MEDICAL SAFETY SYSTEM

• US 20090030728A1
• Filed: 07/21/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Satoshi, Nakazato, Toshiaki
• Application Number:
  US12/176,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20090030728A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/00 Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g. utilities or tourism healthcare informatics G16H
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

An action storage unit stores medical action information including at least information about the instructor of a medical action, an instruction from the instructor, an executor who has executed an action in accordance with the instruction, and the action executed by the executor. A singular point extraction unit extracts information singular to a predetermined analysis target by statistically analyzing the predetermined analysis target of the medical action information. A report creation unit creates a report including at least an analysis result on the analysis target on the basis of the extracted singular information.

Claims

1. A medical safety system comprising:

a first storage unit which stores medical action information including at least information about an instructor of a medical action, an instruction from the instructor, an executor who has executed an action in accordance with the instruction, and the action executed by the executor;

a first extraction unit which extracts information singular to a predetermined analysis target of the medical action information by statistically analyzing the predetermined analysis target; and

a creation unit which creates a report including at least an analysis result and the analysis target on the basis of the extracted singular information.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the first storage unit stores the medical action information as a plurality of records each including at least information about the instructor, the instruction, the executor, and the action, and

the first extraction unit extracts the singular information on the basis of frequencies of a plurality of records concerning the analysis target for the respective actions.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the first storage unit stores the medical action information as a plurality of records each including at least information about the instructor, the instruction, the executor, and the action, and

the first extraction unit stores a score table which associates the action with a score indicating a degree of abnormality of the action, and extracts the singular information on the basis of integrated values of a plurality of scores associated with actions of a plurality of records concerning the analysis target on the score table.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the first extraction unit extracts an action of a record concerning an integrated value exceeding a predetermined threshold as the singular information.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the creation unit creates the report which includes information about the instructor who has issued an instruction which is a cause of the singular information.

6. The system according to claim 1, which further comprises a second storage unit which stores, as an assumed frequency, a frequency of an action which is assumed to be executed by the executor in response to an instruction from the instructor, and in which

the first extraction unit extracts information corresponding to a frequency exceeding the assumed frequency as singular information.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the second storage unit stores the assumed frequency in association with at least one of a treatment phase and a disease code which classifies a disease.

8. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a second extraction unit which extracts a desired action from an operation log in each system connected to the medical safety system via a network.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the first storage unit stores an action extracted by the second extraction unit.

10. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a management unit which, when the executor generates a question about an instruction from the instructor, manages a question report including information about the question generated by the executor.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein

the management unit transmits the question report to the instructor, and

the first storage unit further stores a transmission log which indicates that the question report has been transmitted to the instructor.

12. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a determination unit which, when a content of an instruction from the instructor is changed by a question, determines the change as an incident.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein

the determination unit notifies the first extraction unit of the determined incident, and

the first extraction unit processes the notified incident as one piece of the singular information.

14. A medical safety system comprising:

an input unit which inputs a plurality of records each including information about an instructor of a medical action, an instruction from the instructor, an executor who has executed an action in accordance with the instruction, and the action executed by the executor;

a counting unit which counts the number of records, of the plurality of input records, which concern a predetermined instructor and a predetermined instruction, for each type of the action;

an extraction unit which extracts statistically significant information about the predetermined instructor and the predetermined instruction by statistically analyzing the counted number of records; and

a creation unit which creates a report concerning the extracted significant information.

15. A medical safety system comprising:

an input unit which inputs a plurality of records each including information about an instructor of a medical action, an instruction from the instructor, an executor who has executed an action in accordance with the instruction, and the action executed by the executor;

a storage unit which stores a score table which associates an action of an executor with a score indicating a degree of abnormality of the action;

a calculation unit which calculates a plurality of integrated values by integrating a plurality of scores associated with actions of a plurality of records, of the plurality of input records, which concern a predetermined instructor and a predetermined instruction, on the score table, for the respective types of actions;

an extraction unit which extracts statistically significant information about the predetermined instructor and the predetermined instruction by statistically analyzing the plurality of calculated integrated values; and

a creation unit which creates a report concerning the extracted significant information.