KR20200135016A - Device for pain data logger - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a pain data logger device comprising: a pain information acquisition unit which receives pain information of a patient through an input switch; a pain information storage unit for storing the input pain information; a wireless communication unit which transmits the pain information to a user terminal and receives a connection request and a pain information delivery request from the user terminal; and a control unit which generates a control command for the storage unit and the wireless communication unit in response to the operation of the input switch or the connection request from the user terminal. According to the present invention, in order to conveniently measure a pain condition of the patient in pain, the pain data logger device is convenient to input and use pain information, and can be used for a long time by saving energy of the device, while systematically grasping pain state information of the patient, thereby improving the reliability of patient treatment.

Description

Pain data logger device {DEVICE FOR PAIN DATA LOGGER}

The present invention relates to a pain data logger device, and more particularly, to conveniently measure and monitor the pain state of a patient with pain, it is convenient to input and use pain information, save energy of the device, and use it for a long time. The present invention relates to a pain data logger device capable of improving the reliability of patient treatment by systematically grasping patient pain state information.

Pain can be seen as a kind of warning to treat an injured body or an illness. Therefore, the process of objectively and accurately determining the cause of pain is a very important process in treating a diseased body.

The pain that occurs in the body is caused by several causes. For example, it may be due to a patient's own physical factors such as a disease or a patient's constitution, or an environmental factor caused by the influence of the surrounding environment.

In the case of patient-specific physical factors, the doctor can determine the cause of pain during patient treatment. However, in the case of environmental factors, since the doctor relies on statements based on the patient's memory, there is a problem in that it is not possible to accurately determine the cause of pain due to distortions or errors in the stored items. Moreover, according to the drug prescription based on the above physical and environmental factors, there is a problem of misuse and abuse of drugs.

In addition, in order to increase the accuracy of estimating the cause of pain according to the aforementioned environmental factors, when a patient's sudden pain occurs, the body part causing the pain, the degree of pain, and the environmental factor at the time of the pain are separately recorded through a separate recording means. You can only expect the patient to record the condition.

On the other hand, with the development of information and communication technology and the popularization of smartphones, an environment in which various information can be transmitted and received without being restricted by physical time and space has been recently created. Among them, the PHI (Personal Health Information) Big Data system is the same as the medical industry revolution, and is being progressed with the aim of increasing the accuracy of patient treatment, preventing drug abuse, and reducing medical costs. If the patient's pain intensity value is stored and analyzed as big data, artificial intelligence (AI) system development that improves drug abuse and treatment efficiency can proceed.

It is very important to analyze data in the PHI Big Data system, and AI system development is possible only by economically collecting medical-related information. Therefore, personal IOMT (internet of medical technology) devices that record and deliver patient status information are being developed and distributed.

For IOMT devices that store patient medical device usage information, biometric information, and drug use information and communicate the patient's status to the doctor, it is very important to record the time and number of occurrences and deliver them accurately to the doctor. Therefore, a means of stably delivering this is absolutely necessary, and it is also very important that the cost is economical. In addition, the convenience of using the patient's IOMT device is also a very important factor. If the location and time of the pain are communicated together, the patient can analyze how and under what circumstances.

However, conventional IOMT devices are cumbersome and inconvenient to use by a patient when pain occurs, and because energy consumption is large in a communication process with a user terminal such as a smart phone, the battery must be frequently exchanged or charged.

Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1276363 (Registration Date 2013.06.12.) Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1856638 (Registration Date 2018.05.03.)

It is an object of the present invention to conveniently input and use pain information so that the pain condition of a patient can be conveniently measured and monitored, save energy of the device and use it for a long time, while systematically grasping the pain condition information of the patient. It is to provide a pain data logger device that can improve the reliability of patient treatment.

In order to achieve this object, the pain data logger device according to the present invention includes a pain information acquisition unit for receiving pain information of a patient by an input switch, a pain information storage unit for storing the input pain information, and a user terminal for the pain information. A wireless communication unit that transmits to and receives a connection request and a pain information transmission request from the user terminal, and a control unit that generates a control command for the storage unit and the wireless communication unit by operating the input switch or requesting connection from the user terminal. It can be composed of

The pain information may be a pain level value input through the pain information acquisition unit, a number of times of inputting pain information, and time interval information of pain information input.

When the pain information is obtained through the pain information acquisition unit, the control unit stores the obtained pain information in the pain information storage unit, and controls to transmit the obtained pain information to the user terminal through the wireless communication unit. When the pain information is obtained through the (Beacon) mode or the pain information acquisition unit, the pain information is stored in the pain information storage unit, and the past pain information stored previously and the obtained current pain information are displayed together. A control command may be generated in a pairing mode for controlling transmission to the user terminal through a wireless communication unit.

In the beacon mode, the control unit determines that the user terminal has failed to check the pain information more than a predetermined number of times, or fails to transmit the pain information due to a problem with the pain data logger device or the wireless communication unit. When it is determined that it is determined, the control may be performed to automatically switch to the pairing mode.

In the beacon mode, when there is a control switch operation of the pain data logger or a connection request from the user terminal, the controller may control to automatically switch to the pairing mode.

The pain data logger device according to the present invention is convenient to input and use pain information so that the pain state of a patient can be conveniently measured and monitored. There is an effect that can improve the reliability of patient treatment by systematically grasping it.

1 is a schematic diagram showing the overall components of a pain data logger device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a schematic diagram showing a hardware block diagram when manufacturing a prototype of a pain data logger device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a schematic diagram showing the appearance of a prototype pain data logger device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a schematic diagram showing a connection state of a user terminal in a driving mode in which a beacon mode and a pairing mode of a pain data logger device according to an embodiment of the present invention are implemented together by a controller.
5 is a schematic diagram showing a state in which a pain data logger device and various types of user terminals and server devices are connected according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known configuration or function may obscure the subject matter of the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, in describing the embodiments of the present invention, specific numerical values are merely examples.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the overall components of a pain data logger device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a hardware block diagram for manufacturing a prototype of a pain data logger device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The schematic diagram shown is shown, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the appearance of a prototype pain data logger device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a connection state of a user terminal in a driving mode in which a beacon mode and a pairing mode of a pain data logger device according to an embodiment of the present invention are implemented together by a control unit. A schematic diagram showing a state in which a pain data logger device and various types of user terminals and server devices are connected according to an embodiment of is shown.

Referring to these drawings, the pain data logger device 100 according to the present invention includes a pain information acquisition unit 110 receiving pain information of a patient through an input switch 111, and pain information storing the input pain information. Operating the storage unit 120, the wireless communication unit 130 and the input switch 111 for transmitting the pain information to the user terminal 200 and receiving a connection request and a pain information delivery request from the user terminal 200 Alternatively, it may be configured to include a controller 140 that generates a control command for the storage unit 120 and the wireless communication unit 130 in response to a connection request from the user terminal 200.

That is, the pain data logger device 100 according to the present invention conveniently obtains the patient's pain information through the pain information acquisition unit 110 and stores it in the pain information storage unit 120, and stores the pain information in the wireless communication unit 130 It is implemented as a simple logger device that transmits through ), so it is convenient to input and use pain information, and save energy of the device by converting the drive mode of the control unit to save energy for a long time, and to systematically grasp the patient's pain state information. By being implemented so that there is an advantage of improving the reliability of patient treatment.

Here, the pain information acquisition unit 110 may be composed of an input switch 111 including two or more unit switches so that the patient can intuitively and conveniently input his or her pain state, and the pain data logger device In the 100, a separate display unit 150 may be further formed so that the patient can conveniently recognize the patient's pain state input by the input switch 111.

In addition, the wireless communication unit 130 may be composed of, for example, a GPS module, a micro controller unit, and a WAN line (such as GSM or CDMA or LTE M1) providing a wide area network.

In addition, the pain data logger device 100 may include a battery for supplying power, and transmits various information (temperature, humidity, pressure) stored in the memory of the pain information storage unit 120 to a PC or mobile terminal. It may include a USB local interface and an external power connector.

When the pain data logger device 100 is implemented as a prototype or the like, as shown in the block diagram of FIG. 2, for example, as the pain information acquisition unit 110, Wake up & Butten Circuit, the pain information storage unit 120 It can be composed of 512K Flash Memory, RF Interface Analog as the wireless communication unit 130, MCU (Main Control Unit) as the control unit 140, BLE Communication Controller, etc. Here, Real Time Clock (RTC), Display LCD, and Battery ( Energy SCR), etc. may be implemented in an additional form.

The pain information is information on various pains of a patient input through the pain information acquisition unit 110, for example, a pain value that is expressed as large or small based on an absolute reference value, or a pain value that is expressed as a relative value. It may be a pain level value that can be set as a pain level, the number of times that the pain information is input, and the time interval information of the pain information input.

The driving mode of the pain data logger device 100 in which a control command is generated by the control unit 140 is preferably, when the pain information is obtained through the pain information acquisition unit 110, the obtained pain information is A beacon mode or the pain information acquisition unit 110 that stores the pain information in the pain information storage unit 120 and controls to transmit the obtained pain information to the user terminal 200 through the wireless communication unit 130 ), when the pain information is received, the pain information is stored in the pain information storage unit 120, and the previously stored pain information and the obtained current pain information are combined with the wireless communication unit 130 It may be a pairing mode that controls the transmission to the user terminal 200 through the user terminal 200.

That is, the control command for the driving mode generated by the controller 140 is a beacon that is controlled to store the pain information acquisition unit 110 when the patient's pain information is obtained and transmit it to the user terminal 200 at the same time. ) When the pain information of the mode and the patient is obtained, the pain information acquisition unit 110 stores it and transmits it to the user terminal 200 at the same time, but the previously stored pain information and the current pain information are recalled together. By being configured in a pairing mode controlled to transmit to the user terminal 200 through the wireless communication unit 130, a beacon mode, which is a driving mode of the logger device that can reduce power consumption of the pain data logger device, and By selectively operating a pairing mode that can effectively grasp past history information on the patient's pain occurrence, while minimizing the power consumption of the logger, pain data can be more effectively provided to users who need patient pain information. .

When such a beacon mode and a pairing mode are implemented between the pain data logger device 100 and the user terminal 200, the logger device 100 serves as a Serve for receiving a connection, and the user terminal 200 ) Acts as a client requesting data.

At this time, the state of switching between the pain data logger device 100 and the user terminal 200 is, for example, 5 times pain information from the pain data logger device 100 to the user terminal 200 as shown in FIG. In the beacon mode transmitted to, when the user terminal 200 receives the 5th pain information while the user terminal 200 has not received the 3rd pain information and the 4th pain information, the user terminal 200 When the logger device 100 requests a connection to the logger device 100 and accepts it, the driving mode is converted to a pairing mode, and in this pairing mode, the user terminal 200 The device 100 requests and receives the third pain information and the fourth pain information. Thereafter, the user terminal 200 transmits a pain information acknowledgment message to the logger device 100, requests disconnection to terminate the pairing mode, and is converted back to the beacon mode. The second pain information is received.

In the beacon mode, when a patient's pain state change event occurs in the logger device 100, it is measured and transmitted to the user terminal 200 in a beacon manner, and a special connection procedure with the user terminal is required. No, data transmission is simple and energy consumption is low. In addition, in the pairing mode, when a patient's pain state change event occurs, the sequence of these events is transmitted to the user terminal 200 in an irregular manner, or the event data is not well transmitted to the user terminal 200, By recovering past event data stored in the pain information storage unit 120 and transmitting it to the user terminal 200, the event data can be systematically and stably provided. A separate connection procedure is required, and energy consumption is greater than that of the beacon mode method.

The characteristics of the beacon mode and the pairing mode will be further described. The Beacon mode is a broadcasting mode, which is a mode for unilaterally transmitting information, and a mode for transmitting data at random. At this time, the device executing Beacon Mode does not need to separately recognize the state of an external device such as a user terminal. Pairing Mode refers to communication by recognizing what external device to communicate with (Mac address) and requesting connection. For example, in order for the device A and the device B to communicate in Pairing Mode, it means exchanging information for connection with each other and exchanging data while trying to maintain the connection continuously. Specifically, in the case of a smartphone and a Bluetooth speaker, sound data is transmitted while minimizing data loss by performing Pairing Mode to better transmit sound data.

In addition, the Beacon mode and the Pairing mode do not exist at the same time, and since they cannot actually exist simultaneously in the communication protocol, they can be implemented through mode switching.

In addition, by storing the time interval information at which the patient's pain state change event occurred during the data transmission process in the pairing mode, and providing pain information at a predetermined time interval in the past together with the event occurrence time zone, the event without a GPS module Environment information such as location information of the patient at the time of occurrence and degree of temperature and humidity can be inferred, and even when only one occurrence time of the events is known, the total event time can be easily derived. At this time, these functions can be implemented using a GPS IC (Integrated Circuit).

In the beacon mode, the control unit 140 determines that the user terminal 200 has not checked the pain information more than a predetermined number of times, or the pain data logger device 100 or the wireless communication unit ( 130), when it is determined that the pain information has not been transmitted, it may be configured to control to automatically switch to the pairing mode.

That is, the pain data logger device 100 determines whether or not the user terminal 200 checks the pain information during a beacon mode, and when it is determined that the delivery and confirmation of the pain information is not smooth, the pain information By automatically switching to a pairing mode with excellent stability and reliability of delivery, the efficiency of transmitting pain information to the user terminal 200 can be further maximized.

In addition, the controller 140 automatically switches to the pairing mode when there is a request for connection of the user terminal 200 or the operation of the control switch 141 of the pain data logger during the beacon mode. Can be configured to control.

That is, the controller 140 immediately switches to the pairing mode when the control switch 141 is turned on or the user terminal 200 requests a connection, and provides current pain information and past pain. By simultaneously providing information to the user terminal 200, it is possible to improve the accuracy and stability of grasping the user's pain information.

In this regard, the pain data logger device 100 is an Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) device, as shown in FIG. 5, and the user terminal 200 is a smart AP (Access Point) such as a smart phone. ) It may be configured as a device, and when a patient's pain information change event occurs through the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) device, the IoMT device is in a beacon mode and displays the event information on the smartphone. And, the smart phone may be implemented to store the Event information in a cloud such as a server, and allow a user such as a doctor to check the information.

However, if the event information is not delivered to the user terminal 200 such as the smart phone, the smart phone checks the sequence number of the event information, etc., and a preset normal sequence number If it is determined that it is not, the system may be designed to recover the event information data by requesting the IoMT device to switch to the pairing mode.

The controller 140 includes a processor, a memory for storing and executing program data, a permanent storage such as a disk drive, a communication port for communicating with an external device, a touch panel, a key, a button, etc. The same user interface device may be included. Methods implemented as software modules or algorithms may be stored on a computer-readable recording medium as computer-readable codes or program instructions executable on the processor. Here, as a computer-readable recording medium, a magnetic storage medium (e.g., read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), floppy disk, hard disk, etc.) and an optical reading medium (e.g., CD-ROM) ROM) and DVD (Digital Versatile Disc)). The computer-readable recording medium is distributed over network-connected computer systems, so that computer-readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. Further, the medium is readable by a computer, stored in a memory, and executed on a processor. Here, the computer may include, for example, a set-top box, a notebook equipped with a web browser, a desktop, a laptop, and the like.

As described above, in the present invention, specific matters such as specific components, etc., and limited embodiments and drawings have been described, but this is provided only to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. , If a person of ordinary skill in the field to which the present invention belongs, various modifications and variations are possible from these descriptions.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention is limited to the described embodiments and should not be defined, and all things that are equivalent or equivalent to the claims as well as the claims to be described later belong to the scope of the invention. .

100: device as pain data
110: Pain information acquisition unit
120: pain information storage unit
130: wireless communication unit
140: control unit

Claims (5)

A pain information acquisition unit receiving pain information of a patient through an input switch;
A pain information storage unit for storing the input pain information;
A wireless communication unit that transmits the pain information to a user terminal and receives a connection request and a pain information delivery request from the user terminal; And
A control unit for generating a control command for the storage unit and the wireless communication unit in response to manipulation of the input switch or a connection request from the user terminal;
Pain data logger device comprising a.
The method of claim 1,
The pain information is a pain data logger device that is a pain level value input through the pain information acquisition unit, a number of times of pain information input, and time interval information for pain information input.
The method of claim 1,
When the pain information is obtained through the pain information acquisition unit, the control unit stores the obtained pain information in the pain information storage unit, and controls to transmit the obtained pain information to the user terminal through the wireless communication unit. When the pain information is obtained through the (Beacon) mode or the pain information acquisition unit, the pain information is stored in the pain information storage unit, and the past pain information stored previously and the obtained current pain information are displayed together. A pain data logger device that generates a control command in a pairing mode that controls transmission to the user terminal through a wireless communication unit.
The method of claim 3,
In the beacon mode, the control unit determines that the user terminal has failed to check the pain information more than a predetermined number of times, or fails to transmit the pain information due to a problem with the pain data logger device or the wireless communication unit. If it is determined that the pain data logger device for controlling to automatically switch to the pairing (Pairing) mode.
The method of claim 3,
The control unit controls to automatically switch to the pairing mode when a control switch operation of the pain data logger or a connection request from the user terminal is requested during the beacon mode.

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