Medical practice information management system, medical practice operation assistance terminal, medical practice information management method, medical practice operation assistance method, storage media storing medical practice information management program and storage media storing medical practice operation assistance program

• US 8,762,162 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2005
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Omori, Shinichi, Nagaeda, Tsuyoshi, Fukuhara, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Sereboff, Neal
• Application Number:
  US11/192,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20060026038A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,253 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A medical practice operation assistance terminal according to the present invention comprises a medical practice acquisition unit which is capable of transmitting an acquisition request of a medical practice to a data base storing information relating to medical practice(s), and acquiring the medical practice(s) related to the acquisition request; a judgment unit comparing identifier of the readout item of a medical practice and identifier of the item specified among the displayed items of the acquired medical practice(s); and an acquisition decision maker unit for deciding whether or not the medical practice acquisition unit is to be activated with the specified item as a search condition in accordance with a category of the specified item constituting the medical practice, if a readout identifier information identifies with the identifier information of the specified item.

Claims

1. A medical procedure information management system, for managing medical procedure information comprises:

a medical procedure information management apparatus including;

a medical procedure storage unit configured and operable for storing a plurality of items constituting a medical procedure carried out for a patient with an operation sequence of the plurality of items in association with the medical procedure,

a search unit configured and operable for searching the medical procedure storage unit for at least stored information regarding the medical procedure based on information contained by a received acquisition request after the acquisition request for the stored medical procedure is received, and

a transmission unit configured and operable for transmitting information about a search performed by the search unit back to a sender of the acquisition request; and

a medical procedure operation assistance terminal, configured to perform the following steps;

transmit the acquisition request to the medical procedure information management apparatus, and to acquire the information about the search related to the medical procedure related to the acquisition request;

determine when a certain item of the medical procedure is specified from an obtained list of items of the medical procedure and whether all items of the medical procedure preceding the specified item have been carried out,

when it is determined that all the preceding items that precede the specified item have been carried out, compare an identifier of a readout item of a medical procedure to be performed and an identifier of the specified item specified from among displayed items related to the acquired medical procedure; and

decide whether the medical procedure acquisition unit is to be activated with the specified item of the medical procedure, when the identifier of the readout item matches with the identifier information of the specified item.

2. The medical procedure information management system according to claim 1, wherein said medical procedure information management apparatus is further configured to receive “

operation completed”

information indicating that a prescribed item constituting the medical procedure has been carried out, and to change an operation status of an applicable item within the medical procedure to “

operation completed”

based on the “

operation completed”

information, and

said medical procedure operation assistance terminal further comprises a transmission unit for transmitting the “

operation completed”

information indicating that said specified item has been carried out.

3. The medical procedure information management system according to claim 2, including activating said transmit step when the specified item is used to carry out a blood transfusion.

4. The medical procedure information management system according to claim 2, wherein said “

operation completed”

information contains information related to a practician, operation date and time and content of the operation item performed.

5. The medical procedure information management system according to claim 1, including activating said transmit step when the specified item is used to carry out the medical procedure.

6. The medical procedure information management system according to claim 1, including determining whether an applicable medical procedure has been carried out by checking whether data indicating the practician, operation date and time and content of the operation performed have been entered.

7. The medical procedure information management system according to claim 1, including determining whether an applicable medical procedure has been carried out by checking an “

operation completed”

flag associated with each completed item indicating whether the item has been carried out.

8. The medical procedure information management system according to claim 1, wherein said medical procedure operation assistance terminal is a non-portable terminal installed in the vicinity of an item for which it is responsible.

9. The medical procedure information management system according to claim 1, wherein said medical procedure operation assistance terminal is a mobile information terminal taking responsibility for an item carried out next to said patient.

10. A medical procedure information management system, for managing medical procedure information comprises:

a medical procedure information management apparatus including;

a medical procedure storage unit configured and operable for storing each item constituting a medical procedure for a patient and correlating each item with the medical procedure, and a processor configured to carry out the following steps;

defining a sequence of operating including each item constituting the medical procedure,

storing a defined operation sequence provided by the operation sequence definition unit,

receiving “

operation completed”

information from at least one medical procedure operation assistance terminal indicating that a prescribed item constituting a medical procedure has been carried out,

changing an operation status of an applicable item of the medical procedure to “

operation completed”

based on the “

operation completed”

information,

receiving an acquisition request for the medical procedure from the at least one medical procedure operation assistance terminal, and

searching the storage unit for the stored medical procedure by a search condition contained in a received acquisition request or by a search condition obtained therefrom, and

a transmission unit for transmitting information about the search performed by the search unit back to a transmitting source terminal of the acquisition request;

wherein the medical procedure operation assistance terminal, configured to perform the steps of;

making the medical procedure information management apparatus search, by transmitting thereto the acquisition request, with each item constituting the stored medical procedure identified by a prescribed search condition, and to acquire the search result,

displaying on a screen visible to a user, a list of acquired items constituting a medical procedure or information based on acquired items constituting the medical procedure included in the search result, and specifying a responsible item within the medical procedure by designating a part of a screen displaying the list of items that includes the responsible item,

determining whether all items of the medical procedure preceding the specified item have been carried out,

determining that all the preceding items have been carried out, of reading out identifier information for identifying each item constituting a medical procedure,

comparing inputted identifier information with identifier information contained by the specified item,

deciding to activate the making step when the inputted identifier information matches with the identifier information contained by the specified item, and

transmitting “

operation completed”

information for indicating that the specified item has been carried out.

11. A medical procedure operation assistance terminal, configured and operable to access a data base for managing information relating to at least one medical procedure carried out for a patient, comprising:

a medical procedure acquisition unit configured and operable for transmitting an acquisition request of a medical procedure to the data base storing information relating to the medical procedure, and acquiring information relating to the medical procedure related to the acquisition request;

a judgment unit configured and operable for comparing an identifier of the readout item of a medical procedure and an identifier of a specified item among displayed items included in the acquired information relating to the medical procedure;

an acquisition decision maker unit configured and operable for deciding that the medical procedure acquisition unit is to be activated with the specified item of the medical procedure, when a readout identifier information matches with identifier information of the specified item;

wherein said data base stores a plurality of items constituting said medical procedure and also an operation sequence of the plurality of items, and

an item processing decision maker unit configured and operable for deciding that the processing of the specified item constituting a medical procedure is allowable when all items preceding the specified item in medical procedure have been carried out.

12. The medical procedure operation assistance terminal according to claim 11, wherein said data base stores the at least one medical procedure carried out for a patient and a plurality of items constituting the aforementioned medical procedure and correlates the former with the latter.

13. The medical procedure operation assistance terminal according to claim 11, wherein said acquisition decision maker unit activates the medical procedure acquisition unit when the specified item is utilized for carrying out the medical procedure.

14. The medical procedure operation assistance terminal according to claim 11, wherein said acquisition decision maker unit activates the medical procedure acquisition unit when the specified item is utilized for carrying out a blood transfusion.

15. The medical procedure operation assistance terminal according to claim 11, wherein said “

operation completed”

information indicates a practician, operation date and time and content of operation item performed.

16. The medical procedure operation assistance terminal according to claim 11, wherein said medical procedure operation assistance terminal is a non-portable terminal installed in the vicinity of an item for which it is responsible.

17. The medical procedure operation assistance terminal according to claim 11, wherein said medical procedure operation assistance terminal is a mobile information terminal taking responsibility for an item carried out next to said patient.

18. A medical procedure operation assistance terminal, configured and operable to access a data base for managing information relating to a medical procedure carried out for a patient, comprising:

a medical procedure acquisition unit configured and operable for making a management apparatus that manages the data base search, by transmitting thereto an acquisition request relating to at least one stored medical procedure in the data base, for a plurality of items constituting the stored medical procedure by a prescribed search condition contained in the acquisition request, and to acquire a search result from the data base;

a display and specification unit configured and operable to display a list of acquired items constituting the medical procedure or information based on acquired items constituting the medical procedure, and specifying a responsible item within the medical procedure by designating a part of a screen displaying the list of items including the responsible item;

an item processing decision maker configured and operable to determine whether all items of the medical procedure preceding the specified item have been carried out,

an input configured and operable for performing a process, when the item processing decision maker unit determines that all the preceding items of the medical procedure have been carried out, of reading out information identifying each item constituting a medical procedure performed;

a judgment module for comparing readout identifier information from the input unit with identifier information contained in the specified item when the item processing decision making unit determines that all the preceding items of the medical procedure preceding the specified item have been carried out;

an acquisition decision maker configured and operable for deciding that the medical procedure acquisition unit is to be activated with the specified item as a search condition in accordance with a category of the specified item constituting the medical procedure, when the readout identifier information matches with the identifier information contained in the specified item; and

a transmission module configured and operable for transmitting “

operation completed”

information indicating that the specified item has been carried out.

19. A medical procedure information management method comprising the steps of:

searching a medical procedure information management apparatus for a medical procedure carried out for a patient within a data base accessible from the medical procedure information management apparatus which stores the medical procedure together with a plurality of items constituting the medical procedure and an operation sequence of the plurality of items based on information contained by a received acquisition request from any one of one or more medical procedure operation assistance terminals,

responding back to a transmitter of the acquisition request with information about the search result;

acquiring at the medical procedure operation assistance terminal the search result after making the medical procedure information management apparatus search, by transmitting thereto an acquisition request relating to the stored medical procedure, including a plurality of items constituting the stored medical procedure by a prescribed search condition contained by the acquisition request,

displaying a list of acquired items constituting a medical procedure or information based on acquired items constituting the medical procedure in a display of the medical procedure operation assistance terminal,

specifying a certain item of the list of acquired items;

determining whether all items preceding the specified item on the list of acquired items have been carried out,

comparing identifier information for an item constituting a medical procedure performed with a responsible item within the medical procedure specified as a part of the list when all items preceding the specified item on the list of acquired items have been carried out, and

deciding that the medical procedure acquisition unit is to be activated by a specified item as a search condition in accordance with a category of the specified medical procedure item when the readout identifier information matches with identifier information contained in the specified item.

20. A medical procedure operation assistance method comprising the steps of:

displaying in a screen a list of items constituting a medical procedure acquired from a data base or information based on an acquired list constituting the medical procedure in response to an acquisition request transmitted to an apparatus managing a data base which stores the medical procedure and a plurality of items constituting the aforementioned medical procedure and an operational sequence of the plurality of items by correlating the former with the latter;

specifying a certain item of the list of items;

determining whether all items preceding the specified item on the list of items have been carried out;

comparing identifier information about the specified item as a part of the item list on the screen with identifier information about an item constituting a medical procedure to be performed which has been read out by way of an input unit; and

deciding whether the acquisition request is to be transmitted to a management apparatus managing the data base so as to have each item constituting a medical procedure stored in the data base searched by the specified item as search condition in accordance with a category of the specified item constituting a medical procedure, when readout identifier information matches with identifier information about the specified item.

21. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program product for managing information about a medical procedure, wherein the computer program product comprises program segments that when executed on a computer causes the computer to carry out the steps of:

changing an operation status of a corresponding item within a storage unit of the computer which stores a medical procedure carried out for a patient and a plurality of items constituting the medical procedure with an operation sequence of the plurality of items by correlating the former with the latter to an “

operation completed”

based on a received information about “

operation completed”

which indicates that a prescribed item constituting the medical procedure has been carried out;

acquiring a search result by searching a medical procedure stored by a storage unit of the computer by using a search condition contained by a received acquisition request for the medical procedure or a search condition obtained from the acquisition request; and

transmitting an acquired search result to an apparatus which is a transmitter of an acquisition request.

22. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program product for carrying out a medical procedure for a patient, wherein the program product comprises program segments that when executed on a computer makes the computer carry out the steps of:

displaying, in a screen, a list of items constituting a medical procedure acquired from the data base, or information based on acquired items constituting the medical procedure in response to an acquisition request transmitted to an apparatus managing a data base which stores the medical procedure and a plurality of items constituting the aforementioned medical procedure with an operation sequence of the plurality of items by correlating the former with the latter;

specifying an item of the list of items;

determining whether all items preceding the specified item have been carried out;

comparing identifier information about the specified item as a part of the item list on the screen with identifier information about an item constituting a medical procedure which has been read out by way of an input unit when all items preceding the specified item have been carried out; and

deciding whether the acquisition request is to be transmitted to a management apparatus managing the data base so as to have each item constituting a medical procedure stored in the data base searched by the specified item as search condition in accordance with a category of the specified item constituting the medical procedure, when readout identifier information identifies with identifier information about the specified item.

23. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 22, further comprising deciding to acquire a search result in said deciding step when the specified item constituting a medical procedure is an item relating to carrying out the medical procedure.