Day surgery appointment management system and method

Abstract

The present invention provides a day surgery appointment management system and method. The day surgery appointment management system comprises an appointment management module, a day management center module, an information query module, and a data operation control module, so as to facilitate selection of day surgeries. By means of the system, a bed is locked, doctors and patients are notified via a short message, and day surgery information is shared with related departments, so as to connect doctors, patients, nurses, anesthesiologists, and simultaneously connect outpatient clinics, admission and discharge management centers, wards, and operating rooms, and the system serves as a diagnosis and treatment center to be responsible for daily management and safety guarantee of day surgeries, thereby improving the bed turnover rate and management order of day surgeries.

Description

Day Surgery Appointment Management System and Method Technical Field

[0001] This invention relates to hospital management systems, and more particularly to a day surgery appointment management system and method. Background Technology

[0002] Ambulatory surgery, also known as day surgery, refers to surgeries performed within a single working day, from admission to discharge. This excludes emergency and outpatient surgeries performed in clinics or hospitals. In practice in China, ambulatory surgery offers advantages in four aspects: greater frequency, faster operation, higher quality, and lower costs. The hospital stay for ambulatory surgery is reduced by approximately 80% compared to inpatient care, resulting in more efficient use of hospital bed resources. For doctors, this allows them to dedicate more time to performing more surgeries and helping more patients. For patients, same-day admission and surgery reduce waiting times by over 50%, saving both time and money.

[0003] Currently, hospitals that perform day surgery well generally adopt the following three management models: 1. Decentralized admission and management: This is the mainstream model, suitable for each department to independently perform day surgery without the need for a dedicated department to manage it. However, it is inconvenient for hospital statistics, queries, and performance analysis. 2. Unified admission and decentralized management: This is a more ideal model, as it eliminates the need for a dedicated management department and allows for timely access to day surgery data, facilitating management and further planning. However, most hospital management systems currently lack this feature. 3. Unified admission and unified management: This is the most convenient model, suitable for large tertiary hospitals to perform day surgery. It has a dedicated management department and day surgery wards, providing significant convenience for the implementation of day surgery. Dedicated management software exists, but the investment is substantial, making it difficult to implement in most municipal hospitals.

[0004] As the leading medical institutions in their respective cities, most top-tier hospitals face a severe shortage of beds. Located primarily in city centers with limited space, they struggle to establish dedicated integrated wards for day surgery. While some hospitals have established day observation wards, these primarily accommodate patients who do not require overnight stays, such as chemotherapy patients or those undergoing painless endoscopy. Day surgery requires specialized pre- and post-operative care and education from nurses, which is often difficult to provide effectively within day observation wards, especially in emergencies. The lack of specialist doctors and nurses hinders accurate and timely observation and assessment, posing potential safety risks. Therefore, it is ideal to establish day surgery wards within individual wards. Efficiently utilizing these extra day surgery beds requires a suitable bed reservation and management system to better coordinate departments and personnel, facilitating more efficient day surgery and better serving patients.

[0005] Summary of the Invention

[0006] One advantage of this invention is that it provides a day surgery appointment management system and method, wherein the day surgery appointment management system is suitable to be set up as an APP on a mobile phone or embedded in an existing mobile hospital APP to make appointments and manage day surgeries, thereby improving the convenience and standardization of hospital day surgery appointments.

[0007] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a day surgery appointment management system and method, which establishes an information-based, integrated, convenient, and easy-to-operate day surgery appointment management system based on existing management systems and hospital appointment systems.

[0008] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a day surgery appointment management system and method that utilizes a B / S architecture (with Google Chrome as the core browser on the B-side) and .NET technology to retrieve the necessary data from the hospital's own system without imposing an excessive data computation burden on it. Therefore, this system and appointment method are suitable for widespread application in hospitals that perform day surgery.

[0009] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a day surgery appointment management system and method, which is an integrated APP for patients' day surgery that combines information technology, video education, text education, guidance, convenience, speed and scalability, and solves problems such as inconvenience in preoperative education, postoperative follow-up and doctor-patient communication.

[0010] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a day surgery appointment management system and method, which, as a day care center, connects patients, doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, outpatient clinics, admission and discharge management centers, wards, operating rooms, hospital data centers, etc., enabling the various departments to coordinate more effectively, improving the daily management efficiency of day surgery, and ensuring the success and ease of management of day surgery.

[0011] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a day surgery appointment management system and method with a simple, intuitive, and easy-to-operate interface, which facilitates outpatient doctors, ward nurses, operating rooms, admission and discharge management centers, and medical affairs departments to query, arrange, monitor, and statistically analyze matters related to day surgery in real time.

[0012] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a one-day surgical appointment management system and method, in which the medical affairs department has the highest authority, and different departments use different accounts, thus having different permissions. They can only view and operate the content within their own permission scope. Therefore, each department and individual can perform their respective duties through the system, ensuring the efficient operation of the system.

[0013] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a day surgery appointment management system and method. Once the date of day surgery is determined, the system will automatically notify the doctor and patient and automatically send the day surgery appointment information to various departments to make corresponding preparations, effectively preventing omissions and improving the efficiency of day surgery.

[0014] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a one-day surgery appointment management system and method. Without changing the hospital's existing software systems for documents, medical orders, and surgical arrangements, it is an embedded software system that allows outpatient doctors, ward nurses, operating rooms, admission and discharge centers, and medical affairs departments to query, arrange, monitor, and statistically analyze in real time.

[0015] Another advantage of this invention is that it provides a day surgery appointment management system and method, which can statistically analyze the day surgeries of various departments and doctors, as well as the number of applications, appointment rates, no-show rates, etc., and present them to the administrators in intuitive and clear charts, so as to optimize day surgeries and better serve patients.

[0016] According to one aspect of the present invention, a one-day surgical appointment management system is provided, comprising:

[0017] An appointment management module is suitable for centralized management of appointment beds and patient information for day surgery;

[0018] The day surgery management center module is suitable for closed-loop management of patients undergoing day surgery, from admission, registration, assessment, education, ward reservation, surgery reservation, surgery notification, discharge, and postoperative follow-up.

[0019] An information query module allows for full tracking and querying of information related to day surgery patients; and

[0020] A data operation control module is connected to the appointment management module, the daytime management center module, and the information query module to control the operation and management of each module.

[0021] The day surgery appointment management system further includes a doctor workstation module and a nurse workstation module. Doctors manage the appointment, process, and information query of day surgery through the doctor workstation module, while nurses operate and manage the appointment management module, the day surgery management center module, and the information query module through the nurse workstation module, thereby enabling nurses to perform their functions in day surgery.

[0022] The day surgery appointment management system further includes a follow-up management module to provide follow-up plans, follow-up execution, follow-up templates, and artificial intelligence follow-up, wherein the artificial intelligence follow-up includes voice robot follow-up, follow-up records, abnormal intelligent analysis and automatic processing feedback, and cloud follow-up.

[0023] The day surgery appointment management system further includes a basic information management module to link departments and personnel, providing management of surgical procedures, test / examination items, medical orders, doctor management, SMS module, education templates and maintenance of public knowledge, as well as user management, role management, public configuration, employee management, and in-operative room maintenance.

[0024] The doctor's workstation module includes a day surgery unit, which is suitable for providing doctors and patients with the following operations: surgical method, anesthesia method, planned surgical site, attending physician, attending physician, selection of surgery date, selection of inpatient ward, selection of ward bed, selection of appointment days, and remarks. The system notifies doctors and patients of the surgery time via SMS based on their operations and shares the above information of day surgery with relevant departments within the system for them to view and prepare for surgery.

[0025] The day surgery appointment management system further includes a day surgery operation and quality control management module to collect and provide daily operation charts, quality control charts, and quality control settings, and to analyze the operation of day surgery.

[0026] The day surgery management center module includes mode settings, surgical pathway configuration, admission assessment, patient registration, pre-admission education, pre-operative anesthesia assessment, bed / surgery appointment, pre-operative confirmation, admission surgery notification, patient reporting, discharge assessment, and withdrawal from day surgery.

[0027] The day surgery appointment management system utilizes a B / S architecture, making it suitable for connection with the hospital's existing bed management system and appointment hospitalization system. It can extract the necessary data from these systems to form an integrated system that manages and controls preoperative education, postoperative follow-up, doctor-patient communication, and the daily operation of day surgery.

[0028] The day surgery appointment management system described herein serves as a day care center, suitable for connecting patients, doctors, nurses, outpatient clinics, inpatient and outpatient management centers, wards, operating rooms, medical affairs departments, and hospital data centers.

[0029] According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention also provides a method for managing surgical appointments within a single day, comprising the following steps:

[0030] (S101) Medical visit registration;

[0031] (S102) Inspection and evaluation;

[0032] (S103) Preoperative assessment and education;

[0033] (S104) Schedule a day surgery;

[0034] (S105) Surgical Notification

[0035] (S106) Discharge assessment; and

[0036] (S107) Postoperative follow-up.

[0037] In step (S104), the management center reserves a bed for the patient, including the following steps: (S1041) selecting a day surgery date; (S1042) selecting a day surgery bed in a specific department; (S1043) selecting the surgeon; (S1044) selecting the surgical method; (S1045) selecting the hospitalization date; and (S1046) locking the bed in the system.

[0038] In step (S101), the patient visits the outpatient clinic. After the outpatient doctor completes the diagnosis, the patient's eligibility for day surgery is assessed. If the patient meets the eligibility criteria, a day surgery application form is issued, and the patient goes to the day surgery management center to register.

[0039] In step (S102), the patient completes the preoperative examination according to the doctor's order from the day management center, and the doctor views the examination results through the day surgery appointment management system and conducts anesthesia assessment on the patient.

[0040] In step (S105), the day surgery management center notifies doctors, nurses, and patients of the scheduled surgeries for the next day through the day surgery appointment management system. On the day of the surgery, the patient is admitted and registered in the ward. The ward nurse further conducts a preoperative assessment to ensure that there are no abnormalities on the day of the surgery.

[0041] In the above steps, the ward nurses conduct discharge assessments on patients, and discharge them after they meet the discharge criteria. The nurses in the day care center are required to complete the first follow-up visit within 24 hours of the patient's discharge and arrange subsequent follow-ups as needed. The system records the follow-up information. Attached Figure Description

[0042] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall process of a one-day surgery appointment management system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

[0043] Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the appointment process of the day surgery appointment management system according to the above preferred embodiment of the present invention.

[0044] Figures 3 to 5 are schematic diagrams of the interface of the day surgery appointment management system according to the above-described preferred embodiments of the present invention.

[0045] Figure 6 is a schematic diagram of the bed allocation management interface of the day surgery appointment management system according to the above-described preferred embodiment of the present invention.

[0046] Figure 7 is a schematic diagram of the bed reservation selection interface of the day surgery reservation management system according to the above preferred embodiment of the present invention.

[0047] Figure 8 is a schematic diagram of the interface for sending surgical notifications by the day surgery appointment management system according to the above-described preferred embodiment of the present invention.

[0048] Figure 9 is a schematic diagram of the follow-up management interface of the day surgery appointment management system according to the above preferred embodiment of the present invention.

[0049] Figure 10 is a schematic diagram of a one-day surgical appointment management system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Detailed Implementation

[0050] The following description is intended to disclose the present invention and enable those skilled in the art to implement it. The preferred embodiments described below are merely examples, and other obvious variations will occur to those skilled in the art. The basic principles of the invention defined in the following description can be applied to other embodiments, modifications, improvements, equivalents, and other technical solutions that do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention.

[0051] It is understood that the term "a" should be understood as "at least one" or "one or more", that is, in one embodiment, the number of an element can be one, while in another embodiment, the number of the element can be multiple, and the term "a" should not be understood as a limitation on the number.

[0052] Referring to Figures 1 to 10, a preferred embodiment of a day surgery appointment management system and method according to the present invention is illustrated. In this invention, the day surgery appointment management system includes an appointment management module 10, a day surgery management center module 20, an information query module 30, and a data operation control module 40. The appointment management module 10, the day surgery management center module 20, and the information query module 30 are all connected to the data operation control module 40. The data operation control module 40 establishes connections and information sharing between the modules, making the day surgery appointment management module a day care center suitable for connecting patients, doctors, nurses, outpatient departments, inpatient / outpatient management centers, day surgery management centers, wards, operating rooms, medical departments, and hospital data centers.

[0053] Doctors can view the number of surgeries, names of surgeries, and attending physicians for each department that performs day surgeries through the day surgery management center. This allows them to allocate spare time for day surgeries when scheduling surgeries a day in advance and to verify the surgeries requested for the day to prevent omissions.

[0054] The day surgery appointment management system further includes a doctor workstation module 50 and a nurse workstation module 60. Both the doctor workstation module 50 and the nurse workstation module 60 are connected to the even-numbered data operation control module 40. Doctors manage the appointment, process, and information query of day surgery through the doctor workstation module 50, while nurses operate and manage the appointment management module 10, the day surgery management center module 20, and the information query module 30 through the nurse workstation module 60, thereby enabling nurses to perform their functions in day surgery.

[0055] The day surgery appointment management system further includes a follow-up management module 70 to provide follow-up plans, follow-up execution, follow-up templates, and artificial intelligence follow-up, wherein the artificial intelligence follow-up includes voice robot follow-up, follow-up records, abnormal intelligent analysis and automatic processing feedback, and cloud follow-up.

[0056] The day surgery appointment management system further includes a basic information management module 80, which includes management of departments, personnel, surgical procedures, test / examination items, medical orders, doctors, SMS templates, educational templates, educational materials, public information, and encyclopedic knowledge.

[0057] The basic information management module 80 can perform in-operation maintenance to manage and set up day surgery rooms in various operating rooms of the hospital.

[0058] The basic information management module 80 can also manage users and set the intelligent and permission-based communication methods for hospital employees.

[0059] The basic information management module 80 can also perform role management, managing the functions and permissions of each department in the hospital.

[0060] The basic information management module 80 can also perform public configuration, configuring the content and responsibilities of various internal software components.

[0061] The basic information management module 80 can also manage employees, including setting the department and work status of employees.

[0062] The basic information management module 80 can also set notification templates, edit day surgery appointment notification templates, and limit notification SMS messages to successful appointments and notification SMS messages sent the day before surgery.

[0063] The basic information management module 80 can also perform surgical settings, ward bed settings, surgeon settings, precaution settings, and bed scheduling settings.

[0064] The day surgery appointment management system further includes a day surgery operation and quality control management module 90, which includes daily operation charts, quality control charts, and quality control settings. The day operation charts include statistics on the number of day surgery appointments, the number of completed appointments, the workload, and the cost of day surgery. The quality control charts present cancellation rates, no-show rates, the proportion of level 3 and 4 surgeries, and follow-up analysis. Through the statistics and presentation of the above data, hospitals can intervene and adjust in a timely manner as needed to ensure better management and operation of day surgery.

[0065] The quality control settings include access criteria, permissions, and role settings, enabling users of the day surgery appointment management system to understand their role. The system will also grant corresponding permissions based on the set roles, ensuring that each user uses the system within their authorized scope. In other words, based on access criteria, accounts are created for administrators, doctors and nurses from different departments, and patients, and corresponding permissions are granted. This allows different users to use the system to handle day surgery-related issues, meeting the needs of diverse users and enabling the system to operate more efficiently.

[0066] The appointment management module includes 10-day bed management, appointment rule settings, test / examination packages, patient appointment lists, patient assessment, and admission coordination. Day bed management encompasses the management of beds in day wards and departmental wards, aiming to comprehensively manage day surgery beds, facilitate efficient bed turnover, ensure accurate bed registration and release during admission coordination, and precisely match beds with patients on the first attempt. This ensures the orderly execution of all procedures in day surgery, thereby improving work efficiency.

[0067] The day surgery management center module 20 includes mode settings, surgical pathway configuration, admission assessment, patient registration, pre-admission education, pre-operative anesthesia assessment, bed / surgery appointment, pre-operative confirmation, admission surgery notification, patient check-in, discharge assessment, and withdrawal from day surgery.

[0068] In this system, administrators can set corresponding modes, such as centralized, integrated, and decentralized, through the day surgery management center module 20 to suit the hospital's management of day surgery. This allows the day surgery appointment management system of the present invention to better match the proprietary systems of various hospitals, increasing applicability and reducing costs.

[0069] During the preoperative confirmation phase, patients and medical staff need to confirm the patient's daytime surgery time before the operation, such as 24 hours or 48 hours, in order to reserve a bed and match the corresponding medical staff, and also to arrange the operation of other patients.

[0070] During the admission surgery notification phase, the system automatically notifies the relevant medical staff, surgeon, and patient or their relatives based on the patient's day surgery schedule. Notifications are sent according to the registered information and can be sent via SMS, WeChat, or APP message reminders, so that both medical staff and patients can prepare for the surgery and improve surgical efficiency.

[0071] The information query module 30 allows medical staff, managers, and patients to query information about day surgery. It can present a 360° view of the patient, and medical staff can track the entire process of the patient through the information query module 30.

[0072] The information query module 30 can also be used to query information related to day surgery, such as department introduction, department doctor introduction, main surgical types of the department, management process of the day management center for beds and patients, number of beds, operating room scheduling, relevant data from the admission and discharge center, and matching of various examination data of patients.

[0073] Surgical process management includes surgical scheduling and three-level verification.

[0074] The information query module 30 allows users to query surgical schedules. This interface provides doctors' surgical schedules and all surgical information for the department, facilitating doctors to rationally arrange the surgical sequence and avoid instrument conflicts. At the same time, the interface provides a card-style view of patients, showing their outpatient examination and test reports, as well as various preoperative routine examination reports.

[0075] The AI-powered follow-up includes setting and sending follow-up templates, voice robot follow-up, follow-up records, intelligent analysis and automatic processing feedback of anomalies, and cloud follow-up via WeChat official account.

[0076] The doctor workstation module 50 includes a day surgery unit 51, a patient surgery notification unit 52, a surgery schedule query unit 53, a patient progress tracking unit 54, and a day surgery modification unit 55. The day surgery unit 51, the patient surgery notification unit 52, the surgery schedule query unit 53, the patient progress tracking unit 54, and the day surgery modification unit 55 are all connected to the appointment management module 10, the day management center module 20, the information query module 30, and the basic information management module 80 through the data operation module 40, so that doctors can manage patients undergoing day surgery through the doctor management module 50.

[0077] The day surgery unit 51 is adapted to provide doctors and patients with the following operations: surgical method, anesthesia method, planned surgical site, attending physician, attending physician, selection of surgery date, selection of inpatient ward, selection of ward bed, selection of appointment days, and remarks. The system notifies doctors and patients of the surgery time via SMS based on their operations and shares the above information of day surgery with relevant departments within the system for relevant departments to view and prepare for surgery.

[0078] The managing physician can fill in preoperative preparation information or retrieve a pre-filled preoperative preparation template through the patient surgery notification unit 52, and automatically send the appointment information for day surgery to the patient and relevant medical staff in advance to prepare.

[0079] The surgical schedule query unit 53 can provide doctors with surgical schedules, all surgical information of the department, and a card-style view of patients, enabling doctors to rationally arrange surgeries, prepare surgical instruments, and understand patients' preoperative examination reports.

[0080] Doctors can use the patient progress tracking unit 54 to view the current status of patients, including whether they have made an appointment, received a notification, been admitted, been discharged, or have withdrawn. Clicking on a specific patient will show their specific status; for example, under the test reports, doctors can view the patient's various test results.

[0081] The day surgery modification unit 55 is used to modify, statistically analyze, and record patients' day surgery appointment information, consultation information, and withdrawal information. Specifically, this interface is used to modify patients' surgical information, such as delaying surgery or changing the surgeon. Patients can operate directly or contact the medical staff of the day surgery management center or the outpatient doctor for assistance. If a patient withdraws from day surgery, there is a withdrawal reason selection option, including patient factors, physiological / basic factors, postoperative factors, and other factors. Each factor has multiple specific reasons to choose from, which is beneficial for later statistical analysis, process improvement, and reducing no-show rates.

[0082] The nurse workstation module 60 includes a surgery appointment query unit 61, a day ward round unit 62, and a discharge assessment unit 63. The surgery appointment query unit 61, the day ward round unit 62, and the discharge assessment unit 63 are all connected to the appointment management module 10, the day management center module 20, the follow-up management module 70, and the basic information management module 80 through the data operation module 40. This allows nurses to manage patients undergoing day surgery through the nurse workstation module 60, enabling them to query the number of day surgeries and patient conditions in their department, adjust and manage beds, provide preoperative education, postoperative follow-up and precautions, and notify patients via SMS.

[0083] In this invention, the day surgery appointment management system is adapted to be connected with the hospital's existing bed management system and appointment hospitalization system to capture the required data and form an integrated system to solve the problems of preoperative education, postoperative follow-up, doctor-patient communication and daily management and control of day surgery.

[0084] The day surgery appointment management system serves as a day care center, suitable for connecting patients, doctors, nurses, outpatient clinics, inpatient and outpatient management centers, wards, operating rooms, medical departments, and hospital data centers.

[0085] This invention also provides a method for managing surgical appointments within a single day, comprising the following steps:

[0086] (S101) Medical visit registration;

[0087] (S102) Inspection and evaluation;

[0088] (S103) Preoperative assessment and education;

[0089] (S104) Schedule a day surgery;

[0090] (S105) Surgical Notification

[0091] (S106) Discharge assessment; and

[0092] (S107) Postoperative follow-up.

[0093] In step (S101), the patient needs to visit an outpatient clinic. After the outpatient doctor completes the diagnosis, they assess whether the patient meets the criteria for day surgery admission. If so, the doctor issues a day surgery application form. This application form serves as the entry point for the day surgery management center, where the patient registers. Simultaneously, the outpatient doctor needs to prescribe a package of preoperative examination and testing orders and issue an inpatient admission slip, etc.

[0094] In step (S102), the patient goes to the day surgery management center to register basic information, including name, age, medical condition, department and doctor, and contact number. The patient's account is opened in the system through the contact number. Then, the center nurse informs the patient of the precautions for examination and testing based on the patient's fasting status and other conditions, and guides the patient through the subsequent procedures of day surgery. After completing the corresponding preoperative examinations and tests and obtaining the report results, an anesthesia assessment is conducted.

[0095] After the anesthesia assessment is passed, the patient brings the admission form, examination and test results, anesthesia consultation record and other materials to the day surgery management center. The nurse checks the patient's materials and summarizes and saves them in the system. At the same time, the nurse conducts pre-admission education for day surgery and other patient education work, and signs the day surgery informed consent form, authorization agreement, admission instructions and other documents.

[0096] Patients can learn about the surgical procedure and precautions on their own through this system. The system contains pre-installed educational materials, and patients can also receive relevant education in groups or obtain educational materials according to their doctor's instructions. This allows them to have a comprehensive understanding of the surgical procedure and precautions, enabling them to cooperate better, improve the efficiency of the surgery, and ensure the effectiveness of the surgery.

[0097] In step (S104), the management center reserves a bed for the patient, including the following steps: (S1041) selecting a day surgery date; (S1042) selecting a day surgery bed in a specific department; (S1043) selecting the surgeon; (S1044) selecting the surgical method; (S1045) selecting the hospitalization date; and (S1046) locking the bed in the system.

[0098] Between steps (S1045) and (S1046), there is an additional step: after selecting the various information for day surgery, one can confirm, select, or cancel. Only after confirmation will step (S1046) be executed to lock in the bed and complete the appointment for day surgery.

[0099] In step (S105), the day surgery appointment management system notifies the doctor, nurse, patient, and day surgery management center of the patient's scheduled surgery.

[0100] In step (S105), the doctor needs to fill in pre-operative preparation information on the surgical notification interface. This includes details such as whether fasting is required, and the necessary personal items and clothing. This information can be prepared as a template the day before the surgery. Different surgeries have different pre-operative precautions, so multiple templates can be created. When a notification is needed, the appropriate template can be selected to save time. After the doctor selects a template, the system will automatically send a notification and SMS to both the patient and doctor regarding the surgery the following day, ensuring no one is missed. In other words, the template and sending time are pre-set through the system so that it can send messages automatically. The sending time automatically matches the surgery appointment time and is sent automatically the day before the surgery appointment to the mobile phone numbers registered in the system by both the doctor and the patient.

[0101] Nurses at the management center send patient information for surgeries scheduled for the following day to the operating room via this system, where the head nurse of the operating room makes the overall arrangements. After the operating room schedules the surgeries, the nurses at the management center can view the information through the system and then issue surgery notifications, sending text messages to the patients and surgeons to prepare for the following day's surgeries.

[0102] On the day of surgery, patients need to go to the Day Surgery Management Center to complete the admission and ward registration. At the same time, the nurses in the day ward will conduct a preoperative assessment of the patient to ensure that the patient has no abnormal conditions on the day, such as high blood pressure or abnormal blood sugar.

[0103] After the surgery, the patient returned to the day ward for observation and recovery. Finally, the ward nurses conducted a discharge assessment on the patient, and the patient was discharged after passing the assessment.

[0104] Nurses at the day care center are required to conduct the first follow-up visit with patients within 24 hours of discharge and arrange subsequent follow-ups as needed.

[0105] In the above steps, patients can communicate with doctors and medical assistants, view the surgeon's introduction, pre- and post-operative precautions, schedule surgery appointments, understand the basic steps of the surgery, understand the procedure, and review examination reports.

[0106] In the above steps, patients can communicate with doctors and medical assistants, view the surgeon's introduction, learn about pre- and post-operative precautions, schedule surgery appointments, understand the basic steps of the surgery, understand the procedure, and review examination reports.

[0107] In the above steps, the physician is suitable to review the patient's various laboratory and examination results, communicate with the patient and medical assistant, understand and adjust the operating room's surgical arrangements, and make surgical appointments.

[0108] In the above steps, medical assistants are suitable for communicating with doctors and patients, confirming various process steps, and managing and setting up the system, while nurses are suitable for assisting in completing hospitalization confirmation, preoperative education, postoperative care, pain management, and discharge education.

[0109] Specifically, in the above steps, the patient first visits an outpatient clinic. After meeting the outpatient admission criteria, the doctor issues preoperative examination and testing orders and an inpatient admission slip, which the patient then registers at the day surgery management center. After the patient completes the examination and testing, the doctor conducts an anesthesia assessment and sends it to the day surgery management center for verification. If the patient is deemed fit for surgery, pre-admission education is provided, a surgical bed is reserved, and the reservation information is sent to the operating room. The operating room then arranges the surgery and sends the admission notice to the day surgery management center, which in turn notifies the relevant doctors and the patient. The patient registers for admission, finds the appropriate ward, and then undergoes surgery according to the reservation information. After surgery, the patient is transferred to the ward for observation. After the scheduled observation period, a discharge assessment is conducted. If the patient meets the discharge criteria, they are discharged, and the system performs the corresponding follow-up according to the settings.

[0110] Patients are eligible for day surgery only if they meet the criteria (which may vary depending on the hospital and department). Day surgery can only be performed after obtaining the consent of a specialist. Outpatient doctors and the day surgery management center will adjust the registration based on the eligibility criteria for day surgery.

[0111] It is worth mentioning that, in addition to patients registering at the day surgery management center, doctors can directly apply for day surgery for patients who meet the requirements through the doctor workstation module 50 at the outpatient doctor workstation. The day surgery information after the application will be transferred to the outpatient day surgery management center for unified appointment, evaluation and other management.

[0112] Doctors can also register and schedule patients at a separate day surgery management center.

[0113] The system can also receive online appointments from patients. The appointment information is sent to the day care management center for unified appointment management and bed locking.

[0114] Those skilled in the art will understand that, without altering the hospital's existing software systems for document processing, medical orders, and surgical scheduling, an embedded software system has been designed to be as simple, intuitive, and easy to operate as possible. This system facilitates real-time querying, scheduling, monitoring, and statistical analysis for outpatient doctors, ward nurses, operating room staff, admission and discharge centers, and the medical affairs department. Utilizing a B / S architecture (with Google Chrome as the core browser on the B-side) and .NET technology, the system can retrieve necessary data from the hospital's existing systems without imposing excessive computational burden. Therefore, this system and appointment method are suitable for widespread application in hospitals performing day surgery.

[0115] Those skilled in the art should understand that the embodiments of the present invention described above and shown in the accompanying drawings are merely examples and do not limit the present invention. The objectives of the present invention have been fully and effectively achieved. The functions and structural principles of the present invention have been demonstrated and explained in the embodiments, and any variations or modifications may be made to the implementation of the present invention without departing from the stated principles.

Claims

1. A one-day surgery appointment management system, characterized in that, include: An appointment management module is suitable for centralized management of appointment beds and patient information for day surgery; The day surgery management center module is suitable for closed-loop management of patients undergoing day surgery, from admission, registration, assessment, education, ward reservation, surgery reservation, surgery notification, discharge, and postoperative follow-up. An information query module allows for full tracking and querying of information related to day surgery patients; as well as A data operation control module is connected to the appointment management module, the daytime management center module, and the information query module to control the operation and management of each module.

2. The day surgery appointment management system according to claim 1 further includes a doctor workstation module and a nurse workstation module. The doctor manages the appointment, process and information query of day surgery through the doctor workstation module, and the nurse operates and manages the appointment management module, the day surgery management center module and the information query module through the nurse workstation module, thereby enabling the nurse to perform the function of day surgery.

3. The day surgery appointment management system according to claim 2 further includes a follow-up management module to provide follow-up plans, follow-up execution, follow-up templates, and artificial intelligence follow-up, wherein the artificial intelligence follow-up includes voice robot follow-up, follow-up records, abnormal intelligent analysis and automatic processing feedback, and cloud follow-up.

4. The day surgery appointment management system according to claim 3 further includes a basic information management module to link departments and personnel, and provide management of surgical methods, test / examination items, medical order information, doctor management, SMS module, education templates and maintenance of public knowledge, as well as user management, role management, public configuration, employee management and in-operative room maintenance.

5. The day surgery appointment management system according to claim 4, wherein the doctor workstation module includes a day surgery unit, the day surgery unit being adapted to provide doctors and patients with the following operations: surgical method, anesthesia method, planned surgical site, attending physician, attending physician, selection of surgery date, selection of inpatient ward, selection of ward bed, selection of appointment days, and remarks. The system notifies doctors and patients of the surgery time via SMS based on the operations performed by doctors and patients, and shares the above-mentioned information of day surgery with relevant departments within the system for relevant departments to view and prepare for surgery.

6. The day surgery appointment management system according to claim 5 further includes a day surgery operation and quality control management module to collect and provide daily operation charts, quality control charts, and quality control settings, and to analyze the operation of day surgery.

7. The day surgery appointment management system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the day management center module includes mode settings, surgical pathway configuration, admission assessment, patient registration, pre-admission education, pre-operative anesthesia assessment, bed / surgery appointment, pre-operative confirmation, admission surgery notification, patient reporting, discharge assessment, and withdrawal from day surgery.

8. The day surgery appointment management system according to claim 7, wherein the day surgery appointment management system utilizes a B / S architecture, is suitable for connection with the hospital's existing bed management system and appointment hospitalization system, and retrieves the required data from them to form an integrated system for managing and controlling preoperative education, postoperative follow-up, doctor-patient communication, and the daily operation of day surgery.

9. The day surgery appointment management system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the day surgery appointment management system serves as a day care center and is suitable for connecting patients, doctors, nurses, outpatient clinics, inpatient and outpatient management centers, wards, operating rooms, medical departments, and hospital data centers.

10. A method for managing surgical appointments within a single day, characterized in that: Includes the following steps: (S101) Medical visit registration; (S102) Inspection and evaluation; (S103) Preoperative assessment and education; (S104) Schedule a day surgery; (S105) Surgical Notification (S106) Discharge assessment; and (S107) Postoperative follow-up.

11. The day surgery appointment management method according to claim 10, wherein in step (S104), the management center reserves a bed for the patient, comprising the following steps: (S1041) Select the date of day surgery; (S1042) Select the day surgery bed in the specific department; (S1043) Select the surgeon; (S1044) Select the surgical method; (S1045) Select the hospital stay; and (S1046) Lock the bed in the system.

12. The day surgery appointment management method according to claim 11, wherein in step (S101), the patient visits the outpatient clinic, and after the outpatient doctor completes the diagnosis, the patient's eligibility for day surgery is assessed. If the patient meets the eligibility criteria, a day surgery application form is issued, and the patient goes to the day surgery management center for registration.

13. The day surgery appointment management method according to claim 12, wherein in step (S102), the patient completes the preoperative examination according to the doctor's order of the day management center, the doctor views the examination results through the day surgery appointment management system, and conducts anesthesia assessment on the patient.

14. The day surgery appointment management method according to claim 13, wherein in step (S105), the day surgery management center notifies the doctor, nurse and patient of the surgery scheduled for the next day through the day surgery appointment management system, the patient registers for admission and ward entry on the day of surgery, and the ward nurse further conducts a preoperative assessment to ensure that there are no abnormalities on the day of surgery.

15. The day surgery appointment management method according to any one of claims 11 to 14, wherein in the above steps, the ward nurse conducts a discharge assessment on the patient, and discharges the patient after the patient meets the discharge criteria. The nurse of the day management center is required to complete the first follow-up work within 24 hours after the patient's discharge, and arrange subsequent follow-ups as appropriate. The system records the follow-up information.

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