Patient information analysis management system and method

• US 5,713,350 A
• Filed: 09/05/1996
• Issued: 02/03/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Yokota, Junichiro, Ishimaru, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamm, William E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY
• Application Number:
  US08/708,537
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 395/924, 395/934, 395/202, 395/203, 128/710, 128/712, 128/670, 128/630, 128/903, 128/904
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• 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

In medical facilities in which medical treatments are performed at a plurality of locations, the state of a patient can be continuously and time-serially determined even if the location at which the medical treatment is given changes. Patient information collection systems for collecting medical treatment results of patients are installed in a plurality of locations where medical treatments are performed. A server system (800) capable of receiving information from each system and storing patient information is arranged. Every time the patient is moved from one room to another room, the destination is sent to the server system (800), and the server system can trace and store the patient information. Data collected from a patient and to be sampled and stored are temporarily displayed and confirmed by a physician or the like, and the confirmed data are specified as sampled data.

Claims

1. A patient information analysis management system having a patient information collection apparatus for collecting results of medical treatments given to a patient in plurality of locations at which medical treatments are performed, in a medical facility for performing medical treatments at the plurality of locations, and a server apparatus for collecting and holding information from said patient information collection apparatus, wherein

said patient information collection apparatus comprises patient information transmitting means for transmitting the information of the results of the medical treatments taken by the patient to said server apparatus, display means for receiving data transmitted to said server apparatus and displaying the received data on a display device, confirmation means for confirming display contents of said display means to output an instruction representing relevancy of the display contents, and informing means for informing said server apparatus of destination information when the medical treatment for the patient at a given location is completed and the patient moves to a next location, and

said server apparatus comprises memory means capable of storing information necessary for medical treatments given to the patient and the results of the medical treatments taken by the patient, analysis return means for analyzing, as needed, the information transmitted from said patient information transmitting means of said patient information collection apparatus and returning an analysis result to said patient information collection apparatus, storage means for storing the information transmitted from said patient information transmitting means of said patient information collection apparatus and the analysis results from said analysis return means in said memory means, patient information control means for exchanging subsequent information associated with the patient with a patient information collection apparatus specified at a destination when the destination of the patient is sent from said informing means of said patient information collection apparatus, and confirmation information control means for accepting or discarding the display information, confirmed by said confirmation means of the patient information collection apparatus, in accordance with the confirmation result.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the information sent by said patient information transmitting means of said patient information collection apparatus includes vital information collected from the patient and adjuvant information of the patient.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said display means of said patient information collection apparatus can display data collected by said patient information collection apparatus.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the data transmitted from said server apparatus includes adjuvant prescription information following an adjuvant prescription to the patient stored in said memory means in advance, and destination input guidance information at said informing means.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said analysis return means of said server apparatus extracts patient measurement information for the predetermined period of time from the patient information transmitted from said patient information transmitting means and returns the extracted information as a sampling candidate, and

said display means of said patient information collection apparatus displays the sampling candidate from said server apparatus and confirms storable information as measurement information from the sampling candidate information displayed on said display means.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein when said confirmation means instructs that the sampling candidate is irrelevant, said analysis return means of the server apparatus extracts new patient measurement information of the patient information transmitted from said patient information transmitting means and returns the new patient measurement information as a sampling candidate, and

said display means of said patient information collection apparatus displays the sampling candidate retransmitted from said server apparatus, and said confirmation means checks if the retransmitted sampling candidate information displayed on said display means is storable information.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein when said confirmation means does not perform a confirmation operation for the predetermined period of time, the displayed sampling candidate is specified as the storable measurement information.

8. A patient information analysis management method in a patient information analysis management system having a patient information collection apparatus for collecting results of medical treatments given to a patient in a plurality of locations at which medical treatments are performed, in a medical facility for performing medical treatments at the plurality of locations, and a server apparatus for collecting and holding information from the patient information collection apparatus, comprising

causing said patient information collection apparatus to send a medical treatment result of the patient to said server apparatus, and causing said server apparatus to extract, from all patient information of the sent information, patient measurement information obtained every predetermined period of time and to return extracted information as a sampling candidate to said patient information collection apparatus,

causing said patient information collection apparatus to display sampling candidates from said server apparatus and to confirm whether of all the displayed sampling candidate information, storable information is relevant as the measurement information, and

when a confirmation result is relevant, causing said server apparatus to store the confirmed patient information as the measurement information of the patient, and when the confirmation result is irrelevant, extracting a sampling candidate again and returning the sampling candidate to said patient information collection apparatus.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising specifying the displayed sampling candidate as storable measurement information when confirmation is not performed for a predetermined period of time.