摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate and diversify acupuncture by structuring an acupuncture network for acupuncture treatment which connect a patient, a doctor or acupuncturist, and an acupuncture tool seller by using the Internet. SOLUTION: A homepage is opened on a server 4 on the Internet and registration information regarding doctors or acupuncturists who perform acupuncture treatments is published. A patient selects a doctor or acupuncturist in the homepage, answers a medical interview, and sends the answers through a computer 1. The selected doctor or acupuncturist receives the patient's answers to the interview through a computer 2, takes a diagnosis based upon the answers to the interview to send a manual for instructing use places of an acupuncture tool (circular skin needle) to the patient, and sends a request to send the acupuncture tool to the acupuncture tool seller. The acupuncture tool seller receives the request from the doctor or acupuncturist through a computer 3 and sends the acupuncture tool to the patient at the request.</p> |