TWI715349B - System and method for cooperative management of medical devices - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a system and a method for cooperative management of medical devices. The system includes a first computer including a first user interface, a second computer including a second user interface and a cloud server connected to the first and second computer via the Internet. The cloud server provides a virtual rack model in the cloud for allowing users to perform a rack establishing process, a maintaining process or a using process through the first or second user interface. The virtual rack model has a rack model and a plurality of medical device information corresponding to a plurality of medical devices disposed on a physical rack. The system and method provided by the instant disclosure can achieve effective cooprative management of the medical devices disposed on the physical rack by multiple users through the cloud server.

Description

Medical equipment collaborative management system and method

The present invention relates to a collaborative management system and method, in particular to a medical equipment collaborative management system and method.

In the medical industry, storage tools such as medical equipment cabinets, medical equipment racks, or medical equipment carts have been widely used to store and store medical equipment. Therefore, how to effectively control the storage status (such as storage time), information (product name, batch number, expiration date and disinfection times, etc.) and use status (such as tracking after consumption) of medical equipment stored in these storage tools , Is quite important.

In the prior art, the medical equipment may be pre-placed in the storage tool by the supplier, and then the entire set of medical equipment and the storage tool are supplied to the medical institution for use. Therefore, when these medical equipment are used in medical institutions, they are usually managed by the personnel of the medical institution, and the supplier can only know the use status of these medical equipment after the medical institution returns. The supply and demand status of the equipment, and then the corresponding operation (such as re-supply of used medical equipment or to be supplemented, etc.) In addition, the supplier may also perform batch disinfection operations on the medical equipment before supplying the medical equipment to the medical institution. After that, after the supplier supplies the sterilized medical equipment to the medical institution, the medical institution unilaterally conducts further management based on the status of the medical equipment provided by the supplier. In other words, the existing set in the storage tool The medical equipment management procedures within are all carried out unilaterally, and there is no interactive and collaborative management mechanism.

Furthermore, in most cases, the outer packaging of the medical equipment has been removed before it is placed in the rack, so that the medical equipment placed in the rack may lack barcodes or other identifiers to identify its items and characteristics. .

Therefore, there is a need to provide a system and method to achieve the purpose of collaborative management of medical equipment in the same storage tool between different users (such as medical institutions and suppliers). In addition, there is also a need for the medical equipment placed in the rack to be recorded and managed through the placed position.

In order to solve the above technical problems, the present invention provides a medical equipment collaborative management system and method. The medical equipment collaborative management system and method provided by the present invention uses a specially designed cloud server to enable different users to create, maintain, and use different procedures for the same virtual rack model through their respective user interfaces. To achieve the effect of collaborative management.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a medical equipment collaborative management system, which includes a first computer having a first user interface, a second computer having a second user interface, and communicating with the first computer via a network A computer and a cloud server connected to the second computer. The cloud server is used to provide a virtual rack model in the cloud for a first user to operate through the first user interface or for a second user to operate through the second user Interface and perform a frame creation procedure, one-dimensional At least one of a protection program and a use program. The virtual rack model has a rack model and a plurality of medical equipment information, and a plurality of the medical equipment information respectively correspond to a plurality of medical equipment carried by a physical rack.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method for collaborative management of medical equipment, which is executed by a medical equipment collaborative management system. The medical equipment collaborative management system includes a first computer with a first user operation interface, and a A second computer of the second user operation interface and a cloud server connected to the first computer and the second computer via a network. The medical equipment collaborative management method includes: performing a virtual rack model provided by the cloud server in the cloud through at least one of the first user operation interface and the second user operation interface At least one of a frame establishment procedure, a maintenance procedure, and a use procedure. The virtual rack model has a rack model and a plurality of medical equipment information, and a plurality of the medical equipment information respectively correspond to a plurality of medical equipment carried by a physical rack.

The main technical means of the present invention is that through the design of the virtual rack model of the cloud server and the interaction between the cloud server and the first computer and the second computer, the medical equipment collaborative management system and method provided by the present invention can be realized Multi-party collaborative management of the efficacy of medical equipment.

S: System

10: Cloud server

12: The first computer

14: second computer

21: List

22a, 22b, 22c, 51: color block

31: Form

41, 81: Main menu

61: Detailed information

S500, S502, S504: steps

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention; 2 is a schematic diagram of the interface of the virtual rack model of the cloud server in the medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention; FIG. 3 is a diagram of the medical equipment provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention In the equipment collaborative management system, the interface diagram of the maintenance procedure for the virtual rack model of the cloud server; FIG. 4 is the virtual rack model of the cloud server in the medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of an interface for using a virtual rack model of a cloud server in a medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention; Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of an interface of the present invention In the medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one embodiment, another interface schematic diagram of the use procedure for the virtual rack model of the cloud server; FIG. 7 is the medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention. Another interface schematic diagram of the use program for the virtual rack model of the cloud server; FIG. 8 is the use program of the virtual rack model of the cloud server in the medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention Yet another schematic diagram of the interface; and FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a method for collaborative management of medical equipment provided by one embodiment of the present invention.

The following is a specific embodiment to illustrate the implementation of the "medical equipment collaborative management system and method" disclosed in the present invention. Those skilled in the art can understand the advantages and effects of the present invention from the content disclosed in this specification. The present invention can be implemented or applied through other different specific embodiments, and various details in this specification can also be based on different viewpoints and applications, and various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. In addition, the drawings of the present invention are only It is a brief description, not based on actual size. The following embodiments will further describe the related technical content of the present invention in detail, but the disclosed content is not intended to limit the technical scope of the present invention.

First, please refer to Figure 1. Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a medical equipment collaborative management system S provided by the present invention. As shown in the figure, the medical equipment collaborative management system S includes a first computer 12, a second computer 14 and a cloud server 10. The first computer 12 and the second computer 14 are connected to the cloud server 10 through at least one network. In the embodiment of the present invention, the network used to connect the first computer 12, the second computer 14 and the cloud server 10 may be a wired network (such as Ethernet) or a wireless network (such as Wi-Fi Or Bluetooth), the types are not limited here. Specifically, the first computer 12 and the second computer 14 are in communication connection with the cloud server 10.

In addition, the first computer 12 and the second computer 14 have a first user interface and a second user interface, respectively. The first computer 12 and the second computer 14 may belong to different use units, for example, used by operators of different units. For example, the first computer 12 may be a personal computer of a medical equipment supplier, and the second computer 14 may be a personal computer of a medical institution. In one embodiment, the user of the provider (for example, the first user) can access the data of the cloud server 10 through the first user interface displayed on the display of the personal computer, and the use of the medical institution A person (for example, a second user) can also access the data of the cloud server 10 through the second user interface displayed on the display of his personal computer.

At least one of the first computer 12 and the second computer 14 may also include an input device for inputting a plurality of medical supplies information. The input device may be at least one of a barcode scanner and a keyboard, but is not limited to this. For example, medical supplies information can be The scanner scans the barcode on the medical supplies or their packaging, or is manually entered by the personnel via the keyboard and entered into the first computer 12 and/or the second computer 14, or the medical supplies information is entered via other equivalent input devices .

Furthermore, the medical equipment collaborative management system S provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include a management unit (not shown), which is used to set the operation authority of the first user and the second user on the cloud server 10. In other words, the access rights of the first user and the second user to the data of the cloud server 10 through the first user interface and the second user interface can be set through the management unit. For example, the management unit can generate a public key or a private key to encrypt the data on the cloud server 10, thereby improving the security of the data.

The cloud server 10 is used to provide a virtual rack model in the cloud. The functions of the cloud server 10 include a frame creation process, a maintenance process, and a use process for the virtual rack model for the first user through the first user operation interface or for the second user through the second user operation interface. At least one of them. A detailed description will be given later on the frame establishment procedures, maintenance procedures and use procedures. The details of the virtual rack model will now be described.

Specifically, the virtual rack model provided by the cloud server 10 corresponds to the physical rack and the medical equipment carried or stored in the physical rack. In the embodiment of the present invention, the virtual rack model has a rack model and a plurality of medical equipment information, the rack model corresponds to the appearance and physical structure of the physical rack, and the plurality of medical equipment information respectively correspond to the physical rack Multiple medical equipment carried by the tool. In addition, the multiple pieces of medical device information each include at least one of the location of the medical device, item code, item name, batch number, expiration date, serial number, sterilization expiration date, and sterilization frequency. However, the details of the medical equipment information are not limited in the present invention.

Then, as far as the physical structure of the physical rack is concerned, it can have multiple levels (e.g. For example, layers distributed along the z-axis in a three-dimensional space), each level can have multiple areas (for example, in each layer, the areas along the x-axis and/or y-axis for setting up medical equipment) , And each area can have multiple locations (for example, a location for setting up medical equipment in each area). It is worth noting that one or more medical equipment can be placed in each position. Therefore, the frame model corresponding to the physical frame can also have multiple levels, each level has multiple areas, each area has multiple medical equipment placement positions, and multiple of the medical equipment information corresponds to multiple The placement position of the medical equipment. In other words, the medical equipment information of the medical equipment is related to the medical equipment placement position associated with the position where the medical equipment is actually placed on the rack. The above frame model can be created by the user in the frame creation procedure, and the detailed steps will be described later.

It is worth noting that in the technical field related to medical equipment, the types, types, and methods of carrying medical equipment can have various changes. For example, the physical racks can be different types of storage tools such as medical equipment storage cabinets, medical equipment storage racks, medical equipment storage boxes, or medical equipment carts, and each storage tool is used to place the level and area of the medical equipment And location may vary. Therefore, when building a virtual rack model in the cloud, it is often impossible to simply apply a single rack model template. Furthermore, even if the target physical rack can be applied to a template of a pre-built rack model in the cloud, the level and placement of medical equipment in the physical rack may be affected by the user's preference. Different. Therefore, it is necessary to provide an interface in the cloud that can flexibly build a frame model corresponding to the physical frame.

Next, please refer to Figure 2. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the interface of the virtual rack model of the cloud server 10 in the medical equipment collaborative management system S provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention. As mentioned above, in the embodiment of the present invention, the cloud server 10 is used to provide a framework creation interface in the cloud. The frame creation interface can be used for the first user and the second user At least one of the users performs the frame creation procedure by creating a frame model of a virtual frame model corresponding to the physical frame based on the physical frame. In other words, the virtual rack model of the cloud server 10 of the medical equipment collaborative management system S provided by the embodiment of the present invention can be customized according to the actual needs of the user. As a result, the medical equipment collaborative management system S provided by the embodiment of the present invention has a wider application range and is more flexible in actual operation.

Specifically, it can be seen from FIG. 2 that the interface provided by the present invention for carrying out the frame creation procedure (hereinafter referred to as the frame creation interface) may include a list 21 of drawing tools (which may include a list of drawing tools at the top of FIG. 2 Square, round, irregular and other buttons). Therefore, the user, usually the person on the supplier side (the first user), can draw the frame model of the virtual frame model according to the physical structure (outline) of the physical frame and/or divide it to set up medical Equipment block. The user can also directly import the graphics or photos of the rack, and then use the drawing tool to create the various levels and placement positions of the rack, as shown in the color blocks 22a, 22b, 22c in FIG. In addition, in other embodiments, the user can also choose to import the framework of an existing framework model. For example, after the medical equipment is installed in the physical rack and before being sent to the medical institution, the supplier personnel can use the first user interface through the first computer 12 to create an interface on the rack of the cloud server 10 Build a frame model.

The first user can further define the number of the rack model, and define the hierarchy of the rack model after importing the rack photo as the main structure of the rack model, or drawing the appearance structure of the rack model. Areas and locations for placing (storing) medical equipment. As shown above, the user can use the drawing tool to create the various levels and placement positions of the rack, such as the color blocks 22a, 22b, 22c shown in FIG. It’s worth noting that although it is described here that the supplier’s personnel is used to create the frame, in actual use, the frame creation process can also be used by a second user (e.g. For example, hospital staff), and the present invention is not limited.

In the user interface of the rack shown in Figure 2, each area and the placement position of medical equipment can be represented by different graphics and colors, and there are medical equipment placement positions where medical equipment is placed and medical equipment placement positions without medical equipment. The display mode can also adopt different background colors.

Next, please refer to Figure 3 and Figure 4. 3 and 4 are schematic diagrams of the interface of the maintenance procedure for the virtual rack model of the cloud server 10 in the medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention. In the embodiment of the present invention, the rack maintenance interface provided by the cloud server 10 can be used for at least one of the first user and the second user according to the configuration of multiple medical devices carried by the physical rack And proceed with the maintenance procedure.

In fact, after the frame model of the virtual frame model is created, the first user and/or the second user can relate the frame model and medical equipment information in the virtual frame model through the frame maintenance interface. In other words, in this procedure, the information of the medical equipment carried in the physical rack is correspondingly filled into the virtual rack model. Specifically, according to the location of the medical equipment in the physical rack, the first user and/or the second user can correlate the information of these medical equipment with each level, area, and location of the medical equipment in the rack model. , So that multiple medical equipment information corresponds to multiple medical equipment placement positions.

In the present invention, the first user and/or the second user can target the rack master file (data of the rack model), the shelf master file (the data of the rack), and the area master file (the data of the rack). Edit and define the area data) and the location master file (the data of the placement location of the medical equipment of the rack). For example, the associated supplier code, hospital code, rack number, rack name, associated rack/level/area, and related descriptions can be defined for each file.

In detail, based on the rack maintenance interface, the first user and/or the second user can not only define the detailed content of the rack model, but also perform the procedures of inserting and removing medical equipment. For example, in the process of placing medical equipment, the first user and/or the second user can first select one or more medical equipment placement locations, and then use the barcode scanner to read the medical equipment or its packaging Unique Device Identification (UDI) barcode on the computer, or manually input medical device related information (such as item code, item name, item specification, batch number, expiration date, serial number, disinfection validity period, disinfection times, etc.) , So that the medical equipment information is substituted into the medical equipment placement position of the frame model of the virtual frame model. In contrast, during the process of taking out medical equipment, the first user and/or the second user can also first select one or more medical equipment placement positions that have been associated with the medical equipment information, and then the (etc.) The medical device information is disassociated from the location of the medical device(s).

For example, the supplier can select a specific block in the frame model and associate the medical equipment information with respect to the medical equipment installed in the block. As shown in Figure 3, the supplier can enter the hospital code, specification code, and material number of the medical device in the form 31 on the right side of the interface. In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, the supplier can also access a main menu 41, which covers detailed information of the medical equipment installed in the rack.

Next, please refer to FIGS. 5 to 8. FIGS. 5 to 8 are schematic diagrams of different interfaces for using the virtual rack model of the cloud server in the medical equipment collaborative management system provided by one of the embodiments of the present invention.

Specifically, the use procedure can be an operation in which the first user and/or the second user update the information of the virtual rack model after the medical equipment carried by the physical rack is used by the patient. Or, the use procedure can be to synchronize the medical equipment in the physical rack After processing, update the information of the virtual frame model.

In detail, the cloud server 10 can be used to provide a rack user interface in the cloud. The rack user interface is used for at least one of the first user and the second user according to the multiple medical devices carried by the physical rack. The use of the equipment and the use of the procedures.

First, as shown in Figure 5, in the main screen where users, such as hospital staff can operate, the user moves the cursor on the user interface (the first user interface and/or the second user interface) to a specific Above the area (the color block 51 as shown in the figure) and/or when selecting, the main screen can display the description and content of the area. For example, after clicking a specific area, you can display the operations you want to perform for the medical equipment in the area, such as viewing details, adding consumption, and removing items. For example, when the medical equipment is consumed, the first user and/or the second user can first click on the medical equipment placement location where the medical materials are placed through the rack user interface, and collect the information from that location The information is substituted into the patient's medical records.

Then, when the user moves the cursor over a specific area and/or selects it, and then selects the detailed view option shown in Figure 5, the user interface can display the screen shown in Figure 6, such as the specific area Detailed information 61. Or, as shown in Fig. 7, the user can choose to add consumption, and then select the medical equipment to be consumed. In the embodiment of the present invention, the user interface can also be linked to the main menu 81 as shown in FIG. 8 for the user to select the medical equipment in the menu to perform desired operations.

In addition, the rack user interface of the medical equipment collaborative management system S provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include a disinfection function menu. By clicking the disinfection function menu, you can check all the medical equipment information in a specific level of the displayed virtual rack model The number of disinfection is modified. In practice, if the medical facility has disinfected some or all of the medical equipment in the physical rack, the user of the medical facility (such as the second user) can click the disinfection function menu to update the virtual rack simultaneously Information about the medical equipment in the model.

Next, for the description of the medical equipment collaborative management method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 9 at the same time. Fig. 9 is a flowchart of a method for collaborative management of medical equipment provided by one embodiment of the present invention. In fact, the medical device collaborative management method provided by the embodiment of the present invention is implemented by the medical device collaborative management system S as described above. Therefore, the details of the medical equipment collaborative management system S will not be described again here.

The method for collaborative management of medical equipment provided by the embodiment of the present invention may include: arranging a virtual rack model provided by the cloud server 10 in the cloud through at least one of a first user operation interface and a second user operation interface At least one of the establishment procedure, maintenance procedure and use procedure. As shown in FIG. 9, specifically, the frame creation procedure further includes: a frame creation interface provided in the cloud via the cloud server 10, and the creation of a virtual frame model corresponding to the physical frame according to the physical frame Frame model (step S500). In fact, the frame establishment procedure can be performed by the frame establishment procedure shown in FIG. 2. As mentioned above, the frame creation process can be used to create the physical structure, appearance, contained levels, areas, and placement positions of the physical frame in the cloud. The frame creation program can also be used to define the name of the frame model and the types, characteristics and quantity of medical equipment that can be accommodated at each level.

Next, referring also to FIG. 9, the maintenance procedure further includes: through at least one of the first user operation interface and the second user operation interface, a rack maintenance interface provided in the cloud via a cloud server, according to Update the multiple medical equipment information in the frame model in the virtual frame model based on the settings of multiple medical equipment carried by the physical frame (step S502). As mentioned above, the maintenance procedure is included in the established rack model, so that the medical equipment information is correlated with the corresponding medical equipment placement position in the rack model based on the actual storage, bearing, and placement positions.

Next, referring also to FIG. 9, the use procedure may further include: through at least one of the first user operation interface and the second user operation interface, a rack provided in the cloud via the cloud server The user interface updates multiple pieces of medical equipment information in the frame model in the virtual frame model according to a use situation of the multiple pieces of medical equipment carried by the physical frame (step S504) . In addition, the use procedure may further include selecting one of the multiple medical equipment information in the virtual rack model, and correlating the selected medical equipment information with the patient record.

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In summary, the beneficial effect of the present invention is that through the design of the virtual rack model of the cloud server and the interaction between the cloud server 10 and the first computer 12 and the second computer 14, the medical equipment provided by the present invention The collaborative management system S and method can realize the effect of multi-party collaborative management of medical equipment.

In detail, the medical equipment collaborative management system S and method provided by the embodiments of the present invention can provide a frame creation interface that can be customized to be drawn or loaded into a frame model on the cloud server 10, thereby greatly improving The flexibility of the application of the medical equipment collaborative management system S, that is, through the medical equipment collaborative management system S provided by the embodiments of the present invention, users can respond to different shapes and structures of racks, or different medical equipment storage habits and methods. Create a corresponding virtual rack model in the cloud. In addition, as mentioned above, the data at 10 locations on the cloud server The access rights of can be set by the user, so that multiple users (such as the first user and the second user) can create, maintain and use the same virtual framework model, thereby achieving multi-party collaborative management The purpose of this is to overcome the shortcomings of existing technologies that are managed and maintained by a single party.

Although the embodiments of the present invention are disclosed in the above-mentioned more detailed manner, those skilled in the art can understand that various modifications of the present invention can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention defined in the scope of the attached patent application. . Therefore, further modification of the examples of the present invention will not deviate from the patent application scope of the present invention.

S: System

10: Cloud server

12: The first computer

14: second computer

Claims (9)

A medical equipment collaborative management system, which includes: a first computer with a first user operating interface; a second computer with a second user operating interface; and a cloud server, which is connected through the Internet The road is connected to the first computer and the second computer, and the cloud server is used to provide a virtual rack model in the cloud for a first user to operate through the first user Interface or for a second user to perform at least one of a frame creation process, a maintenance process, and a use process on the virtual rack model through the second user operation interface; wherein, the virtual The rack model has a rack model and a plurality of medical equipment information, and a plurality of the medical equipment information respectively correspond to a plurality of medical equipment carried by a physical rack; wherein each of the plurality of medical equipment information includes 1. Set at least one of location, product code, product name, batch number, validity period, serial number, disinfection validity period, and disinfection frequency. The medical equipment collaborative management system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first computer and the second computer has an input device for inputting information of the plurality of medical supplies. The medical equipment collaborative management system according to claim 2, wherein the input device includes at least one of a code scanner and a keyboard. The medical equipment collaborative management system according to claim 1, wherein the cloud server is used to provide a frame creation interface in the cloud, and the frame creation interface is used for the first At least one of a user and the second user performs the frame creation process by creating the frame model of the virtual frame model corresponding to the physical frame according to the physical frame . The medical equipment collaborative management system according to claim 1, wherein the cloud server is used to provide a rack maintenance interface in the cloud, and the rack maintenance interface is used for the first user and the At least one of the second users performs the maintenance procedure according to a setting situation of the plurality of medical equipment carried by the physical rack. The medical equipment collaborative management system according to claim 1, wherein the cloud server is used to provide a rack user interface in the cloud, and the rack user interface is used for the first user and the At least one of the second users performs the use procedure according to a use situation of the plurality of medical devices carried by the physical rack. The medical equipment collaborative management system according to claim 1, wherein the frame model has multiple levels, each level has multiple areas, each area has multiple medical equipment placement positions, and multiple of the medical equipment The information respectively corresponds to a plurality of placement positions of the medical equipment. The medical equipment collaborative management system according to claim 7, wherein the medical equipment information corresponding to one of the medical equipment placement positions is the same as that carried in the physical rack corresponding to the medical equipment placement position The medical devices are interconnected. A method for collaborative management of medical equipment is executed by a medical equipment collaborative management system. The medical equipment collaborative management system includes a first computer with a first user operating interface, and a second user operating interface with a first computer. A second computer and a cloud server connected to the first computer and the second computer via a network; The medical equipment collaborative management method includes: performing a virtual rack model provided by the cloud server in the cloud through at least one of the first user operation interface and the second user operation interface At least one of a body creation procedure, a maintenance procedure, and a use procedure; wherein the virtual rack model has a body model and a plurality of medical equipment information, and the plurality of medical equipment information respectively correspond to an entity The multiple medical equipment carried by the rack; wherein the multiple medical equipment information includes a setting location, a product code, a product name, batch number, a validity period, a serial number, a disinfection validity period, and a disinfection At least one of the times.

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