A Rule-based Approach for Elimination Paperwork and Increasing Efficiency in Home Nursing Services

The demand for home medical treatment in Japan has been increasing with aging. However, the shortage of personnel is a severe problem in home nursing. Therefore, improving the efficiency of home nursing is a critical challenge. Among various tasks in the business, this research focuses on supporting the efficiency of time-consuming documentation paperwork. A home nursing report is a monthly report made by summarizing visiting records to inform a patient’s doctor of the patient’s symptom courses. Under preparing the report, the amount of text that has to be read through is enormous, and it is a significant burden on nurses. The proposed system extracts text about symptoms from visiting records to reduce the burden of reading all text. Moreover, the status classifications of extracted symptoms support understanding symptom courses. The experiments for these tasks with multi conditions are conducted on actual visiting records data and assessed. Improvement of the performance and verification is required, though the system indicates the expectations for the effectiveness of efficient paperwork using the proposed system.