Patient information management apparatus and method

• US 20050010447A1
• Filed: 07/05/2002
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Komiya, Masayoshi, Suganuma, Kunio, Miyasaka, Katsuyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/483,023
• Publication Number:
  US 20050010447A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0271 using a remote monitoring unit
• 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 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 12/00 Accommodation for nursing, e.g. in hospitals, not covered by groups A61G1/00 - A61G11/00, e.g. trolleys for transport of medicaments or food service or tea-tables, trolleys or wagons A47B31/00; Prescription lists
• 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 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A health care worker is able to manually input data by zooming a graphical representation of vital data, moving a cursor at a predetermined position using a mouse or the like, and clicking the mouse. If it is confirmed that the value can be correct, then a setting button is clicked. Alternatively, it may be canceled. For the cancellation, a click button is clicked. By the way, it can be also observed as an output on a monitor (Steps from S11 to S16). In this case, the fact of being confirmed is displayed over the screen on which the monitor output of the vital data is displayed.

Claims

1. An apparatus for managing patient information comprising:

at least one condition detecting means for detecting patient conditions;

detected value displaying means for outputting a detected value obtained in said condition detecting means to display the detected value on a display screen;

corrected value inputting means for inputting a corrected value of the detected value in the display screen displayed by said detected value displaying means corresponding to said condition detecting means; and

corrected value displaying means for displaying said corrected value inputted by said corrected value inputting means on said display screen that said detected value is displayed.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display stopping means for stopping displaying the detected value with regard to a predetermined detected value.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said condition detecting means includes at least two means selected from the group consisting of:

heartbeat detecting means for detecting a heartbeat of said patient;

arterial pressure detecting means for detecting an arterial pressure of said patient;

saturated-oxygen-in-blood detecting means for detecting saturated-oxygen in blood of said patient;

center venous pressure detecting means for detecting a center venous pressure of said patient;

left atrium pressure detecting means for detecting a left atrium pressure of said patient;

pulmonary artery pressure detecting means for detecting a pulmonary artery pressure of said patient;

brain pressure detecting means for detecting a brain pressure of said patient; and

respiratory rate measuring means for measuring a respiratory rate of said patient.

4. An apparatus for managing patient information comprising:

provisional treatment displaying means for display the relationship between a content of a provisional treatment to a patient and the time;

completed treatment displaying means for displaying a content of a completed treatment to said patient with the time; and

decision result displaying means for deciding whether or not said content of provisional treatment matches with said content of completed treatment and for displaying a decision result.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the apparatus has a first display screen displaying said provisional treatment, said completed treatment and said decision result and a second display screen displaying a relationship between a human body chart and a body part to be treated, and said first and second display screen can be seen at the same time.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising link displaying means for displaying said provisional treatment, said completed treatment and said decision result in the first displaying screen, and said body part in the second displaying screen linked with each other.

7. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said provisional treatment displaying means displays a treatment content graphically.

8. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said completed treatment displaying means displays a treatment content graphically.

9. An apparatus for managing patient information comprising:

at least one condition detecting means for detecting patient conditions;

detected value displaying means for outputting a detected value obtained in said condition detecting means to display the detected value on a display screen;

corrected value inputting means for inputting a corrected value of the detected value in the display screen displayed by said detected value displaying means corresponding to said condition detecting means;

corrected value displaying means for displaying said corrected value inputted by said corrected value inputting means on said display screen that said detected value is displayed;

provisional treatment displaying means for display the relationship between a content of a provisional treatment to a patient and the time;

completed treatment displaying means for displaying a content of a completed treatment to said patient with the time;

decision result displaying means for deciding whether or not said content of provisional treatment matches with said content of completed treatment and for displaying a decision result; and

screen switching means for switching a display screen displaying said detected value and/or said corrected value, and a display screen displaying said provisional treatment, said completed treatment and said decision result.

10. A method for managing patient information comprising the steps of:

detecting at least one patient condition by condition detecting means and a monitor connected to said condition detecting means in order to grasp a patient condition and outputting a detected result of said condition detecting means on a screen;

correcting a monitor output on the basis of said monitor output displayed and displaying a corrected value on monitor screen with said monitor output;

display the relationship between a content of a provisional treatment to a patient and the time on a display screen;

displaying a content of a completed treatment to said patient with the time;

deciding whether or not said content of provisional treatment matches with said content of completed treatment and for displaying a decision result; and

switching a display screen displaying said detected value and/or said corrected value, and a display screen displaying said provisional treatment, said completed treatment and said decision result and display either display screen.

11. A program to execute a method according to claim 10.