Method of providing a home health care service and system for providing a home health care service
First Claim
1. A urine testing device comprising:
- a urine collector for collecting urine inside a toilet;
a biosensor exchangeably attached inside said urine collector for detecting predetermined chemical components contained in urine to generate electrical signals;
a support member for supporting said urine collector and also supporting a transmission path of said electrical signals, said support member being constructed so that urine collector may be automatically or manually moved from a housing location to a prescribed use position in the toilet bowl and vice versa; and
a signal processor disposed outside said toilet for processing electrical signals supplied from said biosensor through said transmission path.
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Abstract
A system for providing a home health care service includes a health care center, a service recipient device, and the Internet that connects these components. The health care center: is constructed on the Internet; includes a database for registering personal data that are necessary for the health care of registered at-home patients as basic health care data and storing measurement data that are provided from at-home patients over the course of time; and has the functions of inferring the health conditions of at-home patients based on the measurement data as well as the basic health care data and offering services necessary for health care or services appropriate for inferred health conditions, to at-home patients. The service recipient device includes a biosensor and a signal processor. The biosensor detects chemical components contained in a substance that is discharged from the human body and converts detected values to electrical signals at the point of discharge. The signal processor performs processing of the output of the biosensor to automatically generate measurement data and transmits the measurement data to the health care center by way of the Internet.
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28 Claims
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1. A urine testing device comprising:
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a urine collector for collecting urine inside a toilet;
a biosensor exchangeably attached inside said urine collector for detecting predetermined chemical components contained in urine to generate electrical signals;
a support member for supporting said urine collector and also supporting a transmission path of said electrical signals, said support member being constructed so that urine collector may be automatically or manually moved from a housing location to a prescribed use position in the toilet bowl and vice versa; and
a signal processor disposed outside said toilet for processing electrical signals supplied from said biosensor through said transmission path. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method of providing a home heath care service, comprising steps of:
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constructing a health care center on the Internet, said health care center having personal data necessary for the health care of registered at-home patients as basic health care data and also having the capability of inferring the health conditions of the at-home patients from measurement data provided by the at-home patients and said basic health care data and offering services necessary for health care or services appropriate to the inferred health conditions to said at-home patients;
distributing biosensor devices to at-home patients who wish to receive a home health care service, said biosensor device having a capability of detecting predetermined chemical components contained in a substance discharged from a human body and automatically generating electrical measurement data at the position of discharge as occasion arises;
collecting the measurement data of each registered at-home patient to said health care center from at-home patients by way of said Internet; and
managing time-varying health conditions of at-home patients over a period of time based on the collected measurement data as well as said basic health care data and offering necessary services for maintaining the health of at-home patients. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for providing a home health care service, comprising:
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a health care center constructed on the Internet and provided with a database for registering, as basic health care data, personal data necessary for the health care of registered at-home patients and for storing measurement data provided by at-home patients as occasion arises over a period of time, said health care center having a function of inferring the health conditions of the at-home patients based on said measurement data as well as said basic health care data and offering services necessary for health care or services appropriate to the inferred health conditions, to the at-home patients; and
a service recipient device belonging to an at-home patient comprising;
a biosensor for detecting predetermined chemical components that are contained in a substance discharged from said at-home patient and converting the detected values of said chemical components to electrical signals at the point of discharge when the discharge is conducted;
a signal processor for processing an output of said biosensor and automatically generating measurement data as well as performing control of the communication between said service recipient device and said health care center; and
a information terminal for interfacing said signal processor and said Internet;
wherein;
said service recipient device delivers, under output control of said signal processor, measurement data that have been generated over a period of time together with time data that indicate the times when said biosensor detected said chemical component to said Internet, designating said health care center as the transmission destination; and
said service recipient device receives, under input control of said signal processor, information transmitted from said health care center by way of said Internet; and
wherein said health care center, when judging the transmission source of received measurement data being a service recipient device belonging to a registered at-home patient, stores the measurement data to said data base, and as demand arises, said health care center infers the health condition of the at-home patient based on stored measurement data and with reference to the registered basic health care data and offers information necessary for health care or services appropriate for the inferred health condition, to the at-home patient. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method of providing a home health care service in a system for providing a home health care service, said system including:
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a health care center constructed on the Internet and provided with a database for registering, as basic health care data, personal data necessary for the health care of registered at-home patients and for storing measurement data provided by at-home patients as occasion arises over a period of time, said health care center having a function of inferring the health conditions of the at-home patients based on said measurement data as well as said basic health care data and offering services necessary for health care or services appropriate to the inferred health conditions, to the at-home patients; and
a service recipient device belonging to an at-home patient comprising;
a biosensor for detecting predetermined chemical components that are contained in a substance discharged from said at-home patient and converting the detected values of said chemical components to electrical signals at the point of discharge when the discharge is conducted;
a signal processor for processing an output of said biosensor and automatically generating measurement data as well as performing control of the communication between said service recipient device and said health care center; and
a information terminal for interfacing said signal processor and said Internet;
wherein;
said service recipient device delivers, under output control of said signal processor, measurement data that have been generated over a period of time together with time data that indicate the times when said biosensor detected said chemical component to said Internet, designating said health care center as the transmission destination; and
said service recipient device receives, under input control of said signal processor, information transmitted from said health care center by way of said Internet; and
wherein said health care center, when judging the transmission source of received measurement data being a service recipient device belonging to a registered at-home patient, stores the measurement data to said data base, and as demand arises, said health care center infers the health condition of the at-home patient based on stored measurement data and the registered basic health care data and offers information necessary for health care or services appropriate for the inferred health condition, to the at-home patient, said service recipient device further has the functions of measuring the number of times a biosensor has been used, the cumulative amount of time the biosensor has been used and a calibration value of a biosensor and sending these measurement values to said health care center as biosensor maintenance data; and
said health care center, as a biosensor maintenance service, stores said maintenance data in a database, notifies the at-home patient of the current biosensor state, and gives advance notice of the life of the biosensor to the at-home patient, based on the maintenance data stored in said database, said method including steps of;
analyzing trends in frequency of use based on said maintenance data stored in said database, deducing the time for biosensor exchange and the time that consumable supplies become necessary, delivering necessary materials before there is a lack of necessary materials, and determining monthly service charges according to the frequency of the exchange of the biosensors and the supply of the consumables, and billing said charges.
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27. A method of providing a home health care service by means of a health care center constructed on the Internet, said health care center having the functions of:
- registering, as basic health care data, personal data necessary for the health care of registered at-home patients;
inferring the health conditions of at-home patients based on measurement data relating to a specific morbidity and said basic health care data, wherein said measurement data are provided by at-home patients; and
offering services necessary for health care or services appropriate for inferred health conditions to at-home patients;
including steps of;
classifying said personal data and the morbidities of registered at-home patients into a plurality of categories based on measurement data, and creating lists of at-home patients belonging to each of these categories;
recruiting at-home patients who wish to communicate with each other by way of said Internet; and
releasing the list of at-home patients of the same category as a recruited at-home patient to the recruited at-home patient.
- registering, as basic health care data, personal data necessary for the health care of registered at-home patients;
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28. A method of providing a home heath care service, comprising steps of:
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constructing a health care center on the Internet, said health care center having personal data necessary for the health care of registered at-home patients as basic health care data and also having the capability of inferring the health conditions of the at-home patients from measurement data provided by the at-home patients and basic health care data and offering services necessary for health care or services appropriate to the inferred health conditions to said at-home patients;
distributing biosensor devices to at-home patients who wish to receive a home health care service, said biosensor device having a capability of detecting predetermined chemical components contained in a substance discharged from a human body and automatically generating electrical measurement data at the position of discharge as occasion arises;
collecting the measurement data of each registered at-home patient to said health care center from at-home patients by way of said Internet; and
issuing a certificate for requesting a discount of a life insurance premium when said measurement data are within a prescribed range for at least both a predetermined period and a predetermined number of times.
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