Medical care schedule and record aiding system, medical care schedule and record aiding method, and program storage device readable by the system

• US 5,923,018 A
• Filed: 08/12/1997
• Issued: 07/13/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kameda Medical Information Laboratory
• Original Assignee: Kameda Medical Information Laboratory
• Inventors: Itoh, Tomio, Kameda, Toshitada
• Primary Examiner(s): Hajec, Donald
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dunn, Drew A.
• Application Number:
  US08/910,006
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/380, 235/381, 235/383, 235/385, 235/492, 902/216, 395/202, 395/203
• US Class Current: 235/385
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A medical care schedule and record aiding system is provided with: a plurality of frame definition files each storing frame definition data to define a frame of a table, in which medical care actions of various types are arranged in first rows for each type of the medical care actions and in second rows orthogonal to the first rows for each date; a plurality of cell definition files, which are set for each of the frame definition files, and each of which stores cell definition data including at least positional data, which indicates a first row and a second row of each of cells segmented by the frame of the table, among (i) the positional data, (ii) a medical care category code, which corresponds to each of cells from among a plurality of medical care category codes respectively assigned to the medical care actions of various types in advance, and (iii) text data indicating a text to be displayed in each of cells; and a master file for storing a plurality of medical care action appellation data, each of which indicates an appellation of a medical care action corresponding to respective one of the medical care category codes, in association with each of the medical care category codes; a frame selection device for selecting an arbitrary one of the frame definition files; a display data generation device for generating frame display data and cell content display data; and a display device for displaying the table on the basis of the generated display data.

Claims

1. A medical care schedule and record aiding system comprising:

a plurality of frame definition files each storing frame definition data to define a frame of a table, in which medical care actions of various types are arranged in first rows for each type of the medical care actions and in second rows orthogonal to said first rows for each date;

a plurality of cell definition files, which are set for each of the frame definition files, and each of which stores cell definition data including at least positional data, which indicates a first row and a second row of each of cells segmented by the frame of the table, among (i) the positional data, (ii) a medical care category code, which corresponds to said each of cells from among a plurality of medical care category codes respectively assigned to the medical care actions of various types in advance, and (iii) text data indicating a text to be displayed in said each of cells;

a master file for storing a plurality of medical care action appellation data, each of which indicates an appellation of a medical care action corresponding to respective one of the medical care category codes, in association with each of the medical care category codes;

a frame selection means for selecting an arbitrary one of said frame definition files;

a display data generation means for (i) generating frame display data to display the frame of the table on the basis of the frame definition data stored in said selected frame definition file, (ii) specifying each cell corresponding to respective one of said cell definition files on the basis of the positional data in said cell definition data stored in each of said cell definition files set for said selected frame definition file, (iii) developing the medical care category code, which is included in the stored cell definition data, to the medical care action appellation data, which correspond to the medical care category code to be developed, with referring to said master file, and (iv) generating cell content display data to be displayed in said specified each cell on the basis of the developed medical care action appellation data and the text data;

a display device for displaying the table on the basis of the generated frame display data and the generated cell content display data;

a cell selection device for selecting an arbitrary one of the cells constructing the displayed table;

an input device for newly inputting, adding, changing, modifying or deleting the cell content display data on said display device as for said cell selected by said cell selection device; and

an update device for updating said cell definition file specified on the basis of the positional data of the selected cell, when the cell content display data is newly inputted, added, changed, modified or deleted by said input device, in correspondence with the newly inputted, added, changed, modified or deleted cell content display data.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein

frame title data indicating a unique title is appended to each of said frame definition files, and

said frame selection device selects one of said frame definition files, which has a desired frame title, by searching the frame title data.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said input device is constructed to append patient identification data, which indicate arbitrary one of a plurality of patients, to said frame definition file selected by said frame selection device, and

said frame selection device selects one of said frame definition files for a desired patient by searching the patient identification data.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said display data generation device generates menu display data to display a menu of candidacies for newly inputting, adding, changing or modifying the cell content display data when the cell is selected by said cell selection device, and

said input device is constructed to newly input, add, modify or change the cell content display data on the menu based on the generated menu display data and displayed on said display device.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein

the medical care category code comprises a computer code indicating each item chargeable by a medical insurance,

said system further comprises a calculation device for calculating a medical care insurance point for said each cell on the basis of the medical care category code, which has been newly inputted, added, changed, modified or deleted, each time when the medical care category code is newly inputted, added, changed, modified or deleted by said input device, and to output medical care insurance point data,

said cell definition file stores the cell definition data further including the medical care insurance point data, and

said display data generation device generates the cell content display data on the basis of the medical care insurance point data in addition to the developed medical care action appellation data and the text data.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said input device is constructed to specify at least one of the cells in the displayed table as a display object, and

said display data generation device generates display data to display the cell definition data, which are related to the cell specified as the display object, in a format different from the table.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said input device is constructed to change the frame definition data as for said frame definition file selected by said frame selection device, and

said display data generation device makes from a font at least one portion of display data for filling each of the cells in the table while setting a size of the font in harmonization with the size of each cell determined by the frame defined by the frame definition data, which has been changed by said input device.

8. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said system further comprises a counter for counting the date, and

said display data generation device generates at least one of the cell content display data and the frame display data such that one portion of graphical output related to the date corresponding to a present day is displayed in a display manner different from that of the other portion of graphical output, on the basis of the date counted by said counter.

9. A system according to claim 1, wherein

a result flag, which indicates whether or not the medical care action indicated by each of the medical care category codes has been already performed, is appended to said each of the medical care category codes, and

said display data generation device generates at least one of the cell content display data and the frame display data such that one portion of graphical output related to the medical care action which has been already performed is displayed in a display manner different from that of another portion of graphical output related to the medical care action which has not been performed yet, on the basis of the result flag.

10. A system according to claim 1, wherein

at least some of the medical care category codes are appended with time data indicating time of the day in addition to the date, and

said display data generation device generates the cell content display data such that said at least some of the medical care category codes are arranged per each time of the day in each cell of the table, on the basis of the time data.

11. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said cell definition data further include detail medical care data related to the medical care action indicated by respective one of the medical category codes,

said input device is constructed to specify a desirable medical care action appellation among from the medical care action appellations displayed in the table by said display device,

said display data generation device further generates display data to display the detail medical care data related to the medical care action appellation, which has been specified by said input device, in a predetermined format different from the table, on the basis of the detail medical care data, and

said display device displays the generated display data in the format different from the table.

12. A system according to claim 11, wherein

the detail medical care data include numerical data, which are related to a predetermined type of the medical care action, which is indicated by the respective one of the medical care category codes, and are recorded with respect to a plurality of dates,

said display data generation device generates one display data to graphically output the table at one portion of an output image and generates another display data to graphically output the numerical data as a graph having a time axis corresponding to an arrangement of the dates of the table at another portion of the output image on the basis of the numerical data, and

said display device displays the generated one and another display data.

13. A system according to claim 1, further comprising a communication device connectable to another medical care schedule and record aiding system through a predetermined communication path, for transmitting and receiving at least the cell definition data.

14. A medical care schedule and record aiding method in a medical care schedule and record aiding system, said system comprising:

a plurality of frame definition files each storing frame definition data to define a frame of a table, in which medical care actions of various types are arranged in first rows for each type of the medical care actions and in second rows orthogonal to said first rows for each date;

a plurality of cell definition files, which are set for each of the frame definition files, and each of which stores cell definition data including at least positional data, which indicates a first row and a second row of each of cells segmented by the frame of the table, among (i) the positional data, (ii) a medical care category code, which corresponds to said each of cells from among a plurality of medical care category codes respectively assigned to the medical care actions of various types in advance, and (iii) text data indicating a text to be displayed in said each of cells; and

a master file for storing a plurality of medical care action appellation data, each of which indicates an appellation of a medical care action corresponding to respective one of the medical care category codes, in association with each of the medical care category codes,

said method comprising the processes of;

a frame selection process of selecting an arbitrary one of said frame definition files;

a display data generation process of (i) generating frame display data to display the frame of the table on the basis of the frame definition data stored in said selected frame definition file, (ii) specifying each cell corresponding to respective one of said cell definition files on the basis of the positional data in said cell definition data stored in each of said cell definition files set for said selected frame definition file, (iii) developing the medical care category code, which is included in the stored cell definition data, to the medical care action appellation data, which correspond to the medical care category code to be developed, with referring to said master file, and (iv) generating cell content display data to be displayed in said specified each cell on the basis of the developed medical care action appellation data and the text data;

a display process of displaying the table on a display device on the basis of the generated frame display data and the generated cell content display data;

a cell selection process of selecting an arbitrary one of the cells constructing the displayed table;

an input process of newly inputting, adding, changing, modifying or deleting the cell content display data on said display device as for said cell selected by said cell selection process; and

an update process of updating said cell definition file specified on the basis of the positional data of the selected cell, when the cell content display data is newly inputted, added, changed, modified or deleted by said input process, in correspondence with the newly inputted, added, changed, modified or deleted cell content display data.

15. A program storage device readable by a medical care schedule and record aiding system, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by said medical care schedule and record aiding system to perform method processes for aiding a preparation of medical care schedule and record, said system comprising:

a plurality of frame definition files each storing frame definition data to define a frame of a table, in which medical care actions of various types are arranged in first rows for each type of the medical care actions and in second rows orthogonal to said first rows for each date;

a plurality of cell definition files, which are set for each of the frame definition files, and each of which stores cell definition data including at least positional data, which indicates a first row and a second row of each of cells segmented by the frame of the table, among (i) the positional data, (ii) a medical care category code, which corresponds to said each of cells from among a plurality of medical care category codes respectively assigned to the medical care actions of various types in advance, and (iii) text data indicating a text to be displayed in said each of cells; and

a master file for storing a plurality of medical care action appellation data, each of which indicates an appellation of a medical care action corresponding to respective one of the medical care category codes, in association with each of the medical care category codes,

said method processes comprising the processes of;

a frame selection process of selecting an arbitrary one of said frame definition files;

a display data generation process of (i) generating frame display data to display the frame of the table on the basis of the frame definition data stored in said selected frame definition file, (ii) specifying each cell corresponding to respective one of said cell definition files on the basis of the positional data in said cell definition data stored in each of said cell definition files set for said selected frame definition file, (iii) developing the medical care category code, which is included in the stored cell definition data, to the medical care action appellation data, which correspond to the medical care category code to be developed, with referring to said master file, and (iv) generating cell content display data to be displayed in said specified each cell on the basis of the developed medical care action appellation data and the text data;

a display process of displaying the table on a display device on the basis of the generated frame display data and the generated cell content display data;

a cell selection process of selecting an arbitrary one of the cells constructing the displayed table;

an input process of newly inputting, adding, changing, modifying or deleting the cell content display data on said display device as for said cell selected by said cell selection process; and

an update process of updating said cell definition file specified on the basis of the positional data of the selected cell, when the cell content display data is newly inputted, added, changed, modified or deleted by said input process, in correspondence with the newly inputted, added, changed, modified or deleted cell content display data.