Medical measuring device and medical measuring system

• US 9,684,763 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2012
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Oda, Yoshimasa, Terashima, Noriyoshi, Nadaoka, Masataka
• Primary Examiner(s): SIEFKE, SAMUEL P
• Application Number:
  US14/367,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20140367256A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,637 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0266 for monitoring or limiting apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157 disposable multilayered or laminated electrodes G01N27/307; details of handling chemical test elements G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150358 Strips for collecting blood, e.g. absorbent optical reagent test strips G01N21/8483; chemical reagent test strips G01N33/4875, G01N33/52
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150862 intermediate range, e.g. within room or building
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/157 Devices characterised by integrated means for measuring characteristics of blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/3273 Devices therefor, e.g. test element readers, circuitry details not specific to biochemical electrodes G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/50 Chemical analysis of biological material, e.g. blood, urine; Testing involving biospecific ligand binding methods; Immunological testing measuring or testing processes involving enzymes or microorganisms, compositions or test papers therefor; processes for forming such compositions, condition responsive control in microbiological or enzymological processes C12Q
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

In a housing configured to mount thereon a biosensor in an attachable and detachable manner in which the biosensor is configured to have a liquid sample of a biological object deposited thereon, the medial measuring device includes a measuring component operable to measure biological information from the liquid sample of the biological object, a recording component operable to store a result measured by the measuring component, and an information protection component operable to determine an access limitation to personal information data stored in the recording component. With this configuration of the device, it is possible to properly protect personal information stored in the device.

Claims

1. A medical measuring device comprising:

a housing;

a processor programmed to control a measuring component, a recording component and an information protection component;

the measuring component measuring biological information from a liquid sample of a biological object and producing a result, and disposed in the housing;

the recording component storing the result, and personal information data, and disposed in the housing and connected to the measuring component;

the information protection component determining whether to prohibit a readout of the personal information data, and disposed in the housing and connected to the measuring component and the recording component; and

the processor programmed to perform or prohibit readout of the personal information data based on a determination result made by the information protection component, and disposed in the housing and connected to the measuring component, the recording component and the information protection component, wherein

when the readout of the personal information data is determined to be prohibited by the information protection component, the processor permits a biological information measurement by the measuring component.

2. The medical measuring device according to claim 1, wherein:

when the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of personal information data, the processor stores a measurement result made by the measuring component in the recording component, and

when an instruction for reading the measurement result is input and a disclosure regulation signal is output, the processor allows a display component to display only the measurement result stored in the recording component while the disclosure regulation signal is output.

3. The medical measuring device according to claim 1, wherein:

when the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of personal information data, the processor controls the display component to display a simple menu, the simple menu including an item for executing a measurement of the biological information by the measuring component and an item displaying a result of the measurement; and

when the information protection component determines to not prohibit the readout of personal information data, the processor controls the display component to display a full menu including an item for reading out the personal information data stored in the recording component.

4. The medical measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising:

the processor programmed to control a communication component;

the communication component performing wireless communication with an external device;

wherein when the communication component is unable to perform the wireless communication, the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of the personal information data, and the processor prohibits the read out of the personal information data.

5. The medical measuring device according to claim 4, wherein:

when the communication component is unable to perform a wireless communication with the external device in a predetermined facility, the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of the personal information data.

6. The medical measuring device according to claim 4, wherein:

the external device is a preliminarily set external device; and

when a reception radio wave intensity of the communication component, with respect to the external device, is outside of an effective range of the reception radio wave intensity, the information protection component references a correspondence relationship between the preliminarily set external device and the effective range of the reception radio wave intensity of the communication component, and determines to prohibit the readout of the personal information data.

7. The medical measuring device according to claim 4, further comprising:

the processor programmed to control a movement measuring component;

the movement measuring component measuring a movement amount of the housing;

wherein the information protection component determines whether the housing is being carried based on the movement amount, and

when the housing has been moved on a continuing basis since a predetermined period elapsed from a time when the wireless communication performed by the communication component was disconnected, the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of the personal information data.

8. The medical measuring device according to claim 4, wherein:

the information protection component updates a moving speed of the housing per unit time based on an amount of changes of the reception radio wave intensity of the communication component, and

when a window time has passed since a time when the wireless communication by the communication component was disconnected, the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of the personal information data, the window time being obtained by dividing a predetermined distance by the moving speed obtained at a time when the wireless communication by the communication component was disconnected.

9. The medical measuring device according to claim 4, wherein:

the wireless communication by the communication component is reconnected after the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of the personal information data, the information protection component determines to permit that the readout of the personal information data.

10. The medical measuring device according to claim 1, wherein:

when the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of the personal information data, the information protection component deletes the personal information data stored in the recording component.

11. The medical measuring device according to claim 1, further including:

a biosensor;

accepting the deposit of the liquid sample of a biological object,

connecting to the measuring component, and

detachably mounting the housing.

12. The medical measuring device according to claim 1, wherein

the processor is programmed to control the permission or the prohibition of the readout of the personal data based on the determination result made by the information protection component without requiring the input of a release code.