Medical measuring device and medical measuring system

• US 9,904,764 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2017
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Terashima, Noriyoshi, Nadaoka, Masataka, Oda, Yoshimasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Siefke, Samuel P
• Application Number:
  US15/597,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20170245938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 287 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 system comprising a medical measuring device configured to measure biological information and a management device configured to perform a radio communication with the medical measuring device:

the medical measuring device including;

a housing configured to mount thereon a biosensor in an attachable and detachable manner, the biosensor being configured to have a liquid sample of a biological object deposited thereon,

a processor disposed in the housing, the processor connected to and programmed to control a measuring component, a recording component, a close range communication component and an information protection component,

the measuring component operable to measure biological information from the liquid sample of the biological object and produce a measurement result;

the recording component operable to store the measurement result measured by the measuring component;

the close range communication component operable to perform a close range communication with the management device;

the information protection component operable to determine whether or not to prohibit a readout of personal information data stored in the recording component; and

the processor programmed to control a permission or a prohibition of the readout of the personal information data based on a determination result made by the information protection component; and

the management device including a first transmitter configured to perform a wireless transmission of a device ID as a permission signal, the device ID having been stored preliminarily;

wherein the close range communication component extracts the device ID from the permission signal when the permission signal has been received; and

the information protection component determines whether or not to prohibit the readout of the personal information data based on an authentication result of the device ID extracted by the close range communication component.

2. The medical measuring system according to claim 1, wherein

when the permission signal is not received by the close range communication component,

or when the device ID is not extracted from the permission signal received by the close range communication component,

or when the extracted device ID does not correspond to the device ID that is preliminarily stored;

the information protection component determines whether or not to prohibit the readout of the personal information data.

3. The medical measuring system according to claim 1, further comprising:

the processor programmed to control a communication component of the medical measuring device, the communication component being configured to perform a wireless communication with an external device;

wherein when the communication component is not able to perform the wireless communication, the information protection component determines to prohibit the readout of the personal information data; and

even when the communication component is not able to perform the wireless communication, if the device ID extracted from the wireless signal received from the close range communication component corresponds to an device ID that is preliminarily stored, the information protection component determines to permit the readout of the personal information data.

4. The medical measuring system according to claim 1,

wherein the close range communication component extracts the device ID from the permission signal, and

the information protection component authenticates the device ID output from the close range communication component at a specific timing.

5. The medical measuring system according to claim 4,

wherein the specific timing refers to a timing when the medical measuring device is turned on.

6. The medical measuring system according to claim 4, further comprising;

the processor programmed to control an input component operable to input a user ID; and

wherein the specific timing refers to a timing when the user ID is input by the input component.

7. The medical measuring system according to claim 4,

wherein the specific timing refers to a timing when user reviews the measurement result stored in the recording component.

8. The medical measuring system according to claim 1,

wherein the recording component stores a plurality of device IDs for the management device, and

the information protection component performs the authentication of the device by using the device ID extracted by the close range communication component and the plurality of device IDs stored in the recording component.

9. The medical measuring system according to claim 1,

wherein the medical measuring device further includes a display component;

the recording component stores a user ID as a matching pair to the device ID of the management device; and

the processor is programmed to read out the user ID as the matching pair to the device ID authenticated by the information protection component from the recording component and controls the display component to display a user name related to the user ID.

10. The medical measuring system according to claim 9,

wherein the processor is programmed to read out the user ID as the matching pair to the device ID authenticated by the information protection component from the recording component and interrelates the user ID with the measurement result, and stores the user ID and the measurement result in the recording component.

11. The medical measuring system according to claim 1,

wherein the management device further includes a transmission button operable to transmit a command response signal with the device ID;

and

the medical measuring device performs the authentication of the device ID received from the management device and performs operations to alert its surroundings for indicating its own existence when the command response is included in a signal received at a same time.

12. The medical measuring system according to claim 11,

wherein the medical measuring device performs the operations to alert the surroundings for indicating its own existence by a light or a sound.