Development of application software that recognizes the medicines needed by children who are vulnerable to disasters with iPads and manages them with IoT

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K21734
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 58:Society medicine, nursing, and related fields
• Research Institution: Kanazawa Medical University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAI Hisao 金沢医科大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (10708986)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 板谷 智也 金沢大学, 保健学系, 助教 (10765192)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-07-30 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: K-DiPS

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study continues from the previous study. As a result of the demonstration experiment until 2019, the development plan has been changed as follows. (1) Change the device to use from a tablet terminal to a smartphone. (2) People vulnerable to disasters use smartphones to prepare for disasters. (3) A smartphone application will be released in advance. Smartphone app: K-DiPS was released in November 2020 and was upgraded in April 2022 with the addition of a vital sign input function.

Free Research Field

災害看護、災害管理、在宅看護、GIS

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

医療的ケア児・者や難病、慢性疾患で療養している者など、いわゆる災害時に脆弱な人々の避難、避難生活、療養継続に寄与する可能性がある。スマホに自己情報を入力して、自らの判断で開示できること、訪問看護や通所先、医療的ケア児支援センターなどとクラウドを介して情報共有できることは、平時からのエビデンスに基づいた備蓄や避難計画に寄与する。当初の目的であったIoTによる医療物資の備蓄管理は、開発の優先順位や現行の基盤システムの仕様変更、当事者らの意見から先送りした。災害時の物資のミスマッチを防ぐだけでなく、効率的な備蓄、平時の安心に寄与するため欠かせない機能であるため開発は継続する。