Health care server and method of operating the same

• US 8,847,767 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2012
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Park, Chan Yong, Park, Soo Jun, Lim, Joon-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Previl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/550,811
• Publication Number:
  US 20130154837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/531, 340/539.1, 34053911-53912, 340/825.49, 340/5.52, 340/5.82, 340 758- 759, 340/7.6
• 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 for a patient on the basis of clinical information of the patient collected from a hospital server and health information of the patient collected from an individual health record server, the health information including information measured by the patient; and

an alarm generation module monitoring clinical information of the patient collected from the hospital server and health information of the patient collected from the individual health record server and generating an alarm when the monitored health information or the clinical information of the patient is found to correspond to the alarm rule generated by the alarm and reaction rule management module, wherein

the alarm rule includes information about an action that the patient can perform, and generating the alarm includes providing the information about the action the patient can perform to the patient.

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 1, wherein the information measured by the patient includes at least one of information about blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, body temperature, activity, exercise, falling, and taking medicine of the patient.

4. The health care server of claim 1, wherein the clinical information comprises information about one or more of a disease code, a disease classification and a prescription code of the patient.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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 when new clinical information or new health information is additionally input.

9. An operation method of health care server comprising:

storing health information received from an individual health record server of a patient in a symptom data base, the health information including information measured by the patient;

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, wherein

the alarm rule includes information about an action that the patient can perform, and generating the alarm includes providing the information about the action the patient can perform to the patient.

10. The operation method of the health care server of claim 9, 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 a different rule for a different patient.

11. The operation method of health care server of claim 9, further comprising storing health information additionally measured on the patient in the symptom data base after the alarm is generated.

12. The operation method of health care server of claim 11, 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.

13. The operation method of health care server of claim 11, 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.