KR20200045142A - Method for providing patient identification service in medical institution - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of providing a patient identification service in a medical institution, capable of accurately identifying whether a patient is a subject to a treatment by using a near field communications (NFC) technology. The method of providing a patient identification service in a medical institution comprises: a first step of allowing a patient terminal having an NFC chip in which patient identification information is stored to be recognized by NFC at a reception desk or a medical institution terminal in a medical office; a second step of receiving, through the medical institution terminal, the patient identification information recognized through the patient terminal by NFC; a third step of identifying a patient by using the received patient identification information when the patient identification information is received through the medical institution terminal; and a fourth step of allowing picture data of the identified patient to be displayed on the medical institution terminal together with a pop-up window including the patient identification information.

Description

METHOD FOR PROVIDING PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SERVICE IN MEDICAL INSTITUTION}

The present invention relates to a method for providing a patient identification service in a medical institution, and relates to a method for providing a patient identification service in a medical institution that can accurately check whether a patient is a patient to be treated using near field communication (NFC) technology.

Patient identification is the accurate identification of patients in all diagnosis and treatment processes to provide safe and accurate treatment and medical services to patients. Patient identification is the most important first step in patient safety.

In general, when a medical institution such as a general hospital wants to receive treatment / treatment, a patient identification procedure is performed prior to the treatment / treatment process. The patient's name, gender, and date of birth are mainly used as patient identification information. This is a very cumbersome procedure for the patient because it is performed by manually filling out the patient identification information or providing it to a medical institution computer while the nurse asks the patient identification information interactively.

In addition, most of these patient identification procedures are not directly checked by the clinician, but are mostly provided by nurses. Therefore, if the clinician causes a mistake, the wrong patient, not the patient to be treated, enters the office and receives medical treatment. Can occur.

A frequent patient identification error is a patient with the same name or a similar name. For example, there is a person with the same name as 'Lee Jun-Oh' and 'Lee Joon-Ho', both of whom have the same gender and similar age, and assuming that the patient to be treated is 'Lee Jun-Oh', the doctor is the patient If 'Junho Lee' is incorrectly recognized, it is possible to perform medical treatment by receiving the information of 'Junho Lee', not the target of medical treatment, from the EMR system, rather than 'Junoh Lee', the target of medical treatment, at the terminal of his medical institution. It can be the cause of the wrong treatment.

Such a problem may be further exacerbated in the case of the elderly, and another problem in which the treatment time is wasted occurs when the doctor goes through the patient identification procedure.

The present invention has been devised to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method for providing a patient identification service in a medical institution that can prevent a patient identification error by allowing an accurate identification of a patient to be treated using NFC technology. Is to provide.

According to an aspect of the present invention, in a method for providing a patient identification service in a medical institution for identification of a patient to be treated, a patient terminal in which an NFC chip in which patient identification information is stored is embedded is received through near field communication (NFC). Or a first step of recognizing the terminal of the medical institution in the clinic; A second step of receiving patient identification information recognizing the patient terminal through short-range communication through the medical institution terminal; When receiving the patient identification information through the medical institution terminal, a third step of identifying the patient using the received patient identification information; And a fourth step of displaying the identified patient's picture data on a medical institution terminal along with a pop-up window including patient identification information.

In addition, the pop-up window is characterized in that it may include three or more patient identification information of the patient's name, age, date of birth, telephone number, patient terminal registration number, patient ID.

In addition, it characterized in that it further comprises a fifth step of checking the presence or absence of the appointment of the identified patient.

In addition, if there is a medical reservation, it is characterized in that it further comprises a sixth step of providing a mobile route map having the mobile route information based on the location information and the medical reservation information received from the patient terminal.

In addition, in the sixth step of providing the movement route map, obtaining medical room information from the medical reservation information, confirming the location of the patient terminal through a wireless access device (WAP), and obtaining the identified patient terminal location information and It is characterized in that it provides guidance on the movement route from the first point to the second point according to the information of the clinic.

According to the present invention, it is possible to accurately check whether the patient is the patient to be treated by using the NFC technology, which has a great effect in preventing a patient confirmation error. Therefore, all patients can be provided with safe medical service anytime, anywhere in the medical institution.

In addition, since it is possible to provide a movement path map having movement path information based on location information and medical reservation information received from the patient terminal, it is possible to maximize patient-centered convenience.

1 is a view illustrating a system for providing a patient confirmation service in a medical institution according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view for explaining the patient confirmation service providing server of FIG. 1.
3 and 4 are flowcharts illustrating a method for providing a patient identification service in a medical institution according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may easily practice. However, since the description of the present invention is only an example for structural or functional description, the scope of the present invention should not be interpreted as being limited by the examples described in the text. That is, since the embodiments can be variously modified and have various forms, it should be understood that the scope of the present invention includes equivalents capable of realizing technical ideas. In addition, the object or effect presented in the present invention does not mean that a specific embodiment should include all of them or only such an effect, and the scope of the present invention should not be understood as being limited thereby.

The meaning of the terms described in the present invention should be understood as follows.

Terms such as "first" and "second" are for distinguishing one component from other components, and the scope of rights should not be limited by these terms. For example, the first component may be referred to as the second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as the first component. When a component is said to be "connected" to another component, it may be understood that other components may exist in the middle, although they may be directly connected to the other component. On the other hand, when a component is said to be "directly connected" to another component, it should be understood that no other component exists in the middle. On the other hand, other expressions describing the relationship between the components, that is, "between" and "immediately between" or "adjacent to" and "directly neighboring to" should be interpreted similarly.

Singular expressions are to be understood as including plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, and terms such as "comprises" or "have" include the features, numbers, steps, actions, components, parts or components described. It is to be understood that a combination is intended to be present, and should not be understood as pre-excluding the presence or addition possibility of one or more other features or numbers, steps, operations, components, parts or combinations thereof.

All terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by a person skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains, unless otherwise defined. The terms defined in the commonly used dictionary should be interpreted to be consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art, and cannot be interpreted as having ideal or excessively formal meanings unless explicitly defined in the present invention.

Now, a method for providing a patient confirmation service in a medical institution according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

The NFC technology used in the present invention is one of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, and refers to a non-contact communication technology using a frequency band of 1356 MHz, which is a short-range wireless communication module that transmits data between terminals at a close distance of 10 cm. Since the communication distance is short in this way, it is known as a communication technology with relatively high security and low cost. It seems to be similar to the existing short-range communication technology such as Bluetooth, but has the advantage of not having to set between devices like Bluetooth.

1 is a view illustrating a system for providing a patient confirmation service in a medical institution according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a system for providing a patient confirmation service in a medical institution includes a patient terminal 110, a patient confirmation service providing server 120, a database 130, a medical institution terminal 140, an NFC reader 142, and a network 150 ).

The patient terminal 110 is a terminal used by a patient to receive medical treatment in a medical institution such as a hospital (for example, a communication terminal such as a PC, a laptop, or a mobile communication terminal such as a smartphone, a mobile phone, a PDA, etc.), NFC chip with patient identification information (e.g., name, gender, date of birth, phone number, etc.) is built-in, wireless network connection is possible, and 'patient verification service application' must be installed.

Here, the 'patient confirmation service providing application' provides various functions such as a patient terminal registration / medical reservation function, a patient confirmation function by patient identification information, and a function for guiding a route to a medical office when making a reservation, but using patient identification information It has a main feature in being able to identify the patient to be treated, and it is called an 'patient confirmation service providing application' in that it is an ancillary function such as appointment of appointments and directions to the route.

The patient identification service providing server 120 is a server for providing the patient identification service, and operates to control data transmission and reception between the patient terminal 110 and the medical institution terminal 140, and as described later, NFC and Provides a function for performing a patient identification procedure using information of the patient terminal 110.

In addition, the patient confirmation service providing server 120 may process patient terminal registration and medical appointment, and transmit the processed situation to the patient terminal 110.

In addition, the patient confirmation service providing server 120 may also provide a function of guiding a movement path to the corresponding medical office according to the medical reservation information and the location information of the patient terminal 110.

The database 130 stores data related to the patient identification service as a database. For example, the basic requirements of the patient terminal (eg, name, gender, date of birth, phone number, etc.), patient terminal registration and medical reservation related data, medical institution map information, and EMR / which stores patient's examination / medical records It stores and stores data related to the OCS system in a database.

The database 130 stores the picture data received when registering the patient terminal 110 for each patient.

In one embodiment, the database 130 may store a patient identification service program (that is, a patient identification service provision application) to enable a patient to receive a patient identification service.

The medical institution terminal 140 is a terminal that is installed in a reception desk, a medical office, etc. in a medical institution and performs reception procedures (for example, a communication terminal such as a PC, a laptop, or a mobile communication terminal such as a smartphone, a mobile phone, a PDA, etc.), The NFC reader 142 recognizes that the patient has visited, and can receive patient identification information for patient identification from the patient terminal 110.

Here, the patient identification information may include the patient's name, gender, date of birth, telephone number, and the like. In addition, the patient identification information may further include a patient terminal registration number and a patient ID issued by a medical institution. However, it is not limited thereto.

The network 150 includes a wired communication network or a wireless communication network, and communication between the patient terminal 110 and the patient identification service providing server 120 and communication between the patient identification service providing server 120 and the medical institution terminal 140 By connecting, it is possible to transmit and receive data between each other.

The patient identification service providing system 100 having the above-described configuration can accurately check whether the patient is the patient to be treated using NFC technology, and thus, medical accidents, etc., which may occur due to incorrect recognition of the patient to be treated in advance. It can be prevented.

In addition, the patient identification service providing system 100 can maximize a patient-centered convenience by providing a movement path map having movement path information based on location information and medical reservation information received from the patient terminal.

FIG. 2 is a view for explaining the patient confirmation service providing server of FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 2, the rotation alarm service providing server 120 includes an information receiving unit 121, a patient identification unit 122, a movement path providing unit 123, a reservation information processing unit 124, and a terminal location detection unit 125. , A pop-up window providing unit 126, and a control unit 127.

The information receiving unit 121 receives patient identification information through a medical institution terminal 140 that recognizes the patient terminal 110 through short-range communication between the patient terminal 110 and the NFC reader 142.

The patient identification unit 122 identifies the patient using the patient identification information received from the medical institution terminal 140.

The movement path providing unit 123 may provide a movement path map having movement path information based on location information and reservation information received from the patient terminal 110.

In particular, the mobile route providing unit 123 checks whether the identified patient has a medical appointment, and if a medical reservation exists, has the mobile path information based on the location information and the medical reservation information received from the patient terminal 110. You can provide a route map.

The reservation information processing unit 124 and the terminal location detection unit 125 serve to assist in providing a movement path map by the movement path providing unit 123.

That is, the reservation information processing unit 124 obtains the office information from the medical reservation information, and the terminal location detection unit 125 confirms the location of the patient terminal 110 by various methods, whereby the mobile route providing unit 123 According to the identified location information of the patient terminal 110 and the obtained medical room information, it is possible to provide a moving route guide.

The terminal location detector 125 may detect location information of the patient terminal 110 based on signal information received from the patient terminal 110.

Here, the signal information received from the patient terminal 110 may include one or more of RFID signal information, ultrasonic signal information, Wi-Fi signal information, Bluetooth signal information, GPS signal information.

In addition, the terminal location detection unit 125 may detect location information of the patient terminal 110 through an indoor location positioning system (WPS) using GPS and Wi-Fi.

Preferably, such an indoor positioning system (WPS) is mounted on the patient terminal 110, and in a medical institution, a wireless access device (WAP: Wireless Access Point) providing a Wi-Fi service to the patient terminal 110 (illustrated) No) is installed, and the terminal location detection unit 125 is connected through the network 150.

Therefore, the terminal location detection unit 125 can guide the movement path using the map information in the medical institution and the information of the wireless access device (WAP) located in the medical institution.

The pop-up window providing unit 126 allows a pop-up window including patient identification information to be displayed on the display of the medical institution terminal 140. At this time, the picture data received in the registration process of the patient terminal 110 may be provided together.

Here, the patient identification information may be the patient's name, age, date of birth, telephone number, patient terminal registration number, patient ID, and the like. Preferably, the pop-up window may include at least three or more patient identification information among the patient's name, age, date of birth, telephone number, patient terminal registration number, and patient ID. Therefore, the medical practitioner can accurately recognize whether the patient entering the treatment room is the patient to be treated by referring to the patient identification information and the picture in the pop-up window.

For example, there is a person with the same name of 'Lee Jun-Oh' and 'Lee Jun-Ho', both of whom have the same gender and similar age, and assuming that the patient to be treated is 'Lee Jun-Oh', the doctor is the patient to be treated. May be misrecognized as 'Junho Lee'. That is, the medical institution terminal 140 of the medical practitioner is in a state of receiving and displaying the information of 'Junho Lee' from the EMR system of the medical institution. At this time, on the display of the terminal 140 of his medical institution, patient identification information including the name of the patient to be treated, 'Jun Oh Lee' is displayed in the form of a pop-up window, and when a picture is displayed at the same time, the medical doctor incorrectly treats the patient to be treated You will recognize that you have recognized it, and you will be able to further verify its authenticity.

The control unit 127 controls the operation of each component.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a patient confirmation service in a medical institution according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the patient terminal 110 executes a patient confirmation service providing application to apply for patient terminal registration and medical reservation, and the patient confirmation service providing server 120 processes this to complete patient terminal registration and medical reservation It becomes (S100).

Thereafter, when the patient visits the medical institution and the patient terminal 110 contacts the NFC reader 142 in the reception desk or the medical office of the medical institution, and the recognition is successful (S110), the information receiving unit 121 through the medical institution terminal 140 The confirmation information is received (S120).

Specifically, the medical institution terminal 140 in the reception desk or the medical office of the medical institution recognizes the patient terminal 110 through the NFC reader 142 and transmits the patient identification information to the patient confirmation service providing server 120. That is, when the patient terminal 110 having the NFC chip in which the patient identification information is stored is contacted with the NFC reader 142 through short-range communication (NFC) and recognized by the reception terminal or the medical institution terminal 140 in the clinic, the information receiving unit 121 ) Receives the patient identification information through the medical institution terminal 140 that recognizes the patient terminal 110 through short-range communication.

Next, the patient identification unit 122 identifies the patient using the patient identification information received from the medical institution terminal 140.

For example, the identification of a patient is performed by searching for a person with the same name using patient identification information. By performing a primary search using the patient's name, the presence or absence of a person with the same name is searched. In the case, the final patient is identified by performing a second search using the patient's date of birth again. In the second search, if two or more people match, it is of course possible to identify the patient by performing an additional search using other patient identification information.

Next, the pop-up window providing unit 126 causes the pop-up window including the patient identification information to be displayed on the display of the medical institution terminal 140 (S140). At this time, the picture data received in the registration process of the patient terminal 110 may be provided together.

Here, the patient identification information may be the patient's name, age, date of birth, telephone number, patient terminal registration number, patient ID, and the like. Preferably, the pop-up window may include at least three or more patient identification information among the patient's name, age, date of birth, telephone number, patient terminal registration number, and patient ID. Therefore, the medical practitioner can accurately recognize whether the patient entering the treatment room is the patient to be treated by referring to the patient identification information and the picture in the pop-up window.

As another embodiment, additionally, the presence or absence of the appointment of the identified patient may be checked to provide a movement route map.

Referring to FIG. 4, first, it is checked whether or not the identified patient has a medical appointment (S160).

Next, if a medical appointment exists, it is checked whether the patient terminal 110 is provided with a mobile route (S162).

Next, when the patient terminal 110 wants to be provided with a movement path, the position of the patient terminal 110 is detected (S166).

Next, based on the location information and medical reservation information received from the patient terminal 110, a movement path map having movement path information is provided (S166).

The provision of the movement route map is continuously performed until a request for suspension is made from the patient terminal 110.

The movement route map acquires medical office information from the medical reservation information, confirms the location of the patient terminal 110 through a wireless access device (WAP), and confirms the location information of the confirmed patient terminal 110 and the obtained medical office In accordance with the information, information on the movement route from the first point (eg, reception desk) to the second point (eg, the first office) is provided. At this time, the current location may be displayed together on the movement path map.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited thereto, and it is possible to implement various modifications within the scope of the claims and detailed description of the invention and the accompanying drawings, which are also the scope of the present invention. Of course it belongs to.

110: patient terminal
120: Patient confirmation service providing server
130: database
140: medical institution terminal
142: NFC reader
150: network

Claims (5)

In a method of providing a patient identification service in a medical institution for identification of the patient to be treated,
A first step of recognizing a patient terminal having an NFC chip in which patient identification information is stored as a near field communication (NFC) at a reception desk or a medical institution terminal in a medical office;
A second step of receiving patient identification information recognizing the patient terminal through short-range communication through the medical institution terminal;
When receiving the patient identification information through the medical institution terminal, a third step of identifying the patient using the received patient identification information; And
And a fourth step of displaying the identified patient's picture data on a medical institution terminal along with a pop-up window containing patient identification information. According to claim 1,
The pop-up window, the patient's name, age, date of birth, phone number, patient terminal registration number, patient identification information provided in the medical institution, characterized in that it may include three or more patient identification information. According to claim 1,
And a fifth step of checking whether or not the identified patient has a medical appointment. According to claim 3,
If there is a medical reservation, a method for providing a patient identification service in a medical institution, further comprising a sixth step of providing a mobile route map having mobile route information based on the location information and the medical reservation information received from the patient terminal. According to claim 4,
In the sixth step of providing the movement route map, the office room information is obtained from the medical reservation information, the location of the patient terminal is confirmed through a wireless access device (WAP), and the obtained location information of the patient terminal and the obtained office room Method for providing a patient identification service in a medical institution, characterized in that it provides information on a movement route from a first point to a second point according to information.

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