KR20230025964A - Method for ECG reading service providing - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electrocardiogram reading service providing method. In accordance with the present invention, the electrocardiogram reading service providing method using an electrocardiogram reading service providing system, includes the following steps of: receiving an electrocardiogram reading request signal and electrocardiogram data from a client terminal; inputting the received electrocardiogram data into an electrocardiogram reading model according to the received electrocardiogram reading request signal to output first electrocardiogram reading data; upon receiving an electrocardiogram additional-request signal from the client, transmitting the first electrocardiogram reading data to a designated specialist terminal to acquire second electrocardiogram reading data; calculating a fee according to the scope of electrocardiogram reading service provision; and forwarding the first or second electrocardiogram reading data and the calculated fee to the client terminal. Therefore, the present invention is capable of reducing costs and time incurred by an unnecessary visit to a hospital when an electrocardiogram is misread.

Description

Electrocardiogram reading service providing method {Method for ECG reading service providing}

The present invention relates to a method for providing an electrocardiogram reading service, and more specifically, to obtain a first reading result of electrocardiogram data received from a client through an artificial intelligence algorithm, deliver the electrocardiogram data and the first reading result to a medical staff, and finally A method for providing an electrocardiogram reading service providing a reading result.

An electrocardiogram is a graphic recording of potentials related to heartbeats on the surface of the body. Electrocardiography is used for examination and diagnosis of circulatory diseases, and has the advantage of being simple, relatively inexpensive, non-invasive, and easily repeatable.

In the standard 12-lead ECG used in hospitals, 6 electrodes are attached to the front of the chest, 3 electrodes are attached to each extremity (4 electrodes if the ground electrode is included), then all 12-lead information is collected and combined. Diagnose the disease. A 12-lead electrocardiogram records the potential of the heart in 12 electrical directions centered on the heart, and through this, it is possible to accurately read heart disease confined to one area.

Electrocardiogram is an important test for diagnosing serious diseases such as myocardial infarction and arrhythmia, and it is a cheap, non-invasive, quick and easy test that takes 10 seconds to check the basic heart disease condition. It is widely used for city basic examinations and health examinations.

However, the number of doctors who can accurately read the ECG is limited. The ability to read electrocardiograms is not simply acquired through books, but is learned empirically by measuring electrocardiograms while treating patients with heart disease, and conducting various confirmatory tests such as actual echocardiography, angiography, and blood tests. Therefore, it is difficult to accurately read the electrocardiogram unless it is a medical team in the cardiology department, thoracic surgery department, and emergency medicine department who constantly see patients with heart disease.

Recently, electrocardiograms have been read using an automatic reading algorithm, but due to the nature of principle-based reading, accuracy may be lowered due to external factors such as noise. There was a problem that could not be captured.

The background technology of the present invention is disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2022-0008447 (published on January 21, 2022).

As described above, according to the present invention, a method for providing an electrocardiogram reading service that obtains a first reading result of the electrocardiogram data received from a client through an artificial intelligence algorithm, delivers the electrocardiogram data and the first reading result to a medical staff, and provides a final reading result. is to provide

According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving this technical problem, an electrocardiogram reading service providing method using an electrocardiogram reading service providing system includes receiving an electrocardiogram reading request signal and electrocardiogram data from a client terminal, and according to the received electrocardiogram reading request signal Inputting the received electrocardiogram data into an electrocardiogram reading model and outputting first electrocardiogram reading data. When an electrocardiogram addition request signal is received from the client, the first electrocardiogram reading data is transmitted to a medical terminal including a designated specialist Acquiring second electrocardiogram reading data, calculating a fee according to the electrocardiogram reading service provision range, and transferring the first electrocardiogram reading data or the second electrocardiogram reading data and the calculated fee to the client terminal. includes

The method may further include collecting electrocardiogram data that has been read, inputting the collected electrocardiogram data into a pre-built electrocardiogram reading model, and learning the electrocardiogram reading model.

The receiving of the electrocardiogram data may include receiving unstructured electrocardiogram data or an electrocardiogram metadata file including an electrocardiogram picture file, a photo file taken by a portable device, and the like.

The step of acquiring the second electrocardiogram reading data is to transfer the first electrocardiogram reading data to terminals of medical personnel, nurses, clinical technologists, and paramedics, including cardiologists of designated hospitals cooperated, to perform provisional reading, and then In this case, final ECG read data may be obtained by transferring the pre-read electrocardiogram data to a medical terminal including a cardiologist capable of reading at the present time.

The method may further include providing information on a service provision range according to the received electrocardiogram reading request signal, and receiving service request information from a client in response to the service provision range.

The information on the service provision range may include at least one of electrocardiogram reading degree, reading waiting time, reading accuracy, a list of doctors to read, and the distance between the reading center and the requester.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to reduce costs and time caused by unnecessary visits to hospitals due to erroneous ECG readings, and to prevent death due to missed diseases and delayed treatment due to erroneous readings.

1 is a diagram for explaining an electrocardiogram reading service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a configuration diagram for explaining the reading server shown in FIG. 1;
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an electrocardiogram reading service using an electrocardiogram reading service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In this process, the thickness of lines or the size of components shown in the drawings may be exaggerated for clarity and convenience of description.

In addition, terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary according to the intention or custom of a user or operator. Therefore, definitions of these terms will have to be made based on the content throughout this specification.

Hereinafter, an electrocardiogram reading service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 .

1 is a diagram for explaining an electrocardiogram reading service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the electrocardiogram reading service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a client terminal 100 , a medical practitioner terminal 200 and a reading server 300 .

The client terminal 100 transmits an electrocardiogram reading request in a state in which an app or a web page provided by the reading server 300 is executed, and uploads electrocardiogram data to be read.

At this time, the client terminal 100 may receive information about a service provision range for ECG reading from the reading server 300, and the client may additionally input requests for ECG reading according to the service provision range. .

In addition, the client terminal 100 receives an electrocardiogram reading result according to completion of reading.

The medical personnel terminal 200 is a terminal used by medical personnel, including a cardiologist, and transmits a reading result input by the medical personnel, including a cardiologist, to the reading server 300 to be described later. Then, when the reading is completed, the medical personnel terminal 200 including the cardiologist requests a fee and receives the requested fee through a virtual account.

Finally, when receiving the electrocardiogram reading request signal from the client terminal 100, the reading server 300 provides information on the reading service provision range and receives service request information and electrocardiogram data corresponding thereto.

Then, the reading server 300 transfers the first electrocardiogram reading data or the second electrocardiogram reading data to the corresponding client terminal 100 for the electrocardiogram data input according to the input service request information. In addition, the reading server 300 calculates the commission fee for the electrocardiogram map service, and transfers the calculated commission fee to the client terminal 100 to receive an input.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram for explaining the reading server 300 shown in FIG. 1 .

As shown in FIG. 2, the reading server 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 310, a data collection unit 320, a learning unit 330, an electrocardiogram reading unit 340, a fee calculation unit ( 350) and an output unit 360.

First, the communication unit 310 communicates with the client terminal 100 and the medical personnel terminal 200 including the cardiologist, and receives an electrocardiogram reading request signal and electrocardiogram data from the client terminal 100 . In addition, the communication unit 310 transfers the received electrocardiogram data to the medical personnel terminal 200 including the cardiologist and receives the ECG reading data from the medical personnel terminal 200 including the cardiologist.

The data collection unit 320 collects electrocardiogram reading data that has been read by a medical person including a cardiologist. The collected electrocardiogram reading data includes at least one information among the patient's gender, age, and diagnosed heart disease information.

The collected electrocardiogram reading data is transmitted to the learning unit 330, and the learning unit 330 inputs randomly extracted electrocardiogram reading data among the electrocardiogram reading data received to the pre-built electrocardiogram reading model and learns it.

The electrocardiogram reading unit 340 obtains first electrocardiogram reading data by inputting the received electrocardiogram data to the electrocardiogram reading model that has been learned.

At this time, when receiving a second electrocardiogram reading request from the client, the electrocardiogram reading unit 340 transfers the first electrocardiogram reading data to the medical practitioner terminal 200 including the cardiologist, and then from the medical practitioner terminal 200 including the cardiologist. Second electrocardiogram reading data is received.

The commission calculation unit 350 determines whether only the first electrocardiogram reading data or the second electrocardiogram reading data has been requested from the client. Then, the calculation unit 350 calculates different fees according to the determination result.

Finally, the output unit 360 transfers the first electrocardiogram read data or the second electrocardiogram read data and the calculated fee information to the client terminal 100 .

Hereinafter, an electrocardiogram reading service providing method using the electrocardiogram reading service providing system will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3 .

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an electrocardiogram reading service using an electrocardiogram reading service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3 , the client accesses the app or web page provided by the reading server 300 through the terminal 100 . Then, the client uploads ECG data to be read through the terminal 100 and transmits an ECG reading request signal (S210).

In this case, the electrocardiogram data may be unstructured electrocardiogram data including an electrocardiogram picture file, a photo file taken by a portable device, or the like, or an electrocardiogram metadata file.

Next, the reading server 300 inputs the received electrocardiogram data into the electrocardiogram reading model for which learning has been completed to obtain first electrocardiogram reading data (S320).

First, the reading server 300 collects the ECG read data that has been read. Then, the learning unit 330 of the reading server 300 inputs the collected electrocardiogram reading data into a pre-built electrocardiogram reading model to learn it.

When learning of the ECG reading model is completed, the ECG reading unit 340 acquires first ECG reading data by inputting the received ECG data into the ECG reading model.

Next, the reading server 300 additionally provides information on the service provision range to the client terminal 100 and receives service request information from the client terminal 100 corresponding to the service provision range (S330).

The information on the service provision range includes at least one of electrocardiogram reading degree, reading waiting time, reading accuracy, a list of medical staff who read the reading, and the distance between the reading center and the requester.

Here, the electrocardiogram read information indicates whether to read only the first ECG read data or the second read data.

When only the first electrocardiogram reading data is requested from the client terminal 100 , the output unit 360 transmits the first electrocardiogram reading data to the client terminal 100 .

On the other hand, when receiving a request for second electrocardiogram reading data from the client terminal 100, the electrocardiogram reading unit 340 transfers the first electrocardiogram reading data to the medical personnel terminal 200 including a cardiologist to read the second electrocardiogram. Data is acquired (S340).

The electrocardiogram reading unit 340 extracts medical personnel terminals 200 including cardiologists capable of reading at the present time, and transmits an electrocardiogram reading request to the extracted medical personnel terminals 200 including cardiologists. Then, the electrocardiogram reading unit 340 transfers the first electrocardiogram reading data to the medical terminal 200 including the cardiologist who has transmitted the electrocardiogram reading acceptance signal.

In the present invention, before generating the second electrocardiogram reading data using the first electrocardiogram reading data received by medical personnel including cardiologists, medical personnel including cardiologists of designated hospitals cooperated, nurses, clinical technologists, and paramedics terminals The first electrocardiogram reading data is delivered to and a provisional reading is performed.

And when the preliminary reading is completed, the electrocardiogram reading unit 340 transfers the first electrocardiogram reading data and the preliminary electrocardiogram reading data to the cardiologist terminal 200 so that the medical personnel including the cardiologist generates the final electrocardiogram reading data let it

Finally, the fee calculation unit 350 calculates the fee in response to the service provision range (S350).

The fee for the first ECG reading data is free, but is set at a lower price than the second reading data. The commission calculation unit 350 calculates a commission based on a pre-set price.

Then, the output unit 360 transfers the first electrocardiogram reading data or the second electrocardiogram reading data and the calculated fee to the client terminal 100 .

As described above, the electrocardiogram reading service providing method using the electrocardiogram reading service providing system according to the present invention can reduce the cost and time caused by unnecessary visits to the hospital due to electrocardiogram misreading, and miss a disease due to misreading and treatment Delayed death can be prevented.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, this is only exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. will be. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention should be determined by the technical spirit of the claims below.

100: client terminal
200: medical personnel terminal
300: reading server
310: Communication Department
320: data collection unit
330: learning unit
340: electrocardiogram reading unit
350: fee calculation unit
360: output unit

Claims (6)

In the electrocardiogram reading service providing method using the electrocardiogram reading service providing system,
Receiving an electrocardiogram reading request signal and electrocardiogram data from a client terminal;
outputting first electrocardiogram reading data by inputting the received electrocardiogram data into an electrocardiogram reading model according to the received electrocardiogram reading request signal;
Acquiring second electrocardiogram reading data by transmitting the first electrocardiogram reading data to a medical practitioner terminal including a designated specialist when receiving an electrocardiogram addition request signal from the client;
Calculating a commission fee according to the scope of ECG reading service provision; and
and transmitting the first electrocardiogram reading data or the second electrocardiogram reading data and the calculated fee to a client terminal. According to claim 1,
A method for providing an electrocardiogram reading service, further comprising collecting electrocardiogram data that has been read, and inputting the collected electrocardiogram data into a pre-built electrocardiogram reading model for learning. According to claim 1,
Receiving the electrocardiogram data,
A method of providing an electrocardiogram reading service capable of receiving unstructured electrocardiogram data or electrocardiogram metadata files including an electrocardiogram picture file, a photo file taken by a portable device, and the like. According to claim 1,
The step of obtaining the second electrocardiogram reading data,
First electrocardiogram reading data is transmitted to the terminals of medical personnel, nurses, clinical pathologists, and paramedics, including cardiologists at designated hospitals to be cooperated, to perform preliminary readings,
An electrocardiogram reading service providing method for acquiring final electrocardiogram reading data by transferring pre-read electrocardiogram data to a medical personnel terminal including a cardiologist capable of reading the electrocardiogram data at a current point in time. According to claim 1,
The electrocardiogram reading service providing method further comprising providing information on a service provision range according to the received electrocardiogram reading request signal, and receiving service request information from a client in correspondence with the service provision range. According to claim 5,
Information on the scope of the service provided,
A method of providing a reading service including at least one information among electrocardiogram reading degree, reading waiting time, reading accuracy, a list of medical staff who read the reading, and a distance between a reading center and a requester.

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