JP4069722B2 - Health management terminal - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a health management terminal and a health management system used for health management at home, and in particular, provides a health management system that performs health management by improving lifestyle habits based on advice.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, the policy of health management has shifted from the early detection and early treatment (secondary prevention) of conventional illness to health promotion (primary prevention) that does not cause illness. As one of such health management means, guidance has been performed by sending measurement data such as body weight, body fat percentage, blood pressure, etc. through a communication network and returning advice.
[0003]
Conventionally, this type of health management system includes a server connected to a health management terminal via a communication network and a plurality of biological information measuring devices connected to the health management terminal (see, for example, Patent Document 1). .
[0004]
FIG. 8 shows a conventional health management system described in the publication. In FIG. 8, the biological information measuring device 3 measures body weight, body fat percentage, blood pressure, etc., and transmits the biological information data measured using the connected health management terminal 1 to the server 2 via the communication network 4. To do. The server 2 makes a diagnosis based on the received biological information data and returns advice to the health management terminal 1 via the communication network 4 so that the health management terminal 1 displays and prints the advice and the health management target person advises Can be obtained.
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-15068 (page 4-5, FIG. 3)
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the conventional example shown above, advice is generated only for the biological information data measured irregularly by the health care target person, so at a timing medically necessary for health care. It is hard to say that I can give enough advice.
[0007]
The present invention solves the above-described conventional problems, and requests the biometric information measuring device for new data and receives the biometric information data at a timing when medical advice is necessary medically. The purpose is to provide a health management terminal that can be updated at any time and can provide notifications about health improvement only to the health management target person at any time.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the conventional problem, the health management terminal of the present invention receives biological information data from a biological information measuring device and transmits it to a server via a communication network to obtain advice. A data request transmission unit that requests transmission of biometric information data. This makes it possible to request biometric data from the biometric information measuring device when necessary, receive biometric data, update the advice at an appropriate timing, and receive only advice on improving the lifestyle necessary for health care subjects. It is a notification.
[0009]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a terminal biometric data receiving unit that receives biometric information data obtained by measuring a health management terminal with a biometric information measuring device, a terminal biometric information data storage unit that stores the biometric information data, and the biometric information data. A terminal biometric information data display unit to display, a terminal biometric information data transmission unit that reads and transmits biometric information data from the terminal biometric information data storage unit, and a terminal biometric information data transmission unit from the terminal biometric information data storage unit A terminal transmission data selection unit for selecting data to be transferred to, an advice reception unit for receiving advice, an advice display unit for displaying advice received by the advice reception unit, the terminal biometric information data transmission unit, and the advice reception A network that transmits and receives data to and from the server and performs data communication with the server via the communication network A communication unit, and the data request transmitting unit for requesting a transmission of the biometric information data and the receiving data requests from the server to the biological information measurement device to when the biometric information data in the server is not received beyond a predetermined time With this configuration, it is possible to reliably notify the server of new data by requesting transmission of new data from the health care terminal to the biological information measuring device.
[0012]
The second invention is a program for realizing the whole or a part of the health management terminal in the first invention by a computer. Thus, a health management terminal can be easily realized by a general-purpose computer at home.
[0013]
【Example】
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
[0014]
1 is a block diagram of a health management system according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a health management terminal, FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an advice device, and FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a biological information measuring device. .
[0015]
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a health management terminal, which is used by a health management target person at home to perform health management, and is connected to the Internet network 4 as a communication network. An advice device 2 used as a server generates advice for a health care target person and is connected to the Internet network 4. Reference numeral 3 denotes a biological information measuring device that acquires and stores biological data, and may be any device that can be used and measured by a health care target person at home, such as a body fat weight scale 3A, a blood pressure monitor 3B, and an exercise meter 3C.
[0016]
The Internet network 4 uses a common protocol among a plurality of terminal devices such as the health management terminal 1 and the advice device 2 by interconnecting public telephone lines, mobile phone networks, LANs, dedicated lines, etc. by an Internet service provider (ISP). Used as a communication network for data transmission.
[0017]
As shown in FIG. 2, the configuration of the health management terminal 1 is as follows. 101 is a health management terminal internet communication unit as a network communication unit that performs data communication with the Internet network 4, and 102 is via the health management terminal internet communication unit 101. An advice receiving unit that receives advice from the advice device 2, 103 is an advice display unit that displays advice received by the advice receiving unit 102, and 104 is a terminal biological information data reception that receives biological information data measured by the biological information measuring device 3. , 105 is a terminal biometric information data storage unit that stores biometric information data received by the biometric information data receiving unit 104, and 106 is a terminal biometric information data display that displays biometric information data stored in the biometric information data storage unit 105. , 107 is an advice display unit 103 and terminal biometric information data A display unit that displays the contents from the display unit 106 on the screen, 108 is a terminal transmission data selection unit that selects data to be transmitted from the terminal biometric information data storage unit 105 to the advice terminal 2, and 109 is a terminal transmission data selection unit 108. The terminal biometric information data transmission unit 110 that reads the selected data from the terminal biometric information data storage unit 105 and transmits the selected data to the Internet network 4 via the health communication terminal internet communication unit 101 is newly provided to the biometric information measuring device 3. It is a data request transmission part which performs the transmission request | requirement of the measured biometric information data.
[0018]
For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the health management terminal 1 has a display unit 107 configured by a liquid crystal screen and a terminal transmission data selection unit 108 configured by a push button switch arranged on the front surface. Biological information data is received wirelessly from the antenna 501, and advice reception with the advice device 2 and transmission of biological information data are performed by connecting to the Internet network 4 from the public telephone network via the Internet communication unit 101 shown in FIG. 2. Do. That is, it has a dial-up data communication function for communicating with the advice terminal 2 by connecting to the Internet network 4 through the public telephone network.
[0019]
Since the health management terminal 1 shown in FIG. 5 communicates with the biological information measuring device wirelessly using electromagnetic waves, the body fat scale and the toilet measuring device (body fat meter and urine sugar sensor) are used. Thus, even when the biological information measuring device itself is difficult to move, measurement data can be transmitted to and received from the health care terminal 1.
[0020]
The configuration of the advice device 2 is as shown in FIG. 3. 201 is an internet communication unit for advice device that transmits and receives data via the Internet network 4, and 202 is health management based on the data received by the internet communication unit 201 for advice device. A biometric information data receiving unit that receives biometric information data from the terminal 1, 203 is an advice generating unit that calculates advice elements based on data received by the biometric information data receiving unit 202, and generates advice, and 204 is advice generation An advice notification unit for registering the advice generated by the unit 203 in a health care target person browsing location so that the health care target person can browse the advice, 205 an advice database that is a database that can be viewed by the health care target person, and 206 biometric information data Living body received by the receiving unit 202 It is advice data storage unit for storing the generated advice elements broadcast data and advice generator 203.
[0021]
As shown in FIG. 4, the configuration of the biological information measuring device 301 is a biological information data measuring unit 301 configured by a sensor for measuring biological information, and 302 is a biological device that stores data measured by the biological information data measuring unit 301. An information data storage unit 303 is a device biometric information data display unit that displays biometric information data stored in the device biometric information data storage unit 302, and 304 selects data to be transmitted from the device biometric information data storage unit 302 to the health management terminal 1. A device transmission data selection unit 305, a device biometric information data transmission unit 305 that reads and transmits data selected by the device transmission data selection unit 304 from the device biometric information data storage unit 302, and 306 performs wireless communication with the health management terminal 1 The wireless communication unit 307 receives data request for receiving a transmission request for biometric data newly measured from the health management terminal 1. A receiving unit.
[0022]
The health management procedure of the health management target person in the above health management system will be described with reference to the configuration diagram, block diagram, overview diagram in FIGS. 1 to 5 and the flow chart of health management in FIGS. .
[0023]
First, life content data such as height, amount of smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep time, stress level, dietary habits, exercise habits, pre-existing symptoms, subjective symptoms, family hereditary diseases, etc. are acquired as prior questionnaires and assigned to each health care subject The user ID and personal data are recorded in the advice data storage unit 206 together with personal information for identifying the individual such as name, sex, date of birth, and the like.
[0024]
Next, the health care target person measures normal biological information whose physical condition is stable as basic data. The biological information data in the normal state includes the body weight and body fat rate by the body fat weight scale 3A, the blood pressure at rest and the pulse rate at rest by the sphygmomanometer 3B, and the daily exercise amount during normal life by the exercise meter 3C.
[0025]
For example, in the body fat weight scale 3A, the biological information data measuring unit 301 measures the body weight and the body fat percentage. The measured biological information data is stored in the device biological information data storage unit 302 and is simultaneously displayed by the device biological information data display unit 303. The health care target person confirms the displayed biological information data, confirms that the measurement can be normally performed, and then selects the biological information data to be transmitted by the device biological information data selection unit 304 from the displayed one. . The selected biological information data is transmitted from the device biological information data transmission unit 305 to the health care terminal 1 wirelessly via the wireless communication unit 306.
[0026]
The health management device 1 receives the biological information data by the antenna 501 via the terminal biological information data receiving unit 104 (S601 in FIG. 6), and displays the weight and body fat percentage by the terminal biological information data display unit 105 of the display unit 107. At the same time, the body weight and body fat percentage are stored in the terminal biometric information data storage unit 105 together with the data reception date and time (S602).
[0027]
Furthermore, the health care target person confirms the measured biological information measurement data on the display unit 107, then selects data to be returned to the advice device 2 by the terminal transmission data selection unit 108 (S603), and selects the selected data from the terminal biological data. At least one of the stored biological information measurement data is transmitted from the information data storage unit 105 to the Internet network 4 from the terminal biological information data transmission unit 109 via the health communication terminal Internet communication unit 101 (S604). The item or more is transmitted together with the user ID that identifies the health management subject. The health management device 1 makes a dial-up connection by making a call to an Internet provider, and transmits biometric data to the advice device 2 via the Internet network 4.
[0028]
The delivery of the biometric information data to the advice device 2 takes into account the scale of the system and the performance of each terminal device, such as transmission by e-mail, transmission by file transfer (for example, FTP) or data transfer (for example, HTTP), etc. And select it appropriately. Further, since the transmission data is transmitted with the biometric information data attached with a user ID for identifying an individual, the advice device 2 can identify the individual and receive the biometric information data.
[0029]
In the advice device 2, the biological information data including the user ID is received by the biological information data receiving unit 202 from the Internet network 4 via the Internet communication unit 201 for advice devices (S701 in FIG. 7). The advice generation unit 303 identifies an individual from the received user ID and performs extraction processing of necessary items for creating advice from the biological information data (S702), and an advice element for creating advice using the extracted items Is calculated (S703), and advice for health management is created based on the obtained elements (S704). The created advice is stored in the advice database 205 by the advice notification unit 204 as data dedicated to the health management target person, thereby performing advice registration processing (S705).
[0030]
As the advice, only items necessary for improving the health of the health management subject are registered from guidance for improving lifestyle habits such as bedtime and exercise time, and meal guidance regarding meal menus and snacks.
[0031]
The health management terminal 1 makes an advice request to the advice device 2, and gives advice to the health management subject based on the user ID of the health management subject via the Internet network 4 from the advice database 205 of the advice device 2. The advice is received by the advice receiving unit 101 (S606 in FIG. 6), and the advice is displayed by the advice display unit 103 of the display unit 107 (S607). For access to the data dedicated to the health care target person, the user ID is registered in advance in the health care terminal 1 used by the health care target person as an access code to the data, and the health management device 1 transfers to the advice device 2. By including a user ID for specifying a health care target person in the advice request, access to data dedicated to the health care target person is permitted.
[0032]
The advice displayed on the advice display unit 103 is registered as data exclusively for health care subjects, and includes guidance on improving lifestyle habits such as bedtime and exercise time, and meal guidance on meal menus and snacks. Only the items necessary for improving the health of those who are subject to health care.
[0033]
The health care target person periodically measures the biological information data with the body fat weight scale 3A, the blood pressure monitor 3B, and the exercise meter 3C, and repeats the above operation to transmit the biological information data from the health management terminal 1 to the advice device 2. Then, by confirming the advice database 205, it is confirmed whether a new advice is registered (S605 in FIG. 6). If there is a new advice, the advice is received (S606) and the advice is displayed (S607). .
[0034]
When the advice device 2 receives new biometric information data via the advice device internet communication unit 201 (S706 in FIG. 7), the biometric information data reception unit 202 reads the biometric information data (S707), and the advice generation unit 203 Performs calculation processing of an advice element for correcting the advice using the received biometric information data (S708), and corrects the advice for health management based on each obtained element (S709). The created correction advice is stored in the advice database 205 as data dedicated to the health management target by the advice notification unit 204, so that the correction advice is registered in the same manner as the initial advice (S705).
[0035]
In addition, all the biometric information data received by the biometric information data receiving unit 202 and the advice elements calculated by the advice generating unit 203 are sequentially stored in the advice data storage unit 206 for the advice element calculation processing for correcting the advice. Calculates a new advice element using past advice elements and biological information data.
[0036]
By the way, since the biological information data is for periodically measuring the health level of the health management target person, the biological information data has not been received by the health management terminal 1 for a certain time (for example, 24 hours). The data request transmission unit 110 transmits a data request wirelessly to each of the biological information measuring devices 3 in order to confirm whether new biological information data has been measured.
[0037]
When the biometric information measuring device 3 receives the data request by the data request receiving unit 307 via the wireless communication unit 306, the biometric information measuring device 3 checks the biometric information data storage unit 302 to check whether there is new data that has not been transmitted. When new data exists, the new data is transmitted from the device biometric information data transmission unit 305 to the health care terminal 1 wirelessly via the wireless communication unit 306. When there is no new data, the fact that there is no new data is transmitted from the device biometric information data transmission unit 305 to the health care terminal 1 wirelessly via the wireless communication unit 306.
[0038]
The new biometric information data received by the health management terminal 1 is transmitted to the advice device 2 in the same manner as the above procedure, and the health management target person can obtain advice.
[0039]
As described above, according to this embodiment, health management can be performed by checking health management advice based on biological information data that can be measured at home with a health management terminal. Even if you forget to send it, you can always get new advice regularly by checking from the health care terminal.
[0040]
In the above embodiment, the data request transmitting unit transmits the data request when there is no reception of new biometric information data for a certain period of time. However, when the biometric information data is not transmitted to the server for a certain period of time, the server If the data request unit sends a notification to the health information terminal and the data request unit sends it to the biological information measuring device, the server can request the data when it is determined that the advice needs to be updated. Can be transferred.
[0041]
In addition, when the biometric information measuring device receives the data request, the biometric information measuring device only confirms the presence or absence of new data. If there is no new data, the biometric information measuring device or the health management terminal generates a sound warning sound. If the management subject is encouraged to measure biological information data, accurate advice can be obtained without forgetting periodic measurement.
[0042]
In addition, communication between the biometric information measuring device and the health care terminal is performed by electromagnetic wave radio, but if the biometric information measurement device and some of the health care terminals are connected by wire or integrated, it is small and inexpensive. There is no need to attach an electromagnetic wave radio wave to the biological information measuring device, the system can be made simpler and less expensive, and if it is not electromagnetic wave radio but optical communication such as infrared rays, it is possible to communicate even from a distance of about one room Therefore, both the carrying of the biological information measuring device and the inexpensive design can be realized.
[0043]
Each function of the advice device is composed of a workstation or personal computer having a CPU, a storage unit, and an Internet communication unit, and each process is executed according to a program written in the storage unit. Parameters can be easily changed.
[0044]
In addition, by realizing a program and data for causing a computer to execute these devices, it can be easily realized by a general-purpose computer in a home or company. In addition, by using a recording medium that records the program and data, it is easy to install software on a general-purpose computer.
[0045]
In this embodiment, the access from the health management terminal of the advice device is directly read from the database. However, if the Internet communication unit for the advice device has the functions of the WEB server and the database server, the health management terminal You can open the homepage of the advice device and browse personal advice from the advice database using functions such as CGI. If the health management terminal has only a homepage browser, a special database access function is not required. .
[0046]
The advice is registered in the advice database of the advice device. However, if the advice device is directly transmitted to the health management terminal by e-mail, the advice device does not need a large database capacity, and the health management terminal has an electronic device. The database access function becomes unnecessary with only the mail sending / receiving function.
[0047]
Further, in this embodiment, each terminal device is connected via the Internet network. However, in order to perform data transmission, there is no problem even if data communication is performed only through a public telephone line or a mobile phone network, and a unique communication protocol is used. If so, data interception from the outside can be prevented, which is effective in terms of communication data protection.
[0048]
In addition, if a mobile phone capable of receiving biometric data from a biometric information measuring device is used as a health management terminal, a special user ID management can be performed by using the telephone number or serial number of a personally owned mobile phone as a user ID. There is no need to do it.
[0049]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, when necessary, the biometric information measuring device is requested to receive new data to receive the biometric information data, and the advice is updated at an appropriate timing, which is necessary for the health care target person. Only life improvement advice can be notified at any time, and life improvement can be promoted more reliably.
[Brief description of the drawings]
1 is a block diagram of a health management system in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a health management terminal in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an advice device in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the health information measuring device in the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the health management terminal in the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the health management terminal in the embodiment of the present invention. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the advice device according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the conventional health management device.
1 Health management terminal 2 Advice device (server)
3 Biometric information measuring equipment 4 Internet network (communication network)
101 Internet Communication Unit for Health Management Terminal 102 Advice Receiving Unit 103 Advice Display Unit 104 Biometric Information Data Receiving Unit 105 Biometric Information Data Storage Unit 106 Biometric Information Data Display Unit 107 Display Unit 108 Transmission Data Selection Unit 109 Biometric Information Data Transmission Unit 201 Advice Device internet communication unit 202 Biometric information data receiving unit 203 Advice generating unit 204 Advice notifying unit 205 Advice database 206 Advice data storage unit 301 Biological information data measuring unit 302 Device biometric information data storage unit 303 Device biometric information data display unit 304 Device biometric Information data selection unit 305 Device biometric information data transmission unit 306 Wireless communication unit 307 Data request reception unit 501 Antenna

Claims (2)

A terminal biometric data receiving unit that receives biometric data measured by a biometric information measuring device, a terminal biometric data storage unit that stores the biometric data, a terminal biometric data display unit that displays the biometric data, Terminal biometric data transmission unit that reads biometric data from the terminal biometric data storage unit and transmits the data, and terminal transmission data that selects data to be transferred from the terminal biometric data storage unit to the terminal biometric data transmission unit A selection unit; an advice receiving unit that receives advice; an advice display unit that displays advice received by the advice receiving unit; and a communication network that transmits and receives data to and from the terminal biometric information data transmitting unit and the advice receiving unit. a network communication unit for performing data communication with the server through a biological to the server The health management terminal configured in a data request transmitting unit for requesting a transmission of the biometric information data by receiving the data request from the server to the biological information measurement device to when the broadcast data is not received beyond a predetermined time. The program for implement | achieving the whole or one part of the health management terminal of Claim 1 with a computer.

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