Systems and methods for viewing electrocardiograms

• US 10,282,518 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2012
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airstrip IP Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: Airstrip IP Holdings LLC
• Inventors: Powell, William Cameron, Moore, Stephen Trey
• Primary Examiner(s): Dasgupta, Shourjo
• Application Number:
  US13/980,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20140019901A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,666 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/339 Displays specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1415 with means for detecting differences between the image stored in the host and the images displayed on the displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/08 Biomedical applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying an electrocardiogram (ECG) on a computing device using actions including receiving data corresponding to the ECG, processing the data to generate a plurality of traces, displaying a plurality of trace display windows, displaying each trace of the plurality of traces in a trace window of the plurality of trace windows, receiving user input corresponding to at least one trace window of the plurality of trace windows, and modifying a display of each trace of the plurality of traces in the respective trace display windows in response to the user input.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for displaying an electrocardiogram (ECG) on a remote computing device, the method being executed by one or more processors and comprising:

receiving, by the remote computing device from a data management system, patient data corresponding to the ECG, the data management system comprising a synchronization services module and an adapter services module, the synchronization services module being configured to communicate with the adapter services module to selectively synchronize patient data using a synchronization rule based on variable configuration parameters, wherein the synchronized patient data is a portion of all data available for retrieval from a plurality of waveform data sources and retrieved by the adapter services module, and wherein the adapter services module being further configured to format the retrieved patient data to enable patient data synchronization independent of an operating system type of the remote computing device;

displaying a first trace of a plurality of traces in a first trace window of a plurality of trace windows, the first trace being over a first time interval, and each trace window displaying a single trace;

displaying a second trace of the plurality of traces in a second trace window over the first time interval, the first trace and the second trace being synchronized in time with and dependent on each other, at least one trace window of the plurality of trace windows comprising a graphical indicator that marks a first time portion within the first time interval;

receiving user input corresponding to the first trace window of the plurality of trace windows, the user input defining a second time interval different than the first time interval; and

in response to receiving the user input, simultaneously modifying display of each of the first trace in the first trace window, and the second trace in the second trace window to be displayed over the second time interval, such that the graphical indicator marks a second time portion within the second time interval of each trace of the plurality of traces,

wherein at least one or more of the first trace, the second trace, and the plurality of traces are generated from the patient data as formatted and synchronized and not the patient data as stored by the plurality of waveform data sources.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input indicates a zoom event, and modifying comprises zooming each trace within a respective trace display window.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input indicates a scroll event, and modifying comprises scrolling each trace within a respective trace display window.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the display of each trace comprises simultaneous and time synchronized modification of each trace.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing the patient data to generate a plurality of full traces;

displaying a plurality of full trace display windows; and

displaying each full trace of the plurality of full traces in a full trace window of the plurality of full trace windows.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of full traces displayed in the plurality of full trace display windows remain unmodified in response to the user input.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a remote computing device from a data management system, patient data corresponding to an electrocardiogram (ECG), the data management system comprising a synchronization services module and an adapter services module, the synchronization services module being configured to communicate with the adapter services module to selectively synchronize patient data using a synchronization rule based on variable configuration parameters, wherein the synchronized patient data is a portion of all data available for retrieval from a plurality of waveform data sources and retrieved by the adapter services module, and wherein the adapter services module being further configured to format the retrieved patient data to enable patient data synchronization independent of an operating system type of the remote computing device;

displaying a first trace of a plurality of traces in a first trace window of a plurality of trace windows, the first trace being over a first time interval, and each trace window displaying a single trace;

displaying a second trace of the plurality of traces in a second trace window over the first time interval, the first trace and the second trace being synchronized in time with and dependent on each other, at least one trace window of the plurality of trace windows comprising a graphical indicator that marks a first time portion within the first time interval;

receiving user input corresponding to the first trace window of the plurality of trace windows, the user input defining a second time interval different than the first time interval; and

in response to receiving the user input, simultaneously modifying display of each of the first trace in the first trace window, and the second trace in the second trace window to be displayed over the second time interval, such that the graphical indicator marks a second time portion within the second time interval of each trace of the plurality of traces,

wherein at least one or more of the first trace, the second trace, and the plurality of traces are generated from the patient data as for matted and synchronized and not the patient data as stored by the plurality of waveform data sources.

8. The computer-readable storage device of claim 7, wherein the user input indicates a zoom event, and modifying comprises zooming each trace within a respective trace display window.

9. The computer-readable storage device of claim 7, wherein the user input indicates a scroll event, and modifying comprises scrolling each trace within a respective trace display window.

10. The computer-readable storage device of claim 7, wherein modifying the display of each trace comprises simultaneous and time synchronized modification of each trace.

11. The computer-readable storage device of claim 7, wherein operations further comprise:

processing the patient data to generate a plurality of full traces;

displaying a plurality of full trace display windows; and

displaying each full trace of the plurality of full traces in a full trace window of the plurality of full trace windows.

12. The computer-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein the plurality of full traces displayed in the plurality of full trace display windows remain unmodified in response to the user input.

13. A system, comprising:

a remote computing device; and

a computer-readable storage device coupled to the remote computing device and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the remote computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising;

receiving, by the remote computing device from a data management system, patient data corresponding to an electrocardiogram (ECG), the data management system comprising a synchronization services module and an adapter services module, the synchronization services module being configured to communicate with the adapter services module to selectively synchronize patient data using a synchronization rule based on variable configuration parameters, wherein the synchronized patient data is a portion of all data available for retrieval from a plurality of waveform data sources and retrieved by the adapter services module, and wherein the adapter services module being further configured to format the retrieved patient data to enable patient data synchronization independent of an operating system type of the remote computing device;

displaying a first trace of a plurality of traces in a first trace window of a plurality of trace windows, the first trace being over a first time interval, and each trace window displaying a single trace;

displaying a second trace of the plurality of traces in a second trace window over the first time interval, the first trace and the second trace being synchronized in time with and dependent on each other, at least one trace window of the plurality of trace windows comprising a graphical indicator that marks a first time portion within the first time interval;

receiving user input corresponding to the first trace window of the plurality of trace windows, the user input defining a second time interval different than the first time interval; and

in response to receiving the user input, simultaneously modifying display of each of the first trace in the first trace window, and the second trace in the second trace window to be displayed over the second time interval, such that the graphical indicator marks a second time portion within the second time interval of each trace of the plurality of traces,

wherein at least one or more of the first trace, the second trace, and the plurality of traces are generated from the patient data as formatted and synchronized and not the patient data as stored by the plurality of waveform data sources.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the user input indicates a zoom event, and modifying comprises zooming each trace within a respective trace display window.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the user input indicates a scroll event, and modifying comprises scrolling each trace within a respective trace display window.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein modifying the display of each trace comprises simultaneous and time synchronized modification of each trace.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein operations further comprise:

processing the patient data to generate a plurality of full traces;

displaying a plurality of full trace display windows; and

displaying each full trace of the plurality of full traces in a full trace window of the plurality of full trace windows.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the plurality of full traces displayed in the plurality of full trace display windows remain unmodified in response to the user input.