JP7518635B2 - Program, method, terminal, and system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a program, method, and terminal for realizing collaboration between pregnant women and medical institutions or local government welfare-related institutions.

Currently, those who notify their pregnancy are issued a maternal and child health handbook by their local government. Important records relating to the mother and child from pregnancy through infancy can be entered into the handbook by the pregnant woman herself, a medical institution, or a local government welfare organization. In this way, the handbook makes it possible to manage a variety of information relating to the health of the mother and child from pregnancy through infancy in a single handbook.

In recent years, as shown in Patent Documents 1 and 2, information related to mothers and children, such as that managed in maternal and child health handbooks, has been digitized and managed.

These conventional technologies allow local governments to send information about child rearing to the devices of the child's guardians based on digitized information about the mother and child. This makes it easier for guardians to stay connected with the local government.

JP 2014-191467 A (published on October 6, 2014) Patent No. 5033816 (issued September 26, 2012)

However, the conventional technologies described above do not contribute to realizing cooperation between pregnant women and the various support organizations that support them (for example, the obstetric clinic that the pregnant women go to and the local government in the area where the pregnant women live). In order to enable pregnant women to receive the information they need from support organizations when they need it, it is desirable to effectively utilize digitized maternal and child information in cooperation between pregnant women and support organizations. If close cooperation between pregnant women and support organizations can be realized in this way, pregnant women will be able to spend their pregnancy with peace of mind.

One aspect of the present invention aims to realize a program or the like that enables pregnant women to obtain the information they need when they need it.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a program according to one aspect of the present invention is a program executed by a terminal having a control unit, a storage unit, and a display unit, and the program causes the control unit to execute an acquisition step of acquiring maternal and child information relating to a pregnant woman and at least one of a fetus or a pre-fetal state and date information associated with the maternal and child information, a storage step of storing in the storage unit the number of weeks of pregnancy at the time indicated by the date information in association with the maternal and child information, and a display step of displaying on the display unit an article corresponding to the maternal and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the maternal and child information, or a notification related to the article.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a method according to one aspect of the present invention is a method executed by a terminal having a control unit, a storage unit, and a display unit, and includes an acquisition step of acquiring maternal and child information relating to a pregnant woman and at least one of a fetus or a pre-fetal state and date information associated with the maternal and child information, a storage step of storing in the storage unit the number of weeks of pregnancy at the time indicated by the date information in association with the maternal and child information, and a display step of displaying on the display unit an article corresponding to the maternal and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the maternal and child information, or a notification related to the article.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a terminal according to one aspect of the present invention is a terminal equipped with a control unit, a memory unit, and a display unit, and the control unit acquires maternal and child information relating to a pregnant woman and at least one of a fetus or a pre-fetal state, and date information associated with the maternal and child information, associates the number of weeks of pregnancy at the time indicated by the date information with the maternal and child information, and stores the maternal and child information in the memory unit, and displays an article corresponding to the maternal and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the maternal and child information, or a notification related to the article, on the display unit.

The terminal according to each aspect of the present invention may be realized by a computer, in which case the program according to each aspect of the present invention is a program that causes the computer to operate as each part (software element) of the terminal, thereby realizing the terminal on the computer. In addition, a computer-readable recording medium on which the program according to each aspect of the present invention is recorded also falls within the scope of the present invention.

According to one aspect of the present invention, pregnant women can receive the information they need from support organizations when they need it.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a smartphone according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an application example of the program of the present disclosure. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a management server according to the present embodiment. FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a data structure of a mother-child information database (DB). FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of an article database (DB). 13 is a flowchart showing the flow of processes executed by each of the management server, the doctor terminal, and the smartphone. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a screen of a maternal and child health handbook application displayed on a display unit of a smartphone. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a screen of a maternal and child health handbook application displayed on a display unit of a smartphone. 2 is a block diagram showing the main configuration of a doctor terminal according to the present embodiment. FIG. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a support screen displayed on a display unit of a doctor's terminal. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a support screen displayed on a display unit of a doctor's terminal.

[Embodiment 1]
<Application Examples>
An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below. Fig. 2 is a diagram showing an application example of the program of the present disclosure.

The program of the present disclosure is installed in a user's terminal, and the terminal realizes functions based on the program of the present disclosure. Here, the user is a person who can handle information provided by a support organization (for example, a medical institution where a pregnant woman is involved) through a terminal for information processing that the user owns, and for example, a pregnant woman and her family are included in the "user". In the following, the user is assumed to be a pregnant woman. As an example, the program of the present disclosure is a maternal and child health handbook application, and as an example, the terminal is a smartphone 1 (terminal) used by a pregnant woman. As an example, the maternal and child health handbook application is distributed to each pregnant woman's smartphone via a network 7 by a distribution server 6 that distributes applications developed by a service provider. When the maternal and child health handbook application is installed in the smartphone 1, the smartphone 1 operates as a terminal that realizes functions based on the program of the present disclosure, that is, functions that enable a pregnant woman to receive necessary information from a support organization when necessary. A service provider is an organization that provides support organizations and pregnant women with a collaboration service for realizing collaboration between support organizations and pregnant women by utilizing maternal and child information. Here, a support organization refers to any organization or facility that directly or indirectly supports pregnant women. Examples of support organizations include the medical institution (obstetric clinic) that the pregnant woman is receiving treatment at, and the local government in the area where the pregnant woman lives. In the following explanation, we will assume that the support organization is an obstetric clinic as an example.

The distribution server 6 may belong to the service provider that developed the maternal and child health handbook application, or to a distribution contractor that has been entrusted with distribution by the service provider.

In this embodiment, the mother-child information, which is information about at least one of the pregnant woman and the fetus or pre-fetus (hereinafter simply referred to as "fetus"), is imported into the smartphone 1 of the pregnant woman on which the mother-child notebook application as the program of the present disclosure is installed. As an example, the mother-child information is status information, behavioral records, and basic information. The status information is information indicating the status of at least one of the pregnant woman and the fetus. The status information indicates, for example, at least one of the weight of the pregnant woman, BMI (Body Mass Index), blood pressure, pulse, blood glucose level, edema, urinary protein, urinary sugar, fetal size, and estimated fetal weight, but is not limited to these. The size of the fetus may be, for example, the size of various parts of the fetus measured by a doctor from a fetal image, such as crown-rump length (CRL) and biparietal diameter (BPD). The status information may be numerical information indicating a numerical value measured in a predetermined manner, such as weight and blood pressure. Alternatively, the condition information may be non-value information indicating the physical condition and mood of the pregnant woman subjectively determined, such as "feeling good" or "feeling bad". The condition information may also be non-value information indicating a doctor's findings written in the electronic medical record by a doctor as a result of an examination, such as "breech birth" or "placenta previa". The behavioral record is information indicating the behavior of the pregnant woman. The behavioral record indicates at least one of, but is not limited to, a meal record, an exercise record, calories burned, and the number of steps. The basic information indicates all basic information unique to each pregnant woman. The basic information indicates, for example, at least one of, but is not limited to, race, blood type, pre-pregnancy weight, medical history, vaccination history, regular medication, travel history, past birth status of a multiparous woman, living environment, and working environment. Note that the pre-fetal state refers to, for example, a child in the embryonic state of a human fetus up to the 8th week after fertilization, and a child in the state from the 8th week after fertilization until becoming a fetus.

The means for inputting the above-mentioned mother and child information into the smartphone 1 is not particularly limited. For example, the mother and child information may be directly input by the pregnant woman, who is the user of the smartphone 1, via an operation unit provided on the smartphone 1.

Alternatively, for example, the mother-child information may be condition information created by a medical institution. In this case, the mother-child information is transferred to the smartphone 1 from a device or recording medium of the medical institution that examined the pregnant woman or fetus. Specifically, the mother-child information created by the medical institution may be a fetal image acquired by the echo imaging device 2, weight and blood pressure measured at the medical institution, or the results of blood tests and urine tests performed at the medical institution. The mother-child information may also be a doctor's opinion included in an electronic medical record created by a doctor who examined the pregnant woman or fetus at the medical institution by operating the doctor's terminal 3. The doctor's opinion includes terms that describe the condition of the fetus diagnosed by the doctor and comments by the doctor. In this case, the mother-child information is stored in an external recording medium such as a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory 5 that can be connected to each device belonging to the medical institution, such as the echo imaging device 2, the doctor's terminal 3, and the electronic medical record server 4. Then, the USB memory 5 may be inserted into the smartphone 1 to transfer the mother-child information to the smartphone 1.

In addition, in the program disclosed herein, the acquisition step may acquire, as maternal and child information, at least one of the following: information input by the pregnant woman, who is the user of the terminal, via the operation unit 14 provided in the terminal; information transferred from a device or recording medium of the medical institution that examined the pregnant woman or fetus; and information acquired or processed based on another program executed by the terminal.

At a medical institution, a doctor's terminal 3 or an electronic medical record server 4 connected to the echo imaging device 2 via a LAN (Local Area Network) (not shown) may transmit maternal and child information including fetal images to the smartphone 1 via the network 7. The echo imaging device 2 or the doctor's terminal 3 operated by the doctor during the examination may transmit maternal and child information including fetal images to the smartphone 1 via a short-range wireless communication means. Alternatively, the echo imaging device 2 or the doctor's terminal 3 operated by the doctor during the examination may be connected to the smartphone 1 via a wired connection, and the maternal and child information including fetal images may be transferred from the echo imaging device 2 or the doctor's terminal 3 to the smartphone 1.

Alternatively, for example, the mother and child information may be information acquired or processed by the smartphone 1 based on another program executed by the smartphone 1. For example, a health management application for communicating with a Bluetooth (registered trademark) activity meter and a Bluetooth (registered trademark) weight scale may be installed on the smartphone 1 in addition to the mother and child health handbook application. When the smartphone 1 executes the health management application, the calories burned and the number of steps measured by the Bluetooth (registered trademark) activity meter, or the weight measured by the Bluetooth (registered trademark) weight scale, etc. are stored in the memory of the smartphone 1. The mother and child health handbook application may cooperate with the health management application, read out from the memory the behavior records and status information recorded by the execution of the health management application, and use them as mother and child information in the mother and child health handbook application.

The management server 8 is a device for realizing a linkage service that utilizes maternal and child information to realize a linkage between medical institutions and pregnant women. The management server 8 belongs to a service provider, and manages pregnant women who have installed and are using a maternal and child health handbook application distributed by the service provider on their smartphones 1. The management server 8 also manages medical institutions that have signed a contract with the service provider and are using the linkage service. The management server 8 also manages the primary care clinics of pregnant women. In other words, the management server 8 may link and manage each pregnant woman with the primary care medical institution she visits. The distribution server 6 belonging to the service provider and the above-mentioned management server 8 may be configured as a single computer.

In this embodiment, the smartphone 1 on which the maternal and child health handbook application is installed receives an article or a notification related to the article from the management server 8, and displays the article or the notification on the display unit of the smartphone 1 so that the pregnant woman can view it. In this embodiment, an article is data on information provided by a medical institution that is provided in a format that can be viewed on the smartphone 1 on which the maternal and child health handbook application is installed. In this embodiment, the content of the article is not important as long as it includes information provided by the medical institution. As an example, the article may include information on the health of the pregnant woman supervised by a doctor, or may include various messages from the medical institution to the pregnant woman. Messages may be, for example, notifications about the next prenatal checkup and notifications about mother classes hosted by the medical institution.

Each medical institution that has a contract with the service provider can register articles that they have created on the management server 8. By making a contract with the service provider, the medical institution can provide a service of providing appropriate information via the management server 8 to patients (in this case, pregnant women) who have installed the maternal and child health handbook application.

The above-mentioned configuration has the advantage that pregnant women can receive information provided by medical institutions in a timely manner and can establish a connection with the medical institution, allowing them to spend their pregnancy with peace of mind. In addition, medical institutions can provide pregnant women with a value-added service other than medical treatment, such as the provision of articles, which has the advantage of differentiating them from other medical institutions and attracting customers (patients, pregnant women).

<Hardware configuration of smartphone 1>
1 is a block diagram showing the main components of a smartphone 1. As an example, the smartphone 1 includes a control unit 10, a storage unit 11, a connection unit 12, a communication unit 13, an operation unit 14, and a display unit 15. Note that the smartphone 1 may further include various components (not shown) that are standardly included in smartphones in order to realize functions included in general smartphones.

The operation unit 14 is an input device for accepting user operations. The operation unit 14 inputs an instruction signal corresponding to the accepted user operation to the control unit 10. As an example, the operation unit 14 may form a touch panel together with the display unit 15. The operation unit 14 is configured to include a device capable of detecting that a pointer such as a user's finger has come into contact with or approached the input surface of the operation unit 14, which is also the display surface of the display unit 15.

The display unit 15 is an output device that presents the information processed by the control unit 10 to the user in a manner that allows the user to view it. For example, the display unit 15 is configured with a liquid crystal display (LCD; Liquid Crystal Display) or an organic EL (Electro-Luminescence) display. For example, the display unit 15 displays maternal and child information, articles from medical institutions, and user interface (UI) parts of a maternal and child health handbook application for displaying articles in a timely manner.

The communication unit 13 communicates with external devices, such as the distribution server 6 and management server 8, via the network 7. In this embodiment, the network 7 is assumed to be a wide area communication network including the Internet, but the network 7 may also include a telephone line network, a mobile communication network, a CATV (CAble TeleVision) communication network, a satellite communication network, etc.

The connection unit 12 includes a terminal for connecting an external recording medium such as a USB memory 5 to the smartphone 1. When the USB memory 5 is electrically connected to the smartphone 1 via the connection unit 12, the control unit 10 of the smartphone 1 can establish communication with the USB memory 5. The control unit 10 can then read and erase data stored in the USB memory 5 and write data to the USB memory 5 via the connection unit 12.

The control unit 10 provides overall control over the operation of each part of the smartphone 1. The control unit 10 is made up of a computer device that includes, for example, an arithmetic processing unit such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) or a dedicated processor. The control unit 10 can control the operation of each part of the smartphone 1 by reading and executing programs stored in the memory unit 11 for carrying out various controls of the smartphone 1.

The storage unit 11 stores various data used by the control unit 10, and includes RAM (Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), etc. In the present embodiment, as an example, the storage unit 11 stores a mother-child information database (hereinafter, DB) 41 and the current number of weeks of pregnancy 42 in a non-volatile manner. The data structures of these data will be described in detail later.

<Software configuration of smartphone 1>
The control unit 10 of the smartphone 1 includes, for example, a mother-child information acquisition unit 21, a date acquisition unit 22, a mother-child information management unit 23, a week number management unit 24, an article acquisition unit 25, and a display control unit 26. Each of these units is realized by the control unit 10 as, for example, a central processing unit (CPU) or the like reading out a program stored in a storage device such as a read only memory (ROM), specifically, a mother-child notebook application program, into a random access memory (RAM) or the like and executing it.

The mother-child information acquisition unit 21 acquires mother-child information regarding at least one of the pregnant woman and the fetus. The mother-child information acquisition unit 21 may acquire data stored locally in the smartphone 1, i.e., in the storage unit 11, as the mother-child information. For example, the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 may acquire mother-child information input by the pregnant woman via the operation unit 14 while the mother-child notebook application is being executed. Alternatively, the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 may acquire, as the mother-child information, status information or behavioral records of the pregnant woman acquired via the communication unit 13 or the operation unit 14 and stored in the storage unit 11 while another application (for example, the above-mentioned health management application) is being executed. Alternatively, the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 may acquire the mother-child information from an external device by any means. For example, the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 may acquire the mother-child information stored in the USB memory 5 connected via the connection unit 12. Alternatively, the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 may acquire the mother-child information received by the communication unit 13 from the echo imaging device 2, the doctor terminal 3, or the electronic medical record server 4. The mother-child information acquired by the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 is processed by the date acquisition unit 22 or the mother-child information management unit 23.

The date acquisition unit 22 acquires date information associated with the mother-child information acquired by the mother-child information acquisition unit 21. The date information of the mother-child information is information indicating any date related to the mother-child information. For example, the date information indicates, but is not limited to, the input date, measurement date, medical checkup date, creation date and time, update date and time, storage date and time, acquisition date and time, transmission date and time, and reception date and time.

In detail, the input date is the date on which the pregnant woman operates the operation unit 14 to input the mother-child information. The measurement date is the date on which the weight or blood pressure, etc., is measured. The measurement date is input by the pregnant woman via the operation unit 14 or acquired by the above-mentioned health management application. The medical checkup date is the date on which the pregnant woman underwent a prenatal checkup at a medical institution. The medical checkup date is input by the pregnant woman via the operation unit 14 or acquired from any of the devices belonging to the medical institution. The creation date and time is the date and time on which each device of the medical institution created a fetal image or diagnosis result information as the mother-child information. The update date and time is the date and time on which the obstetrician updated the mother-child information using the doctor terminal 3. The storage date and time is the date and time on which the mother-child information was saved in the echo imaging device 2, the doctor terminal 3, the electronic medical record server 4, or the USB memory 5. The acquisition date and time is the date and time on which the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 acquired the mother-child information. The transmission date and time is the date and time when an external device such as the echo imaging device 2, the doctor terminal 3, or the electronic medical record server 4 transmits the mother-child information. The reception date and time is the date and time when the communication unit 13 of the smartphone 1 receives the mother-child information from the external device.

The date acquisition unit 22 may extract date information from meta information embedded in the mother and child information acquired by the mother and child information acquisition unit 21. Alternatively, the date acquisition unit 22 may acquire date information assigned in association with the mother and child information separately via the connection unit 12 or the communication unit 13. The association between the mother and child information and the date information may be achieved, for example, by using identification information unique to the pair of the mother and child information and the date information. This allows the date acquisition unit 22 to accurately determine that the date information is date information related to the mother and child information even if the mother and child information and the date information are acquired separately.

The mother-child information management unit 23 manages the mother-child information acquired by the mother-child information acquisition unit 21. In this embodiment, the mother-child information management unit 23 calculates the number of weeks of pregnancy at the time the mother-child information was acquired based on the date information associated with the mother-child information, and stores the number of weeks of pregnancy in the memory unit 11 in association with the date information. Specifically, the mother-child information management unit 23 calculates the number of weeks of pregnancy based on the reference date and the date information of the mother-child information.

The reference date is a date that serves as a reference for calculating the number of weeks of pregnancy of a pregnant woman. As an example, the reference date includes at least one of the first day of the last menstrual period and the expected date of delivery. The reference date is, for example, stored in advance in the memory unit 11 as part of the basic information. The mother-child information management unit 23 can calculate the number of weeks of pregnancy to be associated with the mother-child information based on how many weeks and days the date information associated with the mother-child information is away from the reference date. For example, the mother-child information management unit 23 sets the first day of the last menstrual period read from the memory unit 11 to 0 weeks and 0 days of pregnancy, and if the date indicated by the date information is 70 days after the first day of the last menstrual period, calculates the number of weeks of pregnancy to 10 weeks and 0 days of pregnancy.

The mother-child information management unit 23 associates the calculated number of weeks of pregnancy with the mother-child information acquired by the mother-child information acquisition unit 21. The mother-child information management unit 23 then stores the mother-child information associated with the number of weeks of pregnancy in the mother-child information DB 41 of the storage unit 11.

The week number management unit 24 calculates the current number of weeks of pregnancy of the pregnant woman based on the reference date described above. In this embodiment, the current number of weeks of pregnancy 42, which is information indicating the current number of weeks of pregnancy of the pregnant woman, is stored in the memory unit 11. The week number management unit 24 recalculates the current number of weeks of pregnancy of the pregnant woman based on the reference date as time passes, and updates the current number of weeks of pregnancy 42 stored in the memory unit 11. As an example, the week number management unit 24 may update the current number of weeks of pregnancy 42 every 24 hours each time the current time reaches 0:00 AM. Alternatively, the week number management unit 24 may update the current number of weeks of pregnancy 42 when the maternal and child health handbook application is launched for the first time after the current time exceeds 0:00 AM.

The article acquisition unit 25 acquires an article created by a medical institution or a notification related to the article from the management server 8 in response to the occurrence of a predetermined trigger event on the smartphone 1 that triggers article acquisition. In this embodiment, when at least one of the mother and child information DB 41 and the current number of weeks of pregnancy 42 stored in the memory unit 11 is added or updated by the mother and child information management unit 23 or the number of weeks management unit 24, the article acquisition unit 25 acquires an article or notification corresponding to at least one of the added or updated mother and child information and the current number of weeks of pregnancy 42.

In addition, in the program of the present disclosure, the display step may include displaying an article or notification corresponding to at least one of the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy that have been added or updated in the storage step when at least one of the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy that have been added or updated in the storage step.

With the above-mentioned configuration, pregnant women can timely obtain and view information that matches their pregnancy weeks and the current state of the mother and child.

For example, when a trigger event occurs in which the mother-child information management unit 23 registers new mother-child information in the mother-child information DB 41, the article acquisition unit 25 generates an article request, which is a message requesting an article from the management server 8, and transmits it to the management server 8. The article request includes, for example, a user ID (or a terminal ID) and the latest mother-child information. Based on this article request, the management server 8 can supply the smartphone 1 with an article or notification that matches the mother-child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with that mother-child information. The article request may further include the current number of weeks of pregnancy. In this case, the management server 8 can supply the smartphone 1 with an article or notification that matches the past mother-child information, the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the past mother-child information, and the pregnant woman's current number of weeks of pregnancy.

In this embodiment, the management server 8 stores articles uploaded by medical institutions in a memory unit of its own device (such as the memory unit 51 described below). Here, the management server 8 "supplies" an article or notification to the smartphone 1 refers to making the article or notification available for display on the display unit 15 of the smartphone 1. This disclosure does not matter whether the article or notification "supplied" from the management server 8 is stored volatilely or non-volatilely in the memory unit 11 of the smartphone 1. For example, the following is included in "supplying". Specifically, "supplying (an article or notification)" includes the following: (1) the management server 8 stores an article in the memory in a state in which the smartphone 1 can view or download the article; (2) the management server 8, in response to an article request from the smartphone 1, permits the smartphone 1 to access the article stored in the memory; (3) the management server 8, in response to an article request from the smartphone 1, transmits the article to the smartphone 1 via the network 7; (4) the management server 8 simultaneously distributes the article to each of the target smartphones 1 via the network 7; (5) the management server 8 transmits a notification to the smartphone 1 that the article has been stored in the memory in a state in which it can be viewed or downloaded; and (6) the management server 8 transmits the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the stored article to the smartphone 1.

In this way, the supply of an article to the requester in response to a request from the smartphone 1, specifically an article request, being sent to the management server 8, is referred to as "PULL-type supply" of the article. On the other hand, when the communication unit 13 receives an article or notification that has been voluntarily supplied from the management server 8, the article acquisition unit 25 may acquire the article or notification from the communication unit 13. In this way, the supply of an article or notification voluntarily from the management server 8 is referred to as "PUSH-type supply" of the article. When there is no need to particularly distinguish between the two, or when it is clear which type of supply is being used, it may simply be expressed as supplying an article.

The display control unit 26 displays the article or notification on the display unit 15. In this embodiment, the display control unit 25 displays the article or notification according to the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy on the display unit 15. As a result, the article or notification that matches the mother and child information of the pregnant woman and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the mother and child information is displayed on the display unit 15. Therefore, the pregnant woman can receive and check the necessary information from the medical institution when necessary. Furthermore, the display control unit 25 may display UI parts of the mother and child notebook application on the display unit 15. The UI parts are displayed on the display unit 15 to support the input operation of the mother and child information, to improve visibility when viewing the mother and child information, and to improve visibility when viewing the article or notification. This allows the pregnant woman to deepen cooperation with the medical institution with even greater ease of use.

According to the above-mentioned configuration, by utilizing the mother and child information entered in the maternal and child health handbook for health management purposes, articles or notifications according to the number of weeks of pregnancy and the status of the mother and child at that number of weeks of pregnancy are appropriately displayed on the display unit of the terminal. This allows pregnant women to easily obtain the opportunity to view the currently necessary information when necessary during their daily health management.

And, especially when such articles are provided by support organizations that support pregnant women, pregnant women can feel a connection with the support organization and can spend their pregnancy with peace of mind. One example of a support organization is a medical institution (more specifically, their regular obstetrician's clinic). By receiving articles from their regular obstetrician's clinic in a timely manner, pregnant women can feel a close connection with their regular obstetrician's clinic, something that cannot be obtained by simply visiting the clinic regularly. As a result, they can spend their pregnancy with even more peace of mind.

<Configuration of Management Server 8>
3 is a block diagram showing the main configuration of the management server 8. As an example, the management server 8 includes a control unit 50, a storage unit 51, and a communication unit 52. Note that the management server 8 may further include various components (not shown) that are standard components included in a computer known as a server.

The communication unit 52 communicates with external devices, such as the devices belonging to the medical institution (the echo imaging device 2, the doctor's terminal 3, and the electronic medical record server 4) and the pregnant woman's smartphone 1, via the network 7.

The control unit 50 comprehensively controls the operation of each part of the management server 8. The control unit 50 is composed of a computer device that is configured with an arithmetic processing unit such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) or a dedicated processor. The control unit 50 can control the operation of each part of the management server 8 by reading and executing programs stored in the memory unit 51 for implementing various controls of the management server 8.

The storage unit 51 stores various data used by the control unit 50, and includes RAM (Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), etc. In the present embodiment, as an example, the storage unit 51 stores a medical institution list 81, a user database (user DB) 82, and an article database (article DB) 83 in a non-volatile manner. The data structures of these data will be described in detail later.

The control unit 50 of the management server 8 includes, by way of example, an article registration unit 61, a request reception unit 62, and an article supply unit 63. The control unit 50 may further include an article monitoring unit 64 as necessary. Each of these units is realized, for example, by the control unit 50 as a central processing unit (CPU) or the like reading out a program stored in a storage device such as a read only memory (ROM) into a random access memory (RAM) or the like and executing the program.

The article registration unit 61 accepts articles provided by medical institutions via the communication unit 52 and registers the articles in the article DB 83. The medical institution list 81 stores, for each medical institution with which the service provider has a contract, a medical institution ID for uniquely identifying the medical institution and the name of the medical institution in association with each other. In addition to the name of the medical institution, the medical institution list 81 may also store an address, a main telephone number, a representative, an article registration history, and the like. The article registration unit 61 collates the medical institution ID linked to the article received by the communication unit 52 with the medical institution ID stored in the medical institution list 81 to identify the medical institution that provided the article, and registers the article in the article DB 83 together with the medical institution ID.

The request receiving unit 62 receives an article request from the pregnant woman's smartphone 1 via the communication unit 52. The request receiving unit 62 analyzes the article request and identifies the user ID of the requesting pregnant woman, the mother and child information, and the number of weeks of pregnancy.

The user ID may be omitted from the article request. In this case, the request receiving unit 62 may extract the email address or IP address of the smartphone 1 from the header added to the article request based on an existing communication protocol or the like. The request receiving unit 62 can identify the smartphone 1 that made the request and its owner, the pregnant woman, based on the extracted email address or IP address.

Alternatively, the article request may not include a user ID, but may instead include the medical institution ID of the family clinic designated by the pregnant woman, maternal and child information, and the number of weeks of pregnancy. In this case, the request receiving unit 62 can identify the family clinic of the pregnant woman who is the owner of the requesting smartphone 1, the maternal and child information of the pregnant woman, and the number of weeks of pregnancy. This allows the article supply unit 63 to extract appropriate articles to be supplied to the requesting pregnant woman from the article DB 83.

The article supply unit 63 supplies articles to the smartphone 1 of the pregnant woman. In this embodiment, when performing PULL-type supply, the request receiving unit 62 extracts articles provided by the medical institution designated by the requesting pregnant woman as her regular clinic from the article DB 83. The article supply unit 63 then further narrows down the articles to those that match the mother-child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy, and supplies the narrowed-down articles to the requesting smartphone 1 as a response to the article request.

The article monitoring unit 64 monitors the validity of each article of various medical institutions registered in the article DB 83. For example, the article monitoring unit 64 detects old articles, creates a warning message that prompts the providing medical institution to delete the old article or update the article content, and transmits the warning message to the medical institution's doctor terminal 3, etc.

More specifically, if an article contains link information (URL) leading to another site, the article monitoring unit 64 periodically monitors the link information. Then, if a file or site does not exist at the address on the network indicated by the link information, the article with such a broken link is detected as an old article. The article monitoring unit 64 creates a warning message to warn that there is an article with a broken link, and transmits the warning message to the medical institution that provided the article. Alternatively, the article monitoring unit 64 may detect an article that has been registered in the article DB 83 for a specified number of days as an old article. The warning message may be transmitted to the medical institution.

In the user DB82, a user ID for uniquely identifying a pregnant woman is associated with the medical institution ID of the medical institution designated by the pregnant woman as her family clinic, and stored in association with each other. In the article DB83, each article is associated with a medical institution ID indicating the medical institution that provided the article. Therefore, the article supply unit 63 can extract from the article DB83 only those articles provided by the medical institution designated by the requesting pregnant woman as her family clinic.

Furthermore, in article DB83, each article is associated with a supply condition that specifies the target of the article supply. The supply condition indicates the conditions of the pregnant women to whom the article is to be supplied. As an example, the supply condition specifies the specific contents of the mother-child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy. As a specific example, the supply condition of an article may specify "average systolic blood pressure is X mmHg or more" and "25 weeks 0 to 6 days of pregnancy." In this case, the article is supplied to pregnant women who are 25 weeks or older in pregnancy and who have mother-child information in which the average systolic blood pressure measured at 25 weeks of pregnancy is X mmHg or more.

In this embodiment, when a new article is registered by the article registration unit 61, the article supply unit 63 may perform a push-type supply. Specifically, the article supply unit 63 may transmit the new article or a new arrival notification that the new article is available to each pregnant woman who has designated the medical institution that provided the newly registered article as her primary care clinic. For example, the article supply unit 63 extracts from the user DB 82 pregnant women who have designated the medical institution that provided the article as their primary care clinic. The article supply unit 63 may simultaneously supply new arrival notifications to the smartphones 1 of each extracted pregnant woman.

When the mother-child information of each pregnant woman and the number of weeks of pregnancy are stored in association with each other in the user DB 82, the article supply unit 63 may further narrow down the pregnant women who meet the supply conditions for new articles. Then, the article supply unit 63 may supply the above-mentioned new articles or new arrival notifications only to the smartphones 1 of each narrowed down pregnant woman.

<Configuration of doctor terminal 3>
9 is a block diagram showing the main components of the doctor terminal 3. The doctor terminal 3 includes, for example, a control unit 90, a storage unit 91, a communication unit 92, an operation unit 93, and a display unit 94. The control unit 90 includes, for example, a creation support unit 71 and a warning display unit 72 to realize a function for creating an article to be uploaded to the management server 8.

The doctor terminal 3 may further include various components (not shown) that are standard features of computers configured as personal computers (PCs), notebook PCs, etc. Also, of the functions of the doctor terminal 3, FIG. 9 shows only the function for creating articles to be uploaded to the management server 8. The doctor terminal 3 may also include various functions (not shown) that are necessary for a doctor to perform a medical examination (for example, a function for retrieving electronic medical records from the electronic medical record server 4 and displaying or editing the electronic medical records).

In addition, the function shown in FIG. 9 for creating articles to be uploaded to the management server 8 may be realized by a computer (such as a PC, notebook PC, or tablet) other than the doctor terminal 3.

The communication unit 92 communicates with external devices such as the management server 8 via the network 7.

The operation unit 93 is an input device for accepting operations by a staff member in charge of creating an article (hereinafter, the creator), and is composed of, for example, a mouse and a keyboard. The creator of an article is not necessarily a doctor. If the creator is not a doctor, the article may be created under the supervision of a doctor, if necessary. The operation unit 93 inputs an instruction signal corresponding to the accepted user operation to the control unit 90.

The display unit 94 is an output device that presents the information processed by the control unit 90 in a manner that is visible to the creator. For example, the display unit 94 is configured with a liquid crystal display (LCD; Liquid Crystal Display) or an organic EL (Electro-Luminescence) display. For example, the display unit 94 may display a graphical user interface (GUI) to assist in the creation of an article.

The control unit 90 comprehensively controls the operation of each part of the doctor terminal 3. The control unit 90 is composed of a computer device that is composed of an arithmetic processing unit such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) or a dedicated processor. The control unit 90 can control the operation of each part of the doctor terminal 3 by reading and executing programs stored in the memory unit 91 for carrying out various controls of the doctor terminal 3.

The memory unit 91 stores various data used by the control unit 90, and includes RAM (Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), etc.

The control unit 90 includes, as an example, a creation support unit 71 and a warning display unit 72. Each of these units is realized, for example, by the control unit 90 as a central processing unit (CPU) or the like reading out a program stored in a storage device such as a read only memory (ROM) into a random access memory (RAM) or the like and executing the program.

The creation support unit 71 provides the creator with a GUI that supports the creation of an article. For example, the creation support unit 71 obtains the GUI from the management server 8 via the network 7 and displays it on the display unit 94. In addition, the creation support unit 71 creates an article according to operations by the creator accepted via the operation unit 93, and uploads the article to the management server 8 via the network 7.

This allows creators to create articles and upload them to the management server 8 with simple operations.

When a warning message is received from the management server 8 via the communication unit 92, the warning display unit 72 displays a warning based on the warning message on the display unit 94. The warning message may include, for example, a sentence urging the doctor terminal 3 to delete an article that was previously uploaded because the article is old. Alternatively, the warning message may notify the doctor that a URL included in an article previously uploaded has become a broken link.

This allows creators to quickly become aware of outdated or invalid articles, making article maintenance easier. As a result, the management server 8 can maintain an ideal state in which fresh and valid articles are constantly being uploaded, increasing the value of the service for pregnant women.

Figures 10 and 11 are diagrams showing examples of support screens displayed on the display unit 94 as a GUI that supports the creation of articles. Figure 10 shows a support screen for creating one article. Figure 11 shows a support screen for displaying a list of articles created by one medical institution.

The creator can create an article by operating the support screen shown in FIG. 10. For example, the creator can operate pull-down menu 401 to easily specify the conditions for the pregnant women to whom the article will be supplied. Specifically, the creator can select from pull-down menu 401 the number of weeks pregnant of the pregnant women to whom the article will be supplied, the range of their weight, and the like. The creator can also enter text in text box 402 to create an article.

For example, in response to clicking the upload button at the bottom of the screen, the creation support unit 71 creates an article based on the values entered in each UI component in the support screen. The article created by the creation support unit 71 is uploaded to the management server 8 via the communication unit 92.

The creator can view the support screen shown in FIG. 11 to check the articles that have been uploaded. The support screen shown in FIG. 11 may list information about articles that have been created but not uploaded. In this case, icons may be provided to distinguish between articles that have been uploaded and those that have not.

In addition, the warning display unit 72 may, in response to receiving a warning message from the management server 8, add a warning icon to the article for which deletion is encouraged in the list on the support screen shown in FIG. 11. This allows the creator to easily distinguish old articles in the list by using the warning icon as a marker, and to make an early decision to delete the old article from the management server 8.

<Mother and child information DB41>
4 is a diagram showing an example of a data structure of the mother-child information DB 41 stored in the storage unit 11 of the smartphone 1. The mother-child information DB 41 stores, by way of example and not by way of limitation, a mother-child information ID, date information, The information includes the following items: pregnancy week, information type, subcategory, and data.

The mother and child information ID field stores identification information that allows the smartphone 1 to uniquely identify the mother and child information. For example, the mother and child information management unit 23 may automatically assign a unique identification number to each piece of mother and child information acquired by the mother and child information acquisition unit 21.

The date information field stores date information associated with the mother and child information. The mother and child information management unit 23 stores the date information of the mother and child information acquired by the date acquisition unit 22 in this field.

The number of weeks of pregnancy corresponding to the mother and child information is stored in the number of weeks of pregnancy field. The mother and child information management unit 23 stores the number of weeks of pregnancy calculated based on the above-mentioned date information and the above-mentioned reference date in this field.

The type of maternal and child information is stored in the information type field. The maternal and child information management unit 23 determines the information type according to the contents of the maternal and child information and stores it in the field. As described above, if the contents of the maternal and child information are information indicating the status of at least one of the pregnant woman and the fetus, such as weight or blood pressure, the maternal and child information management unit 23 determines the information type of the maternal and child information as "status information" and stores it in the field. If the contents of the maternal and child information are information indicating the actions taken by the pregnant woman, such as the number of steps, the maternal and child information management unit 23 determines the information type of the maternal and child information as "action record" and stores it in the field. If the contents of the maternal and child information are basic information specific to each pregnant woman, such as blood type, medical history, vaccination history, etc., the maternal and child information management unit 23 determines the information type of the maternal and child information as "basic information" and stores it in the field.

In addition, since basic information is basically unchanging information independent of the passage of time, the mother and child information management unit 23 may omit associating date information and the number of weeks of pregnancy with the mother and child information when the information type of the mother and child information is basic information.

The subcategory item stores the type of maternal and child information to further classify the typed maternal and child information. For example, the status information items such as "weight," "blood pressure," and "blood sugar level" correspond to types.

The data item stores data that is the content of the maternal and child information or link information to the location where the data is saved. The data type or file format of the data stored in the item is determined appropriately according to the type of maternal and child information. For example, the data type of the expected delivery date may be a numeric string representing the date, and the data type of weight may be a numeric string representing the number of kilograms. The data type of the vaccination history may be a table that associates the vaccination date with the type of vaccination. The electronic medical record or doctor's findings in the electronic medical record may be a document file consisting of one or more items for inputting numbers and letters.

In this embodiment, when the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 acquires mother-child information from the various acquisition routes described above, the mother-child information management unit 23 first assigns a mother-child information ID to the data that is the content of the mother-child information, links it to the date information acquired by the date acquisition unit 22, and associates it with the date information acquired by the date acquisition unit 22. Next, the mother-child information management unit 23 calculates the number of weeks of pregnancy based on the date information and a reference date such as the expected delivery date that was previously registered, and associates it with the mother-child information. Furthermore, the mother-child information management unit 23 determines the information type and subcategory of the mother-child information based on the data of the mother-child information, and associates these with the mother-child information. In this way, the mother-child information management unit 23 associates various additional information with the data that is the content of the mother-child information, and then adds the mother-child information to the mother-child information DB 41.

<Article DB83>
5 is a diagram showing an example of a data structure of the article DB 83 stored in the storage unit 51 of the management server 8. The article DB 83 has, by way of example and not limitation, the following items: article ID, medical institution ID, supply conditions, registration date, title, and data.

The article ID field stores identification information that allows the management server 8 to uniquely identify an article. For example, the article registration unit 61 may automatically assign a unique identification number to each article provided from a device of a medical institution (e.g., a doctor's terminal 3).

The medical institution ID field stores identification information for uniquely identifying the medical institution that is the source of the article. For example, the article registration unit 61 stores the medical institution ID associated with the article received from the doctor terminal 3 in this field.

The supply conditions specified by the medical institution are stored in the supply conditions field. The article registration unit 61 stores the supply conditions associated with the article received from the doctor terminal 3 in this field.

The registration date field stores the date when the article registration unit 61 registered the article in the article DB 83.

The title of the article specified by the medical institution is stored in the title field. The article registration unit 61 stores the title associated with the article received from the doctor terminal 3 in this field.

The data item stores data that is the content of an article. The data type or file format of the data stored in the item may be uniformly defined so that it can be viewed from any smartphone 1. For example, the data may be a text document, an HTML document, an XML document, an image file, an audio file, or a combination of these.

In this embodiment, when the communication unit 52 receives an article together with a message requesting registration of the article from the doctor terminal 3, the article registration unit 61 responds to this request by associating various additional information with the provided article and registering the article in the article DB 83. Specifically, the article provided from the doctor terminal 3 includes a medical institution ID, supply conditions, title, and data. The article registration unit 61 then assigns an article ID to the article and links it, further links the date of registration as the registration date, and registers the article in the article DB 83.

<Processing flow>
Fig. 6 is a flowchart showing a method for realizing cooperation between a pregnant woman and a medical institution. Specifically, the flowchart shown in Fig. 6 shows the flow of processing executed by each device of the management server 8, the doctor terminal 3, and the smartphone 1. First, with reference to Fig. 6, a process when an article is registered in the management server 8 by a medical institution and a process when an article or a notice is supplied by push from the management server 8 will be described. Next, with reference to Fig. 6, a process when mother-child information is registered in the mother-child information DB 41 by the smartphone 1 and a process when an article or a notice is supplied by pull from the management server 8 will be described.

(Article registration and push supply)
In step S101, the creation support unit 71 of the doctor terminal 3 generates an article and transmits it to the management server 8 together with a message requesting the registration of the article. The article transmitted here includes at least the medical institution ID of the medical institution to which the doctor terminal 3 belongs, the supply conditions of the article, and data that is the content of the article. A UI (e.g., the support screen shown in FIG. 10) for supporting the creation of an article having such a data structure may be provided to the doctor terminal 3 of the medical institution from, for example, the distribution server 6 or the management server 8. For example, the creation support unit 71 of the doctor terminal 3 can include a value input in the pull-down menu 401 of the support screen shown in FIG. 10 in the article as the above-mentioned supply conditions. In addition, the creation support unit 71 can include a character string input in the text box 402 in the article as content data.

In step S102, the communication unit 52 of the management server 8 receives the above-mentioned message and article. The article registration unit 61 then formats the received article as shown in FIG. 5, and registers the article in the article DB 83. In response to the new article being registered, the article supply unit 63 may execute steps S103 to S105, if necessary.

In step S103, the article supply unit 63 refers to the user DB 82 to extract pregnant women (actually, user IDs) who have designated the medical institution that is the source of the newly registered article (hereinafter, the new article) as their regular clinic.

In step S104, the article supply unit 63 may refer to the user DB 82 to further narrow down the pregnant women who meet the supply conditions for new articles. If the user DB 82 does not store maternal and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy for each pregnant woman, this step is omitted.

In step S105, the article supply unit 63 simultaneously pushes a new article notification to the smartphone 1 of each pregnant woman extracted in S103 or each pregnant woman further narrowed down in S104. Here, the new article notification includes a message notifying each pregnant woman that the new article has been provided by her family clinic and is available for her to use. Here, the article supply unit 63 may supply the new article itself to the smartphone 1 of each pregnant woman narrowed down in S104 instead of or in addition to the new article notification.

In step S106 (display step), the article acquisition unit 25 of the smartphone 1 receives the above-mentioned new arrival notification via the communication unit 13. The display control unit 26 then displays the received new arrival notification on the display unit 15. If the maternal and child health handbook application is running, the display control unit 26 may display the new arrival notification as a pop-up on the screen of the maternal and child health handbook application. Alternatively, if the maternal and child health handbook application is not running, the display control unit 26 may display a badge indicating new arrival on the icon of the maternal and child health handbook application located on the home screen of the smartphone 1. Alternatively, the display control unit 26 may display the new arrival notification in the status bar or banner.

According to the above-mentioned method, a pregnant woman can be notified without delay that her family doctor's office has uploaded a new article, regardless of whether or not she has launched the maternal and child health handbook application. For example, the pregnant woman can then operate the smartphone 1 to access the above-mentioned new article and view it at the desired time.

(Mother and child information registration and PULL supply)
The processes in step S107 and thereafter are started in response to the occurrence of a predetermined trigger event in the smartphone 1, which is a trigger for acquiring an article.

In step S107 (acquisition step), the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 of the smartphone 1 acquires the mother-child information. The mother-child information is, for example, directly input by the pregnant woman to the smartphone 1 via the operation unit 14, or transmitted from the doctor terminal 3 via the network 7. If the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 acquires the mother-child information, the control unit 10 proceeds from YES in S107 to S108. If the mother-child information is not updated, S108 and S109 are omitted, and the control unit 10 proceeds to S110.

In step S108 (acquisition step), the date acquisition unit 22 acquires date information associated with the acquired mother-child information.

In step S109 (storage step), the mother-child information management unit 23 associates the number of weeks of pregnancy calculated based on the acquired date information and the reference date with the above-mentioned mother-child information, and registers the mother-child information in the mother-child information DB 41.

In step S110, the control unit 10 judges whether any input operation related to the display of articles has been accepted via the operation unit 14. For example, when an input operation instructing the launch of the maternal and child health handbook application is accepted, or an input operation instructing the display of a list of articles while the maternal and child health handbook application is being launched is accepted, the control unit 10 proceeds from YES in S110 to S111. Alternatively, the control unit 10 judges whether any update has occurred to the maternal and child information DB 41. For example, when the maternal and child information management unit 23 registers new maternal and child information in the maternal and child information DB 41, the control unit 10 proceeds from YES in S110 to S111. Alternatively, when the week number management unit 24 recalculates the current number of weeks of pregnancy of the pregnant woman over time and updates the current number of weeks of pregnancy 42 stored in the memory unit 11, the control unit 10 may proceed from YES in S110 to S111.

In step S111, the article acquisition unit 25 generates an article request and sends it to the management server 8. The article request includes a user ID, mother and child information, and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the mother and child information. Alternatively, the article request may include a medical institution ID of a family clinic designated by the pregnant woman instead of the user ID. When the amount of mother and child information to be sent to the management server 8 is enormous, the article acquisition unit 25 may include only new mother and child information that has not yet been sent to the management server 8 in the article request.

In step S112, the request receiving unit 62 receives and analyzes the article request via the communication unit 52. Specifically, the request receiving unit 62 extracts the user ID, the data content of the mother and child information, and the number of weeks of pregnancy in the mother and child information from the article request. If the article request includes the medical institution ID of the family clinic designated by the pregnant woman instead of the user ID, the request receiving unit 62 extracts the medical institution ID of the family clinic, the data content of the mother and child information, and the number of weeks of pregnancy in the mother and child information from the article request.

In step S113, the article supply unit 63 extracts from the article DB 83 articles uploaded by medical institutions designated as the family clinic by the pregnant woman who requested the article. The article supply unit 63 can identify the medical institution designated as the family clinic by the pregnant woman who requested the article by referring to the user DB 82 and identifying the medical institution ID associated with the above-mentioned user ID. In addition, if the medical institution ID is included in the article request, the article supply unit 63 can identify the medical institution designated as the family clinic by the pregnant woman who requested the article from the article request.

In step S114, the article supply unit 63 further narrows down the articles extracted in S113 to those corresponding to the mother and child information and number of weeks of pregnancy included in the article request. Specifically, the article supply unit 63 further narrows down the articles to only those whose mother and child information and number of weeks of pregnancy satisfy the supply conditions. Here, the article supply unit 63 may further exclude, from each of the narrowed down articles, those articles that have been viewed by the pregnant woman.

In step S115, the article supply unit 63 supplies the article narrowed down in S114 or a notification related to the article to the requesting smartphone 1 as a response to the article request.

In step S116 (display step), the article acquisition unit 25 acquires an article or a notification related to the article via the communication unit 13 of the smartphone 1. Then, the display control unit 26 displays the article or notification acquired by the article acquisition unit 25 on the display unit 15.

According to the above-mentioned method, when a predetermined trigger event occurs, an article request is sent from the smartphone 1 to the management server 8. The predetermined trigger event is, for example, when the mother and child notebook application is started, when the mother and child information is updated, or when an instruction to display a list of articles is given in the mother and child notebook application. The above-mentioned article request includes the mother and child information of the requesting pregnant woman and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated therewith, so that the management server 8 can select an article according to the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy and supply it to the smartphone 1 of the requesting pregnant woman. This allows the pregnant woman to obtain and view the necessary information from the medical institution in a timely manner during pregnancy. In this way, the pregnant woman can automatically receive information that suits her at this time from the medical institution by simply managing her own mother and child information using the mother and child notebook application, without having to be conscious of her number of weeks of pregnancy and go out of her way to obtain the information she needs. As a result, the pregnant woman can feel secure knowing that she is always connected to the hospital, and can spend her pregnancy with peace of mind.

<Screen example>
7 and 8 are diagrams showing examples of screens of the maternal and child health handbook application displayed on the display unit 15 of the smartphone 1. Specifically, the screens shown in Figs. 7 and 8 are medical institution screens 300 for displaying information on the pregnant woman's regular doctor's office. In particular, in the example shown in Fig. 7, a notification related to a new article (new article notification 304, described later) is displayed as a pop-up on the medical institution screen 300. In the example shown in Fig. 8, the new article is reflected on the medical institution screen 300.

In this way, the display control unit 26 reads out the articles and notifications acquired by the article acquisition unit 25 and various UI components from the memory unit 11, generates the medical institution screen 300, and displays it on the display unit 15.

As shown in Figures 7 and 8, the medical institution screen 300 includes at least an article list 301. The medical institution screen 300 may further include hospital information 302. The article list 301 is a UI component for presenting to the pregnant woman a list of the titles of articles provided by her family clinic. The hospital information 302 is a UI component for presenting to the pregnant woman basic information such as the name, contact information, and opening hours of the family clinic.

In this embodiment, the display control unit 26 arranges articles in the article list 301 where the pregnant woman's current pregnancy week 42 matches the supply conditions. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, the display control unit 26 arranges one article banner 303 for each article in the article list 301 so that the article banner 303 is selectable. The article banner 303 displays the title of the article, and the pregnant woman may be able to guess the content of the article. When one article banner 303 is selected by the pregnant woman, the display control unit 26 switches the screen to display the content of the selected article.

With the above-mentioned configuration, pregnant women can view articles at the right time that are suited to their current situation, based on their current pregnancy week and maternal and child information. Pregnant women can spend their pregnancy with peace of mind, as they can access an environment in which they can get the information they need from their family doctor's office when they need it, in cooperation with their family doctor's office.

In this embodiment, when the article acquisition unit 25 receives a new arrival notification from the management server 8, in step S106 of the flowchart shown in FIG. 6, the display control unit 26 displays a pop-up of the new arrival notification 304 on the medical institution screen 300, as shown in FIG. 7, as an example.

In this embodiment, an update button 305 is arranged on the medical institution screen 300 as a UI component for assisting the pregnant woman in operating the article list 301. The update button 305 is a button for instructing the smartphone 1 to receive articles that have not been displayed on the smartphone 1 from the management server 8. When the update button 305 is operated by the pregnant woman, the article acquisition unit 25 generates an article request in S111 of FIG. 6 and requests the management server 8 to supply new articles.

When a new article is supplied from the management server 8 in response to the article request, the article acquisition unit 25 acquires the new article. In step S116 of FIG. 6, the display control unit 26 adds the article banner 306 of the new article acquired by the article acquisition unit 25 to the article list 301, as shown in FIG. 8, for example.

According to the above-mentioned configuration, the new article notification 304 allows the pregnant woman to know when a new article has been uploaded by her regular doctor's office, and she can view the new article displayed on the display unit 15 in a timely manner without missing it.

In another example, the medical institution screen 300 may include a function for setting a "favorite" flag for an article whose content is favored. In this case, the article acquisition unit 25 is configured to store articles designated as favorites in the memory unit 11.

The medical institution screen 300 further includes a favorites button 307 as a UI component for assisting the pregnant woman in operating the article list 301. When the favorites button 307 is operated by the pregnant woman, the display control unit 26 places an article banner 303 of a past article stored in the memory unit 11 in the article list 301, regardless of whether the pregnant woman's current pregnancy week 42 meets the supply conditions.

With the above-mentioned configuration, pregnant women can reread articles they have viewed in the past and liked at any time they like, regardless of how many weeks pregnant they are currently in.

[Examples of articles]
By linking between medical institutions and pregnant women via the program (maternal and child health handbook application) disclosed herein, medical institutions can alert pregnant women to risks or communicate information, such as those listed below.

As an example, in response to an outbreak of a disease (e.g. rubella) that can have a detrimental effect on a fetus if a pregnant woman is infected in the early stages of pregnancy, a medical institution can create an article to warn about rubella and upload it to the management server 8. As conditions for providing the above-mentioned article, the medical institution can specify that the pregnancy is in the early stages, or that the maternal and child information (particularly the vaccination history) does not include a record of receiving a rubella vaccination.

In this way, medical institutions can provide timely articles about rubella to pregnant women who need information about rubella, either in the early stages of pregnancy or who have never been vaccinated against rubella.

As an example, a medical institution can create an article to raise awareness about gestational diabetes and upload it to the management server 8. Specifically, the medical institution can create an article that explains the symptoms of gestational diabetes, its effects on the fetus, and advice from doctors on how to improve their lifestyle. The medical institution then specifies the type of maternal and child information (e.g., blood glucose level) that is likely to correlate with the risk of developing gestational diabetes and a threshold value as a condition for supplying the above-mentioned article.

In this way, medical institutions can provide timely articles about gestational diabetes to pregnant women who need information about the condition and who are at high risk of developing it.

The mother-child information acquisition unit 21 of the smartphone 1 may acquire basic information specific to each pregnant woman as the mother-child information. The display control unit 26 may display an article or notification according to the acquired basic information and the number of weeks of pregnancy. In the program according to the present disclosure, the acquisition step may include acquiring basic information specific to each pregnant woman as the mother-child information, and the display step may include displaying an article or notification according to the acquired basic information and the number of weeks of pregnancy. According to the above-mentioned configuration, the pregnant woman can timely acquire and view information that matches the current number of weeks of pregnancy and her own basic information.

As an example, a medical institution can create an article to raise awareness about preeclampsia and upload it to the management server 8. Specifically, the medical institution can create an article that explains the symptoms of preeclampsia, its effects on the fetus, and advice from doctors on how to improve their lifestyle. The medical institution then specifies, as a condition for providing the above-mentioned article, that the maternal and child information (particularly basic information) includes a history of kidney disease.

In this way, medical institutions can provide timely articles about preeclampsia to pregnant women who need information about the condition and are at high risk of developing it.

As an example, a medical institution can create an article including information about its own medical checkup schedule or event schedules, and upload it to the management server 8. If the medical institution wishes to provide the above-mentioned information to pregnant women of a specific week or condition, it may specify the conditions for delivery, or if the medical institution wishes to provide the information to all pregnant women attending its own hospital, it may not need to specify the conditions for delivery.

According to the above-mentioned maternal and child health handbook application, a pregnant woman can operate the smartphone 1 to designate a family clinic in advance, and the association between the pregnant woman and the family clinic is managed by the management server 8. The management server 8 then provides the article uploaded by the medical institution only to the smartphone 1 of the pregnant woman who has designated the medical institution as her family clinic. Therefore, the article including the above-mentioned contact information provided by the medical institution is provided only to the pregnant woman who has designated the medical institution as her family clinic.

The medical institution's doctor terminal 3 or electronic medical record server 4 may create an article notifying the pregnant woman about the checkup based on the schedule of prenatal checkups managed for each pregnant woman at the institution, and upload it to the management server 8, for example, so that the pregnant woman is reminded just before the checkup date.

In this way, medical institutions can efficiently provide contact information about their own institution to pregnant women who visit their institution.

As an example, the medical institution can create an article about the importance of weight management and upload it to the management server 8. Specifically, the medical institution can create an article that explains possible symptoms of weight gain exceeding the appropriate range, the impact on the fetus, and advice from doctors on improving lifestyle. The medical institution then specifies the number of weeks of pregnancy and a weight threshold as a condition for providing the above-mentioned article. The threshold may be a reference range between an upper limit and a lower limit of weight. The threshold may be an upper limit and a lower limit of a target weight set for each number of weeks of pregnancy. The threshold may be an upper limit of weight gain calculated by subtracting the pre-pregnancy weight from the current weight.

In this way, medical institutions can deliver timely articles about the importance of weight management to pregnant women in their institutions to whom they wish to urge attention.

The mother-child information acquisition unit 21 of the smartphone 1 may acquire the behavioral record of the pregnant woman as the mother-child information. The display control unit 26 may display an article or notification according to the acquired behavioral record and the number of weeks of pregnancy. In addition, in the program according to the present disclosure, the acquisition step may include acquiring the behavioral record of the pregnant woman as the mother-child information, and the display step may include displaying an article or notification according to the acquired behavioral record and the number of weeks of pregnancy. According to the above-mentioned configuration, the pregnant woman can timely acquire and view information that matches the number of weeks of pregnancy and the behavior she is currently taking.

As an example, a medical institution can create an article regarding recommended exercise and upload it to the management server 8. Specifically, the medical institution can create an article that explains the reasons for recommending exercise and the exercises recommended for pregnant women. The medical institution then specifies the number of weeks of pregnancy and the behavioral record as the supply conditions for the above-mentioned article. Specifically, pregnant women who are in the stable period but whose number of steps or calories burned recorded in the behavioral record are significantly low can be specified as the supply target. Furthermore, condition information (such as body weight) that correlates with lack of exercise may be specified as the supply condition.

In this way, medical institutions can deliver timely articles recommending exercise to pregnant women in their institution to whom they wish to encourage exercise.

[Modifications]
(1) If a predetermined time has elapsed without mother-child information being acquired by the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 of the smartphone 1, the display control unit 26 may display a message on the display unit 15 to notify the pregnant woman of this fact.

The program according to the present disclosure may further cause the control unit to execute a notification step of notifying the user when a predetermined time has elapsed without the mother-child information being acquired in the acquisition step.

The above-mentioned configuration encourages regular updates of maternal and child information. In this way, by utilizing new maternal and child information, it becomes easier to provide pregnant women with information suited to their current circumstances in a timely manner.

For example, if more than two weeks have passed since the status information, more specifically, weight, was last entered, the display control unit 26 may display a message on the display unit 15 indicating, for example, "You haven't entered your weight recently. Is your weight trending smoothly?" In addition to the above message, the display control unit 26 may also display a UI component for assisting in the input of weight and the date of measurement on the display unit 15 to prompt the pregnant woman to input her weight. Weight is an important management item for pregnant women. Therefore, by having the pregnant woman continue to input her weight diligently, it becomes possible to provide the pregnant woman with articles from medical institutions regarding weight and the health of pregnant women related to weight in a timely manner in accordance with the transition of the pregnant woman's weight and the number of weeks of pregnancy.

Alternatively, the display control unit 26 may change the interval at which the above-mentioned reminder message is displayed depending on the pregnant woman's current pregnancy week 42. A pregnant woman in the middle of pregnancy is expected to undergo prenatal checkups approximately once a month. Therefore, in a smartphone 1 of a pregnant woman whose current pregnancy week 42 indicates the middle of the pregnancy, the display control unit 26 may display a reminder message if there has been no input of weight and blood pressure for more than a month. And, in a smartphone 1 of a pregnant woman whose current pregnancy week 42 indicates the late pregnancy, the display control unit 26 may display a reminder message if there has been no input of weight and blood pressure for more than two weeks.

The display control unit 26 may also be configured to accept a setting to stop the automatic message display function for pregnant women who do not want reminder messages to be displayed automatically.

(2) As described in the first embodiment, when the mother-child information is updated, the article acquisition unit 25 acquires new articles, and the display control unit 26 adds the new articles to the article list 301 on the medical institution screen 300.

Here, if the mother-child information is further updated and the updated mother-child information no longer meets the supply conditions of the article placed in the article list 301, the display control unit 26 may delete the article banner of the article that no longer meets the supply conditions from the article list 301.

For example, suppose a pregnant woman's weight gain at a certain week of pregnancy exceeds the reference range and a medical institution provides her with an article about the importance of weight management. The pregnant woman then makes lifestyle changes based on the advice, and as a result, her weight gain at subsequent weeks of pregnancy falls back within the reference range.

The display control unit 26 compares the latest updated mother-child information with the supply conditions of each article arranged in the article list 301, and identifies articles whose latest mother-child information no longer matches the supply conditions. Then, the display control unit 26 deletes the article banner of the identified article from the article list 301.

(3) The mother-child information management unit 23 may not only register the input mother-child information as is in the mother-child information DB 41, but may also store the results of performing a predetermined process on the input mother-child information in the mother-child information DB 41 together with the mother-child information. For example, the mother-child information acquisition unit 21 acquires status information indicating the status of at least one of the pregnant woman and the fetus as the mother-child information. The mother-child information management unit 23 stores the results of comparing the acquired status information with a standard status defined for each week of pregnancy in the mother-child information DB 41. The display control unit 26 may then select and display an article or notification depending on the results of comparing the acquired status information with a standard status defined for each week of pregnancy.

In addition, in the program according to the present disclosure, the acquisition step may include acquiring status information indicating the status of at least one of the pregnant woman and the fetus as maternal and child information, and the display step may include selecting and displaying an article or notification based on a comparison result between the acquired status information and a standard status determined for each week of pregnancy.

According to the above-mentioned configuration, the articles to be displayed are selected according to how the condition of the mother and child is compared to a reference condition. Therefore, the pregnant woman can obtain and view information that matches the current condition of the mother and child in a timely manner.

More specifically, assume that information on the pregnant woman's weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose level, along with the measurement date, is acquired by the maternal and child information acquisition unit 21. In this case, the maternal and child information management unit 23 calculates the number of weeks of pregnancy based on the measurement date, and compares the acquired weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose level of the pregnant woman with standard values for weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose level prepared in advance for each week of pregnancy. The maternal and child information management unit 23 may associate the comparison result with the maternal and child information and store it together in the maternal and child information DB 41. The comparison result may be non-value information, such as, for example, "Danger: significantly deviating from the standard value," "Caution: slightly deviating from the standard value," or "No problem: close to the standard value, normal."

The article acquisition unit 25 requests the management server 8 to send an article by including the above-mentioned comparison result in the article request. This enables the article acquisition unit 25 to acquire an appropriate article from the management server 8 depending on how far the current state of the pregnant woman differs from the reference value.

(4) As part of the functionality of the maternal and child health handbook application, the display control unit 26 may display the maternal and child information registered in the maternal and child information DB 41 on the display unit 15 so that the information can be viewed. For example, the display control unit 26 may generate a graph in which weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose level are plotted in chronological order based on the date of measurement, and display the graph on the display unit 15.

Furthermore, the display control unit 26 may plot a reference range specified by a predetermined standard value for each week of pregnancy on a graph. In addition, in the program according to the present disclosure, the display step may include displaying a graph of the condition information together with the reference range.
In this way, it is possible to visualize for the pregnant woman the differences between the actual measured values of her weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose level and the reference ranges, making it easier for the pregnant woman to visually recognize how the current condition of the mother and child compares with the standard condition.

(4-1) The display control unit 26 may further display not only actual measured values but also future predicted values in a selectable manner in the above-mentioned graph. Then, when a tap operation is performed on the display position of the predicted value, the article acquisition unit 25 may transmit an article request including the predicted value to the management server 8 and acquire from the management server 8 an article corresponding to the predicted value and the number of weeks of pregnancy at the predicted value.

In this way, for example, medical institutions can provide articles about exercise or dietary restrictions in advance to pregnant women whose weight is predicted to exceed the reference range in the future. On the other hand, medical institutions can provide articles introducing recommended ingredients or easy-to-eat recipes in advance to pregnant women whose weight is predicted to fall below the reference range in the future.

(5) Maternal and child information may be obtained by utilizing a personal health record (PHR) and linking with an application other than the maternal and child health handbook application.

For example, an adolescent application is an application that manages basic health information for an adolescent user. The basic information for an adolescent user may include, for example, race, sexually transmitted disease history, infection history, and vaccination history.

The above-mentioned basic information that was managed using an adolescent application when the pregnant woman was an adolescent may be imported into the maternal and child health handbook application as maternal and child information.

(6) In the article DB 83 of the management server 8, a category for genre may be further provided, and articles may be managed by genre. For example, a medical institution may specify the genre of an article when creating the article. Alternatively, the article registration unit 61 of the management server 8 may analyze the content of the article and automatically assign a genre appropriate to the content of the article. Possible genres include, but are not limited to, "messages," "warnings," "health management (providing information on)," "risks and troubles (providing information on)," and "hobbies and entertainment (providing information on)."

The maternal and child health handbook application (program) of the present disclosure further causes the control unit 10 to execute a reception step of receiving an operation from the user to select an article genre, and a selection step of selecting articles to be displayed on the display unit from among articles belonging to a specified genre. That is, the article acquisition unit 25 and the display control unit 26 of the smartphone 1 may be configured to receive a desired genre specification from the pregnant woman, and to acquire and display only articles belonging to the genre specified by the pregnant woman.

For example, a cautious pregnant woman who wants to prepare for any troubles that may occur during pregnancy, gather information to be fully prepared for unforeseen circumstances, and constantly eliminate anxiety, can specify a category such as "Caution" or "Risks and Troubles (information provided)." Furthermore, an active pregnant woman who wants to enjoy her pregnancy by experiencing all sorts of things that can only be done while pregnant can specify a category such as "Hobbies and Entertainment." For example, articles in the "Hobbies and Entertainment" category may include information on fashion information, maternity photos, childcare products, and so on. In this way, pregnant women can efficiently collect articles that match their individual preferences.

(6-1) The article supply unit 63 of the management server 8 may be configured to supply articles of different genres depending on the number of weeks pregnant a pregnant woman is in. For example, articles in the "health management" genre may be supplied to pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy, articles in the "hobbies and entertainment" genre may be supplied to pregnant women in the mid-stage (stable) stage of pregnancy, and articles in the "risks and troubles" genre may be supplied to pregnant women in the late stages of pregnancy.

(7) In addition to managing the addresses of the smartphones 1 of the pregnant women in the user DB 82, the management server 8 may also manage the addresses of the smartphones of the pregnant women's partners that are registered by the pregnant women. In the article DB 83, articles for the partners of the pregnant women that correspond to the articles for the pregnant women are further registered.

The article supply unit 63 supplies articles for pregnant women to the smartphone 1 of the pregnant woman who has mother-child information that satisfies the article supply conditions, and may further supply articles for the pregnant woman's partner that correspond to the above-mentioned articles for pregnant women to the smartphone of the pregnant woman's partner.

The maternal and child health handbook application (program) of the present disclosure further causes the control unit 10 to execute a registration step of registering the address of the terminal used by the pregnant woman's partner, and a transmission step of transmitting an article for the partner according to the maternal and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy, or a notification related to the article, to the partner's smartphone. Instead of the transmission step, the maternal and child health handbook application (program) may cause the control unit 10 to execute a request step of requesting the management server 8 to supply an article for the partner according to the maternal and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy to the partner's smartphone.

In this way, partners can view articles aimed at partners that are appropriate for the pregnant woman's current condition at the appropriate time. This allows the pregnant woman and her partner to talk while sharing the same information, and creates an opportunity for the partner to deepen their understanding of the pregnant woman's current condition.

(8) The smartphone 1 may upload the mother-child information DB 41 to the management server 8. In this case, the management server 8 manages the mother-child information DB 41 for each pregnant woman in the user DB 82.

The management server 8 may be configured to provide maternal and child information of pregnant women in response to requests from each medical institution. In this case, the management server 8 identifies the medical institution ID of the medical institution that has requested the disclosure of maternal and child information, extracts only the maternal and child information of pregnant women associated with the identified medical institution ID in the user DB 82, and provides it to the requesting medical institution. In other words, the medical institution can obtain from the management server 8 only the maternal and child information of pregnant women who have designated the medical institution as their family clinic.

If the maternal and child information provided by the management server 8 is, for example, weight, the doctor at the medical institution can operate the doctor terminal 3 to check the weight of each pregnant woman provided by the management server 8. The doctor may identify pregnant women who he or she judges to require some kind of notification regarding their weight, or may write a comment in the electronic medical record or the like and refer to it at the next examination.

For pregnant women who are judged by a doctor to require some kind of notification regarding their weight, the medical institution may create an article to be provided to these pregnant women and upload it to the management server 8.

In this way, not only can medical institutions provide information to pregnant women, but pregnant women can also provide information to medical institutions, achieving close two-way cooperation between medical institutions and pregnant women and realizing a collaborative service that is convenient for both parties.

[Software implementation example]
The control blocks of the smartphone 1 (in particular, the mother-child information acquisition unit 21, the date acquisition unit 22, the mother-child information management unit 23, the week number management unit 24, the article acquisition unit 25 and the display control unit 26) may be realized by a logic circuit (hardware) formed in an integrated circuit (IC chip) or the like, or may be realized by software.

The control blocks of the management server 8 (particularly the article registration unit 61, the request reception unit 62, and the article supply unit 63) may be realized by a logic circuit (hardware) formed in an integrated circuit (IC chip) or the like, or may be realized by software.

When the functions are realized by software, the smartphone 1 and the management server 8 are provided with a computer that executes the instructions of a program, which is software that realizes each function. The computer includes, for example, one or more processors, and a computer-readable recording medium that stores the program. The object of the present invention is achieved by the processor reading the program from the recording medium and executing it in the computer. The processor can be, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit). The recording medium can be a "non-transient tangible medium," such as a ROM (Read Only Memory), tape, disk, card, semiconductor memory, programmable logic circuit, etc. The computer can also include a RAM (Random Access Memory) that expands the program. The program can be supplied to the computer via any transmission medium (such as a communication network or broadcast waves) that can transmit the program. Note that one aspect of the present invention can also be realized in the form of a data signal embedded in a carrier wave, in which the program is embodied by electronic transmission.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications are possible within the scope of the claims. The technical scope of the present invention also includes embodiments obtained by appropriately combining the technical means disclosed in different embodiments.

1. Smartphone (device)
2 Echo imaging device 3 Doctor terminal 4 Electronic medical record server 5 USB memory 6 Distribution server 7 Network 8 Management server 10 Control unit 11 Memory unit 12 Connection unit 13 Communication unit 14 Operation unit 15 Display unit 21 Mother and child information acquisition unit 22 Date acquisition unit 23 Mother and child information management unit 24 Week number management unit 25 Article acquisition unit 26 Display control unit 50 Control unit 51 Memory unit 52 Communication unit 61 Article registration unit 62 Request reception unit 63 Article supply unit S106, S116 Display steps S107 to S108 Acquisition step S109 Storage step

Claims (14)

A program executed by a terminal having a control unit, a storage unit, and a display unit,
The article displayed by the terminal is registered in the management server in association with the medical institution ID of the medical institution that provides the article and the supply conditions of the article;
The program is
an acquiring step of acquiring maternal-child information relating to a pregnant woman and at least one of a fetus and a pre-fetus, and date information associated with the maternal-child information;
a storage step of storing in the storage unit the number of weeks of pregnancy at the time indicated by the date information, which is calculated based on the date information and a reference date that is a reference for calculating the number of weeks of pregnancy of the pregnant woman, in association with the mother-and-child information;
The program causes the control unit to execute a display step of displaying, on the display unit, the article or a notification related to the article , which is supplied from the management server and is associated with the medical institution ID of the medical institution designated by the pregnant woman as her regular clinic, and in which the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the mother and child information satisfy the supply conditions. The program according to claim 1, wherein the display step includes, when at least one of the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy stored in the storage unit is added or updated in the storage step, displaying the article or the notification corresponding to at least one of the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy that has been added or updated. the acquiring step includes acquiring status information indicating at least one of a pregnant woman, and a fetus or a pre-fetus, as the mother-child information;
3. The program according to claim 1, wherein the display step includes selecting and displaying the article or the notification depending on a comparison result between the acquired status information and a standard status defined for each week of pregnancy. 4. The program according to claim 3, wherein the display step includes displaying a graph of the status information together with a reference range between an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the status information. The acquiring step includes acquiring a behavior record of a pregnant woman as the mother-child information,
The program according to claim 1 , wherein the display step includes displaying the article or the notification according to the acquired behavioral record and the number of weeks of pregnancy. The acquiring step includes acquiring basic information specific to each pregnant woman as the mother-child information,
The program according to claim 1 , wherein the display step includes displaying the article or the notification according to the acquired basic information and the number of weeks of pregnancy. The program further comprises:
7. The program according to claim 1, further comprising: a notification step of notifying a user of the elapsed time period during which the mother-child information is not acquired in the acquisition step. The obtaining step includes:
Information input by a pregnant woman who is a user of the terminal via an operation unit provided in the terminal;
Information transferred from the equipment or storage media of the medical institution that examined the pregnant woman, or the fetus or pre-fetus; and
Information obtained or processed based on another program executed by said terminal;
The program according to claim 1 , further comprising acquiring at least one of the above as the mother-child information. 5. The program according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the condition information is at least one of the pregnant woman's weight, BMI (Body Mass Index), blood pressure, pulse, blood glucose level, edema, urinary protein, urinary sugar, fetal or pre-fetal size, and estimated fetal or pre-fetal weight. The program further comprises:
a receiving step of receiving an operation for selecting a genre of the article from a user;
10. The program according to claim 1, further comprising: a selection step of selecting an article to be displayed on the display unit in the display step from among articles belonging to the specified genre. The program further comprises:
A registration step of registering the address of a terminal used by the pregnant woman's partner;
The program according to any one of claims 1 to 10, further comprising a step of causing the control unit to execute a sending step of sending an article for the partner based on the mother-child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy, or a notification related to the article, to the terminal. A method executed by a terminal having a control unit, a storage unit, and a display unit,
The article displayed by the terminal is registered in the management server in association with the medical institution ID of the medical institution that provides the article and the supply conditions of the article;
an acquiring step of acquiring maternal-child information relating to a pregnant woman and at least one of a fetus and a pre-fetus, and date information associated with the maternal-child information;
a storage step of storing in the storage unit the number of weeks of pregnancy at the time indicated by the date information, which is calculated based on the date information and a reference date that is a reference for calculating the number of weeks of pregnancy of the pregnant woman, in association with the mother-and-child information;
The method includes a display step of displaying on the display unit the article or a notification related to the article, which is associated with the medical institution ID of the medical institution designated by the pregnant woman as her regular clinic and in which the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the mother and child information satisfy the supply conditions , supplied from the management server . A terminal including a control unit, a storage unit, and a display unit,
The article displayed by the terminal is registered in the management server in association with the medical institution ID of the medical institution that provides the article and the supply conditions of the article;
The control unit is
Acquire maternal and child information relating to a pregnant woman and at least one of a fetus and a pre-fetus, and date information associated with the maternal and child information;
The date information and the number of weeks of pregnancy calculated based on a reference date serving as a reference for calculating the number of weeks of pregnancy of the pregnant woman are associated with the mother-and-child information at the time indicated by the date information and are stored in the storage unit;
The terminal is supplied from the management server and displays on the display unit the article or a notification related to the article, which is associated with the medical institution ID of the medical institution designated by the pregnant woman as her regular clinic and in which the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the mother and child information satisfy the supply conditions . A system including a control unit, a storage unit, and a display unit,
The article displayed by the system is registered in a management server in association with a medical institution ID of a medical institution that is a source of the article and a supply condition of the article;
The control unit is
Acquire maternal and child information relating to a pregnant woman and at least one of a fetus and a pre-fetus, and date information associated with the maternal and child information;
The date information and the number of weeks of pregnancy calculated based on a reference date serving as a reference for calculating the number of weeks of pregnancy of the pregnant woman are associated with the number of weeks of pregnancy at the time indicated by the date information and are stored in the storage unit;
The system displays on the display unit the article or a notification related to the article, which is associated with the medical institution ID of the medical institution designated by the pregnant woman as her regular clinic and in which the mother and child information and the number of weeks of pregnancy associated with the mother and child information satisfy the supply conditions, supplied from the management server.

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