Emergency determination support system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon an emergency determination support program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019069155-A1
Application number	US-201716081903-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 2, 2017
Priority date	Mar 7, 2016
Publication date	Feb 28, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

A program that supports emergency determination with an information terminal ( 1 ) equipped with a display ( 11 ) and a touch panel ( 12 ). The program makes the information terminal function as: an input reception unit ( 102 ) configured to receive input of age and sex on an injured or ill person through the touch panel ( 12 ); the input reception unit ( 102 ) configured to display a plurality of symptoms on the display ( 11 ) to allow a user to select any symptom from the plurality of symptoms through the touch panel ( 12 ), and an emergency determination unit ( 103 ) configured to determine the level of emergency degree corresponding to the age and the sex of the injured or ill person and the selected symptom and display the emergency degree on the display ( 11 ). This enables determination of the emergency degree of symptoms as well as notification of the determined emergency degree to the individual using an information terminal owned by the individual.

First claim

1 - 14 . (canceled)

15 . A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program that makes an information terminal including a calling unit as well as a display unit, an operating unit and computer execute support for emergency determination, the program making the computer execute:
a symptom selection step of displaying a plurality of symptoms on the display of the information terminal and receiving selection by a user of any symptom from the plurality of symptoms through the operating unit; an emergency determination step of determining emergency degree corresponding to the symptom selected through the operating unit while referring to a relationship stored beforehand in a storage unit about between symptoms and levels of emergency degree; an image displaying step of, when the emergency degree is determined as a high level, displaying an emergency calling button on the display; and a telephone network control step of, when receiving user's operation with the emergency calling button on the display, making a call via the calling unit to an emergency call phone that is associated beforehand.

16 . The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein the program further makes the computer execute an injured/ill person information reception step of receiving input of attribute information on an injured or ill person via the operating unit of the information terminal, wherein
the emergency determination step determines the emergency degree in accordance with the selected symptom and the attribute information on the injured or ill person.

17 . The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein when the emergency degree is determined as the high level, the image displaying step displays the emergency calling button on the display, and when the emergency degree is determined as a level lower by one than the high level, the image displaying step displays an emergency consultation phone button instead of the emergency calling button on the display,
wherein when receiving user's operation with the emergency consultation phone button on the display, the telephone network control step makes a call via the calling unit to an emergency consultation phone that is associated beforehand.

18 . The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein
the plurality of symptoms has a plurality of hierarchical levels, and is configured to be a tree form to specify each symptom to be more detailed according to the hierarchical levels, the symptom selection step allows the user to select any symptom at each hierarchical level from an upper level, and the emergency determination step determines the emergency degree in accordance with at least a symptom selected at the lowest hierarchical level.

19 . The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein the program further makes the computer execute:
an operation determination step of determining whether the user operates the emergency calling button on the display or not; a questionnaire asking screen displaying step of, when the user does not operate the emergency calling button, displaying a screen of asking cooperation in questionnaire conducted later on the display, the questionnaire being about whether the user visited a medical institution or history of medical care at the medical institution; a questionnaire condition determination step of determining, when receiving user's selection to cooperate in the questionnaire via the operating unit, whether a temporal condition for questionnaire is achieved or not by keeping time; and a questionnaire processing step of conducting questionnaire via the operating unit to the information terminal when it is determined that the temporal condition for questionnaire is achieved.

20 . The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein the information terminal is of a mobile type.

21 . An emergency determination supporting system, comprising:
a first server configured to receive, from an information terminal equipped with a calling unit and configured to receive, as an emergency case, attribute information on an injured or ill person and information on selected symptoms via an operating unit, and determine level of emergency degree corresponding to the received information by a determination unit, information on the selected symptom and the determined emergency degree for each emergency case via a first network; and a second sever configured to, when the determination unit determines the emergency degree as a high level, and when a user makes a call to an emergency calling phone via the calling unit for emergency transportation of the injured or ill person, receive pre-hospital activity information including information on the injured or ill person that is input via a terminal of an emergency medical team and post-transportation progress information including information on the injured or ill person that is input via a terminal of a medical institution for storage via a second network, wherein one of the first server and the second server includes: a joining unit configured to check the attribute information received by the first server against the information on the injured or ill person received by the second server to join an emergency case for the same injured or ill person; an emergency analysis unit configured to statistically evaluate and analyze a relationship between symptoms and levels of emergency degree based on the joined emergency cases; and a distribution unit configured to, when the relationship between symptoms and levels of emergency degree analyzed by the emergency analysis unit is changed, distribute the changed relationship between symptoms and levels of emergency degree to the information terminal.

22 . The emergency determination supporting system according to claim 21 , wherein the information terminal is of a mobile type.

23 . The emergency determination supporting system according to claim 21 , wherein the first server includes the joining unit, the emergency analysis unit and the distribution unit.

24 . The emergency determination supporting system according to claim 21 , wherein the second server includes a fire department server configured to store the pre-hospital activity information and a medical institution server configured to store the post-transportation progress information.

Assignees

• Univ Osaka

Inventors

• Katayama Yusuke
• MIZOBATA Yasumitsu
• Hayashida Sumito

Classifications

• G16H50/30

  for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment · CPC title

• H04W4/90 Primary

  Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] · CPC title

• G16H80/00

  ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring · CPC title

• H04M11/04

  with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems · CPC title

• G16H10/60

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title