entered medical care, does not take into consideration the waiting time of each medical care that the patient should receive, There is a fatal disadvantage that it occurs.

From this point of view, it can be seen that there is a need for a technical means of scheduling the care order taking into account the waiting time of each treatment item to reduce the expected time of the patient.

In addition, in acquiring medical information of a patient through a medical device such as an X-ray imaging device, a CT imaging device, and an MRI imaging device, it is necessary for the medical staff to directly control the medical device to determine whose medical information the patient acquires, It is troublesome to determine where to store the server and the like. In addition, there are frequent problems that medical information between patients is mixed due to a slight operation error of the medical staff.

Korean Patent No. 10-2011-0128492 (November 30, 2011)

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a hospital management system and a beacon-based system that can more precisely and precisely locate a patient based on a beacon and provide various and efficient medical services based on a patient location, And the like.

The present invention also provides a hospital management system and a beacon-based patient information management method that enable the convenience of the medical staff and the accuracy of medical information acquisition to be dramatically increased by automatically setting the imaging environment of the medical device based on the patient location .

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.

As a means for solving the above problems, a beacon-based patient information management method of a hospital server having a plurality of beacon devices according to an embodiment of the present invention and interworking with at least one patient terminal and a medical care terminal, Recognizing a patient terminal carried by a hospital server in each of at least one patient; At least one of a patient visiting place, a waiting order number and time, a travel route from a patient's current location to a visiting place, and a visiting place admission is calculated based on a medical condition of a medical staff, a medical treatment reception history and a current position of each patient, Guiding through each of the patient terminals; A step of real-time tracking of the position of the patient terminal of the subject to be photographed and confirming the entry to the photographing room when the patient visiting place is the photographing room; And remotely controlling the medical device located in the photographing room to instruct the acquisition of the medical information of the patient to be photographed in the photographing room and additionally storing the obtained medical information as the patient information of the photographing subject patient .

The beacon-based patient information management method includes the steps of: real-time tracking of the position of the patient terminal of a patient to be examined and confirming admission to the examination room when the patient visiting place is a medical office; And automatically retrieving and acquiring patient information of the patient to be treated, and automatically providing the retrieved patient information to the medical care terminal located in an examination room entered by the patient.

Also, in the beacon-based patient information management method, when the patient visiting place is the guide / storage desk, after the patient to be stored is identified based on the storage state of the guide / storage desk, Requesting; And after confirming the access to the guidance / storage desk by tracking the position of the patient to be accommodated through the patient terminal of the patient to be stored, the storage information of the accommodation subject is automatically stored in the medical staff terminal located at the guidance / And a second step of providing the second step.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hospital management system comprising: a plurality of beacons distributed and installed in a hospital room to generate and wirelessly output a beacon signal to which identification information is mapped; A beacon receiver for receiving and analyzing beacon signals transmitted from the plurality of beacon devices to identify and notify a position of the patient in a hospital or to guide the externally transmitted guide information audibly to a patient, One patient terminal; A medical device which varies the image capturing environment according to patient information of a patient who has visited a photographing room and performs an operation of acquiring medical information according to the variable image capturing environment; A medical terminal, which is used by at least one medical staff and displays patient information transmitted from the outside, and updates the patient information by reflecting input items of the medical staff; And the medical condition and the storage status of the medical staff from time to time based on the medical treatment situation and the storage situation, the medical treatment reception history and the current position of each patient, The medical device or the medical care terminal located at the visiting place, when the patient who has been informed of the entrance to the visiting place enters the visiting place, And a hospital server for automatically providing information on the patient who has been informed of the entrance to the place of visit.

The present invention relates to a system and a method for diagnosing a patient visiting a hospital by informing the medical staff to visit, the place of visit and the waiting order and time, And a storage guidance service.

In addition, after confirming whether or not a patient visits a medical office or a guidance / storage desk, the information of the patient is automatically displayed, thereby minimizing the information retrieval operation of the medical staff. Accordingly, You can spend a lot of time and effort.

In addition, by sensing that the patient to be photographed enters the photographing room in which the photographing is conducted, and setting the photographing environment of the medical device located in the photographing room automatically based on the patient information of the photographing target patient, Which can dramatically increase accuracy.

1 is a block diagram of a hospital management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a distributed configuration of a beacon device in a hospital management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a detailed block diagram of a hospital server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a beacon-based patient information management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a beacon-based patient information management method according to another embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating a beacon-based patient information management method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

The terms used below are defined in consideration of the functions of the present invention, and these may vary depending on the patient, the intention or custom of the operator, and the like.

The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Only. Therefore, the definition should be based on the contents throughout this specification.

1 is a block diagram of a hospital management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the hospital management system of the present invention includes a plurality of beacon devices 100, at least one patient terminal 200, a hospital server 300, and at least one medical device 400 and at least one And the medical terminal 500 of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of beacon apparatuses 100 are distributed and installed in a hospital, and generate and wirelessly output a beacon signal to which their own positional information is mapped, so that at least one patient terminal 200, (In FIG. 2, a black hexagon means a beacon device).

For reference, a beacon is a Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE) protocol-based short-range wireless communication method, which enables communication between devices located within a maximum distance of 70m. It is highly suitable for realization of Internet (IoT) that all devices are connected at all times because of its high accuracy of location detection so that it can distinguish between 5 ~ 10 ㎝ units.

Beacon is one of the leading players in reviving Bluetooth technology, which has fallen down to the internet age. Bluetooth technology, which has been attracted by the near-file sharing in the early days of the introduction of smartphones, has been forgotten due to the spread of Wi-Fi networks and 3G (3G) and LTE (fourth-generation mobile) rates. Bluetooth was again attracted attention because O2O service required fixed location based LAN technology different from LTE. It has been forgotten in the minds of patients, but it has come to light through the Internet of Things, which is a new way of improving technology.

NFC (proximity wireless communication), which is applied to a distance of less than 10 cm, has been popularized with the technology that will lead to the Internet of things in the beginning. But as the patients turned away from the NFC, the ball went back to the beacon. Beacons have a longer usable distance than NFC and can provide a space-based patient experience. Providing indoor location information, which was impossible with GPS technology, is also a benefit of Beacon.

At least one patient terminal 200 may be a mobile terminal carried by a patient or a communication terminal distributed by a hospital. After receiving the beacon signal generated by each of the plurality of beacon devices 100, the reception intensity of each of the beacon signals is compared and analyzed by a triangulation method or the like to identify the indoor position of the patient, (E.g., a patient's name, a patient's resident registration number, a patient's contact number, etc.) or terminal identification information Allows real-time tracking of each patient's location.

In addition, various guide information provided from the hospital server 300 is visually and audibly guided, so that the patient can know where and how to wait through the patient terminal carried by the patient, where to go for medical treatment, So that they can understand it.

The hospital server 300 registers and manages a patient terminal corresponding to each patient. Based on the location information provided by each patient terminal, the location of each of the patients is tracked, and based on this, it is possible to provide a variety of location-based services such as medical treatment and reception guidance operation, medical device remote control operation, .

In other words, after the patient's medical treatment reception history and current position, medical treatment situation and storage situation of the medical staff are grasped, the patient visiting place, the waiting order number and time, the traveling route from the patient's current position to the visiting place, And informs the patient terminal 200 of at least one of the entrance and exit.

Particularly, in the present invention, when the patient visiting place is the photographing room, the position of the patient terminal of the patient to be photographed is tracked in real time, and the entrance to the photographing room is confirmed. Then, the medical device located in the photographing room is remotely controlled, Information acquisition means for acquiring image information, and acquiring shooting information in response to the acquired shooting information. That is, in the present invention, the hospital server 300 automatically performs the patient setting operation instead of the medical staff, unlike the conventional case where the medical staff directly inputs the patient who is currently taking the medical image by operating the medical instrument 400 directly .

In addition, when the patient's place of visit is the medical office, the information of the patient to be treated is automatically provided to the medical staff located in the medical office in response to the position of the patient's medical office, And to provide services.

In addition, if the patient moves out of the guidance area and moves to the wrong place, the medical staff terminal is informed of the patient's location information together with the warning message, thereby allowing the medical staff to take quick action for the situation.

The medical device 400 can be applied to various medical devices such as an X-ray imaging device, a CT imaging device, and an MRI imaging device, and captures and stores medical information of a specific patient under the control of the hospital server 300.

The medical terminal 500 is a variety of computing devices used by medical staff such as medical staff and nurses to display patient information (for example, electronic medical charts, storage information) automatically provided from the hospital server 300, This helps them to provide optimal medical services to patients. Also, when the patient information is modified or updated by the medical staff, the patient information is transmitted to the hospital server 300 again so that the patient information can be continuously managed by the hospital server 300. [

3 is a detailed block diagram of a hospital server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3, the hospital server 300 of the present invention includes a patient information management unit 310, a patient location tracking unit 320, a medical care and housekeeping condition check unit 33, a patient terminal control unit 340, A device control unit 350, a medical care terminal control unit 360, and a communication unit 370.

The patient information management unit 310 stores and manages personal information of each patient, a medical treatment acceptance history, an electronic medical chart, and terminal identification information of the patient terminal.

The patient position tracking unit 320 tracks the position of each patient in real time based on the position information transmitted from each of the patient terminals 200 registered by the patient information management unit 310.

The medical care and housekeeping condition check unit 330 checks the medical care status and the storage condition of each medical care member from time to time.

The patient terminal control unit 340 is configured to determine the patient's place of visit, the waiting order and time of each patient, the travel route from the patient's current location to the visiting place, and the route to the destination, based on the patient's reception details, Information on the entrance to the visiting place, generates guide information including the guide information, and provides the guide information to each of the patient terminals 200.

The medical device control unit 350 grasps the patient to visit each of the photographing rooms based on the medical treatment acceptance history of each patient, the medical care situation of each medical staff, and the storage situation. If it is confirmed that the patient to be photographed enters the photographing room based on the position of each of the patient terminals 200, the medical information photographing environment of the medical device is set based on the patient information, .

In addition, if the patient to be photographed enters the photographing room or does not enter the photographing subject for a predetermined period of time or more, the medical staff terminal is informed of the positional information of the patient together with the warning message so that the medical staff can take quick action .

The medical care terminal control unit 360 grasps the patients to visit each of the medical staffs based on the medical treatment acceptance history of each patient, the medical care situation of each medical staff, and the storage situation. When the patient is confirmed to visit a specific place based on the location of each of the patient terminals 200, the information of the patient is searched and provided so that the medical staff can immediately provide the medical service .

The medical care terminal control unit 360 also informs the medical care terminal of the location information of the patient along with a warning message if the visiting patient moves out of the place where the visit is received and goes to the wrong place.

The communication unit 370 generates a wired or wireless communication channel with the patient terminal 200 and the medical terminal 500, and transmits / receives various data through the wired or wireless communication channel.

FIG. 4 illustrates a beacon-based patient information management method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, which is a method for automatically setting an image capturing environment of a medical device located in a photographing room based on information of a patient to be photographed .

When the patient who visited the hospital receives the medical care at the information / reception desk and simultaneously requests the patient terminal registration by inputting the patient terminal identification information (for example, telephone number or device specific number) The patient terminal identification information is mapped to the information to complete the patient terminal registration operation (S1).

The hospital server 300 requests the patient terminal 200 to provide the patient position information to the patient terminal 200. The patient terminal 200 responds to the beacon signal transmitted from the beacon device 100 installed in the hospital, And then notifies the hospital server 300 of the position of the patient in the hospital from time to time. That is, the hospital server 300 keeps track of the patient position while communicating with the patient terminal 200 (S2).

Then, the hospital server 300 calculates the route of travel from the current location of the patient to the visiting place, the order of waiting and the time of the waiting, the current position of the patient, and the current position of the patient, And guides the patient through the patient terminal 200 (S3).

If the visiting place of the patient is the photographing room (S4), the user is guided to the photographing room through the patient terminal 200 (S5) The patient's position is tracked in real time through the patient terminal 200 of the patient to be photographed and the entrance to the photographing room is finally confirmed (S5).

If it is determined in step S5 that the patient in the current photographing sequence does not enter the patient for a predetermined period of time or a patient other than the patient to be photographed enters (S6), a warning message is output through the medical terminal 500, So that the medical staff directly finds the patient and guides the entrance of the photographing room (S7).

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S5 that the patient of the patient to be photographed normally enters the photographing room, the hospital server 300 acquires the information on the person to be photographed of the medical device 400 , The physical condition of the person to be photographed, the region to be photographed, and the cautionary notes upon photographing. That is, the image capturing environment of the medical device 400 located in the photographing room is automatically set (S8).

When the medical staff confirms that the image capturing environment is appropriately set through the medical device 400 and requests the execution of the image capturing information acquisition operation, the medical device 400 acquires the image capturing information of the patient to be captured according to the currently set image capturing environment (S9).

When the photographing information acquiring operation in step S9 is completed, the user exits the photographing room again through the patient terminal 200 of the photographing target patient (S10).

Then, the hospital server 300 updates the patient information based on the imaging information acquired in step S9 and stores it in its database (S11). At the same time, the medical care situation of the medical staff is updated By re-entry (S12), the waiting sequence number and time of each patient are updated and re-guided (S3) based on the updated medical care situation, and the patient in the next step can enter the imaging room (S4).

The electronic medical chart of the patient is searched and obtained and automatically provided to the medical terminal 500 located in the clinic. That is, in the present invention, the hospital server 300 automatically pops up the electronic medical chart of the patient on the screen of the medical terminal 200 by the central control method, so that the medical staff does not have to search the electronic medical chart of the patient separately (S7).

After the predetermined period of time has elapsed and the medical care of the patient is completed and the medical staff inputs the completion of the medical treatment of the patient through the medical terminal 500, the patient is discharged from the patient room through the patient terminal 200 of the patient (S9), the contents of the electronic medical care chart are updated by reflecting the entry of the electronic medical care chart of the medical staff, and the updated electronic medical care chart is stored in the database of the hospital server 300 (S10).

In addition, the hospital server 300 updates the medical care situation of the medical staff, and then re-enters the step S3 (S11), updates and redirects the waiting order and time of each patient based on the updated medical care situation (S3) The patient in the next treatment order is instructed to enter the treatment room (S4).

FIG. 5 illustrates a beacon-based patient information management method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, which is a method for automatically providing various information about a patient in a current order of care to a medical care terminal.

If the above-mentioned patient's visit place is not the photographing room but the medical examination room (S4), the medical treatment situation of the medical staff is checked at any time, and the patient's terminal 200 is informed of the entrance to the examination room (S21), the patient's location is tracked in real time through the patient terminal 200 of the patient to be examined, and the entrance to the office is finally confirmed (S22).

As a result of the check in step S22, if the patient of the current medical care order does not enter the patient so that the predetermined time has elapsed or a patient other than the patient to be treated enters, a warning message is outputted through the medical staff terminal 500 and the position of the patient So that the medical staff directly finds the patient and guides the user to the office (S23).

On the other hand, if it is determined in S22 that the patient in the current medical care order normally enters the clinic, the hospital server 300 retrieves and obtains the patient information (i.e., electronic medical chart and medical device photographing information) The terminal 400 is automatically provided. That is, in the present invention, the hospital server 300 automatically pops up various information of the patient on the screen of the medical terminal 200 in a central control manner, thereby making it unnecessary for the medical staff to search the information of the patient separately (S24 ).

After the predetermined period of time has elapsed and the medical care of the patient is completed and the medical staff inputs the completion of the medical treatment of the patient through the medical treatment terminal 400 at step S25, (S26), the patient information including the electronic medical chart is updated, and the updated patient information is stored in the database of the hospital server 300 (S27) .

Then, the hospital server 300 updates the medical care situation of the medical staff and then re-enters the step S3 described above (S28), updates and redirects the waiting order number and time of each patient on the basis of the updated medical staff medical condition (S3), the patient in the next examination order is guided to the office (S4).

As described above, according to the present invention, when a patient who is in the current treatment order enters the clinic in consideration of the medical condition of the medical staff and the position of the patient, various information of the patient is automatically popped up on the medical terminal 500, It does not need to perform separate tasks such as searching and retrieving information of the patient to be treated at present.

FIG. 6 illustrates a beacon-based patient information management method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, which is a method for automatically providing payment information for a patient in a current storage order to a guide / storage desk.

In step S26, the hospital server 300 confirms that the patient who has completed the medical treatment has been withdrawn from the examination room. Based on the patient's medical treatment end time, the reception / reception desk storage state, and the patient's present position, Time, and the route from the patient's current position to the storage location, and then guides the user through the patient terminal 200 (S31).

The hospital server 300 periodically confirms the storage status of the guide / storage desk and requests the storage progress through the patient terminal 200 at the time of the storage order of the patient (S32) To track the position of the patient and confirm access to the guidance / storage desk (S33).

As a result of checking in step S13, if the patient in the current storage order approaches the guidance / storage desk, the hospital server 300 acquires the storage information of the patient and automatically provides the information to the medical terminal 500 located at the guidance / storage desk . That is, the hospital server 300 of the present invention automatically provides not only the patient's medical charts but also the stored information to the medical terminal 200 in a centralized manner, thereby maximizing the convenience of the medical staff (S34).

When the receipt of the patient is completed (S35), the route from the current position of the patient to the hospital exit is calculated and guided through the patient terminal 200 (S35).

Then, the hospital server 300 updates the storage status of the medical staff and then re-enters the step S3 (S36), thereby updating and re-instructing the standby order number and time of each patient waiting for storage based on the updated medical staff storage status (S3).

In the above-described embodiment, the visit place of the patient is described as the clinic and the information desk. However, it is needless to say that it can be variously changed according to the size and the size of the hospital and the kind of places to visit.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (4)

A beacon-based patient information management method for a hospital server having a plurality of beacon devices and interacting with at least one patient terminal and a medical care terminal,
The hospital server
Recognizing a patient terminal carried in each of at least one patient;
At least one of a patient visiting place, a waiting order number and time, a travel route from a patient's current location to a visiting place, and a visiting place admission is calculated based on a medical condition of a medical staff, a medical treatment reception history and a current position of each patient, Guiding through each of the patient terminals;
A step of real-time tracking of the position of the patient terminal of the subject to be photographed and confirming the entry to the photographing room when the patient visiting place is the photographing room; And
Further comprising the step of remotely controlling the medical device located in the photographing room to instruct the acquisition of medical information of the patient to be photographed in the photographing room and further storing the obtained medical information as patient information of the photographing subject patient A beacon-based patient information management method. The method according to claim 1,
Checking the position of the patient terminal of the patient to be examined in real time and confirming the position of the patient terminal when the patient visiting place is the examination room; And
The method comprising the steps of: retrieving and acquiring patient information of a patient to be treated, and automatically providing the information to the medical care terminal located in an office where the patient is entered. 3. The method of claim 2,
When the patient visiting place is the guide / storage desk, requesting the storage progress through the patient terminal of the storage subject after recognizing the storage target patient based on the storage state of the guide / storage desk;
The position of the patient to be accommodated is tracked through the patient terminal of the patient to be accommodated to confirm access to the guide / storage desk, and then the housekeeping information of the accommodating subject is automatically provided to the medical service terminal located at the guide / The method further comprising the steps of: A plurality of beacons distributed in a hospital room to generate and wirelessly output a beacon signal to which identification information is mapped;
A beacon receiver for receiving and analyzing beacon signals transmitted from the plurality of beacon devices to identify and notify a position of the patient in a hospital or to guide the externally transmitted guide information audibly to a patient, One patient terminal;
A medical device which varies the image capturing environment according to patient information of a patient who has visited a photographing room and performs an operation of acquiring medical information according to the variable image capturing environment;
A medical terminal, which is used by at least one medical staff and displays patient information transmitted from the outside, and updates the patient information by reflecting input items of the medical staff; And
The medical treatment situation and the storage situation of the medical staff are checked from time to time, and the patient visiting place, the waiting order number and time based on the medical treatment situation and the storage situation, the medical treatment reception history and the current position of each patient, The medical device or the medical treatment terminal located at the visiting place, when the patient who has been informed of the entrance to the visiting place enters the visiting place, A hospital management system including a hospital server that automatically provides information of a patient who is guided to a place.

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