HEALTH CARE SERVER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

• US 20130154837A1
• Filed: 07/17/2012
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: PARK, Chan Yong, PARK, Soo Jun, LIM, Joon-Ho
• Granted Patent: US 8,847,767 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• 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 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/04 responsive to non-activity, e.g. of elderly persons G08B21/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

The inventive concept relates to a health care system, and more particularly, to a health care server of the health care system and a method of operating the same. The health care server includes a symptom collection module collecting clinical information of patient from a hospital server and health information of patient from an individual health record server; an alarm and reaction rule management module generating an alarm rule on the basis of the clinical information and the health information; and an alarm generation module monitoring the health information or the clinical information and generating an alarm when the monitored health information or the clinical information corresponding to the alarm rule. The health care server can provide a different alarm service to a patient having a different health state with reference to clinical information and health information of each patient.

Claims

1. A health care server comprising:

an alarm and reaction rule management module generating an alarm rule on the basis of clinical information of patient collected from a hospital server and health information of patient collected from an individual health record server; and

an alarm generation module monitoring health information or clinical information of patient collected from the individual health record server and generating an alarm when the monitored health information or the clinical information of patient corresponding to the alarm rule set in the alarm and reaction rule management module.

2. The health care server of claim 1, further comprising:

a symptom collection module collecting clinical information of patient from the hospital server and health information of patient from the individual health care server; and

a symptom data base storing the clinical information and health information collected from the symptom collection module,

wherein the alarm and reaction rule management module generates a different alarm rule to a different patient on the basis of data stored in the symptom data base.

3. The health care server of claim 2, wherein the alarm rule comprises information that a health of patient has a problem and information about an action that the patient should do.

4. The health care server of claim 3, wherein the information that a health of patient has a problem is measured using at least one of information about disease code, disease classification, prescription code, blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, body temperature, activity, exercise, fall and taking medicine of each patient.

5. The health care server of claim 1, wherein the clinical information comprises information about a disease code, a disease classification and a prescription code of each patient.

6. The health care server of claim 1, wherein the health information comprises information measured by a blood pressure gauge, a blood sugar gauge, a weighing machine, a thermometer, an activity sensor, quantity of motion gauge, a fall sensing device or a taking medicine sensing device

7. The health care server of claim 1, further comprising an emergency signal generation module judging whether an emergency occurs or not on the basis of the health information added after the alarm is generated.

8. The health care server of claim 1, further comprising a symptom data base storing the clinical information and health information collected by the symptom module, wherein the alarm generation module accesses to the symptom data base at intervals of predetermined time.

9. The health care server of claim 1, further comprising a symptom data base storing the clinical information and health information collected by the symptom module, wherein the alarm generation module accesses to the symptom data base when new clinical information or new health information is additionally input.

10. An operation method of health care server comprising:

storing health information received from an individual health record server of patient in a symptom data base;

comparing the health information with an alarm rule corresponding to the patient among alarm rules stored in an alarm and reaction rule data base; and

generating an alarm when the health information corresponds to the alarm rule of the patient.

11. The operation method of health care server of claim 10, wherein the alarm rules are generated on the basis of clinical information collected from a hospital server and the health information collected from the individual health record server, and the alarm rules have different rules to different patients.

12. The operation method of health care server of claim 10, further comprising storing health information additionally measured on the patient in the symptom data base after the alarm is generated.

13. The operation method of health care server of claim 12, further comprising judging whether or not an emergency occurs to the patient on the basis of the additionally measured health information stored in the symptom data base.

14. The operation method of health care server of claim 12, wherein the symptom data base stores clinical information of each patient transmitted from a hospital server and health information of each patient transmitted from the individual health record server.