Patent ID: 9710605
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G16H,G16Z

Claim:
1. A catheter information managing system, comprising: a catheter; an IC tag storing medical equipment information, including both instruction manual information in a plurality of languages setting forth information about use of said catheter and information used for a health insurance claim by a hospital; a packaging bag containing both the catheter and the IC tag, the packaging bag being a closed packaging bag that is openable; a management apparatus, the management apparatus including a display unit and a data storage device; a tag information reader in communication with the management apparatus and configured to receive the medical equipment information transmitted from the IC tag, the IC tag contained within the packaging bag, the tag information reader being fixedly placed only in an operation room or an operation preparation area; the IC tag being accommodated in an IC tag accommodation portion of the packaging bag, the IC tag having a reed switch and an associated magnet, the reed switch and magnet disposed in such a manner as to oppose to the IC tag, the packaging bag including a seal portion that seals the packaging bag closed and which is openable, the IC tag being disposed at the seal portion of the packaging, the display unit of the management apparatus operable to display the instruction manual information after receipt by the tag information reader; the seal portion is broken by opening the packaging bag, the IC tag being configured to begin communicating with the tag information reader when the IC tag is separated from the magnet by opening the packaging bag; the IC tag transmitting the medical equipment information to the tag information reader, the tag information reader transmitting the medical equipment information to the management apparatus, the management apparatus storing the medical equipment information into an IC tag information storage block of the data storage device, a language specification block stored in the data storage device of the management apparatus operating and referring to a language specification information storage block stored in the data storage device storing language information corresponding to an official language of a country in which the hospital is located, the language specification block acquiring the instruction manual information from the IC tag information storage block in the language corresponding to the language information in the language specification information storage block, and displaying the instruction manual information of the language specification information on the display unit, the display unit displaying a contents confirmation check column on the display unit, a contents confirmation check column input presence or absence determination block stored in the data storage device operating to determine whether or not a check mark is inputted into the contents confirmation check column by a user indicating that the user has read the instruction manual information displayed on the display unit, an insurance claim paperwork display block stored in the data storage device of the management apparatus operating to acquire the information used for the health insurance claim by the hospital, the information used for the health insurance claim is stored in the IC tag information storage block and transferred to the management apparatus only when the contents confirmation check column input presence or absence determination block has determined that the check mark is inputted into the contents confirmation check column, the management apparatus preparing a health insurance claim using the information used for the health insurance claim according to a format stored in an insurance claim paperwork basic information storage block stored in the data storage device of the management apparatus.