System for aiding to make medical care schedule and/or record, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave

• US 7,260,547 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2001
• Issued: 08/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toshitada Kameda
• Original Assignee: Toshitada Kameda
• Inventors: Kameda, Toshitada
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas; Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US09/974,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20020046062A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,139 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3, 705 7- 9, 345440-443, 345/963
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• 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: Y10S 715/963 Calendar or scheduling

Abstract

A system for aiding to make a medical care schedule and/or record is provided with: a plurality of files for respectively including medical care data in correlation with execution timing data; a display controlling device for (i) generating first display data to display the medical care data composing the medical care schedule and/or record for one patient, as for only a partial period for the one patient, and (ii) generating second display data to display a table identification mark information, as a patient chronological table in which the table identification mark information is arranged at a position corresponding to the partial period on a time axis indicating the whole period of the medical care schedule and/or record; and a selecting device for selecting one of a plurality of table identification mark information.

Claims

1. A system for aiding to make a medical care schedule and/or record comprising:

a plurality of files each for including medical care data indicating one of a plurality of types of medical care actions, which are set in advance, in correlation with execution timing data indicating an execution timing of each one of the medical care actions;

a display controlling device for (i) generating first display data to display the medical care data composing the medical care schedule and/or record for one patient in a format of a medical care schedule and record table, (ii) arranging the medical care data in first rows for each type of the medical care actions and in second rows orthogonal to said first rows for each date, as for only part of the types of medical care actions for said one patient and as for only a partial period of a whole period of the medical care schedule and/or record for said one patient, on the basis of the medical care data and the execution timing data included in said files, and (iii) generating second display data to display a table identification mark information individually for each part of the types of medical care actions, which is to identify the medical care schedule and record table for said one patient, as a patient chronological table exclusive for said one patient in which the table identification mark information is arranged at a position corresponding to the partial period on a time axis indicating the whole period of the medical care schedule and/or record;

a display device for displaying the medical care schedule and record table on the basis of the first display data, and displaying the patient chronological table on the basis of the second display data; and

a selecting device for selecting one of a plurality of table identification mark information under a condition that the patient chronological table comprising the plurality of table identification mark information is displayed by said display device,

said plurality of files being correlated with one or a plurality of medical care schedule and record tables, each of which are identified by said plurality of table identification mark information and each of which can be displayed by said display device,

said display controlling device taking out the file or files correlated with the medical care schedule and record table identified by the table identification mark information selected by said selecting device, to thereby generate the first display data by using the medical care data stored in the taken out file or files,

one of said plurality of medical care schedule and record tables, which corresponds to the table identification mark information, being selected by said selecting device,

the selected one of the medical care schedule and record tables being displayed by said display device on the basis of the generated first display data.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said plurality of files each include (i) corresponding type data indicating to which type of the medical care actions the medical care data stored in each file is to belong and (ii) priority order data indicating a priority order of the types of the medical care actions indicated by the corresponding type data, and

said display controlling device generates the first display data to display the medical care schedule and record table by referencing the medical care data stored in the taken out file or files and determining to which type of the medical care actions the referenced medical care data is to belong in the selected one of the medical care schedule and record tables, on the basis of the corresponding type data and the priority order data included in the taken out file or files.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein

said display controlling device generates the first display data such that the medical care data stored in the same taken out file or files belongs to mutually different types of medical care actions, in accordance with which one of said plurality of medical care schedule and record tables is selected by said selecting device, on the basis of the corresponding type data and the priority order data, and

the medical care data stored in the plurality of files is used commonly between the plurality of medical care schedule and record tables.

4. A system according to claim 1, further comprising a magnified portion specifying device for specifying one portion of the patient chronological table as a portion to be magnified under a condition that the patient chronological table is displayed by said display device,

said display controlling device generates the second display data to magnify and display the one portion of the patient chronological table specified by said magnified display portion specifying device.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling device generates the second display data to display text information given to each of the table identification mark information at a position adjacent to each of the table identification mark information in the patient chronological table.

6. A system according to claim 1, further comprising a pop-up specifying device for specifying one of the displayed plurality of table identification mark information as one to be pop-up-displayed, under a condition that the patient chronological table including the plurality of table identification mark information is displayed by said display device,

said display controlling device generating the second display data to pop-up-display detail information given to the table identification mark information specified by said pop-up specifying device at a position adjacent to the table identification mark information specified by said pop-up specifying device in the patient chronological table.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling device generates the second display data to display the table identification mark information in a bar shape, which has a length corresponding to a period covered by the medical care schedule and record table identified by the pertinent table identification mark information with respect to the time axis.

8. A system according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling device generates the second display data to display the table identification mark information in a point shape indicating the date of an execution of one medical care data, which is related to a predetermined type, on the time axis among the plurality of medical care data constituting the medical care schedule and record table identified by the table identification mark information.

9. A system according to claim 8, wherein said display controlling device generates third display data to display a list of the respective table identification mark information in the point shape and text information given to the respective table identification mark information,

said display device displaying the list on the basis of the third display data.

10. A system according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling device generates the second display data so as to add an age of said one patient as well as at least year and month of chronological era as a scale with respect to the time axis.

11. A system according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling device generates the second display data to further display a clinical data existence period mark information in the patient chronological table, said clinical data existence period mark information indicating a clinical data existence period, in which clinical data related to one series of clinical actions among the medical care data exist and being shaped in a bar having a length corresponding to the clinical data existence period on the time axis.

12. A system according to claim 1, further comprising a date and time measuring device for measuring a present date and time, wherein

said display controlling device generates the second display data to further display a present date and time mark indicating the measured present date and time within the patient chronological table.

13. A system according to claim 1, further comprising a date and time measuring device for measuring a present date and time, wherein

said display controlling device generates the first display data to further display a present date and time mark indicating the measured present date and time within the medical care schedule and record table.

14. A system according to claim 1, further comprising an input device for inputting the medical care data on the medical care schedule and record table.

15. A system according to claim 1, wherein each of said files comprises an object file for including the medical care data and the execution timing data and further including procedure information, in accordance with which said display controlling device generates the first display data.

16. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said system comprises two units communicated to each other through a communication line, wherein

said files are provided in one of the two units, and

said display device is provided in another of the two units.

17. A program storage device readable by a system for aiding to make a medical care schedule and/or record, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by said system to perform method processes for aiding to make a medical care schedule and/or record, said system comprising a plurality of files each for including medical care data indicating one of a plurality of types of medical care actions, which are set in advance, in correlation with execution timing data indicating an execution timing of each one of the medical care actions,

said method processes comprising the processes of:

generating second display data to display a table identification mark information individually for each part of the types of medical care actions to identify a medical care schedule and record table for said one patient and arranging the medical care data in first rows for each type of the medical care actions and in second rows orthogonal to said first rows for each date, as a patient chronological table exclusive for said one patient in which the table identification mark information is arranged at a position corresponding to only a partial period of a whole period of the medical care schedule and/or record for one patient on a time axis indicating the whole period of the medical care schedule and/or record;

displaying the patient chronological table on the basis of the second display data;

selecting one of a plurality of table identification mark information under a condition that the patient chronological table comprising the plurality of table identification mark information is displayed, said plurality of files being correlated with one or a plurality of medical care schedule and record tables, each of which are identified by said plurality of table identification mark information and each of which can be displayed by said display device;

taking out the file or files correlated with the medical care schedule and record table identified by the table identification mark information selected by said selecting process;

generating first display data to display the medical care data composing the medical care schedule and record in a format of the medical care schedule and record table as for only part of the types of medical care actions for said one patient and as for only the partial period of the medical care schedule and record for said one patient, on the basis of the medical care data and the execution timing data included in said taken out file or files; and

displaying the medical care schedule and record table on the basis of the first display data,

one of said plurality of medical care schedule and record tables, which corresponds to the table identification mark information, being selected by said selecting process,

the selected one of the medical care schedule and record tables being displayed by said display process on the basis of the generated first display data.

18. A method for aiding to make a medical care schedule and/or record in a system for aiding to make the medical care schedule and/or record, said system comprising a plurality of files each for including medical care data indicating one of a plurality of types of medical care actions, which are set in advance, in correlation with execution timing data indicating an execution timing of each one of the medical care actions,

said method comprising the processes of:

generating second display data to display a table identification mark information individually for each part of the types of medical care actions to identify a medical care schedule and record table for said one patient and arranging the medical care data in first rows for each type of the medical care actions and in second rows orthogonal to said first rows for each date, as a patient chronological table exclusive for said one patient in which the table identification mark information is arranged at a position corresponding to only a partial period of a whole period of the medical care schedule and/or record for one patient on a time axis indicating the whole period of the medical care schedule and/or record;

displaying the patient chronological table on the basis of the second display data;

selecting one of a plurality of table identification mark information under a condition that the patient chronological table comprising the plurality of table identification mark information is displayed, said plurality of files being correlated with one or a plurality of medical care schedule and record tables, each of which are identified by said plurality of table identification mark information and each of which can be displayed by said display device;

taking out the file or files correlated with the medical care schedule and record table identified by the table identification mark information selected by said selecting process;

generating first display data to display the medical care data composing the medical care schedule and record in a format of the medical care schedule and record table as for only part of the types of medical care actions for said one patient and as for only the partial period of the medical care schedule and record for said one patient, on the basis of the medical care data and the execution timing data included in said taken out file or files; and

displaying the medical care schedule and record table on the basis of the first display data,

one of said plurality of medical care schedule and record tables, which corresponds to the table identification mark information, being selected by said selecting process,

the selected one of the medical care schedule and record tables being displayed by said display process on the basis of the generated first display data.