JPH09274632A - Electronic filing device for medical office - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable retrieval with a character string without requiring the new input work of character string data by storing character string data for retrieval in an external storage device while adding them to image data. SOLUTION: When a record card K is set to a scanner 1, an image read control means 2 converts the front side and rear side of that card to the image data of bit maps, etc., respectively and outputs the image data on both the sides of the record card K to an image data writing means 3. A character code converting means 4 converts image data such as a marked filing number, patient name, name of a person of insurance, symbol and number to character codes and outputs them into a character code collating means 5. A character code collating means 5 compares and collates them with data previously stored in an item name dictionary 6 and the compared result is outputted to a character data writing means 7 together with the character codes converted from the image data. Corresponding to the command of a keyboard 9, the character data are stored in an external storage device 10 so as to be paired with the image data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for recording a document such as a medical record used in a medical field as electronic data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A medical record that records a patient's medical condition, test results, and treatment process is an important material for subsequent continuous treatment, and is under the responsibility of a medical institution for a prescribed period of time, usually 5 years, by law. It is supposed to be stored. For this reason, a large-scale medical institution has an enormous amount of medical records for backdates, and measures are taken to reduce the storage cost, such as requesting the storage location in the suburbs. For this reason, when a patient comes to the hospital for re-treatment, he / she calls the reference number for identifying the patient and the patient name to the storage site from the medical site by telephone, etc. I got it as a hard copy by FAX,
A system has been established in which the originals can be obtained by mail at a later date.

[0003]

However, a certain amount of time is required for contact and manual search, which causes the patient to wait, which not only deteriorates the service. In an emergency, there are problems such as trouble. In order to solve such a problem, some medical institutions also employ a so-called electronic filing device that converts a medical record into image data and stores it in a large-capacity storage device. Since the image data is image data, it is necessary to manually input the data to be used for the search work, which causes a problem that labor and manpower are required.

The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to automatically convert data required for retrieval into character string data, and to convert this together with image data of the entire medical record. An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic filing device for medical office, which stores character string data and can perform a search by a character string without requiring a new input operation of the character string data.

[0005]

In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, a means for converting the entire surface on which the chart is written into image data, and a character written in a predetermined area of the image data. A means for converting image data into a character code, a character code collating means for inspecting the matching of the character code, and image data of the entire surface on which the medical record is written and data from the character code collating means are stored in association with each other. External storage means, search / readout control means for searching image data from the external storage means based on character data, and printing means for printing the image data read from the external storage means on a recording sheet.

[0006]

The character string data for retrieval is automatically generated from the image data in the predetermined column of the chart, and the character string data is attached to the image data and stored in the external storage means.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The details of the present invention will be described below with reference to illustrated embodiments. FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a scanner which captures characters and figures on a recording medium such as a medical record as image data. A double-sided reading scanner capable of converting into image data by one-time scanning is used, and the image reading control means 2 outputs the image data of the entire chart to the image data writing means 3 and the required area to the character code converting means 4. Is.

The character code conversion means 4 is a mark M for designating a reading area in advance in a specific area of a medical record which will be described later.
Only the area marked with is selectively converted into a character code and output to the character code collating means 5 described later.

The character code collating means 5 compares the character string converted from the image data with the character string data stored in advance in the item name dictionary 6 and writes the character string and the comparison result together to write the character data. It is output to the means 7.

The character data writing means 7 displays the conversion result on the monitor 8 and the keyboard 9 by the user.
When the correction data is input from, the corrected data is stored in the external storage unit 10 in association with the data of the image data writing unit 3.

Reference numeral 11 is a search / readout control means, which searches the external storage means 10 for character string data that matches the search character string input from the keyboard 12, and reads out the image data of the matched chart from the external storage means 10. It is output to the monitor 15 or the printer 16 via the display control unit 13 and the print control unit 14 to generate a soft copy or a hard copy such as a chart.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the medical record K suitable for the present invention. Basic data described on the surface K-1 of the medical record, such as reference number, name of insured person, symbol, In the numbers and the like, a code that the character code conversion means 4 can relatively easily discriminate, "||", is described as the mark M in this embodiment.

In the lower part of the chart K, the name of the injury and illness, the date of the first examination,
As shown in FIG. 3, a column for describing outcomes and the like, and a column for describing medical conditions, medications, injections, treatments, surgery, etc. are further provided on the back surface K-2.

The above-mentioned mark M is printed in advance when printing the medical chart K, or is prepared as a label paper in which the mark is printed on the front surface of the paper and a pressure-sensitive adhesive is applied on the back surface. It can be attached by affixing it to the required fields of the form.

In this embodiment, when the chart K is set on the scanner 1, the image reading control means 2 causes the front surface K-1,
And the back surface K-2 are respectively converted into image data such as a bit map and the image data of both surfaces of the chart K are output to the image data writing means 3, and a mark M on the front surface K-1 is also written. Character code conversion means 4 for image data
Output selectively.

The character code conversion means 4 includes a reference number with a mark M, a patient name, an insured name, a symbol,
The image data of the number is converted into a character code and output to the character code collating means 5. The character code collating means 5 compares with the data stored in advance in the item name dictionary 6 and outputs the comparison result to the character data writing means 7 together with the character code converted from the image data.

Since the data and the character code of these comparison results are displayed on the monitor 8, they are checked by comparing them with the chart K, and only the characters having the conversion error are partially corrected by the keyboard 9.

When the storing is instructed by the keyboard 9 when the accurate input is completed in this way, the character data D are paired with the image data I as shown in FIG. Stored in.

On the other hand, when the chart of a specific patient is required, the retrieval data for identifying the patient is input from the keyboard 12, for example, character string data for retrieval such as reference number, patient name, etc. -The reading control means 11 causes the image data I of the medical chart to which these character string data are attached.
Is displayed and displayed on the monitor 15 via the display control means 13.

When the image of the chart displayed on the monitor 15 corresponds to the search target, the keyboard 12 is instructed to print to the printer 16 so that the image of the monitor 15 is printed on the recording sheet as a copy of the chart. . Therefore, by using this printed matter as a medical record,
You can revisit without having an actual medical record.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, only bibliographical items such as reference numbers and patient names written in the chart are converted into character string data.
Medical data such as symptom progress, medication, and injection may be converted into character data and stored in the external storage means 10 together with image data of the entire medical record.

When converting the medical care data captured as image data into a character string in this way, the item name dictionary 6 is divided for each medical care subject, and only data such as a disease name and a drug name corresponding to each medical treatment subject is divided. If the medical information is stored and the medical care department is designated when converting the character string data, the character data can be converted into the character data with higher reliability.

[0023]

As described above, in the present invention,
A means for converting the entire surface of the medical record into image data, a means for converting the image data of the characters described in a predetermined area of the image data into a character code, and a character code collating means for checking the matching of the character codes. An external storage unit that stores the image data of the entire surface of the medical record and the data from the character code matching unit in association with each other; a search / read control unit that searches the image data from the external storage unit based on the character data; A means for printing the read image data on a recording sheet is provided, so that only the data required for retrieval is automatically converted into character string data, and this data is attached to the image data of the entire chart, and external storage means is provided. Can be stored in and can be easily and quickly reproduced as a hard copy by inputting character string data.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a description example of a surface of a medical chart suitable for the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a description example of the back surface of the medical chart.

FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing data stored in an external storage means.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Scanner 8,15 Monitor 9,12 Keyboard 16 Printer

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A means for converting an entire surface of a medical record into image data, a means for converting image data of a character described in a predetermined area of the image data into a character code, and the matching between the character codes. Character code collating means to be inspected, external storage means for storing the image data of the entire surface of the chart and the data from the character code collating means in association with each other, and image data from the external storage means based on the character data. An electronic filing apparatus for medical office, comprising: a search / readout control unit for searching for the image data and a printing unit for printing the image data read out from the external storage unit on a recording sheet. 2. The electronic filing apparatus for medical office according to claim 1, wherein an area for converting into character data is provided with a mark in the column for writing the chart. 3. The electronic filing apparatus for medical office according to claim 1, wherein, in the column for writing the chart, the area to be converted into character data is at least a reference number, a name, a symbol and a number of the insured person.