Notification system of deviation from predefined conditions

• US 10,420,517 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2017
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stryker Corporation
• Original Assignee: Stryker Corporation
• Inventors: Mayoras, Jr., Richard C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phung
• Application Number:
  US15/783,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20180035955A1
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1117 Fall detection
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6892 Mats
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0461 integrated or attached to an item closely associated with the person but not worn by the person, e.g. chair, walking stick, bed sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

The present invention includes a healthcare system for capturing and maintaining patient healthcare records and employing information in the records to proactively alert hospital workers to a condition that places patient health at risk.

Claims

1. A notification system comprising:

a patient support having at least one sensor to sense a physiological condition of a patient supported thereon and at least one sensor to sense a condition or configuration of the patient support, and said patient support further comprising a bed control in communication with said sensors;

a patient support monitoring system having stored therein a default setting for said physiological condition, and said patient support monitoring system automatically selecting an appropriate default setting for said patient support condition or configuration based on said physiological condition of the patient; and

the patient support monitoring system in communication with said bed control and said sensors and automatically operable to process information from said sensors and determine whether to generate a notification to a caregiver when said patient support monitoring system detects when a sensed physiological condition and/or sensed condition or configuration of the patient support deviates from said default settings.

2. The notification system according to claim 1, in combination with a healthcare system, said healthcare system comprising said patient support monitoring system.

3. The notification system according to claim 2, wherein the patient support comprises a network interface, and the network interface operable to communicate with said healthcare system.

4. The notification system according to claim 3, wherein said network interface is operable to send the information from said sensors to the healthcare system.

5. The notification system according to claim 4, further comprising a patient support control in communication with the healthcare system via said network interface and is operable to transmit said information received from said sensors to the healthcare system via said network interface.

6. The notification system according to claim 5, wherein said patient support control processes said information received from the sensors prior to transmitting said information to the healthcare system.

7. The notification system according to claim 2, further comprising a second patient support having at least one sensor to sense a physiological condition of a patient supported thereon and at least one sensor to sense a condition or configuration of said second patient support, said patient support monitoring system is in communication with said second patient support and operable to process the information from said sensors on said second patient support and to determine whether to generate a notification based the information from said sensors on said second patient support.

8. The notification system according to claim 7, wherein said healthcare system includes a healthcare system network and a server.

9. The notification system according to claim 7, wherein said patient support monitoring system is configured to allow remote selection or remote input of said default settings in said patient support monitoring system.

10. The notification system according to claim 1, wherein said patient support monitoring system is configured to generate multiple notification levels when said patient support monitoring system detects a sensed condition or configuration deviates from said default settings.

11. The notification system according to claim 10, wherein said multiple notification levels include a high priority notification level, a medium priority notification level, and a low priority notification level.

12. The notification system according to claim 1, wherein said monitoring system is configured to allow remote selection or remote input of said default settings in said monitoring system.

13. The notification system according to claim 1, wherein said notification includes generation of documentation for storage.

14. The notification system according to claim 1, wherein said notification includes mobile alerts or pop-up displays.

15. The notification system according to claim 1, wherein said physiological condition includes a condition selected from the group consisting of heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rate.