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System and apparatus for electronic patient care

  • US 10,242,159 B2
  • Filed: 03/15/2013
  • Issued: 03/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for electronic patient care, the system comprising:

  • a network;

    a facility gateway configured to provide a publish-subscribe service for an application; and

    a device gateway application configured for execution by the facility gateway, the device gateway is configured to communicate via the network by providing a web service;

    a medical device in operative communication with the network, wherein;

    only the medical device is configured to communicate with the device gateway using the web service,the medical device initiates communications with the device gateway using the web service at predetermined intervals of time to request a response payload, the device gateway configured to be prevented from initiating communications with the medical device;

    the device gateway determines whether the medical device is listed on an access list of medical devices that can access the device gateway;

    in response to the medical device initiated communication by the medical device determined to be on the access list, the device gateway formats the response payload comprising an availability of a software update, an availability of a queryable data type, and a plurality of current request statuses, wherein each current request status is a request for the medical device to transmit a data type of a plurality of data types to the device gateway,the device gateway communicates the response payload to the medical device in response to the medical device initiated communication, andthe medical device communicates all data types of the plurality of data types where a respective current request status of the current request statutes indicates a request of a respective data type; and

    a publish-subscribe engine configured to provide the publish-subscribe service for communication between a plurality of applications including the device gateway application, the plurality of applications being executed within the facility gateway.

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