SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING MEDICAL DEVICE BY USING SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND METHOD OF THE SAME

• US 20150095041A1
• Filed: 09/27/2013
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Insung Information Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Insung Information Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hongjin
• Application Number:
  US14/039,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20150095041A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Disclosed are a system for controlling a medical device by using a short-range wireless communication technology and a method of the same, and more particularly, a system for controlling the medical device by using the short-range wireless communication technology, for example, NFC, Bluetooth and the like. The method is to control the medical equipment by using a smart device and includes: (i) starting an application installed on a smart device 100 (s100); (ii) setting an environmental value to be applied to a medical equipment 200 by using the linked application (s200); (iii) transmitting the set environmental value to the medical equipment 200 (s300); (iv) operating the medical equipment 200 in accordance with the transmitted environmental value (s400); (v) producing health information measured by the operation result of the medical equipment 200 (s500); (vi) transmitting the measured health information to the smart device 100 (s600); and (vii) storing the received measured health information in the smart device 100 (s700).

Claims

1. A method for controlling a medical equipment by using a short-range wireless communication, the method comprising:

(i) starting an application installed on a smart device 100 (s100);

(ii) setting an environmental value to be applied to a medical equipment 200 by using the linked application (s200);

(iii) transmitting the set environmental value to the medical equipment 200 (s300);

(iv) operating the medical equipment 200 in accordance with the transmitted environmental value (s400);

(v) producing health information measured by the operation result of the medical equipment 200 (s500);

(vi) transmitting the measured health information to the smart device 100 (s600); and

(vii) storing the received measured health information in the smart device 100 (s700).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the smart device 100 is any one selected from the group consisting of a smart phone, a smart tablet, a smart watch, a smart glass, a portable personal terminal, a laptop and a smart player.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the short-range wireless communication is used in the step (s300) of transmitting the set environmental value to the medical equipment 200 and the step (s600) of transmitting the measured health information to the smart device 100.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the short-range wireless communication uses Near Field Communication (NFC) using a frequency band of 13.56 MHz.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the short-range wireless communication uses Bluetooth using a frequency band of 2.4 to 2.5 GHz.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the short-range wireless communication uses Zig-bee using a frequency band of 2.4 GHz and 868/915 MHz (900 MHz band).

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the short-range wireless communication uses at least any one selected from the group consisting of Infrared Data Association (IrDA), WLAN, High Rate WPAN, UWB, Wireless 1394 and QR code.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein, in the step (s300) of transmitting the set environmental value to the medical equipment 200 and the step (s600) of transmitting the measured health information to the smart device 100, the set environmental value or the measured health information is transmitted by causing the smart device 100 to be close to a communication module of the medical equipment 200 through the use of a reader-writer mode where either the smart device 100 or the medical equipment 200 becomes a Writer mode.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein, in the step (s300) of transmitting the set environmental value to the medical equipment 200 and the step (s600) of transmitting the measured health information to the smart device 100, the environmental value set in the smart device 100 or the measured health information is transmitted by causing the smart device 100 to be close to the communication module of the medical equipment 200 through the use of a card emulation mode.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein, in the step (s300) of transmitting the set environmental value to the medical equipment 200 and the step (s600) of transmitting the measured health information to the smart device 100, a Peer-to-peer (P2P) method is used between the short-range wireless communication modules of the smart device 100 and the medical equipment 200.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (s400) of operating the medical equipment in accordance with the transmitted environmental value comprises a step (s410) of determining whether or not the environmental value is reset.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (s400) of operating the medical equipment in accordance with the transmitted environmental value comprises an operation information display step (s420) in which the smart device 100 receives and displays the operation information of the medical equipment.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein a step (s800) of displaying the measured health information is added after the step (s700) of storing the received measured health information in the smart device 100.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the step (s800) of displaying the measured health information comprises a guideline display step (s810) of displaying a guideline generated from a guideline generation module 184 of the smart device 100.

15. The method of any one claim of claims 1 to 14 for controlling a medical equipment by using a short-range wireless communication, the method comprising:

requesting a health information management server 300 the environmental value (s110);

receiving the environmental value from the health information management server 300 (s120);

transmitting the health information measured and collected by the method for controlling the medical equipment, to the health information management server 300 (s1000); and

receiving a guideline based on the transmitted health information from the health information management server 300 (s2000).

16. A smart device for controlling a medical equipment by using a short-range wireless communication, the smart device comprising:

a controller 110 for controlling the smart device, a communication module 120 for communicating with the medical equipment 200, a memory 130 for storing the data received from the medical equipment 200, a display unit 140 for displaying the information, a voice output unit 150 for outputting the information in the form of voice, an input module 160 for allowing users to input, and an application 180 which is a software for managing the health information, wherein the application 180 comprises an environmental value set module 181 for setting the environmental value of the medical equipment 200, a database (DB) 182 for storing the health information, and a health information output engine 183 for outputting the image/sound of the health information.

17. The smart device of claim 16, wherein the communication module 120 comprises a Bluetooth module, a Zig-bee module, an Infrared Data Association (IrDA) module, a WLAN module, and a module for generating and receiving a high rate WPAN, UWB, Wireless 1394 and QR code.

18. A medical equipment control system which uses a short-range wireless communication and measures health information, the system comprising:

the smart device 100 of either claim 16 or 17 for controlling the medical equipment by using the short-range wireless communication; and

the medical equipment 200 including the communication module for communicating with the smart device 100.

19. A health information management system using a method for controlling a medical equipment through use of a short-range wireless communication, the system comprising:

the smart device 100 of either claim 16 or 17 for controlling the medical equipment by using the short-range wireless communication;

the medical equipment 200 including the communication module for communicating with the smart device 100; and

a health information management server 300 for managing measured health information.