JP2002351981A - Nursing support system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] A function to acquire a regular examination data of a subject can be easily incorporated into a nurse call system,
Provide a nursing support system with improved system expandability. A hospital adapter for voice communication is provided.
It includes the hospital adapters 201 and 202 for data transmission and the central controller 3, which are connected to the digital communication line 8. Via a digital communication line 8 for transmitting a voice signal between the voice communication slave units 601a to 602c connected to the voice communication sickroom adapters 101 and 102 and the voice communication devices 4a to 4c connected to the central control device 3. Done. Sensor 70 connected to voice communication sickroom adapters 101 and 102
The vital data measured in 1a to 702c is transmitted to the examination data collection device 5 via the digital communication line 8 and the central control device 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a nursing support system having a function of acquiring data on a regular examination of a patient.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Daily regular medical examinations of inpatients and elderly persons in nursing homes are one of the most important aspects of nursing practice.
However, nursing staff patrols each room and room,
Vital data such as body temperature, blood pressure, pulse, etc. of each hospitalized patient or facility resident had to be measured and recorded, which was a heavy burden. In order to reduce the burden of acquiring vital data, a system for automatically transmitting and recording measured values of vital data to a distant place such as a nurse station has been proposed (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-4453, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-1).
No. 79526, etc.), however, dedicated equipment was required, and it could not be easily installed.

On the other hand, a nurse call system for making a voice call between a hospital room and a nurse station has conventionally been realized by analog transmission, but a system utilizing digital transmission technology has also been proposed. When digital transmission is adopted, not only audio but also video and data can be transmitted, but it is not easy to efficiently incorporate a function of automatically acquiring examination data.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above circumstances, the present invention makes it possible to easily incorporate a routine examination data acquisition function of a subject into a nurse call system, and to improve nursing support system expandability. It is intended to provide a system.

[0005]

A nursing support system according to the present invention has a function of acquiring data on a regular check-up of a patient to be examined. A child unit for voice communication connected to the, a sickroom adapter for examination data transmission provided in the sickroom, a measuring instrument for periodic examination connected to the sickroom adapter for examination data transmission, and a voice communication device provided in the nurse station. A screening data collection device provided in a nurse station, and a central control device for controlling the entire system, wherein the voice communication sickroom adapter, the sickroom data transmission sickroom adapter, and the central control device, a plurality of data Connected to a digital communication line having a channel, wherein the voice communication device and the examination data collection device are connected to the central control device. The communication of the voice communication data between the voice communication slave unit and the voice communication device, and the transmission of the measurement screening data from the hospital room adapter for screening data transmission to the screening data collection device are performed by the central control device at any time. Via the assigned data channel.

[0006] The measuring device in the nursing support system of the present invention automatically transmits examination data after the measurement is completed.

[0007] The measuring device in the nursing support system of the present invention measures at least one of body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate.

[0008] In the nursing support system of the present invention, the transmitted measurement and examination data is associated with the voice communication slave unit.

The examination data collection device in the nursing support system of the present invention transmits a voice message corresponding to the transmitted examination data to the corresponding telephone unit for voice communication.

[0010] In the nursing support system of the present invention, the voice communication device and the examination data collection device are integrally formed.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing one embodiment of the nursing support system of the present invention.
The system shown in FIG.
02, the data transmission room adapters 201 and 202, and the central controller 3 are connected to the digital communication line 8. And the sickroom adapter 101 for voice communication includes
The slave units 601a, 601b, 601c for voice communication are connected, the slave units 602a, 602b, 602c for voice communication are connected to the sickroom adapter 102 for voice communication, and the sensors 701a, 701 are connected to the sickroom adapter 201 for data transmission.
b, 701c are connected, and the hospital room adapter 2 for data transmission is connected.
02 is connected to sensors 702a, 702b, 702c. The central control device 3 includes a voice communication device 4
a, 4b, 4c, and the examination data collection device 5 are connected.

Although FIG. 1 shows two hospital room adapters for voice communication and two room adapters for data transmission, more hospital room adapters are actually provided. Although only one digital communication line is shown, a plurality of digital communication lines to which a plurality of voice communication room adapters and a data transmission room adapter are connected may be connected to the central control device 3.

[0013] The handset units 601a to 602c for voice communication are provided, for example, on the bedside of a hospitalized patient in a hospital room, and call a nurse station and perform voice communication with the voice communication devices 4a to 4c provided in the nurse station. Things. A handset unit in which a speaker, a microphone, and a call switch are integrated may be used as the slave unit for voice communication, or the speaker, the microphone, and the call switch may be separate units. As shown in FIG. 4, the voice communication devices 4a to 4c include channel selection units 41a to 41c for selecting the voice communication slave units 601a to 602c in each hospital room.

The sensors 701a to 702c detect, for example, vital data for periodic examination of an inpatient, and the detected vital data is sent to the examination data collection device 5. Body temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and the like are detected as the regular examination vital data. Although the system shown in FIG. 1 is provided corresponding to the slave units 601a to 602c for voice communication, it is not always necessary to provide it in every hospital room and at the bedside of all hospitalized patients. However, even in this case, if the installed sensor is dedicated to one hospitalized patient, the sensor is associated with the voice communication slave units 601a to 602c. When a plurality of inpatients in a hospital room share the data, the measurement data is transmitted with predetermined identification information (for example, patient ID) added thereto.

The examination data collection device 5 records the transmitted vital data for each hospitalized patient, and is realized by a computer. The recorded vital data can be referred to by doctors and nursing staff.

The digital communication line 8 transmits a digital data signal in a time division multiplex system. The transmission of the voice signal is performed via the voice communication room adapters 101 and 102, the digital communication line 8, and the central controller 3. The transmission of the vital data is performed using the data transmission room adapters 201 and 2,
02, the digital communication line 8, and the central control unit 3, which will be described later in detail.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of the hospital adapter 101 for voice communication. 2 is a modem unit 1101, a protocol control unit 1201, a control unit 1301, a voice input / output interface (described as ADPCMCODEC in FIG. 2) 140.
1a, 1401b and 1401c. Modem section 110
Reference numeral 1 denotes a unit that modulates a baseband digital signal from the protocol control unit 1201 and transmits the modulated signal to the digital communication line 8, receives a modulated signal of the digital communication line 8, and demodulates the signal into a baseband digital signal.

The protocol control unit 1201 includes voice input / output interfaces 1401a, 1401b, 14
01c is exchanged with multiplexed data on the digital communication line 8, and a control signal between the control units to be described later is exchanged with multiplexed data on the digital communication line 8. The control unit 1301 includes a voice input / output interface 1401a,
In addition to linking 1401b and 1401c with the channel on the digital communication line 8, control signals are exchanged with the control unit of the communication partner.

Voice input / output interfaces 1401a, 1
401b and 1401c are protocol control units 1
The baseband digital signal from the base station 201 is converted into an analog signal to convert the base station digital signal into an analog signal.
1c as well as the slave units 601a and 601 for voice communication.
01b and 601c to convert the analog signals into digital baseband signals,
1 is output.

FIG. 3 shows a hospital adapter 201 for data transmission.
It is a figure which shows schematic structure of. 3 includes a modem unit 2101, a protocol control unit 2201, a control unit 2301, and sensor interfaces 2401a, 2401b, and 2401c. The operations of the modem unit 2101, the protocol control unit 2201, and the control unit 2301 are the same as those of the modem unit 1101, the protocol control unit 1201, and the control unit 1301 in FIG.

A sensor interface (described as a sensor IF in FIG. 3) 2401a, 2401b, 2401c
Thermometers 7101a, 7101b, 7101c, and sphygmomanometer 7201 for detecting vital data for periodic examination of inpatients
a, 7201b, and 7201c are converted into digital baseband signals. Here, a pulse value obtained by a sphygmomanometer is used as a pulse signal as vital data to be detected.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of the central control device 3. The central control device 3 in FIG. 4 includes a modem unit 31, a protocol control unit 32, a control unit 33, and a voice input / output interface (described as ADPCMCODEC in FIG. 4) 34a, 34b, 34c. The operations of the modem unit 31 and the protocol control unit 32 are the same as those of the modem unit 1 shown in FIG.
101, which is the same as the protocol control unit 1201, and a description thereof will be omitted. The control unit 33 includes the control unit 1 shown in FIG.
In addition to performing the same control as 301, it controls the data communication of the entire system.

Voice input / output interfaces 34a, 34
b and 34c convert the baseband digital signal from the protocol control unit 32 into an analog signal and output it to the voice communication devices 4a, 4b and 4c, and convert the analog signals from the voice communication devices 4a, 4b and 4c into digital signals. It is converted into a baseband signal and output to the protocol control unit 31. The examination control data collection device is connected to the protocol control unit 32, and the thermometer 7
101a, 7101b, 7101c, sphygmomanometer 7201
a, 7201b, and 7201c.

Tuning units 41a, 41b and 41c are connected to the voice communication devices 4a, 4b and 4c, respectively.
Selection of a specific hospitalized patient (or only an ID number) in a specific room can be selected.

The voice communication devices 4a, 4b, 4c and the examination data collection device 5 to which the tuning units 41a, 41b, 41c are connected are installed, for example, in a nurse station. The installation location of the central control device 3 can be selected arbitrarily, but in a hospital, a nurse station, which is a place for grasping the entire hospital room, is preferable. When the system of the present invention is applied to, for example, a nursing care facility, it is preferable to install the system at a location where a manager is located in accordance with a nurse station. Also, the voice communication devices 4a, 4b, 4c
And the examination data collection device 5 may be housed in the same housing.

Next, data transmission on the digital communication line 8 will be described. FIG. 5 is an example of a format of data transmitted by time division multiplexing on the digital communication line 8.
The format of FIG. 5 includes data channels 0 to 5 and control channels therebetween. The data channel is a channel for transmitting a voice signal and examination data, and can transmit data from a terminal. The control channel is a channel for controlling communication of the entire system, and under the control of the control unit 33 of the central control unit, the control unit 33, the control unit 1301 of the hospital adapters 101 and 102 for voice communication, and the data transmission Hospital room adapters 201, 20
The control signal is transmitted from the second control unit 2301. Therefore, any room adapter for voice communication 10
1, 102, and hospital adapters 201, 2 for data transmission
02 and the central control unit can be transmitted using any channel. The transmission control of the control signal by the control unit 33 is performed by, for example, a polling method.

When the call switch of the voice communication slave unit 601a is depressed, the control unit 1301 of the voice communication sickroom adapter 101 exchanges control data with the control unit 33 of the central control unit 3 to execute a predetermined operation. And a call signal is transmitted to the voice communication devices 4a, 4b, and 4c. When one of the voice communication devices 4a, 4b, and 4c, for example, the voice communication device 4a responds, the control unit 33 secures a data channel for voice signal communication from the voice communication device 4a to the handset 601a for voice communication. Therefore, a call can be made between the voice communication slave unit 601a and the voice communication device 4a.

At the time of regular check-up, each hospitalized patient measures vital data using sensors 701a to 702c corresponding to his / her own handset for voice communication, and sends the measurement result to the check-up data collection device 5. At that time, it is preferable to automatically transmit the measurement result after the measurement is completed. As described above, as for the transmission of the examination data, a necessary data channel is secured by control signal exchange using the control channel, and the examination data is transmitted using the secured channel.

The measurement data sent to the examination data collection device 5 via the central control unit 3 is checked for data consistency, and the normal data is recorded corresponding to the hospitalized patient. At the time of consistency check, if data that is impossible or suddenly changed as vital data is transmitted,
The voice data urging re-measurement, such as "Please measure again", is output to the corresponding voice communication slave unit.
Therefore, normal examination data is automatically recorded. If data in the normal range is not obtained even after multiple measurements, ask nursing staff to make a decision in the hospital room.

[0030]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the function of acquiring the regular examination data of the examinee can be easily incorporated into, for example, a nurse call system, and the expandability of the system can be improved. Nursing support system. Therefore, the convenience and efficiency of nursing or nursing care work are improved, and the labor of nursing or care staff is reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing one embodiment of a nursing support system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a hospital adapter for voice communication of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a data transmission hospital room adapter of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a central control device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a data format which is time-division multiplexed and transmitted in a nursing support system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

101, 102: Hospital room adapter for voice communication 201, 202: Hospital room adapter for data transmission 3: Central control device 4a, 4b, 4c: Voice communication device 5: Examination data collection device 601a- 602c: Voice communication slave unit 701a to 702c: Sensor 8: Digital communication line 1101, 2101, 31 ... Modem unit 1201, 2201, 32 ... Protocol control unit 1301, 2301, 33 ..Control units 1401a to 1401c, 34a to 34c voice input / output interface 2401a to 2401c sensor interface 41a, 41b, 41 channel selection unit c 7101a, 7101b, 7101c thermometer 7201a, 7201b , 7201c ... Sphygmomanometer

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A nursing support system having a function of acquiring a regular examination data of a patient, comprising: a sickroom adapter for voice communication provided in a sickroom; a cordless handset connected to the sickroom adapter for voice communication; A screening data transmission sickroom adapter provided in the; a screening data measuring device connected to the screening data transmission sickroom adapter; a voice communication device provided in a nurse station; and a screening data collection device provided in a nurse station. A central controller for controlling the entire system, wherein the sickroom adapter for voice communication, the sickroom adapter for transmission of examination data, and the central controller are connected to a digital communication line having a plurality of data channels; A communication device, and the examination data collection device are connected to the central control device; The transmission of the voice communication data between the communication device and the voice communication device, and the measurement screening data from the screening data transmitting hospital room adapter to the screening data collecting device is performed through the data channel assigned as needed by the central control device. Nursing support system. 2. The nursing support system according to claim 1, wherein the measuring device automatically transmits examination data after the measurement is completed. 3. The nursing support system according to claim 1, wherein the measuring device measures at least one of body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate. 4. The nursing support system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitted measurement and examination data is associated with the slave unit for voice communication. 5. The nursing support system according to claim 4, wherein the examination data collection device transmits a voice message corresponding to the transmitted examination data to the corresponding handset for voice communication. A nursing support system. 6. The nursing support system according to claim 1, wherein the voice communication device and the examination data collection device are integrally formed.