HOME THERAPY SUPPORTING SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to decrease the number of times patients receive regular outpatient treatment, the entry of treatment journals and the burden on the measurement of physical conditions by arranging a time management means and a sound generating means for a home communication device of a home therapy supporting system which measures the medical treatment information relating to the physiological information of the home patients and transmits the information to an information collection center. SOLUTION: The patients execute the home oxygen therapy while sucking high-concn. oxygen from oxygen thickening devices 3 in homes 1 where the patients reside. The medical treatment information including the information on the detailed questions asked to the patients on their condition, the number of respiration, the saturation degrees of the oxygen in the blood, pulse rates, electrocardiographic complex, etc., in addition to the operation information on the oxygen thickening device are transmitted to the computer 31 of the information collection center 30 via public telephone circuits 51. The medial treatment information transmitted from the respective homes are stored in and managed by a memory device 34 of a large capacity. The communication device 10 announces the attainment of the time for the measurement by the sound generating section to the patients when the just time is attained by a calendar function, thereby urging the patients to execute the input of the diagnostic data relating to the physical conditions and the execution of the measurement of the physical conditions by using measuring instruments.