Development of Electronic Medical Chart for Acquired Visual Disabilities in Riryo Training

1. Development of Electronic Medical ChartforAcquired Visual Disabilitiesin Riryo Training Keisuke NAKAMURA nakamura@kei-jpn.com Advanced Course of Production System Engineering Major, Toba National College of Maritime Technology

2. Outline • Background and Purpose of the Research • System Summary • Pen-Input Device • Treatment Recording Function • Conclusion

3. Outline • Background and Purpose of the Research • System Summary • Pen-Input Device • Treatment Recording Function • Conclusion

4. Background of the Research • More than 310,000 visually disabled in Japan • Half of them have acquired visual disabilities • They study to get a national license as a therapist • Most serious problem in Riryo training • Only few methods to R/W patients’ medical records • Sighted people to help the students read or they have to read braille

5. Background of the Research • Middle age and elderly visually disabled • Difficult to master braille • Hard to get skills for operating information equipments

6. Background of the Research • Middle age and elderly visually disabled • Difficult to master braille • Hard to get skills for operating information equipments The method is necessary they can smoothly R/W medical records at any age

7. Purpose of the Research • Assuming Riryo training at Rehab • Building a common database • To store all patients’ data • Development of an electronic medical chart • For acquired visually disabled people • With pen-input device and web page

8. Outline • Background and Purpose of the Research • System Summary • Pen-Input Device • Treatment Recording Function • Conclusion

9. System Summary Patient system Reception system Database Reservation data Pre-exam data Note data Treatment data Reservation control Reception Pre-exam registration Therapist system Student (Therapist) Patient Pen-input system Web system

10. Reservation Control Patient system Reception system Database Reservation data Pre-exam data Note data Treatment data Reservation control Reception Pre-exam registration A reception makes a patient’s reservation data and register Therapist system Student (Therapist) Patient Pen-input system Web system

11. Pre-exam Registration Patient system Reception system Database Reservation data Pre-exam data Note data Treatment data Reservation control Reception Pre-exam registration Therapist system Student (Therapist) Patient A patient writes a pre-exam sheet with patient system Pen-input system Web system

12. Pen-Input System for Therapist Patient system Reception system Database Reservation data Pre-exam data Note data Treatment data A therapist browses a patient’s pre-exam, treatment dataand create a treatment record Reservation control Reception Pre-exam registration Therapist system Student (Therapist) Patient Pen-input system Web system

13. Web System for Therapist Patient system Reception system Database Reservation data Pre-exam data Note data Treatment data Reservation control The therapist can do same things like a pen-input system Reception Pre-exam registration Therapist system Student (Therapist) Patient Pen-input system Web system

14. System Summary Patient system Reception system Database Reservation data Pre-exam data Note data Treatment data Reservation control Reception Pre-exam registration Therapist system Student (Therapist) Patient Treatment Recording Function Pen-input system Web system

15. Outline • Background and Purpose of the Research • System Summary • Pen-Input Device • Treatment Recording Function • Conclusion

16. Pen-Input Device for Therapist • TegakiPAD • Digital pen and binder • Tucking template • Frames for each template different in levels

17. Template for Operation • Cursor L/R • Help • Delete • Entry Column • Enter Cursor L/R Help Delete Entry Column Enter

18. Outline • Background and Purpose of the Research • System Summary • Pen-Input Device • Treatment Recording Function • Conclusion

19. Treatment Recording Function R/W patients’ data Database Listening Reservation data Pre-exam data Note data Treatment data Therapist system Character recognition Pen-input device (TegakiPAD) Writing Student (Therapist)

20. What Is Possible? • Search patients • From their names or lists of reservation data • Listening to pre-exam and treatment records • Taking notes • Creating treatment records

21. Screen of the System Menu/List Area Text Area

22. Usage Example

23. Outline • Background and Purpose of the Research • System Summary • Pen-Input Device • Treatment Recording Function • Conclusion

24. Conclusion • Construction of a common database • R/W medical records from two or more information equipments • Development of an electronic medical chart • Listening to patients’ medical records • Without being influenced by degrees of their disabilities

25. Future Tasks • Using this system in Riryo training at Rehab • Evaluation experiment • Improvement of the function

26. Development of Electronic Medical ChartforAcquired Visual Disabilitiesin Riryo Training Keisuke NAKAMURA nakamura@kei-jpn.com Advanced Course of Production System Engineering Major, Toba National College of Maritime Technology