RFID-BASED SYSTEM FOR LINKING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD

• US 20110191124A1
• Filed: 06/08/2009
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SNU R&DB Foundation (Seoul National University)
• Original Assignee: SNU R&DB Foundation (Seoul National University)
• Inventors: Park, Kwang-Suk, Kim, Chung-Hyeon, Sung, Myung-Whun
• Application Number:
  US13/058,353
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191124A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/00 Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using active systems G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00
• 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: G08B 5/00 Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An RFID-based EMR linking system is disclosed. The location of a patient who has a tag is tracked using RTLS and the tracked location of a patient is linked to EMR so that location information of a patient is detected in real time and moving line and location of a patient may be easily managed.

Claims

1. An RFID-based EMR linked apparatus comprising:

a receiver receiving patient information about a patient and tag information mapped to the patient information, and receiving location information of the tag possessed by the patient that is detected by an RFID through a network;

an extractor extracting location information of respective patients based on the location information of the tag; and

a transmitter transmitting the location information of the respective patients through the network.

2. The RFID-based EMR linked apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a storage storing the location information and reservation information of the respective patients; and

a searching unit searching for the reservation information of a patient based on the location information of the respective patients.

3. An RFID-based EMR linking system linked to an EMR server for storing EMRs of patients and an RTLS server for acquiring location information of patients based on RFID through a network, the system comprising:

a receiver receiving the location information of a patient who enters a health screening room from the RTLS server; and

a controller, based on the location information of the patient received by the receiver, searching for reservation information of a corresponding patient from the EMR server to link the searched reservation information to EMR of the corresponding patient.

4. The RFID-based EMR linking system as set forth in claim 4, further comprising a display unit displaying the EMR to a health screener,

wherein, the controller controls the display unit to display the patient who enters the health screening room on the EMR of the display unit using the location information of the patient.

5. An RFID-based EMR linking system linked to an EMR server for storing EMRs of patients and an RTLS server for acquiring location information of patients based on RFID through a network, the system comprising:

a receiver receiving the location information of a patient from the RTLS server;

a controller, based on the location information of the patient received by the receiver, controlling a display unit to display the location of the patient in a hospital; and

the display unit displaying the location of the patient under the control of the controller to be seen to a manager.

6. An RFID-based EMR linking system comprising:

an RFID unit receiving a wireless signal from an RFID tag possessed by a patient and transmitting location information of the RFID tag;

an EMR server storing EMRs of patients;

an RTLS server acquiring location information of a patient based on the location information received by the RFID unit;

a health screening room PC automatically detecting a patient who enters a heal screening room using the location information of the patient acquired by the RTLS server; and

a manager PC tracking the location of the patient using the location information of the patient acquired by the RTLS server;

wherein the RTLS server comprises;

a receiver receiving patient information and tag information mapped to the patient information, and receiving location information of a tag that is received from the RTLS server;

an extractor extracting location information of respective patients based on the location information of the tag; and

a transmitter transmitting the location information of respective patients through a network;

wherein the health screening room PC comprises;

a controller corresponding patient information, based on reservation information of a patient received from the EMR server, and tag information mapped to the patient information to the RTLS server;

a transmitter, under the control of the controller, transmitting the patient information and the tag information mapped to the patient information to the RTLS server; and

a receiver receiving location information of a reserved patient who enters the health screening room from the RTLS server; and

wherein the manager PC comprises;

a receiver receiving the location information of a patient from the RTLS server;

a controller controlling a display unit to display a location of the patient in a hospital based on the location information of a patient received by the receiver; and

the display unit displaying the location of the patient to be seen to a manager under the control of the controller.