Health management system and health management method

• US 20050010435A1
• Filed: 04/07/2003
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Makoto, Morimoto, Kiyoshi, Yamada, Yuka, Kutsumi, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,865,372 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14539 for measuring pH
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/411 Detecting or monitoring allergy or intolerance reactions to an allergenic agent or substance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4806 Sleep evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence; devices for inducing sleep A61M21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4809 Sleep detection, i.e. determining whether a subject is asleep or not
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4839 combined with drug delivery
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0427 with direct interaction with a dispensing or delivery system
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0481 working on a schedule basis
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/30 Syringes for injection by jet action, without needle, e.g. for use with replaceable ampoules or carpules
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A health care system includes a sampling means for sampling body fluid of a test subject person, an analysis means for analyzing the sampled body fluid, a transmission means for transmitting analytical data obtained from the analysis to a diagnosis means, the diagnosis means for diagnosing a health status of the test subject person from the transmitted analytical data, a server for storing and accumulating analytical data and/or diagnostic results, and a health-care-information display device for receiving and displaying diagnostic results or the like.

Claims

1. a health care system comprising:

a sampling means placed within a house of a test subject person and serving for sampling body fluid of the test subject person;

an analysis means placed within the house of the test subject person and serving for analyzing the sampled body fluid;

a diagnosis means for diagnosing a health status of the test subjectperson from analytical data obtained by the analysis means;

a server for storing and accumulating health care information including the analytical data and/or a diagnostic result of the diagnosis performed by the diagnosis means; and

a health-care-information display device which is placeable at least within the house and which serves for receiving the health care information and displaying the health care information.

2. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the diagnosis means and the server are placed outside the house ofthe test subject person;

and

the display device receives the diagnostic result derived from the diagnosis means placed outside the house of the test subject person and displays the diagnostic result.

3. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the diagnosis means comprises an in-house diagnosis means placed within the house of the test subject person, and an out-of-house diagnosis means placed outside the house of the test subject person;

and wherein

the server comprises an in-house server placed within the house of the test subject person, and an out-of-house server placed outside the house of the test subject person, and

in diagnosing the health status of the test subject person from the analytical data by the in-house diagnosis means, upon a decision that the analytical data have departed from a permissible range showing a state of healthiness, the in-house diagnosis means transmits the analytical data to the out-of-house diagnosis means and the out-of-house server outside the house of the test subject person,

the health status of the test subject person is diagnosed from the received analytical data by means of the out-of-house diagnosis means, and

after transmitting the diagnostic result made by the out-of-house diagnosis means to the display device, the diagnostic result is displayed by means of the display device.

4. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a pharmaceutical administration means which is placed within the house of the test subject person and which serves for preparing and/or administering a pharmaceutical to be administered to the test subject person based on the diagnostic result; and

a control means which is placed within the house of the test subject person and which serves for controlling administration operation of the pharmaceutical administration means.

5. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server stores and accumulates personal data including historical data of the test subject person such as historical data of analytical data, historical data of diagnostic results, historical data of pharmaceutical administration, and historical data of effects of pharmaceutical administration given to the test subject person, constitutional data of allergy or the like, or genetic information data, and the like, and

the diagnosis means performs a diagnosis based on the personal data including the historical data of the test subject person such as the historical data of analytical data, the historical data of diagnostic results, the historical data of pharmaceutical administration, and the historical data of effects of pharmaceutical administration given to the test subject person, the constitutional data of allergy or the like, or the genetic information data of the test subject person.

6. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server stores and accumulates personal data including the test subject person'"'"'s historical data such as historical data of analytical data, historical data of diagnostic results, historical data of pharmaceutical administration, and historical data of effects of pharmaceutical administration given to the test subject person, constitutional data of allergy or the like, or genetic information data, and the like, for making the personal data available as an integrated database that has been analyzed and statistically processed on a subscriber basis;

and

the diagnosis means performs a diagnosis based on the integrated database obtained by analyzing and statistically processing, on a subscriber basis, the personal data stored and accumulated in the server and including the historical data of the test subject person such as the historical data of analytical data, the historical data of diagnostic results, the historical data of pharmaceutical administration, and the historical data of effects of pharmaceutical administration given to the test subject person, the constitutional data of allergy or the like, or the genetic information data of the test subject person.

7. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a disclosure means for disclosing the analytical data and/or the diagnostic result to at least any one of the test subject person, a person permitted by the test subject person, and a person permitted by a health care organization to which the test subject person belongs.

8. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the analytical data and/or the diagnostic result stored and accumulated in the server are stored and accumulated in the server as the analytical and/or diagnostic result and a pharmaceutical administered to the test subject person are associated with each other.

9. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server stores and accumulates the constitutional data related to constitution of allergy or the like of the test subject person and the genetic information data of the test subject person, and wherein

the diagnosis means queries the constitutional data related to the constitution of allergy or the like ofthe test subject person or the genetic information data of the test subject person stored and accumulated in the server to implement disclosure of advice effective for the test subject person or administration and preparation of a pharmaceutical effective for the test subject person as the diagnostic result.

10. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control means controls dosing time or quantity of the pharmaceutical or type of the pharmaceutical with considerations given to a physical condition of the test subject person, pharmaceuticals that have already been administered, and pharmaceuticals that are scheduled to be administered.

11. The health care system as claimed in claim 10, further comprising

a sleep-state detection means for detecting a sleep state ofthe test subject person,

wherein after it is confirmed by the sleep-state detection means that the test subject person is in a sleep, the control means administers the pharmaceutical to the test subject person.

12. The health care system as claimed in claim 4, wherein

the pharmaceutical administration means includes a pharmaceutical analysis means, and

a pharmaceutical to be administered to the test subject person is analyzed by the pharmaceutical analysis means, thereby confirming that a result of the analysis agrees with the pharmaceutical described in a prescription contained in the diagnostic result.

13. The health care system as claimed in claim 4, wherein at least one of type, product name, quantity, drag price, and selling price of the pharmaceutical that has been administered to the test subject person by the pharmaceutical administration means is recorded to an area within the server where information related to the test subject person is stored and accumulated.

14. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an advertisement disclosure means for disclosing to the test subject person an advertisement of a commodity of a pharmaceutical adapted to the displayed analytical data and/or diagnostic result.

15. The health care system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the diagnostic result transmitted to the test subject person is transferred to the test subject person as voice information and/or image information by an imaginary character previously set based on the test subject person'"'"'s gusto.

16. A health care method comprising, in a state that a database is possessed in a server, the database being at least one database out of:

a database of personal data which includes historical data of a test subject person such as historical data of analytical data, historical data of diagnostic results, historical data of pharmaceutical administration, and historical data of effects of pharmaceutical administration given to the test subject person, constitutional data of allergy or the like, or genetic information data, and the like of the test subject person;

an integrated database which is obtained by analyzing and statistically processing the personal data of the test subject person; and

a database which is of standard data such as data of diagnostic indices, data of pharmaceuticals, human effect indication data, or prescription-related data;

transmitting to a diagnosis means analytical data derived from an analysis of body fluid of the test subject person;

diagnosing a health status of the test subject person by the diagnosis means based on the analytical data and the database possessed in the server; and

preparing and/or administering a pharmaceutical to the test subject person based on the diagnostic result.