SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING HOME CARE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the burden on a patient being cared at home when the physical data are checked and to cope with an emergency when the patient's condition takes a sudden turn for the worse by using a measuring means consisting of plural detecting means to measure the patient's physical data, and conversing plural measured data into graphs and literal data suitable for diagnosis and outputting them. SOLUTION: When a patient is cared at home by an oxygen treatment using an oxygen concentrator 3, such information as operation data of the oxygen concentrator 3, and patient's medical data such as consulting data, respiration rate, blood oxygen saturation ratio, pulse, electrocardiogram, etc., will be taken out into a communication device, and through a public telephone line 51, sent to a computer 31 inside a data collection center 31. The medical data sent from each home will be recorded in a memory 34 with a large capacity, and an emergency report, a regular report, or a monthly report will be prepared based on each patient's medical data. The data sent from each home will be imaged in a report format, and sent to a facsimile 41 in a hospital 40 to which the patient regularly goes and then to a doctor in charge.